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This week we have been practising counting in 8s and have really enjoyed the 8x table song.

This afternoon, we have been looking at the portrait work by the British artist Julian Opie (you might remember his artwork on the Best of Blur album). We used photographs to trace our faces with simple features onto plastic wallets. They are displayed on our classroom windows.

We have discussed how switches work and why electrical appliances have them, as well as looking at different types of switches. We were then given paper, tin foil, paper clips, split pins and other resources to have a go at making different types of switches.

Today we used the plans we had created to make our final bread pieces in DT. 
Once the pieces were kneaded, shaped and baked we decorated them. 
Mrs Walsh was the judge. She chose 3 winners. 

Bread that was the most creative - Teddy D

Bread that was most like the plan - Amy L

Bread that…

What a great afternoon tasting all of the delicious cakes. We have chosen a winner.

Wednesday was our bake off competition. What a lot of entries and judges! Thanks to all the parents who helped in any way.

We had so many cakes we managed two cake sales. Look out for the total raised towards our children’s kitchen. 

We read “The Little Red Hen” and spoke about how she made the bread and the skills needed to do it. We thought we would try it for ourselves. 
We looked at the skills of mixing, kneading and rolling. Our bread tasted so delicious and smelt amazing 

Thank you to another Mummy who came into school today. She told us about her job and how she helped people every day. She discussed how dangerous medicines could be and how we should always ask an adult. 
She also showed us how she helped people in Mozambique to build a working well. This meant…

We have been learning about the amazing artist, Barbara Hepworth, who was a sculptor inspired by natural landscapes and materials. We looked at her art work and designed our own sculptures based on her famous work, The Family of Man. We worked really well in groups to shape and attach our boxes.…

Today in Year 5 we have been training to be Scientists. Dr Rigby came from Lancaster University to teach us about bacteria in the digestive system. We used microscopes to look at the intestine of a mouse and found out about good and bad bacteria and why we need both of these in our gut. 
Luke and…

This afternoon, we have been inspired by Pablo Picasso to show feeling in our portraits. We have used warm and cool colours to show happiness or sadness.

In science this term we are looking at classification of living things. To help us think about the questions needed in a classification key we played ‘Who am I?’ with living things we may find on a woodland walk. We were allowed to ask yes or no questions and once we found out who we were we had…