In Year 5, we have been learning about what happens to our body as we get older. Last week we learnt about how we change from childhood to early adulthood through puberty, and how puberty occurs in animals too. This week we looked at changes from early adulthood to old Read more
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 Read more
We have had lots of fun this week making our Easter cards. We used nature to help to decorate them. We had lots of fun in the sun collecting flowers, sticks, grass and leaves. Here are some of our wonderful designs, including some that show the cross to remind us Read more
This week we have been celebrating Easter. We have had lots of fun and completed lots of different activities. We have been decorating eggs, Easter baskets and colouring in egg notepads. Reception have also been very busy making their own Easter cake and Easter nest. They used clay to make Read more
Today, Willows created some amazing aliens for our Moon Zoom topic! They designed them as a team and created them together using putty, pipe cleaners, googly eyes and card. We think they look awesome and if aliens were real, they’d probably look like ours.
Today we celebrated Red Nose Day by coming into school in our own clothes and doing crazy things to our hair! This afternoon we have watched funny videos and completed some mindfulness colouring!
We had lots of fun outside today! We learnt how to use clay to make coil pots. It was a bit messy, but we loved experimenting with the clay! We are looking forward to when the clay dries, so then we can paint them and use them to grow a plant Read more
Year 5 have made some fantastic calendars during art lessons this week. First we thought about warm and cool colours and which colours we associate with different seasons. We then used watercolour paints to create the backgrounds. After this we used lines and patterns to draw symbols of the seasons.
This week, Year 5 have been making baubles for their Christmas craft, which can be bought by families. First, we had our pictures taken. For one photo we chose to put on fun Christmas accessories and for the other we had a nice picture with a festive background. We cut Read more
This week week we have started Getting ready (and very excited!) for Christmas! On he first of December, we had such a surprise when we found that Santa had sent a cheeky elf for our classroom. We had a vote and decided he would be called Snowdrop Elf. So Read more