Year 5 spent a jam-packed, exciting day at the Museum of Science and Industry learning about forces! We started with a forces show where children showed their knowledge by joining in with the interactive performance. We then explored the museum including the hands on experiment room, the power hall (learning Read more…
Class 11 used their mastery skills and perseverance to be on the Olympic panel in Maths! Children had the decimal scores of a heptathalon event and had to order the scores of 10 Athletes. This was particularly challenging as some events were in ascending order (hurdles) and some were in Read more…
For half-term homework, Class 11 created their own homemade boats for a race! As part of our forces topic, we focused this week on water resistance. We discussed how streamlined shapes would be the best design due to the pointed front and curved back to allow the water to flow Read more…
Class 11 have designed, created and evaluated Tudor roses as part of our D&T lesson in Linked Learning. We discussed how the Tudor rose was created by joining the White Rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster when Henry VII married Elizabeth of York. Many children found the clay rose (partly the petals) quite tricky to use and we evaluated how we could improve this skill in the future. Have a look at our clay designs below.
Class 11 took part in a yoga session today to continue with Mental Health week and to help us with our assessment focus. We practiced many tricky poses including butterfly pose, cobra, tree pose and planks. We focused on our breathing and balancing to perfect these poses. We then finished Read more…
In Class 11, we focused on social media for our Internet Safety Day. We discussed the age limits for certain apps and many children were shocked to learn some apps such as Instagram have an age restriction of 13! We created our own ‘Do’s and Dont’s Class Agreement’ involving how Read more…
In Year 5 this half-term, we have been learning how to use spreadsheets to calculate formulas and even related this to our area and perimeter topic in Maths. Today we focused on a literacy aspect of spreadsheets and investigated which letters were used most in our writing. We found that Read more…
Today we had so much fun with the Mad Science team! We took part in a whole school assembly including a birthday candle experiment with the birthday boys Kyle and Logan. We then had a class session about our topic Forces. We made our own Delta darts and adapted them Read more…
As part of our Literacy in Class 11, we participated in a language and communication lesson asking the question ‘How can our past experiences in life positively affect our future?’ This linked to our biography work where we found out that many authors such as J K Rowling and Charles Read more…
This week in music, Class 11 started to play the recorder with Miss Gibson. Beautiful sounds were coming from the classroom as children learnt different notes and their first song. Keep an eye on our blog to see their progress with this new skills!