Throughout the course of this week, Puffins have been learning lots of new things. Our homework over the holidays was to practise a skill that we could teach to the class. This week, we have been putting our ‘inner teacher’ to the test and seeing if we can help our peers learn something new. It …
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We all enjoyed outdoor and adventurous activities, building our team working and communication skills. We worked in different friendships group across the year group to solve various scavenger hunt problems. Take a look at our photos to see what we’ve been up to!
This afternoon, the children were given an opportunity to participate in a dance workshop, run by Liberty Arts. They did a whole group warm up and then separated into smaller groups to choreograph their own routine, which they then performed to each other. All the children involved thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Have a look for yourself!
To introduce our new topic, Brainwave, we would like you to teach your class mates a new skill. This skill can be anything: tying your shoe laces, origami, counting to 10 in a foreign language, sketching a butterfly, knitting, dance move, juggling, magic tricks, playing an instrument – anything which you can do really well …
As part of our statistics topic in Maths, we have been looking at line graphs. We’ve worked on how to read and interpret data and then moved onto being able to draw our own. To help with this, we went outside on the playground and became the data ourselves. Some people were the Y axis, …
Today, the Year 5 children spent the morning outside doing various different activities. They started out with team building games to get to know their teams that they would be working in throughout the morning. One of these games was ‘Cross the River’ which proved quite challenging! It required communication and tactical skill. They then …
As a class, we are reading a book called Skellig by David Almond. We are really enjoying it and can’t wait to read more. This week, we had to imagine that we were the characters in the story. Michael has a dilemma so our very own ‘Michael’ took a trip down Conscience Alley to help …
Today, Year 5 were able to take part in a fantastic Science lesson where they were given the opportunity to dissect a pig’s heart and lungs. The children were really brave and had a go. A huge thank you to Mrs Bowman for coming in and helping with her expert skills. If you’re particularly squeamish, …
As part of our Science topic on the human body, we discussed how important blood is and the functions it has. We also discussed the make up of blood. To help us visualise this, we made a blood smoothie. We used raspberries for the red blood cells, marshmallows for the white blood cells, hundreds and …