Blog Author: Mrs Redmayne

In DT have been practising the skills that we need to make sandwiches. Today we practised spreading margarine and ate a slice of bread, butter and honey that we made ourselves!  We also used the bridge hold and the fork hold when we were cutting vegetables with sharp knives. We even used the…

As part of our new English topic, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, we have learn the beginning of Robert Browning's poem.  We hope you enjoy it!

We have started our new story - The Pied Piper of Hamelin - and today we thought about what activities the townsfolk would be doing before the rats came and then how things would have changed when they arrived.  We really got into character!

We are preparing to make our own sandwiches and today we have been tasting some different breads and fillings that we might use. We have used lots of different adjectives to describe the taste, the smell, the appearance, and the texture of the fillings.lots of us tried new flavours!

Our new DT topic is all about sandwiches!  We are going to be designing and making our own sandwiches but today we were finding out about the history of the sandwich and also surveying which sandwiches we enjoy as a class. 
 

We are learning all about the continents and oceans of the world, and starting to recognise some of the countries in each continent. Today we looked at some countries on the Equator, on the Arctic Circle and on the Antarctic Circle. We used atlases and found out that there are NO countries on the…

In PE, we have been learning some playground games from the past. Today we played Queenie where we had to throw a ball over our head and the others had to catch and hide it behind their backs. We were very good at hiding the ball!

We have been learning about Banksy, the famous, but anonymous, graffiti artist. We found out that often he uses a stencil to spray paint his images at night. He also has a tag or signature which he sometimes adds to his artwork. Today we designed and cut out tags for our own initials. We used…

We have been busy learning about ones, tens and hundreds. Today we made 100 using as many different ways as possible. We had to show that 100 was 10 groups of 10. Look how creative we were in the pictures below! Next we’re looking at 1,000… 

After months of anticipation we’re here at the Year 6 residential at Lockerbie Manor!  We waved goodbye and set off just after lunch and arrived in time for a tour and our first activities. So far today we’ve tried abseiling, initiative challenges, scavenger hunt and zip wire. Not bad for day one!…

We have started the year by making graffiti art based on our names! We used bright contrasting colours and a black and white patterned background to make our names pop out! The classroom is looking bright already!

Today Steve and Harold from Life Education came to speak to us about our body and especially our brain.  We learnt what an incredible part of our body it is. We learn how we can help our brain to calm down and also how we can use our brain to solve problems. We loved meeting Harold the giraffe…