Puffins and Kingfishers were treated to a unique Science lesson this week as part of our learning about the circulatory system. Dr Bowman kindly visited the school to share her expertise, performing a dissection of a heart and lungs. The session included an in-depth exploration and discussion of the key functions of the organs in …
As our Entry Point to our new topic, World War Two, we created our own time capsules to represent ourselves and the year 2021. We came up with lots of creative ideas. We presented these in groups and loved talking about what we had included and why. We then discussed how these would be different …
Homework Grid – World War Two Knowledge organiser – WW2 Knowledge Organiser Tin Forest Spring 1 Knowledge Organiser – MATHS Y5 Spring 1 Knowledge Organiser – MATHS Y6
As the end to our topic on The Mayans, we worked in groups to create our own Mayan temple. We used our mathematical and measuring skills to created scaled models of Mayan temples that we had studied previously in our Topic lessons. The children had to accurately measure the pieces of wood before using the …
If you need to get somewhere on time, Puffins are the ones to ask! We’ve been learning all about how to read Timetables and plan journeys. We’re experts now! Not only have we been looking at how to work out the difference in times between each train or bus, but also how to work out …
As part of our topic on The Mayans, we have been learning about the ancient game of Pok-O-Tok! It is thought to be the first team sport played by humans in history. We learnt about the rules – the one we found the hardest was that they couldn’t use their hands or feet! We then …
This morning, we all took part in a useful workshop which explored bullying in all its forms, but specifically Cyber Bullying. We discussed what we could do if we are being bullied, but also the importance of reporting bullying if we see it as a bystander. We used drama and improvisation to show the different …
Today, as part of our Statistics topic in Maths, we looked at the different elements of line graphs and what we would need to create our own. We decided that we were going to create our very own Tranmere Park Garden Centre and monitor the number of benches sold over a week. Apparently, benches are …
This week, we have been celebrating Black History Month. We discussed what this means and why it is important. We then watched a Bigfoot Education film called All Aboard the Windrush. This was based on real life stories of people that travelled on Empire Windrush from Kingston, Jamaica to Tilsbury, Essex. We loved learning all …
On Tuesday, Puffins had a fantastic time working with the Worry Wizard to learn all about how to get help when we have any worries we might have. We met some different characters and then, in the afternoon, we had an assembly all about who we can ask for help in school if we need …