Merry Christmas!
Happy Christmas!! Take a look at the videos below - there's a funny one in there too - they will help you to understand a bit more about the true meaning of Christmas. To all of our families who are…
Website Design – with Year 3 in mind!
As part of the second unit in our Teach Computing scheme, Year 6 undertook the challenge of creating websites which would appeal to younger users. They decided upon creating websites that would teacher children in Year 3 about contrasting climates. …
Year 5 and 6 – INSPIRE Workshop – Writing
Today, Year 5 and 6 were excited to invite their parents into the school to share in a workshop, focussed around different aspects of the writing curriculum: spelling exception words, using fronted adverbials, effective descriptive writing, and using the Kagan…
Advent
Hello Everyone, You may have noticed that there is a major festival coming up for those who follow the Christian religion. The arrival of Christmas is preceded by Advent, a time of preparation for Christian families all over the world.…
Rudolph run – Birmingham Hospice
Today we took part in the Rudolph Run around Selly Park to raise money for the charity, St. Mary’s Birmingham Hospice. The sun shone for us 😎 What an amazing afternoon and thank you all who came along and supported us!
Earth as an Island – Year 6 DT project – Reusing Waste Plastic
As we come to the end of our Earth as an Island topic, Year 6 have been thinking about one of the greatest threats to our world and our islands - plastic pollution. With this in mind, we set about…
Reading Role Models Relaunched for the new half term
After the success of last year’s reading role models, the latest Year 6 volunteers have taken on the role! They had some expert guidance from Mrs Ward before launching themselves into the thick of it with their first batch of…
Happy Diwali! The Festival of Lights
Diwali is a significant festival in Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism. This year it will be celebrated on Monday 24th October. We wish you, your family and friends a very Happy Diwali. If you would like to find out more about Diwali…
Duo-Colour Island Prints
After last time (when we created the design and then drew it onto a press-print tile, this week it was time to learn how to apply ink and create a print! We learned how to use a combination of dry…
Harvest Festival at Tiverton
On Thursday we shall be celebrating Harvest Festival and being thankful for all of the food that we have to eat and for the people who grow and harvest our food. We are very lucky here in the UK, we…