For today’s challenge day, Pine have demonstrated all eight essential skills builder skills in a series of fast paced activities. They have worked together to consider the answer to the question: What makes a successful society? Session 1: Lift Off! The children explored using their communication skills by discussing what 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
Year 1 are loving our Mini Muay-Thai lessons this half-term. We are improving our fitness and learning the basics of martial arts. Our lessons are supported by videos from Kelly Haynes, who is a British champion of Muay Thai Boxing. We are also putting lots of work into our essential Read more
We had lots of fun this week reading Zog. The children made their own sentences using pictures to prompt them. They made play dough stars for Zog too to reward him for his efforts and never giving up. We linked this story to careers and growth mindset and discussed wha5 Read more
As part of our careers related learning, we used our recent traffic survey to take the role of an urban planner, tasked with deciding where houses, parks, schools and roads should be built. We looked at the traffic on Queen’s Park Road and if the town could have been designed Read more
During shared learning this week, we discussed our Geography topic with our parents. We then looked at The Skills Builders, specifically problem solving and creativity. The children were also able to identify careers related Geography and our topic – Fieldwork. Thank you to all parents who joined us for Rowan’s Read more
Thank you to those parents and family members who were able to attend our shared learning. After introducing our Geography topic, Fieldwork, we set children and adults the task of producing a poster to be displayed at the front of school to try and make Queen’s Park Road safer for Read more
During our science lesson, we created walls for the classroom in a rainforest using a different range of materials to see if they are waterproof. We worked in teams and listened to one another to build the walls. We also thought about which jobs would help us build walls in Read more
This half term in Year 4, our DT topic is Structures: Pavilions. In our first lesson we have been exploring different frame structures to test which are the most stable, using toothpicks and sweets. We made basic geometric structures and then created larger structures considering strength and stability. We also Read more