There were some excellent Halloween costumes being worn in our classroom yesterday afternoon. Check them out… Describe your costume! (Sorry if you aren’t up! Having trouble uploading pics with the blog site. Will try and get more added as soon as I can.) Some more scary children… I mean costumes….

Today was the day of our car race. We had all made moving vehicles, some powered by elastic bands and some balloon powered. We were very excited, we had designed and made our vehicles all by ourselves and they were amazing. We held our race in the hall, the race…

Well it has been a long but fantastic half term and it is great to see just how well children have settled into their new classes and how they have progressed in their learning. This term we have seen pirates and rockets, trenches and banana growers and a whole variety…

Today the year 5 and 6 are taking part in a whole day workshop called ‘Refugee Education Experience’. The day will provide a chance for the children to gain an understanding of the hardship other children from war torn countries around the world are going through, spending their lives in refugee camps. One…

This weeks task is a creative one, Autumn has suddenly appeared and we would like you to take a photograph that shows us what Autumn means to you. When you’ve chosen your best photo upload it to the blog for everyone to see. Photos will be entered in the ‘All…

Over the last few weeks we have been exploring the story of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’. We have been improvising different scenarios and producing tableaus of the characters. Alonso and Antonio tied up Prospero and Miranda and cast them adrift. They landed on an island in torrential rain! They looked for…

Well I cannot believe it is already the end of the 5th week of the school year. Again it has been a week packed full of fantastic learning opportunities. Children are really getting into their topics, this week I’ve seen exploding rockets, World War 1 trenches and seen children researching…

Today we designed axles and wheels that would travel the furthest. We thought about the materials we would use to make a strong axle and considered the size of the wheels. We rolled our finished wheels down a ramp to find out whose went the furthest. Katie and Molly won…

Today we have been making axles so that when we make our toy vehicles we can make them move. We needed round wheels so they would roll and we used straws and pencils to make the strong axles. Then we tested them using a ramp. We had a competition to…

This week we have been using pastels to create interpretations of figures in movement. Here are some of our pictures.