NEWS
Making our mark on 2023
Dough Disco
The children in nursery have been working on building those finger muscles. Every week we do Dough Disco to build the build strength in our arms, hands and fingers, its also great fun!
Our Dream Clouds
Today we have been thinking about our future hopes and ambitions and putting them on our dream clouds. The rain drops represent the things which might help us get there. Some of us thought about our future jobs and others thought of the type of person we would like to...
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...
Christmas Joy
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.
Newsletter 21.12.2022
Please follow the link below to see our final newsletter of 2022. We hope you all have a wonderful festive holiday.
We are Family!
The children learned how important collaboration is. They worked together to spell out the work family and realised that families have to work hard to work together too.