Year 5 - Greek Soldier Information Text

After drafting information texts about Greek soldiers, the children wrote their final version this week. They focused on the organisation of the information by using paragraphs with subheadings.  The children were also encouraged to link their paragraphs, and vary the structure of their sentences by using different sentence starters.  The children were extremely proud of the results and so were the teachers!

Pupil News: Christmas Fayre!

Pupil News: Brilliant Bikeability!

Year 5 - Greek Soldiers

In Y5, the children have been learning about Greek warfare.  The children found out that warfare was a normal part of life in Ancient Greece, as the different states often battled against each other.  The children used information texts to research the equipment needed by a Greek soldier entering battle.  They have started to draft their own information texts and will continue to edit and improve their writing before producing a 'polished version' next week.

Year 4 - Pop-Up Books

Year 4 have been working hard in their Design Technology lessons creating their very own pop-up books. They began the topic by bringing in their own books from home and sharing them. They looked at them carefully, investigating all the different pop-up mechanisms before making their own mechanisms. After that, they designed their own book and planned what type of mechanisms they would use. They then created their books before evaluating their finished product and worked with a peer to evaluate their book also. 

Pupil News: Fabulous Field to Fork!

Y3 - Science

Year 3 Science work has focused on 'Animals, including Humans'. The children completed a pre-learning task about what they already know about the human body and came up with some interesting questions for further research. Other activities have included designing a healthy plate for homework, using scientific vocabulary to label a human skeleton, sorting animals according to their diets using a venn diagram and investigating the importance of different food groups.

Pupil News: Roald Dahl Day!

Year 2 - The Remarkable Rocket

Year 2 have read the story "The Remarkable Rocket" by Oscar Wilde. We have looked at the characters in the story, which are fireworks, and compared their personalities and appearance. Later this week, we are writing the story. We have also written poems using onomatopoeia. This is part of our research topic on Fire! Fire! We are creating print blocks in Art - come and look at our class collage prints later next week!

Pupil News: Destination Judo!

Y5 - Challenge Day

Y5 took part in the Inspire to Learn 'Challenge Day' on 5th November.  They enjoyed joining children in the local area and around the globe, as they researched and presented work around inspirational people. They were asked to consider who inspired them and the reasons why.  Children used a wide variety of materials to complete the task and presented their information in different ways!  

Year 1 - Aliens

Over the past few weeks the children have been reading lots of fictional texts about aliens (Aliens Love Underpants/ Here Come the Aliens). We have spent lots of time working on adjectives, beginning with feeling lots of objects/ tasting different foods to think of describing words. We then used our word bank  to describe our class aliens. The children have identified rhyming words in texts and created their own rhyming sentences. Finally, all of our lovely ideas were displayed in our classrooms around our alien.

FS2 - Apples

This week FS2 have been busy weighing the apples that have been collected from the school grounds. The children have used lots of fantastic mathematical language exploring heavier and  lighter and seeing if they could get the scales to balance.

Later in the week some of the children used apples to make delicious crumble for snack. Yummy! It was delicious!

FS1 - Dinosaurs

Our first topic in Nursery this half term is Dinosaurs. We have been trying very hard to remember their correct names and the different parts of their bodies. The children thoroughly enjoy being creative and today have carefully designed their own dinosaur; they chose to make a stripy or spotty dinosaur. We also are making dinosaur skeletons for a display inside Nursery.

Year 5 - Greek Vases

Following the children's Greek vase designs, this week the Y5 children carefully sculpted their Greek vases out of air-drying clay.  We are now waiting for them to dry before we can apply the base coat and decorate them with our chosen fables.  During Golden Time , groups of children worked on a challenge to recreate 'The Parthenon' out of surplus clay - they had only 30 minutes!  This tested their ability to work as part of a team and under pressure! Well done Y5!

Year 6 - World War II

In Year 6 this week, we have started work on our History topic - How was Middlesbrough affected by World War II?  We have been discovering what we already know about WWII and developing questions we hope to find the answers to by the end of our work in this area.

We have also taken on the role of a newspaper reporter in  1939 and written a report about the declaration of war made by Neville Chamberlain on the radio on 3rd September 1939.