Rowan and Willow Class had a wonderful time last week with a visit from Retune. Retune is a charity which inspires young people to improve their mental wellbeing through creative outlets such as music and the arts. What did the children learn? “That I love music even more than I used to” “I learned SCALES … Read more
Year 5’s new science unit this term is all about materials. The class have decided that they are already enjoying this unit as it involves lots of experiments! We have looked at what properties we know materials have and have planned and taken part in some initial experiments to test these theories. We are gearing … Read more
Year 5 have been busy in the past few weeks, designing, making and evaluating moving toys, using a cam mechanism. Their brief was to make a moving toy depicting an endangered animal, that the World Wildlife Fund could sell to raise funds. They considered its sturdiness, visual appeal, and safety for small children. We firstly … Read more
We are coming to the end of our Viking unit in Year 5 – what a lot we have learnt about the constant battle for power between the Anglo Saxons and the Vikings! We have been using some primary and secondary sources of historical evidence this week, through looking at a copy of the original … Read more
This afternoon, sixteen runners from Year 5 and 6 took to the field at Knights Templar School to represent William Ransom at the School Sports Partnership cross country tournament! After much anticipation for this event, including trials and weeks of training, our Year 5 girls and boys team and Year 6 girls and boys team … Read more
At the end of most PE units, all classes are encouraged to do a class tournament within the sport they have been learning about. This half term Year 5 have been learning all about basketball and we were (FINALLY) able to have our greatly anticipated class tournament last Friday. The class were split into 6 … Read more
As part of our Science topic on forces, year 5 were lucky enough to take part in a fantastic Circus Skills workshop, led by Shooting Stars instructor, Nick. Children first watched a fun and entertaining demonstration, where they discovered how certain forces play a vital role in a variety of circus skills. They were then … Read more
On Wednesday, Year 5 were lucky enough to have a Viking visit us for the day! He was immensely engaging and knowledgeable and we all (including the staff!) learnt lots of new facts. We particularly enjoyed the artifacts that our guest brought in, really bringing the Viking period to life for us. We used our … Read more
Year 5 children have started buddy reading on Tuesday mornings. If we don’t have an assembly, the children are taking it in turns to spend time in Year 1. Once there, they are reading to their year 1 buddies or the Year 1 children are reading to them. This is proving very popular indeed and … Read more
Year 5’s RE Trip Our trip to Bhaktivedanta Manor was a great success. The manor is a spiritual sanctuary spread over 78 acres of land with plentiful gardens, an organic farm, a protected herd of cows, a temple and a monastery. On arrival, we split up into three groups to take turns visiting the various … Read more
