Pop Art Maps
In art this term, we have been creating Pop art using maps. We started by using viewfinders to capture a section of a map and tracing over it. We then printed this image into our sketchbooks by flipping the tracing paper and pressing over the lines we had drawn. We then repeated this 3 times to…
Year 5/6 Sports Hall Athletics Heats
The children chosen to represent the school by competing in the Sports Hall Athletic Heats, had a fantastic time competing against each other and together in lots of different events. These included both track and field events such as the standing long jump, the speed bounce, vertical jump and…
Introduction to Spreadsheets in Year 5/6
This half term in Computing, we have started our new unit ‘Introduction to Spreadsheets’. We also had to start by learning how to logon to our class Teams page to access the work we are going to be doing. We then looked at a blank spreadsheet, identifying the cells, rows and columns and then using…
5/6LO at Tag Rugby
We visited Bradley Pitches today to play Tag rugby against 3 other schools. We were split into mixed groups and completed 4 different warm up tasks. Then we were put with another team to play some matches, putting into action the skills we had learnt in the warm up tasks. We had a fantastic…
French in Year 5/6
In our French lesson this term we have been learning about where we live and asking the question ‘Où habites tu? We watched videos, listening to French children talking about where they live in France and then looked at the French for different countries around the world. We wrote key vocabulary…
Using Search Engines Successfully in Y5/6
When we have been completing research in our Topic lessons, we need to be able to search the internet using specific and unambiguous vocabulary to find exactly what we need. Therefore, we have spent time in our computing sessions using the iPads or Laptops learning how to do this quickly and…
Year 5 Not in Our Community drama workshop
Year 5 took part in a drama workshop which focused on Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) as part of the Not in Our Community project, which aims to protect children from grooming and exploitation. They talked about what grooming is and how it can happen in real life and online and done by anyone…
Science in Year 5/6
In our Science topic of Properties and changes of materials, our first lesson was to work in groups testing the properties of a variety of different materials. We looked at whether they were magnetic, flexible, transparent, hard and permeable. The materials we tested ranged from wooden spoons and…
Year 6 Transition Workshop
This afternoon, the children in Year 6 worked with Mrs Deller on their Transition workshop. They looked at and discussed what they were looking forward to, what they were worried about and what they would miss when they move to Secondary school. Mrs Deller talked about getting to school, moving…
Year 5/6 Staying Safe Online workshops
Today in Year 5/6, a local police officer came into school to work with the children on how they can stay safe online. We watched a Newsround special called ‘Caught in the Web’ and discussed the issues that we saw, linking them to the SMART rules we follow when going online.
We then looked at the…
