On Tuesday, Year 5 had a fantastic time planting trees on the Millers Brook site behind school. The children listened carefully to the experts, who taught them techniques for successful planting. We discussed why trees are important and learnt about different native trees. The children then got stuck in planting Read more…
Today we have celebrated The Festival of Colours (Holi Festival). We have had so much fun! We started the day by listening to the story behind the Holi Festival. We then experimented with paint mixing and crushing flowers to see what colour mark they would make on big paper. In Read more…
This week we have started a new unit in English- instructions. We used ‘shapes’ to help us piece together different parts of the instructions and put them in the right order. When they were in the correct order we then followed the instructions to make bird feeder. When we had Read more…
This week in Literacy we have been learning all about India and have focused on the story ‘Festival Of Colours’. The children use the flowers they have to create powder colours and use it to throw during the Holi Festival. In writing we have been able to write down the colours Read more…
Last week the whole school carried out science activities based on the topic ‘Growth’ for British Science week. Through assemblies in class, the children discussed, drew and imagined what a scientist looked like. Then we all recognised that anyone, including the children could be a scientist as long as you Read more…
Today we discussed what is happening in the Ukraine. We talked about the news and what we can do if we feel upset like talking to a grown up about our feelings. We wrote letters of positivity to the children in Ukraine to make them feel happy. We planted Sunflowers Read more…
This half term, we are reading the story ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in English. Last week, as part of our experience lessons, we went for a walk in forest school, pretended we were Little Red Riding Hood and used the FANTASTICS to collect vocabulary about what she might see, Read more…
This week we have had lots of fun for British Science week. We have worked together to make a wormery, we discussed a worms habitat and then went into Kayden’s garden to search for worms. We were looking for three different types of worms – Earthworms (endogeic worms), Deep borrowers Read more…
This week in Forest School, Year 5 have focused their learning on British Science Week. The theme for British Science Week has been ‘Growth’. We discussed how growth is all around us and everyone took part in some exciting science activities. We talked about how the population is growing and Read more…
This week we have talked about what a scientist is and what we think they look like. We created our own pictures of what we thought a scientist might look like and showed our pictures to our friends. During forest school we did our very own science experiment and used Read more…