While it’s been a very strange and a little bit scary week, we have tried to have lots of fun in the classroom. We made some cards (but they’re a surprise so no pictures of those), did some exercise in PE, played outside lots and read some new stories. Today we read the Gingerbread Man before lunchtime; when we got back from lunchtime we watched the story and found that Miss Horrocks had cut us Read more
At the the beginning of this week we read the story of the three little pigs. We had lots of different activities linked to the story around the classroom and Miss Horrocks set us a special challenge! We were a bit worried when she said she had invited the big bad wolf to our classroom but thought it was very funny when we saw him, he was a hairdryer!! We had to build houses from Read more
This term we have been looking at traditional tales. Over the past few weeks we have looked at a number of stories; while we were learning about Jack and the Beanstalk we did lots of fun activities. We have grown our own Beanstalks in 2 different ways to see which grew the best. First, we grew some in bags with a wet cotton wool ball and stuck them to the classroom windows. Next, we grew Read more
Space really does rock! A very generous parent let us look at his space asteroid collection where we saw some items that were once orbiting mars and jupiter! The children were amazed and Mrs Nuttall was excited to see the rocks that were 4.5 billion years old! We were very grateful that you let us look at these. Thank you 🙂
This week we have been doing lots of investigations. Our first experiment was to investigate how the level of water in a glass affects the sound made when tapping the glass with a pencil. We filled the glasses with different amounts of water and we had to find out how full the glass must be to make a high pitched sound or low pitched sound. Our second experiment we went on a sound walk and Read more
We have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk this week. We have done lots of different activities and we have been practising retelling the story. Yesterday, we went into the immersive room and the story came to left for us! We were able to see the story and retell it with Miss Longmire. After we retold the story in the immersive room, we went back to class and starting writing it. Everyone tried super Read more
This week, we have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk. Whilst we have been learning about the story, we have also been learning about planting and growing. We have carefully planted a beanstalk bean with cotton wool so we can watch it grow. Everyday we have come into school and checked our beans to see if there are any changes. We have also been busy planting beanstalks in pots with castles and grass heads. Read more
As part of British Science Week and our new topic ‘Playlist’, the children have been investigating pitch. The children carried out an experiment to find out if different amounts of water in glasses made different sounds. Some made high pitched sounds and some made lower pitched sounds…but how did the amount of water in them affect the pitch? We came to the conclusion that a glass with a lower amount of water in it will Read more
This afternoon, Year 5 have independently researched some of the cures that medieval doctors used to cure the Black Death. We compared their methods to the work of doctors and scientists today and realised how much we have progressed! We then explored the properties of herbs and wrote some fantastic information texts. Finally, we worked in pairs to create our own herbal remedies.
This morning we have had lots of fun planting our silly face grass heads. First we scooped the soil into the pots with our faces on. Then we sprinkled grass seeds onto the soil and watered them.