English
Literacy Kicks Sports Journalist Visit
Today, we have the privilege of having Gareth Walker, a sports journalist in for our English lesson. Over the next 5 sessions, he will be guiding the children through writing professional pieces of sports journalism. Today we looked at reporting on England’s Euro 2024 qualifier versus Italy.
Year 5 -Pine
Year 6 Christmas Party
Year 6 really enjoyed their Christmas party this afternoon. We played party games, danced and had party food. The staff in Year 6 want to wish all the children and their families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Year 5 -Pine
500 dojo treat
Year 6 Rowan chose to go to Queen’s Park as part of their 500 dojo reward. The children really enjoyed themselves and behaved beautifully. Well done Year 6.
Religious Education
Incarnation – Christmas Story
In RE, Year 6 have been looking at the Christmas Story. We focused on Jesus as The Son, The Father and The Holy Spirit. The children discussed and defined the word Incarnation. We explored that Christians believe that Jesus is God Incarnate, which means God in the flesh. A person Read more
Art & Design
Experimental mark making
Year 6 have started a new topic in ART – Drawing (making my voice heard). Today, we started our first lesson we started to explore the patterns, colours and symbols of Maya art and recording findings through experimental and expressive mark making using handmade tools and new surfaces. The children Read more
Religious Education
Christingle service
Last week, Year 5 and 6 went to church for their Christingle Celebration. They were all absolutely amazing! The children performed their lines and songs beautifully.
Year 5 -Pine
Christmas jumper and dinner day 2023.
Today, we celebrated Christmas jumper day and Christmas dinner day with our classmates. We listened to festive music and made Christmas puddings for placemats.
Geography
Geography – fieldwork
As part of our Geography topic (fieldwork), Year 6 visited Queen’s Park to conduct a field sketch. The children looked at how and why geographers conduct field sketches before they went out to do their own. The children used OASIS (orientation, annotation, sight, information and scale) as a key to Read more
English
Particle and Chemical Essay
To end our science topic, Year 6 produced high-quality academic essays to show how much we learnt across our unit. We looked at the key concepts, knowledge and facts that we knew and then planned how to articulate these, using our writing skills and academic vocabulary. We then used Read more