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Working With Clay
Our new topic is the Ancient Greeks- we are learning the skills to create a Greek coil pot as our final piece. Today, we used a range of sculpting techniques to shape and manipulate clay- these included: pinching, rolling and scoring.
Measurement
We have worked practically today, choosing appropriate equipment to measure different lengths and heights around school. We thought about which equipment would give us the most accurate measurements.
Stargazing
We enjoyed looking at the constellations on the ceiling to celebrate the start of our new book ‘Look Up!’. We explored different planets and then we found the plough and Orion belt.
Introduction to Video
In Computing, Year 5 have began their new topic: 'Video Editing'. This half term, we will be creating our own videos and learning how to manipulate and change them in order to suit our initial plans. Today, we looked at how videos are simply, moving images. We...
Year 6 Trip!
In the last week of the Autumn Term, we braced the snow and ice and went to the quayside in Newcastle. We had a great day: we spent two hours completing a drama workshop at The Live Theatre; we had our lunch in their restaurant (we took packed lunches but got to eat...
Iron Age Round houses
After exploring structure and strength. The children created their own roundhouse using triangulation to give their houses super strength.
Christmas Joy
Celebrating Christmas
We had an excellent afternoon with a visit from Santa, a disco, lots of games and some party food. We had so much fun celebrating with our friends.
Winter Poetry
We have enjoyed reading the poem ‘Some One’ by Walter De La Mare and identified lots of features that the poet used such as rhyme, repetition, adjectives and senses. We decided to write our own poem about winter. We used the school grounds as our inspiration and wrote...
How to build a strong structure
On our journey to find how to make the strongest structures the children designed and investigated how to make a structure stronger.