Y5 DT Day - Making Soup
Today we have spent the whole day researching, preparing, making, tasting and evaluating soup! We used onions, leeks, potatoes and carrots! All of these vegetables were sliced up by the children and added to our soup maker resulting in a delicious treat that the children enjoyed, if ever you’re…
Fashion Designer
Today we have finalised our art project by using the patterns we painted to create clothes for our cardboard models. The use of colours and patterns has made each piece of art very unique!
Sutton Hoo
Today the children have learnt about the discovery of Sutton Hoo and why this was an important discovery for Britains understanding of Anglo-Saxon Britain, as part of our learning we re-enacted the discovery of the ship and how the conversation might have gone between Basil Brown (an excavator)…
Practising our Grammar Skills
Today we have looked at a range of grammar skills that we have covered so far this year in preparation for our Grammar Test next week!
Anti-bullying week
As part of anti-bullying week the children have had the chance to design their own odd socks using their own ideas and full creative control.
Collaborative Computing - Narwhals and Dolphins
Today for computing, the Narwhals and Dolphins have worked together on their computing work! As you may remember Narwhals had a visitor who taught them how to use the app ‘Clips’, due to technical difficulties Dolphins did not get a chance to complete this. So today Narwhals have had the job of…
Clay Art
Today we were very lucky to get the chance to visit an art exhibition at the local church, the children saw a range of winning art pieces that had been inspired by things like whale bones and sound. The children were then very lucky because they got to create their own tile that had seeds mixed…
Common Multiples
Today in maths we have looked at finding the common multiples of numbers, as you can see even when we get things wrong we don’t give up, we try again until we figure it out. We’ve also introduced the idea of the ‘lowest common multiple’ and how we can find patterns in sequences to help us find the…
Narwhal Sum
In Latin today we have learnt how to introduce ourselves! We were very interested to find out that if we were a girl our names would end in ‘a’ and if we were boys our name ended in ‘us’
Partitioning numbers
Today we have been using our iPads to partition numbers into their place values, we then looked at different ways we could represent our partitions to reinforce our knowledge and confidence
Let’s be a bit dramatic
Today we have really immersed ourselves into chapter 4 of Rumaysa for our retell, we really wanted to focus on the powerful emotions that are showcased in this chapter as well as understand what we’re actually talking about, such as what a spindle actually is!
Child Labour Argument
Today we have begun writing our opening drafts for a discursive argument on whether child labour should be allowed, this links in with our class text of Holes in which the children are forced to work everyday! Our main focus today is relative clauses but it’s fantastic to see the children working…