Today we completed this year’s SMSC project looking at British Values and specifically democracy. The children in Y5 held an open hustings where the 8 political parties were grilled before the votes were cast. It was a heated debate in the school hall and tempers were flared as each party…

Today Y5 had the opportunity to meet Troy Conner, veteran Parachute Regiment, who told us his life story. It was informative, moving and very thought provoking. Please ask the Y5 children to tell you Troy’s story. Here are a few photographs from his visit.

So… It’s been a really busy start to the half term for our topic! Our topic this term is: Young Entrepreneurs: Think it, Code it, Sell it. We are working in pairs to create a business and video game! So far we’ve created our business and we’ve designed some logos…

This half term in Y5 our literacy focus is to write a high quality newspaper article reporting about the Hunger Games, we’re focusing on the beginning of the Hunger Games story where Katniss volunteers as tribute to replace her 12 year old sister: Primrose Everdeen. This morning in literacy we…

After the visit of Stephanie Peacock, our local MP, the children in Y5 have been split into 8 groups and will be starting their own political party. Today they were thinking about a name, logo, slogan and 4 main manifesto pledges. I am so impressed with how they are working…

Today Y5 grilled our local MP Stephanie Peacock. She attended a 45 minute Q&A session in the school hall. We were all really proud of the mature, responsible approach from our children. Stephanie commented, that hopefully in the Hall was a future Member of Parliament for Barnsley East! What did…

This week in Class 10 maths we have been revising some skills in preparation for our spring assessments. One skill which we enjoyed revisiting was learning how to calculate the area of compound shapes. Some of us were calculating the area of compound shapes involving two quadrilaterals whilst others were…

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Take a look at the video below to see what Class 10 have been up to throughout the Autumn Term, after completing the construction of our Stop Motion Studios we then filmed our own movie by APP smashing between Stop Motion creator and iMovie. Click here to see our finished…

Check out this video of us creating our stop motion studio sets, you’ll see the whole of our learning throughout the Autumn Term – take a look to see how we turned a few strips of wood into a Stop Motion Studio!