Outdoor learning
Forest school
During forest school, year 6 have been making rafts. Today we went down to the river at Queen’s Park to race our rafts. We had lots of fun and the children worked very well in their teams.
Mathematics
Active teach – maths
Children in year 6 worked in groups and pairs to complete a number hunt, focusing on adding and subtracting decimals from TeachActive. They worked very well as a team and did not stop running. Well done year 6.
Learning for Life
Crossing the Line
Year 6 had the opportunity to take part in a workshop and monologue performance of Crossing the Line. It addresses the issues surrounding child criminal exploitation and gives the children the tools and understanding needed to identify and deal with these issues. We first watched the video, which explains the Read more
Christian Values
Inside out – World Mental Health
Today, we celebrated inside out day but discussing and exploring ways to improve out mental health. In class we watched a video all about mental health, we discussed ways in which we can keep our mind healthy and activities that we can do to support positive mental health. We also Read more
English
Sports Journalist visit
This morning has been very exciting for Year 5. Gareth Walker visited our classroom and delivered a fantastic lesson, which the children loved. Gareth is a sports journalist, who has worked for The Daily Mirror for 20 years. He has reported on huge sporting events across the globe. During the Read more
Art & Design
Shared learning and lunch
Thank you to all all the parents and grandparents who joined us for our shared learning and lunch today. The children enjoyed sharing what they have been learning in RE about places of worship. We then spoke about designing our own prayer garden in our school grounds. Children and grown Read more
Learning for Life
Crossing the lines
This afternoon, Year 6 have watched the film ‘Blurred Lines’ by Parvez Qadir. The film aims to tackle the topic of organised crime and county lines. During the film, we stopped and answer questions relating to specific topics: stranger danger; healthy friendships; peer pressure; grooming; keeping secrets or who to Read more
Learning for Life
Learning for life – keeping safe.
Year 6 have been exploring the topic ‘feeling safe’. Last lesson, we discussed what a drug is. The children worked well to discuss the definition of a drug and what the terms of ‘legal and illegal’. As a class we discussed and explored what drugs are used for. We recognised Read more
Computing
Computing – Spreadsheets
During our Purplemash lessons, we have been looking at how to create a spreadsheet to record the probabilities of rolling a dice. We collated, recorded and analysed the results and used these to create a graph. We used a basic formulae to total our results, this saved us a lot Read more
Learning for Life
Humanism
Year 6 were very lucky today to have a visit today from a Humanist, Kevin. Focusing on our topic in RE at the moment is, ‘What matters most to Christians and Humanists?’ Kevin explained what a Humanist is and what they believe in. Humanists are people who want to take Read more