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For a second time this week, Year 6 have been sharing some festive joy with the elderly residents of Scotforth. This afternoon, we visited Ashton Manor, where we sang lots of carols for the residents, then had time for a snack and a chat with many of them. The residents loved our singing and some…

After several weeks of work, Year 6 have finally finished their multi-layer printing project, just in time to turn them into their Christmas cards.

In DT we have been exploring different Christmas colour schemes and fonts for our packaging. Here are some of our designs. Next we will chose our favourite scheme and decorate our cardboard nets. Watch this space!

The Year 6 children joined Mr and Mrs Weatherill for a service in Churnside House this afternoon. They sang numerous carols beautifully. At the end of the service the children spent some time talking to the residents.

Year 6 have been working hard all week, to produce items to sell at the Christmas Fair today. Each group was given an “investment” of £15 by Scot4all, with which to buy resources and every group made a profit from the sale of their various Christmas-themed products. We had to use a huge variety of…

This morning, we were using mirrors to look for lines of symmetry in 2D shapes.

We have been looking at the four seasons and been exploring the changes in our environment during each season. We have linked our calendars and made 4 trees based on each season. 

We are continuing our DT topic of packaging and today we practised the skills of careful cutting and folding.  We learnt to use scissors to score the card so that we could get a really good fold. We made 3D Christmas houses to help decorate our class Christmas tree!

Year 4 have had a fantastic afternoon playing Christmas dodgeball. They were fair and honest, showing great sportsmanship and teamwork. Well done Year 4!
 

This week we have been looking at toys, We 5en used our creative skills to make our own toys. We had a think about what toy we would like to make and what materials we would need to be able to make these. Then we used lots of different skills to make them. 

This week we have been finding out that Angela bring messages. We have finished our angel and it will be part of the Abbeystead Angel trail. If you would like to see the angels lit up at night then you can google Abbeystead Angel trail 2025 for more information. Our Angel has a handprint robe and…

Our new DT topic is packaging and today we brought in lots of different packaging and cardboard boxes to investigate. We opened up our boxes to look at the nets of the different 3D shapes. We were surprised that such big boxes were made from just one piece of cardboard! We tried really hard to…