In this week’s science club the children helped us explore the workings of our digestive system, or Gastro-Intestinal Tract (we had fun pronouncing that one!). There was an equal measure of fascination …
Fizz Pop Science Club – Show me the Light
In last week’s science club we discussed the properties of light. The children donned a pair of diffraction glasses to look at the visible spectrum colours of light (Red, Orange, …
Fizz Pop Science Club – Snotty Science – Microbes!
In this week’s science club we looked at microbes. After discussing what a microbe is, we looked at how microbes interact with the human body and the fact that scientists now …
Year 5 Science – Materials and their Properties
We are studying ‘Materials and their Properties’ this half term. So far pupils have investigated a number of materials, testing them and discovering their properties. During the topic the children …
Multicultural Week
Multicultural Week What an amazing week we had. The whole school took part in a variety of activities to learn about and celebrate the many cultures of the world we …
We told them not to go to the forest….
As part of our spooky Halloween writing, the children went into our Enchanted Forest. They were tasked with using their senses to write detailed description on what they could see, …
Science Year 5 – Forces!
This topic is packed full of practical exploration. So far pupils have created marshmallow shooters! This has allowed them to explore whether a force is a push or pull. Zac …
Does the length of your fingers match the length of your arm?
Today the children were presented with this statement The total length of someone’s fingers is the same as one of their arms. They were told they could use any resources …
Dadaist Poems – The cut up technique
Dada was an art movement that started after the horror of WW1. The aim was to create interesting, strange art that made no sense. Here, we have cut up an …
Science and Geography Learning
In Science, Year 5 children have been learning about how day and night happen. We used a torch to represent the sun and demonstrated how the Earth rotates anti-clockwise on …