On Tuesday, four very creative writers had the opportunity to work alongside an author, William Gallagher, at Harborne Primary. Mrs Wheeler and the children had a fantastic, inspiring day and brought back some great writing to share.
Today, Y6 completed their Come Dine With Me project in DT. The dessert course featured the hero ingredient of pineapple🍍 On the menu we had pineapple muffins, pineapple and strawberry sorbet and pineapple whip! All healthy and all delicious!
We have been learning about the threats to our oceans in geography. Today, we went to learn more about the amazing creatures that live in the sea. We even got to touch a starfish!
Today, Y6 enjoyed their first course in their Come Dine with Me experience, featuring the hero ingredient: bell peppers. Some groups made stuffed peppers, others made ratatouille. Once all the hard work was done, it was time to sample the…
As Y6 continue their learning about classifying living things, today they focused on plants. They learned about four main plant groups: mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants. They had to create recipes of the plant time, then we had to…
As the second part of our learning about the history of steam locomotives, today Year 6 studied one of a few famous locomotives. Then the new ‘experts’ went to other tables to teach their peers. Everyone enjoyed it and lots of…
Today, Y6 began their new 3D and sculpture art project which will be focused on the idea of the "self" in art. We looked at several pieces of non-literal sculpture and discussed what we thought about them. We found the…
After lots of Kagan work using structures such as Round Table Consensus and Round Robin, we explored what we thought a good playground should have, before refining this into a set of must-have design criteria. Then we learned measuring, marking…
Last week some of Year 5 got to attend the KES Olympic Games at King Edward’s School. Children participated in table tennis, basketball, shot put, javelin, rugby, football and relay race events. Was a great day of sport and fair…
This week, Year 6 started work on their latest DT project: waistcoats! Working with their Kagan partners for support, Year 6 followed the process of evaluating existing products, developing design criteria then designing their waistcoats before laying out the pattern…