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Team point challenges!, by Miss Horvath
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 12:33pm
For enrichment today, Year 6 worked in their team points groups to complete a Spring term retrieval grid. They had to use their combined knowledge to remember facts from the start of the half term up to this week! After, we went outside to play a carousel of team games. 6B and 6H played competitively against one another in their team point groups. They had a lot of fun!
Reflecting Light!, by Miss Horvath
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 12:29pm
Year 6 enjoyed using mirrors to look at how they can reflect light.
Chinese New Year - Lucky Fish!, by Miss Horvath
Date: 1st Feb 2022 @ 12:20pm
Year 6 decided to make their own 'lucky' fishes to celebrate Chinese New Year - This year is the year of the tiger!
The fish has a symbolic meaning for the Chinese people, particularly when celebrating Chinese New Year. The Arowana Fish also known as the Dragon Fish is believed to have descended from a mythical dragon and have the power to bring happiness and prosperity. It is also traditional to serve fish at the end of the New Years evening meal, due to its name sounding similar to the words 'wish' and 'abundance' in the Chinese language.
Year 6 - Active maths, by Miss Horvath
Date: 31st Jan 2022 @ 10:01am
In this lesson, the children had to match up Fraction, Decimal and Percentage equivalents through a fun game of snap!
Year 6 - Active Maths, by Miss Horvath
Date: 31st Jan 2022 @ 10:00am
In this lesson, we explored area and perimeter through drawing different rectangles. We learnt that a shape can have the same area but a different perimeter. We looked at how knowing factors can help us to work out the perimeter of a shape when we're given the area.
A range of poetry, by Mrs Edwards
Date: 27th Jan 2022 @ 4:54pm
This week we have looked at some of the different features of poetry; rhythm, rhyme, repetition and powerful verbs.
Poetry, by Mrs Edwards
Date: 25th Jan 2022 @ 6:47pm
We rehearsed and performed the poem, Fruit Picking by Jack Ousby.
Active Maths Multiplication and Division, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 25th Jan 2022 @ 1:12pm
Year 4 have enjoyed taking their Maths lesson outside this week. We all had a digit card, we have to join up in groups of 3/4 to then use our number cards to make number sentences for division and multiplication. We had to see how many different sentences we could make with 3 or 4 digit cards.
Coding variables, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 25th Jan 2022 @ 1:09pm
Last week we had a special coding session with Barclays. We joined in with other schools to code a game. We followed the coding instructions, which were very tricky, these included using variables. We enjoyed the challenge!
Science- Digestive system, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 25th Jan 2022 @ 1:07pm
To consolidate our learning about the digestive system we drew around our partner and then had to draw the digestive sytem. We had fun remembering all the different body parts and which body part does what.
Science Experiment, by Miss Rice
Date: 24th Jan 2022 @ 4:03pm
Year 5 carried out an experiment to test whether the size of a parachute would affect the amount of air resistance and the length of time it takes for the parachute to hit the ground! We used plastic bags, string and and a pencil for our experiment. We discussed our results together as a class.
Active Maths, by Miss Rice
Date: 24th Jan 2022 @ 3:59pm
Year 5 children have really enjoyed playing Active Maths games in Maths lessons.
Drama Performance, by Miss Wallis
Date: 24th Jan 2022 @ 3:59pm
Year 5 performed a scene from Cinderella. They carefully thought about their tone of voice and their use of gestures.
Visit from a Jewish Rabbi, by Miss Rice
Date: 24th Jan 2022 @ 3:55pm
A Rabbi from a local Jewish Synagogue visited Year 5 today. He discussed about the Synagogue's importance in the community, how Jewish people worship and the children got a chance to ask questions about Judaism. This links to our RE topic 'Different places of worship'. The children really enjoyed listening and learning about the faith.
PE games, by Miss Wallis
Date: 24th Jan 2022 @ 3:49pm
Year 5 created their own PE games using the STEP model.
Computing- Coding google logo, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 18th Jan 2022 @ 2:10pm
As part of our coding project, we coded our own google logo today. We followed different tutoptial videos to make the logos bounce, dance and much more. We had to change the sprites (letters) and the backdrop. We had a lot of fun.
Art- Sketching natural objects, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 18th Jan 2022 @ 10:26am
This half term in Art, Year 4 have been learning all about William Morris. Today we learnt about sketching, inanimate objects, and medium. After practrising our sketching skills (hatching, pressure and cross-hatching) by sketching an apple. We then went outside to choose a leaf. We chose a leaf as William Morris uses natural objects in his art work. We used our observation skills to look at the detail on the leaf, we then sketched it in our sketch books.
Science - Light, by Miss Jones
Date: 17th Jan 2022 @ 9:48am
In Science, we have been learning all about light and shadows. We looked at whether different materials make a difference to the size and shape of a shadow. We explore how light travels.
Punctuation fun, by Miss Jones
Date: 17th Jan 2022 @ 9:39am
We explored the blether stations in the hall. We had to spot the mistake and correct the punctuation marks.
We then went outside and has to listen carefully to the sentence and decide whether it needed
, . ! ? Or “ “
We used our outdoor environment to say what we could see, we then built on the by adding two adjectives to describe our noun creating an expanded noun phrase. Finally, we constructed a sentence using a proposition to describe where the location of our chosen noun.
Jabberwocky performance, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 3:42pm
For the last 2 weeks we have been learning all about the nonesence poem The Jabberwocky. Yesterday, we split into groups and performed the poem. Our focus was on rhythm. We really enjoyed performing this poem and working in groups.
Y6 Dance!, by Miss Horvath
Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 12:25pm
Year 6 have started dance sessions as well as rugby this half term. They have a performance coming together already! (Week 2)
Sale Sharks are in Y6!, by Miss Horvath
Date: 13th Jan 2022 @ 11:50am
Year 6 are working with Sale Sharks Rugby team this half-term. We've loved the sessions so far!
Light and shadows!, by Miss Horvath
Date: 6th Jan 2022 @ 7:46am
We experimented with light and shadow and learnt that light only travels in straight lines which is how shadows are formed against opaque objects.
