Character descriptions ……….

As we are writing a character’s description, the children were asked to empathise with objects and as a group, pretended to be this object. This developed their team skills and allowed them to think laterally about how to use all children to form one object....

Is the earth round ?

Our topic this half term is Earth and Space. The children looked at various cards and looked for the evidence of whether the earth is flat or spherical as in the olden days people were sceptical about it.

Problem Solving

As part of their problem solving skills activities, the children were asked to solve a Tangram using rounding – as this is our topic. They worked in pairs and had to use their knowledge as well as their ability to think ahead to form a rhombus with the correct...

Drama Workshop

Year 5 received the visit of a Drama group who spent an hour with the class. They discovered the art of freeze-frame and used their deductive skills to empathise with the characters. The children had fun taking part and relating to different cultures. .