Anti-bullying Week
During national anti-bullying week, year 6 have focused on this year's theme 'All Different, All Equal'. We have been learning about stereotyping, prejudice and how this can lead to discrimation and bullying. The children also had fun creating dramas about cyberbullying and not judging people…
Healthy Lifestyles Session One
Mrs Smith started her sessions on healthy lifestyles this week. It was interesting to learn about how food helps us in different ways and to understand portion sizes.
Systematic sampling
A skill in the year 6 geography is to develop sampling.
The pupils worked in pairs to systematically sample the landscape of Gillibrand Primary School. The pupils started in different places in the school grounds and travelled in a range of directions to sample a wide area of the school…
Lego Robotics
Today we have had lots of fun in our Lego Robotics workshop. Nick, from Junior STEM, showed us the Lego we would be using to construct a model and then we applied our knowledge of algorithms and programming to programme, monitor and control our crocodiles. We all learnt a lot and managed to debug…
D.T Challenge
After researching sustainable energy and how the charity Practical Action help the people of Peru, we designed our own wind turbine. The criteria was to design and make a wind turbine that would create enough energy to lift a weight. The pupils worked in teams and had lots of iterative ideas…
Geography Messy Maps
Year 6 have started their geography topic of North V South. After studying the physical features of Alaska, they have created their own messy maps showing these. We also looked at how maps show land height and some children have used this mapping skill adding a key to their 3D map. Geography can…
Irreversible changes
Year 5 have been looking at irreversible changes in science. Today we baked some cakes so that we could see what happens to some materials when you heat them. The children realised they were unable to get the ingredients back to their original state once they had been mixed together and…
Transition Day
Year 5 have had their transition day to Year 6 with myself (Miss Baker) today and it was lovely to learn so much about all the pupils. You were very sensible, mature and ready to see what year 6 is all about. You have worked hard and had lots of fun! I’m looking forward to seeing you in my class…
Internet Safety
In Year 5 we have been thinking about internet safety again. We have looked at the different ways we can keep ourselves safe on line. We discussed different scenarios and thought about the correct way of dealing with these. The children all now know what to do if they are made to feel…
Sycamore Den Building
In order to support Save the Children, Sycamore Class took part in Den Building Day. They had lots of materials to choose from in order to build the best den. The children had to take on different roles to ensure it got built well. We even managed to get some furniture inside.
All the…
Earthquakes
As part of our geography, Year 5 have been finding out about the causes and consequences of earthquakes. To help them understand this, the children were given a challenge:
They had to build a stable structure on a base of jelly. They used spaghetti and marshmallows for their construction.…
Practical Science
Year 5 had a fantastic afternoon yesterday thanks to Mark from Empiribox, a science company that specialises in delivering practical science.
Mark demonstrated a series of activties and questioned the children about the science behind them. All the children showed fantastic knowledge and he…