This half term we are answering the big question ‘If God is everywhere, why go to a place of worship?’. During todays lesson we investigated Hinduism and the similarities and differences between worshipping at home or at a Mandir. The children really enjoyed learning about a different religion and looking Read more…
Juniper have worked extremely hard this week to learn a written method for multiplying 2 digits by 2 digits. We have written a recipe for being successful. All of us have shown great progress since the start of the week and today we have been able to work in pairs, Read more…
To mark the end of our ‘Physical and Chemical Changes’ topic, Juniper have carried out an investigative task which challenged them to free a toy car from a block of ice using pure salt, rock salt and bicarbonate of soda. They had to find out which substance would melt the Read more…
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.
Juniper have been to church this morning for their Christingle celebration. They were all absolutely amazing! Fantastic singing and actions during our performance and they were all a credit to the school. Well done everyone!
This week in RE Year 5 have been discussing what it means to be generous. We listened to the story of Jesus and Zacchaeus and discussed how Jesus was able to turn Zacchaeus into a generous person. The children discussed how generosity isn’t just amount how much money a person Read more…
This afternoon we have been investigating chemical reactions. We observed the effect of changing the amount of vinegar on the reaction with sodium bicarbonate. We discussed our findings and concluded that the more vinegar there is in the mixture that is added to the sodium bicarbonate, the more it fizzed Read more…
The children in Juniper have been given the opportunity to run a stall at the Christmas Fair this year and to plan, research, source and make the products that we will sell. The whole class has been involved in deciding what sweet products would sell best, researching Christmas themed sweets, Read more…
As part of our learning, in the lead up to Christmas, we have been discussing angels and whether or not we believe in them. Many religions talk about angels. Christians believe that angels are God’s special messengers and in the Christmas story angels bring special messages to various people. Today Read more…
Juniper have been working hard to create some spreadsheets this afternoon. We used the letters of the alphabet as our variables. The counting tool helped us to identify which vowel was used the most in our text and the frequency that the consonants were used.