This half term Year 5 have been learning about installation art. We started this unit by researching and creating artist study pages about the famous installation artist Cai Guo-Qiang. The children used paint and straws to emulate Cai’s signature explosive style for their backgrounds. The results were incredible and the Read more
This week at STEM club the children designed a model kite, which they hoped would fly. In pairs, the children thought about potential problems they could come across when making their kite, for example, choosing a material that wasn’t too heavy. We then tested our kites using an electric fan. Read more
This morning we have spoke a lot about things we can do together. We read the story of The Hare and The Tortoise. Although tortoise was slower, he still believed in hisself and won the race! We spoke about how we can often not feel confident to accomplish something although Read more
Today’s forest school concentrated on our Christian value of ‘Trust’ and incorporated lots of our skills builder skills. We used teamwork and leadership skills to create dens and obstacle courses. The children were blindfolded and had to work together and use our listening and speaking skills to guide their teammates Read more
Thank you to the parents who joined us for shared learning this week. We all enjoyed showing you our skills builder skills problem solving by figuring out what the ancient Chinese characters said. And our history/ art skills by making our own oracle bones which ancient Chinese people used to Read more
Attention grabber The lesson began with a Fetch and Find activity, where pupils collected objects from the table. We discussed how the objects were the same and how they differed, focusing on the materials used to make them. For example three photo frames, one made from wood, one from metal Read more
We have been so lucky to enjoy another half term of forest school with Miss Brown this half term. We have worked on lots of our skills during the sessions which also link to our skills Builder skill each half term..
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
Today we have been taking part in a Skills builder day- Operation Moonbase. We were set different challenges throughout the day using all of the different Skills Builders. We have had lots of fun creating our own society thinking carefully about which 4 people would go to Utopia and which Read more
