It was an exciting Challenge Day in Maple as we took part in the Operation Moonbase mission from Skills Builder. The children threw themselves into the task with brilliant enthusiasm and worked on all eight Skills Builder skills: listening, speaking, teamwork, leadership, problem solving, creativity, staying positive, and aiming high. Our challenge was to imagine a brand-new utopian Read more
Following on in our design and technology unit, this week Year 5 Juniper designed and created their own doodlers! They were able to create their design in their books and decide what components they needed to use, where to place them, and what pattern they would like to put on Read more
Well done to those children who are part of our business club this half term. This week, they began to design and create the products and games they will be selling at our Christmas Fair. From bracelets and sweet cones, to decorations and target games, there is something for everyone. Read more
In our DT lesson this week, Juniper met the doodlers for the first time! The doodlers are an electrical system involving a paper cup, felt tip pens, batteries, a motor crocodile wires, tape and a hot glue gun stick. The children were able to see the doodlers in action, before Read more
This week we are reading ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Today we became bakers and baked non-dairy cupcakes to put in little red riding hood’s picnic basket. We all helped to weigh out and mix ingredients and then decorate our cakes. We then enjoyed eating them! Yummy!
This half term Year 5 will be investigating electrical systems and creating their own ‘doodlers’. During today’s lesson we focused on being able to identify simple circuit components and setting up our own series circuits. The children used bulbs and motors in their series circuits and looked at examples of Read more
Today Year 5 Juniper completed their Design and Technology unit on cooking and nutrition. Throughout this topic we have looked at how food goes from farm to fork, what nutritional information is and designed our own labels. The last step was to prepare the food and cook it together. We Read more
Today, we finished our cooking and nutrition Design Technology unit. The children worked in groups to prepare our ingredients. We discussed how to handle food, food hygiene and different methods for chopping the ingredients. We then went into the forest school area to cook our spaghetti bolognese. We prepared a Read more
This half term Year 5 will be learning about cooking and nutrition. In last week’s lesson we learnt all about the farm to fork process and how meat products, specifically beef, are produced. In today’s lesson the children had to adapt a recipe. We started by taste testing and comparing Read more
This week and next week, we are reading the story, ‘The Gingerbread Man’. Reception have been designing their own gingerbread person this week. They have been creating their own life size gingerbread outside with chalk. They drew around themselves with a partner and then designed them on the floor.