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4 October 2024

Drawing and Painting - Hundertwasser

During this term we have been looking at the work of Freidensreich Hundertwasser. 

Using his paintings as our inspiration we designed and painted our own versions of his work.

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3 October 2024

Musical Hieroglyphics

In this lesson we explored using hieroglyphics as musical symbols.

After listening to The Bangles, ‘Walk like an Egyptian’, we discussed what symbols would be suitable to go along with the song.

In pairs, we created our own composition using hieroglyphics and selected suitable sounds to go…

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3 October 2024

Investigating Hands Spans

In this lesson, we looked at the different ways and reasons why children are measured and weighed.

As a class, we measured our hands spans and then took an average for the class, boys and girls.

Our conclusion was, ‘the larger the handspan, the taller the person.’

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1 October 2024

Maths Adventure

Today Year 5 were tasked with solving a range of mathematical problems in order to stop the Robotrons.

The children worked in small groups and applied a range of skills to find the codes needed.

Thank you to Subject Revolution for leading a brilliant afternoon and the Year 6 volunteers for…

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27 September 2024

The Sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Throughout this term the children have been learning about the Great Lakes of North America.

In this lesson we explored what happened to the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior.  

We independently researched to find out more information about the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and what caused it to…

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26 September 2024

Recorder lessons for Year 5!

Learning the Recorder in Year 5!

Children in Year 5 started their instrumental lessons with Mr Lacey-Kiggins today as they started to learn about the recorder: how to begin to play it and how to begin to read music notation. For the remainder of the term, the children will be learning the…

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24 September 2024

Days of the Week/Months of the Year

This week we have focused on learning the Spanish names for the days of the week and months of the year.

The children are really enjoying their weekly Spanish lessons.

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18 September 2024

Inaccurate Information

Following on from our lesson on search engines, we looked at a clip of the Chocolate Whopper from Burger King and researched the life of the Pacific Tree Octopus. We then discussed how the clips and links we viewed were fake.

We reinforced the importance of using trustworthy websites and using…

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16 September 2024

Descriptive Vocabulary

After watching a clip of Niagara Falls, we used our senses to imagine what it must have been like watching Annie Edson Taylor as she crossed the Falls in her barrel.

We worked together and selected vocabulary linked to what we would see, hear and how we would have felt at the time.

This will…

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13 September 2024

Subtractive Drawing

We have been learning about subtractive drawing. This is an art technique that involves covering a surface with charcoal or graphite and then erasing parts of it to create an image.

The children focused on creating a setting or landscape in the style of Frank Auerbach.

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12 September 2024

Place Value: Numbers to 10,000

The children worked in pairs to identify numbers up to 10,000 presented in a range of ways.

Lola explained, ‘I found this activity fun as it was similar to solving a puzzle.’

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10 September 2024

Ourselves - ‘Who I Am’

As a class we talked about the similarities and differences between talents and qualities.

We then thought about the qualities of our friends and what they are good at.

We realised how others see us and how we don’t always recognise our own qualities.

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