This year we will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 5th March. Instead of dressing as a character, we are challenging you to present your favourite books as creatively as you can. For example, you may wish to decorate a hat like your favourite character, create a book scene Read more…
Well done to Class 14 who won the basketball tournament today! Teamwork, encouragement and perseverance were shown as children worked together to earn points for the winning trophy. Well done to Josh A from Class 13 representing Class 14 in the tournament.
Over the past two weeks the children of years 4, 5 and 6 have been engaged in a basketball competition. Today saw Class 11 vs Class 14 in the final. It was a close match that Class 14 just came out on top in, winning 4-3.
In history, we have been studying crime and punishment through the ages. We have learnt all about the rise of highway robbery throughout the Georgian period. In particular, we have focussed on the most famous highwayman, Dick Turpin. Through the use of primary and secondary sources, we have collected information Read more…
This week, Year 6 have started their Algebra topic in Maths. We began by finding the rule and working out how to find the nth term. We discussed why letters were used in algebra and used resources to prove that our rules were correct. We will be using this knowledge Read more…
Some of Year 6 have a very relaxing time exploring creative activities on Friday afternoons. This term we are learning different pottery techniques. Here are some photos of our slab pots. This week we had a go at coil pots. Here’s some more photographs.
When some of Year 6 were at Robinwood, other children from classes 13 and 14 had a lovely afternoon painting. We looked at the colours on the colour wheel that can be considered hot colours and cold colours. Here are some of the results.
This week we have been discussing how we can look after our mental health as part of the wider Children’s Mental Health Week. We discussed basic things we can do to help such as: getting the right amount of sleep, minimising social media use, healthy eating and exercise. The slogan Read more…
In Science we have been learning about classifying organisms. We have learnt how to group animals according to Karl Linnaeus’ theory and this week we discovered the advantages and disadvantages of micro-organisms/microbes. We made bread to observe how the yeast helps in this case, as yeast is an example of Read more…
As part of our micro-organism topic in Science, we are learning about microbes such as bacteria and fungi. Today we focused on yeast and how this fungi is used in foods. We used yeast to make a loaf of bread and were intrigued to see the dough rise throughout the Read more…