Y5 Celebration of Learning

26th February 2022Rachael Smith

This week, the children’s hard work during their first expedition, The Magic of Motion, was acknowledged by their celebration of learning presentation, which also gave the pupils the opportunity to unveil their final product: an information board that will be displayed at one of the local train stations. Throughout the event, all of the students in 5RS demonstrated impressive presentation skills. They were extremely mature and spoke knowledgably with great confidence, which was wonderful to observe!

Arctic Ice Scientists!

26th February 2022Thomas Edwards

This week, in line with our expedition, “What a Wonderful World” and Guiding Question “How Can We Protect Our Beautiful Planet”, 4TE have been researching the effect of global warming on the ice in the arctic with an experiment a bit closer to home! We placed a fixed number of ice cubes in different locations around school to see how the temperature of the different locations would affect the melting of the ice. As you can see, the results were shocking!

    Division using a number line

    24th February 2022Helen Jenkins

    This week saw 3HJ grappling with division. We used number lines to help solve a range of worded problems involving the children jumping in groups of 10. They worked collaboratively, supporting each other and I was astonished how quickly 3HJ grasped this new and tricky concept. Amazing work from everyone!

    Show and Tell!

    12th February 2022Thomas Edwards

    To bookmark the end of this extremely enjoyable first half of the spring term, 4TE held a show and tell at the start of Friday. It was so lovely to see all the brilliant items so many of the children decided to bring in and to hear the stories and sentiments behind these. It was a pleasure to experience and I am extremely proud of the children not only having the confidence to stand up before the class, but to also feel comfortable to bring in such precious and cherished items and to share these with everyone.

    On a final note, I hope everyone has an absolutely lovely half term break and I look forward to seeing you all again soon!

    Deforestation Debates

    10th February 2022Rachael Smith

    This week, we transported year 5 into the depths of the Amazon Rainforest to take part in an important debate to determine whether more land should be bought from a local indigenous community to be used for industry. Many other parties that are affected by deforestation in the rainforest also decided to attend the meeting as they wished to have their voices heard.

    Using this learning hook, our children worked collaboratively in small groups to write an argument for or against deforestation from the perspective of one of these groups, which resulted in some outstanding persuasive writing! Fantastic work 5RS!

    What is the impact of deforestation?

    10th February 2022Stephanie Oliver

    This week, Year 6 have been investigating the impact of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. Our first lesson focused on the negative aspects such as habitat loss and the impact cutting down trees has on the climate emergency. We then went on to explore why deforestation is taking place such as space for cattle farms and creating space for a growing population. The children created word art showing the negative and positive effects. We will be using what we have learnt within a class debate!

    Songwriters of the year

    9th February 2022Lauren Gate

    This term LKS2 across the trust are coming together to record a charity single, promoting our message of caring for the planet. As part of this, each school has been tasked to write a verse of the song. NJS will be opening the song with verse 1 and today we started the process of putting everything together.

    Today Y3 were joined by Geoff to help us write the lyrics for our section of the product through a songwriting workshop. We analysed music, wrote letters to the Earth expressing our feelings about climate change and then turned these thoughts and feelings into lyrics. The children shared some amazing ideas and came together to create a great verse to the song.

    We can’t wait to be able to record the song, and sing our lyrics.