This week, 5HJ have been developing practical skills by measuring, marking and sawing pieces of wood as the first stage in creating their space models. They used rulers to practise accuracy before carefully using saws to cut the wood.
The activity developed their measuring skills, hand-eye coordination and safe tool handling, while encouraging independence, concentration and precision.
This week in Science, Year 6 have been diving into the fascinating world of simple machines to explore how mechanisms like levers, pulleys, and gears reduce the force needed to move objects and change the direction of forces. Working collaboratively in small teams, our young engineers took a systematic approach to investigating how gears interact with one another. They set up hands-on experiments, communicated effectively and measured their results carefully to uncover how variations in gear size affect force and movement.
Through their collaborative experiments, Year 6 drew brilliant scientific conclusions about how gears function: when a smaller gear with fewer teeth turns a larger gear with more teeth, the larger gear rotates more slowly but produces significantly greater force.
Conversely, driving a smaller gear results in greater speed but less output force. We are immensely proud of Year 6’s scientific curiosity and teamwork—be sure to ask your child at home how these gear principles make pedalling a bike uphill so much easier!
This half term Year 6 have created a wonderful piece of writing aimed at Year 4 children.
They were tasked with producing an informative, fun, educational and engaging information text about one of the planets in our solar system and WOW, did they rise to the challenge! The work produced was exceptional and a real credit to their hard work and pride.
Following this, the Year 4s were lucky enough to get to not only see these exceptional pieces of work, but our Year 6s sat with them, enthusiastically read them, talked through the process and expertly answered the brilliant questions posed by our Year 4s.
Both year groups were an absolute credit and it was a genuine pleasure to watch. Great work to all involved!
Exploring electricity, asking questions and finding out all about circuits.
This week in Crew, we have been exploring what makes every family unique, celebrating the different shapes and sizes families come in, and reflecting on the many ways they support, care for and help us grow. We also got creative by writing acrostic poems about our own families, using words and phrases to capture what makes them special to us
This week, our classroom transformed into a mini-astronomy lab as we tackled some of the biggest questions about our planet: Why do we have day and night and what causes the changing seasons?
Equipped with mini globes, bright torches and a lot of curiosity, the children took hands-on learning to a whole new level!
This week, Year 4 have been flexing their English learning from so far this year by tackling a quiz all around the hall! The children demonstrated their knowledge incredibly well and were able to take on this great challenge! Well done, Year 4!
This term, Year 3 & 4 have been immersing themselves into the Second World War. To engage with this, we have crafted a range of Blitz skyline artwork which are all a feast to behold! Well done to all of our future artists!
This morning, the children of Year 6 were lucky enough to partake in a digital workshop from ClickView! Using their IT skills, the children investigated and explored the new software and in themselves, became digital leaders! Great work, Year 6!
This week, Year 4 have been immersing themselves in our new expedition! This term, we shall be looking at the Second World War. We have begun learning about some key events, alongside partaking in craft activities such as creating silhouette skyline artwork showcasing the Blitz, and creating wooden aircraft models!
