This afternoon, Year 5 Pine discussed our moon. We addressed misconceptions about the moon that are widely believed. We then went outdoors on a fact-finding mission and traded facts with each other. When we came back into class, we had learnt lots about the moon. We used this information to create an informative poster. We also found out about the phases of the moon and why it appears to be different shapes and different times. Read more
This afternoon, we decided to get out of the classroom and into the fresh air to do some problem solving revision on what we have learnt so far in year 5. We worked in pairs to solve a number of multi-step addition, subtraction, number and place value problems. Each answer linked to a word, once we had solved the answers we had to un-jumble the words to create a sentence revealing a password to tell Read more
Maple are excited to be taking part in the Linking Schools project, this year will be a little different but it will be just as fun! Instead of meeting in person we had a Zoom call with our linking class at All Saints Primary School in Rochdale. We did lots of activities with the M6 theatre and got to learn lots about the Year 4 class and their school. We watched a brilliant film Read more
This week is anti- bullying week. Throughout the week, classes have had an anti-bullying assembly, discussed this year’s theme ‘United against bullying’ and taken part in activities and discussions about bullying. Today we came to school wearing odd socks to celebrate our differences.
Do you know where a river starts and finishes? Maple have been learning about the ‘source’ and ‘mouth’ of a river. We know that a river begins high up in the mountains and ends when it flows into the sea. Maple have also been investigating how a river can change its shape over time. We’ve learnt new vocabulary such as erosion, transportation and deposition. We’ve drawn diagrams to show how the shape of a river Read more
This week and have planned and created our own cave paintings. We learnt why cave painting were so important to Stone Age people and we researched what Stone Age cave paintings looked like so we could draw some inspiration from them in our own work. Here are some pictures of our work.
In Geography we have been using the atlases to locate rivers in the UK. They all worked really hard and did a super job!
Under the current climate parents and carers may feel concerned about the amount of time children have had off school due to covid-19. They may be anxious that their child has “fallen behind” or may require additional support to “catch up”. Schools are doing a great deal of work to identify children that require additional support and ensure that the support is available to help them feel confident and that they are achieving. Parents and Read more
We looked at how to effectively create non fiction shapes and map out an information text about the Penguins of Antarctica. We we used images to summarise each paragraph and then used shapes to break each individual paragraph down into smaller chunks. When we we come to write a text about our own animal next week, we will be able to apply the shapes to any of our information texts.
Year 6 had the chance to investigate how icebergs are formed, where they are found and the impact they can have, such as in the story of the Titanic. We created our own icebergs and used ice cubes to represent smaller chunks of sea ice. We then looked at the effect on the icebergs and the water water when added cold water, warm water and salt. From this, we drew up questions that we would Read more