This week we have been learning about, ‘The Gingerbread Man’. At the beginning of the week, we listened to the story and practised retelling it in our own way. We then went outside and created our own gingerbread person. We asked a friend to draw around our bodies and then we made ourselves into a gingerbread person. It was lots of fun! We had the think about the different features on a gingerbread person. This Read more
Hawthorn have been inflating balloons using a gas called CO2. We mixed baking soda and vinegar to create an acid-base reaction. We learnt that the more baking soda and the more vinegar you mix, the bigger the reaction (more gas is made) causing the balloon to inflate and expand. Well done!
This half term our topic is ‘Gods and Mortals’, and in our lessons we are learning about Ancient Greece. For our topic lesson today we were lucky enough to watch a show performed by The Hobgoblin Theatre Company called Perseus and Medusa. It is one of the many Greek myths that we are studying during our topic.
Today, for our Bright Lights, Big City topic, we learnt about The Great Fire of London and how it started in a bakery. We took this opportunity and simply had to make our own sticky buns… We decided to write down a list of ingredients and instructions of how to make our own. It’s safe to say that these buns didn’t last long in our class! They went down a treat and the children loved Read more
Year 5 had a fantastic time in the forest today. First we used our imaginations and found ‘not sticks’. We had magic pens, broomsticks, bow and arrows, wands, teleportation sticks and many more. The children then made up some fantastic stories to go with their ‘not sticks’. We then found out a storm was heading our way so the children worked in groups to build a shelter. Some groups found this tricky so we gave Read more
This half term our topic is fairy tales, this week we have been focussing on the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears; we used adjectives to describe the characters, played with porridge oats and for our writing task we tasted different flavour porridge and wrote words to describe how they tasted! Also this week, we had our first forest school lesson, were introduced to Wally and Dina in dinosaur school, celebrated Earth Day and Read more
We started our new topic this week Wriggle and crawl. We completed a geography lesson by walking around the school grounds looking at human and physical features. Then in class we created a birds eye view of the school grounds and added a key. In science we went on a minibeast hunt in Kaden’s garden. We saw lots of Minibeasts like worms, spiders, flies and bees.
Maple have been investigating how fast different liquids flow. We have learnt some new voabulary – viscosity and gradient – ask your child if they can tell you what they mean! We made predictions, carried out a fair test, recorded our findings and discussed our results. We concluded that the thicker and more gloopy the liquid, the slower it travels.
The children have been learning how to divide by 10 and 100 today in Maple. We made a ‘human’ place value chart, and discussed what was happening as the numbers were divided.
This week we started off learning about Ancient Greek myths by watching a virtual performance by Hobgolbin Theatre. We really enjoyed watching the actors act out the story of Perseus and Medusa. Here are some pictures of the performance.