This week, Year 5 used play dough models to explore how tectonic plates move and why the continents drift. Pupils shaped different coloured dough into plates, fitting them together like a giant Earth jigsaw. They then pushed, pulled, and slid their plates to see what happens at different boundari...

This week, the children completed their final piece in our Printing unit — and what a wonderful way to end the first term! Using their carefully developed final designs, the children created beautiful repeating patterns, which they then applied to their own Ancient Greek-style vases. T...

This week has been slightly less hectic but no less fun as we've made lots of progress in our lessons and held our first round of meet the teacher appointments. Thanks to everyone who booked a meeting with us - it was great to meet so many of you and share all the positive messages we had about...

What an amazing week we've just had in year 5! Whilst the majority of the year group went away and made lifelong memories at Herd Farm, the group who stayed behind at school enjoyed a brilliant project led by Mrs Bourke.  We then enjoyed sharing our different experiences with each oth...

What a great week we've had in school this week! We've published our very first pieces of writing (which are excellent), investigated which materials dissolve in water, refined our skills in rugby and considered whether Alexander the Great was really great! Next week is a big one in ye...

Another great week in year 5 this week - there have been plenty of little improvements throughout the week. My personal highlights have been reading some of the pieces of writing the children have produced, seeing so many correct answers during maths lessons, even though we've been working on ro...