A beautiful, spiritual and creative way to explore nature creatively is to make mandalas and that is exactly what Rowan and Willow Class did last week. They created some absolutely beautiful mandalas using whatever they could find from the field, the area near their playground and the nature area. Some of them found it very difficult to destroy their … Read more
To support our recent science topic, Year 5 had a fantastic day at the Airbus Discovery Centre in Stevenage. The children had their curiosity peaked all day as they moved through the talks and creative activities about Mars and our Solar System. Seeing where the Mars Rover is tested in a simulated environment proved to … Read more
Year 5 had a fantastic day using their problem-solving skills to build a bridge for this year’s Knex challenge. To make it even more challenging, the bridge had to be a moving bridge (to allow tall ships to pass through) but stable and strong enough to hold at least 50 grams. After being briefed, the … Read more
During our Maths starters this week, we noticed that the children were all using the different methods we’ve been practising this year. Every child was choosing the method they preferred – some used bar models for fractions, some used dots and grouping for division, number lines for rounding and different formal methods for long multiplication. … Read more
Rowan and Willow Class really enjoyed decorating plates to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Here are some photos for you to enjoy.
On Tuesday lunchtimes, some of our Year fives have been participating in ‘Mash Club’ – a computing club with an E-Safety and coding focus. They began by exploring ‘Interland’, an adventure-packed online game that puts the key lessons of digital citizenship and safety into hands-on practice. They reviewed some of the games to share with … Read more
The children in Willow and Rowan Class had a fabulous day celebrating World Book Day. They talked about their favourite books, wrote book reviews and created characters for Story Land. They also enjoyed hearing all about Sarah Oliver’s books (author of Polyanne, The Mermaid’s Wedding and Lionel Messi – The Ultimate Biography) She gave them … Read more
In Willow Class, we have been studying Vikings. This week, we created our own Viking artwork. We learnt how to draw a snake head in the Viking style. Then we used our previous learning on drawing Viking knots to create the snakes’ bodies. We were very proud of our results!
Year 5 had a fantastic time getting into character and learning all sorts of interesting Viking facts during our recent Viking Day. Our very knowledgeable (and not as fierce as he looked) Viking had plenty of activities planned to enrich the children’s learning. We started off the day with a talk and a Viking quiz, … Read more
In our recent DT unit, Year 5 were set the task to design an automated toy for a client. The brief was to raise awareness of endangered animals by creating a toy that would be eye-catching and also appeal to children. The children had a great time researching their animals before learning how to make … Read more
