Blog Author: M Hutchinson

Year 5 have been visited by Karen (and Harold) from Corum Life Education. We have been learning about the digestive system, drugs and peer pressure. We learnt how to be assertive and role played being assertive with our friends!

Maple Class have been learning about the phases of the Moon in Science. We have created them using oreos!

Maple Class LOVED taking part in the obstacle course as a part of our fundraising for the Bishop's Harvest appeal!

Maple Class have been exploring artefacts from the Ancient Greeks and working on their inference skills to consider the uses of each artefact!

Maple Class have prepared and cooked their own pizzas on the firepit this morning!

In RE, we have been learning about Shabbat - the Jewish day of rest to commemorate God resting on the 7th day. We have learnt about the traditions and have explored the traditional Shabbat meal.

We have been making our own monster bookmarks!

Today in PSHE, we have been learning about the government initiative 'The Daily Mile'. We then tried it out ourselves. Some of us loved it and others found it very tiring!

Maple Class have started their learning about forces! We have been learning about gravity. We practically explored the connection between mass (g) and weight (N) using Newton meters.

Today, we were visited by 2 workers from NatWest, who helped us to learn about fraud and identity theft. We took on the role of investigators as we explored various exhibits to identify where fraud had been committed. We then presented our findings to the class.

We have further our learning of Captain Scott's expedition today. We learnt how Scott felt empathetic towards the dogs pulling the sleds, so himself and his team pulled the cargo themselves! We thought we would give this a go... so we piled a sledge full of things we thought we would take with us…

We have been freeze framing some action shots from Captain Scott and his team's expedition. Can you tell what the boys are doing?