We had the opportunity to visit Telford Central Mosque to tie in with our RE unit last term. The Imam welcomed us and explained some of the key principles of prayer as a Muslim. We went into the main prayer space and found out how often Muslims pray, where they ...

2 weeks ago

Crumbles in Year 5 Computing

In our Computing lessons this term we have been using Crumbles. We have been programming them to light up, use a motor and also to use a switch. We have had to debug along the way and have all made brilliant progress! ...

3 weeks ago

Young Coders

11 of our UKS2 children have signed up for the Young Coders competition this term. We will be working on Scratch to design a game to help people ‘Budget Better’, which is this year’s theme. We analysed a range of games today to get some ideas for our own ones. ...

4 weeks ago

Design Brief: To Design A Patterned Decoration From Malleable Materials

We followed the whole school sequence of learning for Design Technology in order to design a patterned, malleable decoration. We used photographs of Christmas Trees and appraised patterned baubles. We then explored ways to create everyday patterns and then repeating patterns. This supported our vocabulary development. Then we explore salt ...

4 weeks ago

A Throw Back to December – A Time To Celebrate!

We had a very busy end to the autumn term . . . As part of our People and Communities topic we learnt about how some people celebrate Christmas. The children learnt about the Christian story of the Nativity through small world, role-play, songs and books. They were inspired to ...

2 months ago

National Space Centre

Year 5 had a wonderful opportunity to travel to Leicester on Tuesday to look around the National Space Centre, to enhance our learning about Earth and Space. We explored the various galleries and even got to climb the rocket tower! We finished the day by going into the planetarium. It ...

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