World Book Day Escape Room
To celebrate World Book Day, we combined our English and Mathematical skills together to try and ‘escape from the library’! The class worked in teams to try and crack the code to set themselves free! They worked really well together and showed great skills of...
World Book Day Dioramas
A huge thank you to everyone for all of their hard work. What an amazing selection of dioramas we received to celebrate World Book Day!! An absolutely amazing effort from all of our children and families - we hope a lot of fun was had over the half term break creating...
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
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
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
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...
Family Friday
A huge thank you to all of the parents who came along to our E-Safety Family Friday event this morning. The hot topic was fake news, misinformation and disinformation. The children thoroughly enjoyed trying to find ways to identify if some of the images were AI...
VR Experience
Class 5 and 6 have had a fantastic morning using VR headsets to explore a Mayan temple in Chichen Itza. It was also a brilliant opportunity to discover how images can be altered as part of our learning on disinformation in Computing. The children thoroughly enjoyed...
Winter Activities
We did lots of fun activities when learning about winter. We made snowmen from marshmallows and there was a challenge to see who could make the tallest snowman. We drew snowflakes with chalks and we learnt how to cut out snowflakes from paper. We worked in groups to...
Penguins and Polar Bears
When learning about cold places on Earth, we learnt that polar bears live at the North Pole and emperor penguins live at the South Pole. The children learnt lots of interesting facts about penguins and polar bears. We then used out art skills to make some pictures. We...