The spring term was concluded with a fun and creative English topic: Rap music. Following on from looking at this genre in Music, children further deepened their knowledge and opinions of different types of rap music, before researching, planning and writing their own raps. This could have been on a topic of their choice, and … Read more
In today’s assembly, we talked about Easter traditions here in England — and then some of our pupils did a wonderful job of telling us about Easter traditions in other countries. We learnt about Scottish egg-rolling, Hungarian egg decorating, a giant French omelette and much more! A big well done to the children who took … Read more
As we come to the end of the Spring Term, Year 5 have taken part in hockey and tennis lessons within PE this half term. Today we took part in our usual end of unit tournament through the medium of hockey. We managed to avoid the rain and working in six teams we took part … Read more
Holly and Hazel class were very lucky to have a visit from Captain Evans this afternoon. He told us all about his job as a pilot for EasyJet. The children were keen to ask lots of questions and were also allowed to dress up in some of the official uniform. What a great way to … Read more
In Rowan and Willow Class, the children have been designing moving toys. The children learned all about cam mechanisms and then experimented with different types of cam to see what kind of movement they created. They then worked in pairs to investigate how they could make their structures sturdy. Next came the actual design process; … Read more
What an exciting day we all had on World Book Day again this year! Our wonderful local author – Lucy Plunkett – came in to read her story with every class throughout school. Dexter is a school dog who has a natural way of helping children through the school day with things like: the first … Read more
On Thursday this week, we were lucky enough to have some of our pupils who celebrate Ramadan and Eid share about their traditions during assemblies for both Key Stages. The children spoke beautifully, and many of their families were kind enough to send photos in so that we could see some of the food, decorations, … Read more
It’s been an exciting week of Science in school this week. Science Club set up an investigation to see how food changes over time. Everyone was able to visit the display over the week to see what happened. We found that some foods went hard while others went soft. Some went mouldy although the whole … Read more
As part of our unit on Animals, we were observing worms today in Maple Class. We learnt that worms have hydrostatic skeletons, which means that fluid gives them structure. Worms move by squeezing their muscles so that they become long and thin. Then, they have tiny hairs which help to pull them through the soil.
