Changing of the Guard

The new year sixes came to have a taste of what life will be like come September. Seems that they've settled in really well and produced some great writing.

Dance

Year Six having a go at a dance routine as part of our PE day. Thanks to Mrs a Wilkinson for organising a fabulous day.

Project X

Year Six and a selection of Year Fives today are taking part in 'Project X'. They have to design an aircraft to drop two packages into enemy territory. The pictures show just the beginning. What will be created from this 'madness' ?

Bird or Plane?

The children were tasked with dropping an egg from height; using the skills learned in the session to keep it safe.

Art for Art’s Sake

Another activity in out STEM week was to produce artwork based around RAF 100. These are the start of the backgrounds; silhouettes to be added later.

Riveting Stuff!!!

As part of our STEM week we had a workshop with Science in Action. The children had to rivet two pieces of metal together Nd the have them tested to destruction. It wasn't noisy at all!!!

The night sky

The children were given the picture of the night sky view from a window and asked to write what came to mind.  Katelyn wrote the following piece of very powerful writing. What do you think?  

Art

This afternoon Year Six enjoyed an art session with a visitor. They looked at some abstract art, then working as a team, tried to recreate from memory.

Max Respect

As transition to secondary school looms over the year six children we are doing all that we can to make the transition as smooth as possible. Today, Delphine Norton, came in to talk to the children about travel to and from secondary school: what it's like; who to talk to and what is expected from …

A break from SATs

Year Six having a well earned break from SATs building obstacle courses in Forest School this afternoon.