The Year 5 & 6 children took part in Graffiti Workshops last week! Professional street artist, Leon, led the children through a workshop that involved them creating their own individual boards as well as a collaborative class board. Leon taught the children techniques to use in their art but he also taught them about working … Read more
Some of our year 5 children have had an enriching and fun experience this week, learning how to peer mediate. They have learnt how to help resolve low level conflict between other children during break times, and they will be putting their new-found expertise into action in the near future. The training took place over … Read more
This term, Year 5 are lucky enough to be receiving Djembe drumming lessons each week, as part of the Year 5 music curriculum. The Djembe drum originates from West Africa, and roughly translates “everyone gather together in peace”. It’s certainly an exhilarating experience to drum together, but it is anything but peaceful! Under Caz Wolfson’s … Read more
The spring term was concluded with a fun and creative English topic: Rap music. Following on from looking at this genre in Music, children further deepened their knowledge and opinions of different types of rap music, before researching, planning and writing their own raps. This could have been on a topic of their choice, and … Read more
As we come to the end of the Spring Term, Year 5 have taken part in hockey and tennis lessons within PE this half term. Today we took part in our usual end of unit tournament through the medium of hockey. We managed to avoid the rain and working in six teams we took part … Read more
In Rowan and Willow Class, the children have been designing moving toys. The children learned all about cam mechanisms and then experimented with different types of cam to see what kind of movement they created. They then worked in pairs to investigate how they could make their structures sturdy. Next came the actual design process; … Read more
As part of our focus on British values, we have discussed the important role of democracy in our society, which has linked in with our English topic on persuasive language and debating. Beofre holding our own class debate, we discussed how to argue a point effectively, using facts, acknowledging opposing arguments, and maybe just a … Read more
This week has seen a number of different areas of learning come to a conclusion with particularly exciting endings. In games lessons within PE, we have been progressing our tag rugby skills. As all our games modules at William Ransom do, we ended this 6 week unit with a competitive class tournament. Rowan class are … Read more
Our current Art topic is Objects and their Meaning, where we have been looking at a variety of different artists’ compositions, and discussing the objects they have used, and what they might mean. We have also spent time thinking about our own personal opinions of these pieces of art, which has led on to today’s … Read more
