In computing this half-term, Year 5 have been creating their own games. They have analysed other games, designed settings and themes, designed characters, changed animations and sounds that their character makes, written instructions and evaluated their peers’ games to help future designs. We are really impressed with their completed games! Well done Year 5!
Year 5 had their 5th forest school session today! The children explored the area and found and identified a range of minibeasts. We found snails, worms, centipedes and millipedes. We then discussed how we can improve the area for the fauna and for ourselves. The children then used the skills they have learnt to work as a team and build some amazing fences to make our fire circle more private. Some children created some amazing Read more
As part of outdoor classroom day and mental health awareness week we took part in a forest school taster session with Miss Steele and Mr Tompkins. We took part in lots of different activities: we went on the hunt for ‘something special’ we were shown how to make a campfire we warmed water on the campfire which we used to make hot chocolate we planted trees. We really enjoyed our session and look forward to Read more
Today we have worked with touchstones museum to look at Ancient Greece artefacts. We became historians and gained a deeper understanding of the lives of the ancient Greeks. Here are some pictures
This week we have completed a circle time called dinosaur school, we met two characters called Wally and Dina. Dina is the headteacher and Wally goes to the dinosaur school. They arrived in our school to get some help with sitting on the carpet and being kind to others. We shared our ideas with them and we hope they enjoyed visiting us. We will use our ideas in our classroom and on the playground to Read more
This week we have looked further at the story of Jack and the beanstalk; we have retold the story using masks and the giant beanstalk that Miss Horrocks made, made our own with bricks, made houses and villages to protect the people from the giant, ordered numbers and then told the story of the Billy goats Gruff making our own bridges. For our writing task, we wrote the story of Jack and the beanstalk and Read more
This week we have carried on reading the story Jack and the beanstalk. This time we have focused on ordering the story and we used character masks to help us. We used language such as first, next, then and last to retell the story and created a story map on the story. In our classroom we had lots of activities set out based around the story and had lots of fun doing them. This Read more
We have been learning lots about Islam this half term and we have remembered lots of facts about Muslims. Today we looked at the festival of Eid and how it is a celebration that happens at the end of Ramadan. While we completed our work we listened to some music then we completed a Happy Eid colouring.
This week the children completed postcards of hope. They coloured in the front of the cards and wrote messages of hope on the back. These were given to us from Morrisons, who will be distributing them with home deliveries and to various places such as Old people’s home. Morrisons also kindly gave us enough ‘seeds of hope’ packets (sunflower seeds) for every child to take some home and some lovely books titled ‘Cedric the Seed’ Read more
Year 5 had a fantastic time at Forest School today! We showed off our knowledge of the area by playing a game where we had to name the flora in the area. We also learnt about a Ghillie kettle and how they can be used to heat water using fire. Once the water was heated, the children enjoyed a hot chocolate with marshmallows. We also learnt a new skill of tying a square lashing to Read more