Year 5

Well done to the children who took part in the Spelling Bee. Year 5 had some very tough words and the three children who entered worked extremely hard to practise their words. We are very proud of you.

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our Express Event this term. We had lots of fun investigating which tools would be the best substructure for a bird’s beak. We used tweezers, a big peg, a little peg, scissors and thumb and finger to pick up grains of rice.

Year 5 showed some super stamina competing in this term’s tribal event this morning! After organising the children into their tribes, Lewis timed them for 30 seconds whilst they completed as many push ups as possible. Quite a few achieved some impressive numbers! Well done to Megan who still participated by doing star jumps.

The whole school came together today for a very special event. Poppy bravely donated her beautiful hair to The Little Princess Trust, an organisation that provides wigs for poorly children. Poppy’s mum, a hairdresser, came into school to cut her hair in front of an awestruck audience! We are all extremely proud of you Poppy! … Continue reading →

During English this week, Birch class have worked extremely hard to research the life of Charles Darwin and write their own biography about the eminent British naturalist. Their effort and interest in this task has produced some very impressive results; well done Birch class!

In Year 5, we spent the afternoon classifying animals into their technical groups: mammals, amphibians, insects, reptiles, birds and fish.

This term, Year 5 and 6 will be making observations of the living things we find around the school. We started off this week by looking at a section of the field. We found a variety of things including grass, twigs, conker  shells, leaves, flowers and bugs.