To celebrate the 80 year anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe) the whole school enjoyed a celebratory picnic after learning in class the significance of the date and the sacrifices that millions of people gave for our liberty.
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Along with our whole school picnic, we all listened the the story of Where the Poppies Grew by Hilary Robinson during our 10 minutes of reading. Where The Poppies Now Grow, written in rhyme with powerful illustrations, is a touching tribute to honour all those who sacrificed so much for…
As part of our science curriculum, we learnt about the different parts of a flower and how they aid pollination and then we dissected real flowers to find the different parts.
4D have thoroughly enjoyed learning about poetry! The children have written their own rhyming poems about Ruby based on our class reader ‘When the Mountains Roared’, following this they learnt and performed a poem ‘Oh I wish I’d looked after my teeth’. Well done 4D!
As part of our space topic and English curriculum, each class learnt our own planet-inspired poem and performed them to the year group.
As part of our DT project, we had previously researched the moon buggies that have gone to space, then we planned how we could make them and finally we worked together to create our own!
Year 6 have been enjoying practising their athletic skills during their PE sessions. Some of the activities included relay racing, javelin, hammer and discus throwing, hurdling and skipping.
As part of our Space topic, we were visited by a space dome to discover even more about the solar system. We looked in depth about the different planets in our galaxy and space outside of our galaxy. It was awe-inspiring and fascinating!
In Year 5, we have been focusing on angles and we used this opportunity to do some partner teaching where pupils from Mr. Ryder’s maths group were showing pupil from Mrs. Green’s class how to measure angles using a protractor!