Blog Author: Miss Robson

This week in Elm class we have been learning about WW2 in history and English. We have been learning about when children had to leave their mums and dads (called evacees).

 Our English is linked into our history which is World War 2 but it is called Rose Blanche.

In maths we are…

This week, we began work on our own adventure stories. To help the process, we ventured into the wood to create portals to another dimension. Check out the pictures below!

The changing autumn scenery has provided great inspiration for some fantastic photographs and accompanying artwork.…

This week seems to have flown by - but then people do say time flies when you’re having fun!

All of us in Oak Class have been hard at work on our adventure stories - with excellent results. Miss Robson is looking forward to the ones we’re going to write next week now that we’ve learned…

What a fantastic start to life in Year 6 we’ve had! Over the past two weeks we’ve been immersing ourselves in adventure stories - which we’ll be writing ourselves. We’ve made our own miniature woods in Forest Schools with Mrs Mason, and we’ve also taken part in the Tag Rugby Festival with many…

This week we have been working hard on our gingerbread man stories.The children have recalled and recorded the traditional story as preparation to innovate the original version with their own ideas next week.Please look in your childs book bag for some talk homework, which will help your child to…

Our first full week back at school after Christmas has been a busy one.

We've been writing recounts about some rather strange dreams - working on extending our vocabulary - and the results are fantastic! We've also created some impressive artwork to go alongside them. They'll be on display in…

Year 6 have been working incredibly hard lately. We've been writing our own information texts about a variety of subjects including: scootering, football, Little Mix, elephants, Paris, New York, Taylor Swift and many more. These should all be finished next week so check back to see the final…

This week, we’ve been getting into the spooky spirit by creating potions in our woodland area. After we’d made them, we wrote instructions on how to recreate it at home - they weren’t for the faint-hearted though!

This week has been all about Macmillan. Oak Class pupils worked in groups to design a batch of cupcakes based on a very basic recipe, which had to be adapted. Once we’d got the design sorted - and the sketches and descriptive paragraphs, we set to work.

Our finished cakes were then…

This week, we have been fortune enough to have taken part in a puppet workshop. We watched a fantastic performance by Dave (and his vast array of puppets) before creating one of our own. We learned some ventriloquist skills before putting them into action.

Have a look at our…

This week, we have been looking at how the digestive system works. We looked at a variety of meals (and snacks) and created our own digestive tracts from sandwich bags, newspaper and tights (with a little help from some sharp knives which acted as teeth!)

As you can imagine, things got…

What a week! We've been incredibly focused so that we could put in 100% effort during our SATS tests. Now that they're over, we've had a day of celebration today before we resume normal timetable on Monday.

Despite the lack of sunshine, we spent this morning at the beach (getting very wet) and…