Years 5 and 6

In Y5/6, we have been studying and writing formal persuasive letters.  Today, we imagined KS2 SATs were going to be abolished.  As a class, we discuss whether we thought that children should have to do SATs or not.  At the end of our discussion, we had a vote and the class decided that KS2…

As part of our Science unit on Light, we learnt about shadows.  

We learnt that shadows are formed when an opaque object blocks a ray of light.  We aimed to show that a shadow can change size depending on the distance the object casting it is from the light source.  Shadows can also be…

The children have been exploring how to create 3D designs on computer. First they created a room and then added features and details such as furniture and decoration. Skills included: resizing, manipulating and rearranging features to create the best effect. Here are a few screenshots of their…

As part of our topic on World War 2, we have been learning about the Blitz.  We have been looking at images, videos and reading first hand accounts of the air raids that happened during that time.  We generated descriptive and figurative language phrases individually and shared and developed them…

In the science lesson this week, we stood a mirror up on a piece of white paper and we made a narrow slit in a piece of card. We dimmed the lights and shone a torch through the slit towards the mirror. We then drew both the rays of incidence and reflection. After that, we drew a dashed line where…

This week in our English lessons we have begun a new unit to create a setting description about an air raid during WW2.  This week, we have watched a video called 'London Can Take It' and started to collect vocabulary and descriptive phrases we can use in our writing.  We have created a word…

In Y56 we created 'human models' to demonstrate how light travels from a light source onto an object and then how it is reflected into our eyes, which enables us to see things. We worked brilliantly in our groups to create mini-videos to explain this. Here are a few pictures of us at…

As part of our topic on WW2, we created Blitz inspired art work in the style of Claude Francis Barrie. The children first had to use colours that represented fire to create a colour washed background to show how London was burning from all the bombing. Next, the children created silhouettes to…

Over the last few weeks, we have been improving our word processing skills in Year 5/6. We have been learning keyboard shortcuts, inserting and editing images, editing text, using a spellchecking tool and inserting and manipulating tables.

We all seem to be really interested in learning how to…

In Y5/6, we have been working collaboratively to create tension balances (pulling) and resistance balances (pushing). We had to work really well as a team to share ideas and create the imaginative balances. We also had to trust each other in order for them to be successful.

Here are a few…

For our World War 2 Day, the children in Y56 dressed up in 1940s clothes and we had some brilliant costumes including evacuees, land girls and soldiers. We spent the day immersing ourselves in learning about life as an evacuee. The children took part in an activity where they were given various…

We have had a great athletics lesson today with Miss Green. She taught us a variety of athletics activities that involved throwing and catching and it is safe to say that we were exhausted!