Blog Author: Karen-Jane Bowers

In art, we learnt all about Andy Goldsworthy - a sculptor who uses only natural materials. The Koalas then created their own inspired pieces. 

This term, we learnt all about autumn! We went on an Autumn hunt and learnt about deciduous and evergreen trees. 

We had fun making a huge piece of artwork with our friends. We turned the darkness (black paper) into light using paints and glitter.

In English we described an African setting using onomatopoeia for effect. 

Here are some photos of our themed Brazilian day! We have had fun learning to samba dance, play samba music, make brigideiros (Brazilian truffles), make carnival masks and learn all about where Brazil is located in the world. It was a great day!

For our art we mixed paint to create African sunsets.

This term we have been listening to the story of Carrie's War, linked to our WW2 topic. 
The children have been working hard on drafting and editing their writing to produce a Wow piece! 
Two styles of writing we have focused on are; a diary entry and an informal letter. 

The loveliest day with the most fabulous rock pool investigators. You were such fun and great company lovely fledglings

We have been working in groups to come up with ideas for a setting description for Alice in Wonderland. We thought about all of the different things we could, see, taste, smell, hear and touch and then worked with our team to add them to flipchart. This helped us generate ideas for writing our…

We have been investigating how electrical circuits work and how we should draw them.

We looked at all of the components that we would need for a circuit, and then tried them in different orders to see if we could make the bulb light up - with varied success!
Children were extremely sensible…

We recreated composite heads in the style of Giuseppe Archimboldo.

For our year 5 Ancient Greek topic the children, designed and made a clay vase.