This week has been challenging but fun for all of us as we have just finished our metaphorical descriptions, which have pushed us so far into our challenge zone that we have almost reached our danger zone. We were all extremely proud with our end results after going through processes such as skinning, a new … Read more
Now the sun is shining people are really enjoying lunch times (and break times) on the play ground; soon when the grass is dry, we might be going on the field. Many of the children love playing Man Hunt: this is a game that is a mix of tag and hide and seek. On Wednesday … Read more
Literacy/ART At the start of this week we started doing a plan of a description about an old man’s face and using thesauruses so we can look up different words such as: if you went to crashing and found stampeding you would go and look up stampeding and look for other words like marching or … Read more
Our literary journey through Macbeth has finally come to an end and many of the class are sorry to say goodbye to William Shakespeare, this has been a great introduction to classical English literature. Now we move forward in time and continue our work on metaphor, with the following poem by Ted Hughes. Here it … Read more
It’s our first week back and the greatest change has been the new library – what a transformation! This created a great buzz around the school with everybody excited by all the new features. A special thank you to the PTA, helped by some of our talented parents and others, who helped create this wonderful … Read more
Have you ever seen a tiger, a leopard, 3 bears, a rabbit, a hippo and a multi-coloured collection of children wearing all in one pyjamas perform a mental maths test and scenes from Macbeth? This happened today this morning in Year Six with everyone taking part in ‘Onesie’ day. This event was organised by Maisie … Read more
You may have heard in the news that this year is the 750 celebration of the Simon de Montford Parliament from 1250. As part of the celebrations Members of the House of Commons and Parliament’s Education Service nominated primary schools from across the UK to create a flag to represent their constituency. We were very … Read more
In Literacy, we are studying Macbeth by Shakespeare. It’s an amazing story and most of us are enjoying it very much. The first task Mr Silvester set us was to describe how Macbeth was feeling and acting after he found out his wife wanted to kill Duncan-the king. We did the same thing for Lady … Read more
We’re going to tell you about our favourite parts of this week. Science This week we have been learning about the phases of the moon. Did you know that we only see one face of the moon in our whole entire lifetime? Did you know that the earth spins around an axis and the moon … Read more
Science In science we looked at astronomy as our new project. We first watched several hundred videos on the solar system and the rest of our galaxy, telling us that Jupiter-400 times the size of earth-was PUNY compared to stars like beetle juice-600 times the size of our sun. The videos were excellently narrated by, … Read more
