Blog by Tag: Collaboration

Year 3 had a fantastic time at the Handball Festival, playing games with Waltham Leas Primary. They had the opportunity to learn the basic skills and then put these skills into action with some exciting games! 

This week Year 5 had a Gymnastics session with Miss Green. They worked on different types of rolls and jumps in pairs. They then had to create a circuit as teams and only travel using the different jumps, rolls, steps and balances. 

As part of our new topic, we have been using atlases to locate different parts of the Uk as well as using atlases and our knowledge of the continents to locate mountains around the world.

This week in English, Year 5 have started looking at Balanced Arguments. The children were given a point of view on a slip of paper from 1 of 3 debates. They then had to find their group, decide if they were for or against the debate and add suitable sentence openers. They then presented their…

In Year 5 we have been looking at Classification in Science. The children were given a selection of Liquorice Allsorts and had to work in groups to create a classification key to identify them. They then presented their key using the sweets they were given.

This week the year 6 children have worked super hard to improve their passing, catching and teamwork skills for their handball session. You all worked super hard and you made great teams!

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our jewellery making session this morning. It was lovely to see our children working with their families and to be able to share our work with you. The children really enjoyed showing you what they have learnt during this topic especially in the…

This half term, in PE, we have been doing interpretive dance. The children have worked in small groups to re-create the story of Little Red Riding Hood. They had to plan their story and then put it to a piece of music. Each week they have practised and developed their characters using peer…

This half term, our topic has been mighty metals. We have planned and carried out a number of scientific investigations and visited Magna where we had lots of fun exploring the hands on science and taking part in the workshops.

To kick start our ‘Muck, Mess and Mixture’ topic we have been writing potions using similes. To come up with lots of exciting ideas we felt lots of different messes and mixtures. Some of us were more keen than others! We can’t wait to show you our potions in open morning.

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On Monday afternoon we all took on a job role and became Scientists!

Our task was to find out which soap makes the most bubbles. We made a prediction and then tested the five different soaps to see if we were correct. We presented our results in a results table and discussed how we made our…