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We created an African sunset display but were only given two colours- through colour mixing we made the sunset!

Reward time is the BEST!

Our treat for being green/silver/gold this week! Jelly! (And will make a delicious extra snack on Monday too!)

We met our year 5 buddies for the first time too, which was so lovely….so lovely in fact that I didn’t take any photos! I’ll try to remember next…

We had an Autumnal afternoon to celebrate the first day of Autumn.

We went on an Autumn scavenger hunt, where we then found leaves to turn into animals from the Gruffalo!
We also learnt if all trees lose their leaves - we discovered that some trees are 'evergreen' and some are 'deciduous'. We…

As you will know our trained Forest School teachers have been busy over the past few months developing and extending our Forest School areas, thank you to everyone who donated items for this. Below are some photo’s we wanted to share with you.  As you will see there are 4 main Forest School areas…

As a 'hook' into this terms Science topic of Space, the children designed, made, tested and evaluated their sundials. 

Year 5 WW2 day!
From air raids to baking rock cakes the children had the best time being WW2 evacuees. Here are some photos of our day. The children all looked amazing!

Inspire day Paralympics

Year 5 have been in awe of the Paralympians and the variety of sports included at the Paralympics. 

The children have shown compassion and gained a greater understanding of inclusion and the importance of perseverance. Here are some pictures showing just a few…

Sports day 2021

A fantastic day full of competitive sports and teamwork. 

Year 5 had a wonderful time trying lots of sports. 

Fledglings have been learning about the human impact on our oceans and today we saved the sea animals from an oil spill! 

We learned about the catastrophic effects of pollution on our seas, and what can happen when petrol, oil and chemicals end up in the oceans. We discussed what can happen to…

Active maths is really important to us in year 5. We took our maths outside for NSPCC numbers day. First, we recorded the time it took our friends to run from one end of our field to the other and then we collected data on how many animals we could spot including minibeast. From the data gathered…

Our learning about sea creatures reached new depths this week...
Our poor classroom will never smell the same again! 
Miss Riggs presented us with a mystery box. We used our senses of touch and smell to explore what we could before the lid was removed and we could use our sense of sight too! 
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