Year 5 have been busy in the past few weeks, designing, making and evaluating moving toys, using a cam mechanism. Their brief was to make a moving toy depicting an endangered animal, that the World Wildlife Fund could sell to raise funds. They considered its sturdiness, visual appeal, and safety for small children. We firstly … Read more
We are coming to the end of our Viking unit in Year 5 – what a lot we have learnt about the constant battle for power between the Anglo Saxons and the Vikings! We have been using some primary and secondary sources of historical evidence this week, through looking at a copy of the original … Read more
This afternoon, sixteen runners from Year 5 and 6 took to the field at Knights Templar School to represent William Ransom at the School Sports Partnership cross country tournament! After much anticipation for this event, including trials and weeks of training, our Year 5 girls and boys team and Year 6 girls and boys team … Read more
At the end of most PE units, all classes are encouraged to do a class tournament within the sport they have been learning about. This half term Year 5 have been learning all about basketball and we were (FINALLY) able to have our greatly anticipated class tournament last Friday. The class were split into 6 … Read more
As part of our Science topic on forces, year 5 were lucky enough to take part in a fantastic Circus Skills workshop, led by Shooting Stars instructor, Nick. Children first watched a fun and entertaining demonstration, where they discovered how certain forces play a vital role in a variety of circus skills. They were then … Read more
On Wednesday, Year 5 were lucky enough to have a Viking visit us for the day! He was immensely engaging and knowledgeable and we all (including the staff!) learnt lots of new facts. We particularly enjoyed the artifacts that our guest brought in, really bringing the Viking period to life for us. We used our … Read more
Year 5 children have started buddy reading on Tuesday mornings. If we don’t have an assembly, the children are taking it in turns to spend time in Year 1. Once there, they are reading to their year 1 buddies or the Year 1 children are reading to them. This is proving very popular indeed and … Read more
Year 5’s RE Trip Our trip to Bhaktivedanta Manor was a great success. The manor is a spiritual sanctuary spread over 78 acres of land with plentiful gardens, an organic farm, a protected herd of cows, a temple and a monastery. On arrival, we split up into three groups to take turns visiting the various … Read more
Year 5 had a fantastic day for our Festival of Languages. We were lucky enough to have three brilliant Mums come in to share their cultures with us and we learnt lots about India, South Africa and Spain. Thank you so much to you all! We immersed ourselves in these cultures; we danced, learnt some … Read more
GROW with Phase Phase is a small, local charity which works alongside young people to promote their wellbeing and resilience. They help educate young people as they navigate their way through the challenges of growing up, being at school, taking exams, making friends, planning their time, dealing with conflict and change and moving on. When … Read more
