Our engaging curriculum

Maple

Maple class went on an invertebrate hunt around the school this week. We looked in forest areas, under rocks, logs, and under leaves. We found several invertebrates including woodlice, centipedes, spiders, and snails. We decided as a class to keep woodlice as pets in our class habitat. We gathered a selection of woodlice, placed them in the habitat, and then observed them. We then devised questions we wanted to find the answer to.

Rowan

To support our final outcome: writing a diary as Paddington, we recreated an afternoon tea scene. We dressed up as the Queen or a butler and used drama to identify verbs. With the verbs, we looked at the tenses and sorted them into past and present tense. 

Rowan Class thoroughly enjoyed afternoon tea, and we even had a biscuit to eat.

Birch

We have just started our new unit in PE and are learning to play Tag Rugby. Our first lesson consisted of learning to use the 'tags' and to work as attackers or defenders to develop our moving and footwork skills. The children demonstrated some excellent skills, especially in the skill development section of the lesson, where they used speedy footwork to doge between the cones, holding a ball.

Sycamore

This week, we finished the last section of our ‘Discover Arts Award’. Vanessa came back to work with us on our final project. If we are successful, we will be able to take our work and the certificates home soon! 

Year 5 and 6

In yr5/6 the children have been busy writing their outcome pieces in English, which have been thriller narratives based on the short clip ‘Francis’ and they are full of suspense and anticipation for the reader. 

In art and design, the children have been using paper folding techniques including quilling, paper folding and decoupage, to create some very intricate artworks. 

Oak class have also been devising and conducting fair test to investigate which solids are soluble. They discovered that soluble solids appeared to disappear ( dissolve) in the water.