Crew Myers are the winners of this weeks TTR tournament, a huge well done to them!
Well done to Esmae, Sumit, Shayen, Modish, Taylor and Rehand who are our top contributors to TTR this week!
Don’t forget there is a tournament running every week, 10 minutes playing TTR after school will really help improve times table knowledge.
Yesterday, Year 5 & 6 pupils had an expert in school yesterday to build on the work they had engaged in with the space dome earlier that day. They talked in great detail about consolations and how we will be able to look out for these on our upcoming stargazing event.
How exciting!
-Miss Blackham
LovePlover
We were lucky to receive a visit from Chris, a physics and space expert, to hear about the origins of our universe. We then spent some time asking questions that provoked a lot of excitement for our upcoming expedition.
We were surprised to find that the formation of life from bacteria to humans are all relatively much more recent events than the big bang and creation of our sun (billions of years, in fact)!
Well done to all children in years 5 and 6 for your attention and curiosity during this visit.
5S had a brilliant time visiting the wonder dome, learning about the history of the universe, the size and makeup of stars, and the scale of Earth compared with the wider universe.
It was lovely to hear all of your curious questions and know it has sparked some excitement for our upcoming expedition – well done 5S!
Today, all the children in years 5 and 6 visited 5M where we learnt all about air resistance and the effects it has on movement. We experimented with paper, and focused how the size affects the speed something is travelling. The children then made different sized parachutes to help them to see this in action.
The children are so excited to demonstrate this to you all.
Today, all the children in years 5 and 6 visited my room where we had a discussion about how the Earth’s rotation causes night and day. I demonstrated by using a torch (the sun) and rotating a globe (the Earth), then we held a further discussion about how all our measurements of time are affected by astronomical bodies and their orbits.
We look forward to demonstrating this to you in future!
Years 5 and 6 had a great time today, solving a series of clues to unravel the guiding question for our autumn expedition.
They worked together to solve a series of puzzles and brain-teasers to unscramble the word ‘infinity’ – part of our expedition title and guiding question: ‘To and infinity and beyond: how does movement affect our world?’
Great teamwork, treasure seekers!
As part of our first week back and developing our new crews, some of our Y5 pupils had the opportunity to visit the RSPCA. They were able to meet some of the dogs who are waiting to find their forever home. Y5 are working on a very exciting project with the RSPCA so watch this space- more details to follow shortly!
-Miss Blackham
LovePlover
Following our call with the Doncaster branch of the RSPCA, we today worked to support them by sketching the dogs they have for adoption and beginning to type some pieces of persuasive writing, hoping to encourage potential homes for their pets. This required us to recall the features of persuasive writing, as well as develop our computing skills in word processing.
To aid with providing good information in our writing, we also had a visit from Mrs Ogle’s dog where we asked questions about what it takes to be a responsible owner.
I can’t wait to see your finished pieces, they’re looking great already!
