Trip to Cadbury World
Year 3 had THE BEST day at Cadbury World. In history, we have been studying the ancient Maya civilisation and it was great to add to our knowledge in a fascinating talk. We also loved finding out about how the…
Inspire workshop: writing
Thank you to all the parents who joined us for a creative workshop, looking at speech marks. We began by designing and making 2 finger puppets. Look out for characters from books we love: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The…
🐣🐣Y6 Easter Egg Decoration Competition 2024🐣🐣
Wow! Look at this year’s entries! I wonder who will win for Y6. 🤔 Update: Everyone won a prize! We couldn't choose between them! 🐰🐥
Learning to relief print (and writing backwards!)
As the next stage of our collaborative art project, we began to think about the imagery we wanted to include on our piece. We began by mind-mapping words and images that could be used to respond to the theme of…
Women’s History Month
We have enjoyed learning about important women in history and felt quite cross that women haven't always been treated fairly and equally. We were also working on our reading skills at the same time, finding specific words in the text.…
DT – refugee shelter prototypes – freestanding structures
After exploring how to join paper to create freestanding structures, Year 6 set about realising their prototype shelters. They used flaps, folds and joins to create stable structures. As they were just exploring prototype designs, they used masking tape…
Stan’s Cafe Project – Saving the Butterfly
This term, Year 6 have been lucky to have worked with Jack from Stan's Cafe. They are exploring the themes in the book, Saving the Butterfly: A story about refugees by Helen Cooper. They explored the story, the themes of…
📙📘📗📕World Book Day 2024 📙📘📗📕
This year, Year 6 had a busy world book day. They had the important job of inspiring the younger children to love reading. Year 6 role models visited Reception and Year 1 to join in their reading parties. Both sets…
World Book Day
We celebrated World Book Day in style with a special message from Michael Morpurgo! How lucky are we?! We also had a reading party this afternoon. Everyone enjoyed choosing books from the library and sharing them with friends (with a…
DT skills: chopping and peeling vegetables
On Friday, we learned about how to use sharp knives and vegetable peelers safely. We practised using claw and bridge holds so our fingers were out of the way! Have you been able to help at home using your new…