Blog Author: anna

Welcome back to your second term in Year Five. Our topic for the coming half term will be based around the Solar System, focusing on the Earth, Sun and Moon. What do you know about our solar system ? What might you like to find out about?

We will be exploring the question ‘Is there life on…

Is it a solid or a liquid? No it can’t be because…  Are humans solid? Or are we a mixture of all three states of matter? Can solids become liquids? Can gases be squashed? Is sand a solid or a liquid? Why does liquid appear on the outside of my glass when I add ice cubes to a drink?

What great…

Welcome Back and a very Happy New Year 2019!

On Monday we began our ‘Mindfulness’ Project. This is 5 minutes each day where the children have an opportunity to relax and free their mind.

The children started yesterday by colouring in mandalas alongside relaxing music before being introduced…

We hope that you had a refreshing break and we look forward to the learning in the year ahead. We will start our topic work on the Ancient Egyptians this week, so watch this space for some fantastic learning opportunities.

We hope you have had an amazing break.

Our topic for this half term is Food.

We will be reading lots of stories linked to food, this week we will be completing tasks linked to the story ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’.

We will be measuring food and investigating how much food we can fit…

We would like to take this opportunity to say that the children have worked very hard this term and produced some fantastic pieces of work. We hope you all have a lovely break and we are sure the children will return in January ready for some great learning! Merry Christmas!

What a fabulous week we have had in Year 4 with some fantastic Christmas maths, excellent writing and beautiful cards and calendars.

We wish you all a well-deserved break.

Have a lovely Christmas!

Merry Christmas! – The Year 4 Team

After a very long term, where we have all worked exceptionally hard, we are getting ready for a well deserved Christmas break.

Our classrooms have transformed over the last couple of days and we are all ready for our new topic in January.

Can you guess what it is?

As the curtain closes on what has been a busy term, can we just take the opportunity to thank all the children for their hard work and thank you for the support you have given us.

Eden camp was our first expedition, closely followed by our Yarm Fair project.

More recently, we have been…

Year 6 have been deepening their knowledge of WW2 by making authentic recipes from the period as part of looking at Christmas on the home front. Our great cook Dawn helped everyone get involved and used our local historian friends Jan & Richards recipes for Christmas pudding, cake and ration buns.…

The children were lucky enough to go on a search for intergalactic life (via the indoor planetarium). The show raised some interesting questions and revealed some amazing facts about life on Earth.

The children made some predictions regarding an experiment involving the transport of coloured water in celery. We have recorded our predictions and method and we will observe the celery over the course of the week to record the results and conclusions from our findings.