Blog Author: Mr Buckton

To celebrate World Book Day we took part in The Great Big Footy and Booky Quiz. 

Afterwards, we created our own quiz questions linked to football and books.

Next, we designed our reading identity outlining favourite books, authors and where we like to read.

In the afternoon, we took part…

In pairs, the children answered a range of calculations.

Once they were solved, the children sorted them into different groups. They focused on any patterns they could see and different ways they could be grouped together.

Luca 5A - ‘I found the activity fun as we got to work in…

Today the children have enjoyed a fun filled day with the Hogwarts experience.

Once the children were sorted into their houses, each class took part in a Quidditch experience.

They played a range of games representing the game of Quidditch.

The children had a brilliant time and worked…

This week, we welcomed Leon Pietrzak to talk to the children in KS2 about careers in the NHS.

After a full school assembly, Leon delivered workshops with each year group. These workshops explored the different roles that are available and provided some incredible facts about the NHS. 

Leon…

Today we investigated soluble and insoluble materials.

We worked in small groups and observed what happened when the material was added to the water.

We then discussed ways that we could speed up the process.

Today we explored ‘The Hand Jive’, a popular dance in the rock ‘n’ roll genre.

We broke the dance down into its different moves before putting it all together as a class.

In this lesson we continued to look at locations along the Tropic of Cancer.

We focused on Tamanrasset in Algeria and explored what it must be like to live there and some of the challenges the people might face.

Also, we made comparisons between Dhaka and Tamanrasset.

Today we have applied weaving techniques using raffia to create a natural piece of artwork.

This term we have been exploring lines of longitude and latitude.

In this lesson, we focused on a location on the Tropic of Cancer.’

In groups, we explored where Dhaka was located and what the landscape is like.

We also discussed the issues of living there in particular the impact of…

In this lesson we explored the hardness of materials.

In groups, we used different types of rocks and tried to scratch them using: plastic, nails, coins, split pins and our fingernail.

We discovered than chalk was the easiest of the rocks to scratch.

We have been focusing on linear drawings and collage.

After drawing a section of tree bark and parts of a tree, we used a range of strip cuts to create a collage. 
 

We thought carefully about the choice of colours and placement of each part of the collage.

In this lesson, we considered how each action could be performed.

We continued to use counts to help stay in time with one another.