Pins and Needles: The learning journey of creating soft toys 🪡🦥

15th November 2023Charlie Cicero

Since the very start of their creative design journey, 6CC have shown resilience and an ability to think critically, before weaving together various sewing techniques to bring their imagination to life.

Through market research and a collective design criteria, each soft toy has emerged as a testament to their dedication and hard work. The classroom has buzzed with enthusiasm as their designs have begun to take shape, boasting a wide range of rainforest animal cuddly toys. Each stitch, every detail meticulously crafted, demonstrates the efforts and passion poured in by our young designers.

Stay tuned for the grand unveiling as we approach the completion of their fantastic final product! 

Y3 Take A Trip To Wonderland

7th November 2023Lauren Gate

Last week we officially kicked off our chance to dance program in school. This year we will be focusing on Alice In Wonderland and so started by taking a deeper look into some of the characters. We used our imaginations to pull best crazy Mad Hatter faces, hurry around like the White Rabbit, scare the people of wonderland like the Queen of Hearts and twirled and explored like Alice. We can’t wait to fall further down the rabbit hole as we continue to explore this ballet!

Market Research

11th October 2023Helen Jenkins

This afternoon, 5HJ needed some help with their upcoming DT project to find out which soft toys are popular. We visited Y2 armed with a host of different questions and carried out market research. We will use our findings to help plan and design our rainforest sort toys!

Can you find the missing digits? 6CC can! 😁👍

5th October 2023Charlie Cicero

In Maths this week, Year 6 have made it their mission to master formal methods of calculation, namely column addition and column subtraction. Putting their understanding to the test, it has been breath-taking to see these tenacious year sixes grappling with missing digit problems and applying their problem-solving/ detective skills to help find some vacant spaces in the calculations. All have worked extremely hard and some have even taken to our Year 6 Learning Site to engage with Maths at home.

Extra Study: NJS Deadly 60!

Some of our class members have produced some stunning, fact-filled presentations at home through the Year 6 Learning Site. Shoutouts to Laura, Lucy and Lucas for their Google Slides about the some of the animals that inhabit the Amazon rainforest. Awesome job!

The-Deadly-Bullet-AntDownload
About-the-Green-AnacondaDownload
The-capybaraDownload

Human Settlements

4th October 2023Helen Jenkins

This week, 5HJ have been learning about human settlements. The children were given a range of different physical features and human features such as mountains, rivers, town and created their own settlement. Each group was able to explain why the key features were placed in their location, justifying their reasoning.

So you Want2Be a Roman?

3rd October 2023Lauren Gate

Last week, Y3 were extremely lucky to be visited by Clare from Want2Be workshops for an all day roman workshop. The children came to school in their best roman attire and we started the day in the halllooking at clues into why the Roman’s invaded Britain.

We took part in a number of workshops, from looking at and building roman aqueducts and writing on wax tablets to playing the Roman game or Merels, we looked at all aspects of life in the Roman Empire. We even got our roman shields out and learned to march, stop and even create a Testudo formation.