This half-term, Year 5 have been learning how to blanket-stitch in Design and Technology. We then used this skill to create a cushion of our own design. Although it was tricky, the children persevered and produced some fabulous pieces. Well done!
Over the last few weeks, Year 6 have been working extremely hard in all topics. One area in particular that they have been focusing on, is their spellings. They have been practising all spellings from the year 3,4,5 and 6 list via the use of games. Today, both classes played Read more
This half term, in Science, Year 6 have been focusing on the topic Energy. We have been exploring what energy is, how it is stored and how it can be transferred from one store to another. The children have focused their learning on different equation to work out efficiency, power Read more
This week, Year 5 have been revisiting and revising their knowledge of factions, decimals and percentages. To do this, they have taken part in a variety of fun tasks and challenges including code breakers, board games, reasoning loop questions and making/ using fortune tellers. We had lots of fun with Read more
This week. our HeartSmart focus was understanding emotions and how they can sometimes affect our behaviour. The children could think of lots of examples of times when they had felt angry or excited and did something that they wish they hadn’t. The children explored the area searching for emotions hidden Read more
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
Both Year 6 classes took part in maths treasure hunts this afternoon. They had to apply their knowledge of finding percentages of amounts and equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. The children worked in groups to solve a variety of problems in the quickest time possible, moving between problems as they Read more
As part of our learning in Science, Year 6 have been provided with laboratory coats. Each lesson, one child is selected to wear the coat to represent that we are scientists and must work and think like scientists within our lesson. After the lesson, children who have impressed get the Read more
This week, Year 5 began their new Science topic ‘Electrical Circuits’. Our first lesson was all about static electricity. We learnt how static electricity is created, why we feel static shock, when we see evidence of static electricity and how thunder and lightning is created. To support our understanding, we 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