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18 May 2022

Year 5 Castleton

What a fantastic three days! We have had an amazing time and thoroughly enjoyed spending time with the year 5 children. They embraced every challenge and were excellent ambassadors for our school.   
 

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18 May 2022

Castleton Day 2

The children had a very exciting second day! 

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17 May 2022

Y5/6 Olympics

After learning about the origins of the Olympic rings this morning, the children competed in their own Olympics this afternoon.  They chose the events themselves and were in five teams: one for each of the World's land continents as is represented in the Olympic rings.

 

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17 May 2022

Castleton Day 1

The children have had a fantastic first day! 

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6 May 2022

Year 5/6 McCoo artwork

In art this week, Year 5 and 6 have been replicating the artwork of Steven Brown’s famous McCoo paintings. We started by sketching a highland cow following a step by step guide. Once we were confident with our sketches, we then redrew them onto dark card with a pencil. We then added brightly…

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29 April 2022

Technology with Textiles - Mobile phone cases

The children in Y5/6 designed and made felt mobile phone cases.

First they had to decide on the design criteria and specification (the intended user, the aesthetic appeal and functionality) . Then they created annotated drawings to show what it would look like from the front, side and…

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9 March 2022

Y5/6 Press print compass designs

We have mastered the art of using compasses to draw circles. We then created patterns inspired by traditional navigational compass designs and mandala patterns. The next tricky stage was to transfer our designs to polystyrene press print. Once our design was ready we selected our colours and…

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9 March 2022

Y5/6 WWF Threats to Nature: Climate Crisis

Today all classes in Y5/6 took part in an interesting and enjoyable online lesson with Amy from the WWF (World Wildlife Fund). She talked to us about how the planet is heating up and how this is affecting life for all plants and animals - including humans. We built on what we have been learning…

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8 February 2022

Using Maps and Atlases

In Y5/6 we have been learning about climate zones and biomes. We have become very skilled in using a range of maps and atlases. Working together we had to cross-reference information from different maps to identify the biomes in different continents and climate zones.

 

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