With the nicer weather approaching, we have taken part in the Great Big School Clean. Every year group has helped to litter pick around our school. Not only helping to improve the environment but also ensuring that our school grounds are a safe place to play and enjoy the upcoming sunshine!
On Wednesday the Year 5 children went on a trip the Hancock Museum. They had great fun walking to the metro in the snow and looking around the museum. The children have been learning about the Egyptians so we’re fascinated by all of the artefacts and the real-life mummy.
As part of World Book Day the Year 5 children were inspired by Michael Morpurgo after watching and learning from him via Zoom. The children then had a go at drawing their own Butterfly Lion. We definitely have some future illustrator’s in our school!
This term head 5 are learning about Sir Ranulph Fiennes who is an English explorer who has broken many world records.
This week in year 5 the children have learnt about Native American history. They learnt about how and why dreamcatchers were made and then created their own. They had to sketch and plan a design and then follow a set of instructions to weave, tie and knot different wool, beads and feathers onto their dreamcatchers. They all look amazing and unique!
Children from KS1 and KS2 took a wintry Christmas walk to St Nicholas’ Church this morning. Once there, the children sung some of their favourite Christmas songs in this beautiful environment and talked with Rev. Paul about how Christians celebrate Christmas.
Rev. Paul was very impressed with some of the questions relating to the church itself.
All of the children were so impeccably behaved and are a real credit to our school!
Thank you Rev Paul.
Year 5 are enjoying their Dimensions topic ‘Mission Control’. Today in Art we looked closely at the different colours and textures of the Moon. We then thought carefully about how to create a realistic version. We think they look great and showed some real artistic skills. We will continue to develop these skills this week.
Today, Year 5 completed their Commando Joe’s mission 3.
The children landed on Mars, unfortunately during their landing their communication equipment was broken. The children had to build a communication platform inside their safe zone to communicate with Earth. The mission was timed and they had to watch out for incoming asteroids that could destroy their platform. The mission was also made harder, due to the communication breakdown they couldn’t talk to each other. The children reflected on vital skills- team work, resilience and communication.
Mission completed!
Year 5 had a visit from The Word today. They developed their coding skills on Scratch and made a game. They had to choose various sprites ‘characters’ and programmed them to move around. The children worked really hard and I think we have some future coders in the making!
Check out the link to see their work: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/32129916