Over the past two days, the children in Y6 have been creating clay Spitfires (one of the most famous aircrafts used in WW2). They learned lots of interesting facts along the way! Such as: The name Spitfire was taken from an old English word meaning someone...
Year 6 were thrilled this morning to find out they had received a letter back from their Spanish pen pals, who they wrote to a few weeks ago. The children worked hard to decipher and translate the Spanish letter to English so that they could...
This week, the children in Year 6 have been learning about ratio in maths. So today, in aid of Shrove Tuesday, they put their mathematical skills to the test with pancake ratios. For example: The ratio of flour to eggs to milk to oil is 100 : 2...
Year 5 had a brilliant trip to Sunderland Winter Gardens! They were learning more about the rainforest and they completed an art workshop drawing a variety of rainforest leaves and plants. ...
Year 6 have had an excellent day today using WW2 recipes to bake some delicious treats for each other. They made: An eggless fruit cake A chocolate cake Cheese scones - the favourite! Carrot cookies Whilst their group wasn't cooking, they produced some...
Year 5 have been making some brilliant art and DT linked to their rainforest topic. They have been sewing a rainforest animal or flower and they have been drawing some rainforest animals. Well done Year 5! ...
Year 6 had an excellent time in maths today creating 3D shapes using cocktail sticks to represent the shapes' edges and marshmallows to represent the vertices. Some shapes were easy to create like the cube. However, some appeared to be a little bit more challenging -...
Year 6 had a fabulous morning visiting the Victoria Tunnel as part of their WW2 topic this term. They had the chance to go inside the tunnel (which was used as an Anderson shelter) and find out what life was like during the war -...
The children in Year 6 have had an excellent Egyptian themed day today. Dressed in their neck collars and cuffs, they have taken part in many different activities. Hieroglyphics – crack the code and bookmarks. They wrote their own God and Goddess poems using the...
Year 6 had an excellent morning today visiting Denholm Lodge to meet the residents and spread some festive cheer by singing some of their favourite Christmas carols! A massive thank you for having us and for our chocolate treats! We'll enjoy them through the course of...