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Science -Lighting up our day!!🌈🔬

This week in Year 6 Science, we explored light through scientific investigation. We learned that the light from the sun is called white light, and although it looks colourless, it is actually made up of all the colours of the rainbow 🌈.

We investigated what…

What a busy and exciting week we’ve had in Year 5!

📚 English

We have been working hard on writing balanced arguments. Everyone has been practising using cohesive connectors and embedded clauses to make their writing flow beautifully. Some of us even used colons for the very first time – a…

We had fun this week doing our design and technology project. I am sure the children have told you all about it.

I was so impressed by their patience and determination to succeed. This was quite difficult, but everyone gave it their best shot - even when I unpicked their work because they had…

What another busy, exciting and educational week we’ve had! ✨

📖 English

This week, we wrote our own narratives about Barney and Lou walking through a dark forest at night and hearing a mysterious growl… 👀🌲

 We included fronted adverbials, subordinate clauses, and lots of descriptive…

What a brilliant day of cooking we had in Year One on Thursday!

The children were so excited to be reading and following the recipes to make jam tarts and to learn new chopping skills such as the 'claw' and 'bridge' to chop vegetables. We used a wide range of ingredients to make the dips,…

💦🔧 Year 6 Class Blog: Water Wall Project! 💦🔧

On Thursday, Year 6 designed and built a water wall for our Reception pupils. We started by researching how water walls work and investigating pulleys and the Archimedes’ screw, looking at real-life examples to understand how they move water. We then…

Thank you to all the parents and carers who came along to see our celebration assembly.  The children did an amazing job this afternoon presenting their learning to the whole school and to adults.  Every word was heard and everyone had a line to say!

The children finished their awesome artwork…

📚 English

This week in English, we focused on mastering the use of colons. We discovered how colons can introduce lists, explanations, or examples, making our writing clearer and more powerful. For instance: There are two types of schooling: traditional schooling and homeschooling. We also…

In Art, we have started a big project. Step one is to do an outline drawing of a photograph that shows a foreground, a middle ground and a background. This will then be cut into the three sections, painted and reconstructed as a three dimensional picture. Keep watching this space to see it…

What another busy and educational week we have had! 📚

English ✏️

This week, we have been focusing on using subordinate clauses at the beginning of our writing. We practised starting sentences with when and as, and then added main clauses to complete them. Some of us are even remembering to…

In RE lessons this week, the children have explored Creation, from the Christian worldview. They listened carefully to stories that explained how Christians believe that God created the world over 7 days. To help them remember what was created when, the children made their own 'Creation Wheel'…

📝 Year 6 Writing Blog: Would You Want to Live Forever? 🌟

This week, Year 6 have started an exciting new writing project inspired by our whole-class reading book, The 1000 Year Old Boy by Ross Welford. We are writing a balanced argument exploring the question: Would you want to live forever? We…