Sportshall Athletics

Sportshall Athletics

A few weeks ago, our Y5/6 Sportshall Athletics team attended the competition at Bishop Barrington Academy. As there were multiple events, we were awaiting the overall results. They did a brilliant job representing our school and came 4th overall out of 16 schools. An...
String Telephones

String Telephones

This term, Class 5 are studying ‘Sound’.  This week we led an investigation into how the length of string affects how far sound can travel.  We found it remarkable that we could hear each other so clearly through the string because the sound waves are travelling alone...
Pedometers

Pedometers

This term, in Design and Technology, Class 5 have been learning about pedometers.  We deconstructed one to see how one works and how they originally worked before thinking about how we could make a modern one with programming.  Finally, we used the Micro:Bits to...
Visit to Jarrow Hall

Visit to Jarrow Hall

Class 5 had a fantastic opportunity to explore the life of the Anglo-Saxons at Jarrow Hall this week.  In the morning, they explored the live farm which would have been situated next to a Saxon settlement and thought about how our ancestors would have used the animals...