Maple Class - Year 4 & Year 5

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?

We have been in role as Antarctic explorers today! We have built shelters to keep us safe from an Antarctic blizzard, and even thought about ways to keep ourselves entertained whilst inside our shelters - ranging from painting, drums and even booby traps!

Maple Class have spent time designing and making their very own shadow puppets! They were challenged to include different materials in their puppet - some that were opaque, some that were translucent and some that were transparent. We then tested them out to see how the different materials…

We have worked really hard this morning, taking our origami skills and knowledge to the next level to create our very own kirigami Christmas Trees! 

Our Year 5 and 6 pupils have visited Lancaster on Ice for an incredible ice skating lesson this morning! For some of our pupils, this was their first time ice skating - we made amazing progress and had lots of fun!!

We have been using chocolate in Maths today to find equivalent fractions to unit fractions!