Today, Year 5 have been learning about the moon. We found out lots of information about it and used equipment to understand it’s movement and why we have a light side and a dark side of the moon. We then made an information booklet, which included key information that we had learnt. We then learnt about phases of the moon, before using Oreos to create and label these phases. It took all our might not Read more
Year 5 Pine have worked hard this afternoon. First they told me what they had been doing at home with remote learning and lots of children could tell me lots about the solar system already. We then discussed terrestrial and jovian planets and the children worked in pairs using information books to create some fantastic posters. After this, we used our maths skills to scale down the diameters of the planets and compared these scaled Read more
This we have been learning about the role of a historian and had the chance to be a historian. We worked with Stone Age artefacts and used our knowledge of the Stone Age to work out what the artefacts were are what they were made out of. Here are some pictures of our work.
This week, the whole school have been helping to raise money for Children In Need. Each class have been completing the ‘Act Your Age’ challenge in their PE lessons with our PE coach Mr Tomkins, and today came to school in their pyjamas. Mr Tomkins is amazed at how well the children did with their challenges, from reception class all the way up to Year 6. Well done Children! Thank you to everyone who has Read more
We have had lots of fun in our pyjamas today for children in need and hope we have raised lots of money. In the classroom we coloured in pudsey bears and made our very own pudsey ears. It has been a very busy day and we are all very tired. We don’t even need to get ready for bed now we can just jump in and go to sleep 😴 💤
Maple have been to visit the River Roch in Queens Park today. The children carried out an investigation to see how fast the river was flowing. We then spotted signs of pollution in the river and some local wildlife. The children found examples of erosion and deposition along the river and also some meanders. Tomorrow we are going to find out more about the history of the River Roch.
Yesterday in class we learnt about Remembrance Day and why we wear Poppies. We watched a short video and looked at a PowerPoint all about Remembrance Day and made poppy flags by painting apples red and printing them, we had lots of fun waving our flags as we were leaving at home time. We did some great learning and even managed to recall what we had learnt to tell Miss Horrocks about it again, today! Read more
Today, we recognised Remembrance Day. We watched Year 6 do a fantastic assembly via teams in our classroom, took part in the 2 minute silence and created some beautiful art work. We created silhouettes by shading the back of a printed silhouette and pushing the pencil into our art work by outlining, we added hills and Poppy’s before using felt tips and water to add colour.
This half term we have been learning about an author called Julia Donaldson. We have read lots of stories by her and have completed different activities based around the books we read. This week we have read the story ‘The Smeds and The Smoos’ and we have created cards to give to our friends. We can all be friends together no matter what we look like. During choosing time we have been able to make Read more
Remembrance day is a Memorial Day when we pay our respects to the brave men and women who gave their lives in the line of duty. We went through a PowerPoint on Remembrance Day and learnt lots of different things about it. During choosing we made poppy flags using sliced apples and printed using red paint. We enjoyed waving our flags as we left our classroom to pay our respects. At 11 o’clock Read more