Blog Author: Angie Long

Oak class have been tasting biscuits to consider the different flavours that they could use in their own biscuit recipes.

We discussed who our target audience will be and how we can use flavours, textures and design to encourage others to want to try our biscuit creations.

In our Science lesson we worked in groups to test chosen materials for their transparency.

We are learning the words transparent, opaque and translucent. 

What did our results show?

In our PE lesson we are developing our knowledge of gymnastics balances.

Can we hold ourselves in a balance showing control?

Can we create a partner balance?

Oak class have been stepping into the shoes of the manipulative mind of Lady Macbeth!

To craft their persuasive letters to Macbeth, urging him to take the crown by killing King Duncan, we explored Shakespearean language, switching from ‘you’ to ‘thou’ remembering to use modal verbs and…

Our knowledge of French is developing well. We are really enjoying learning about types of transport.

Oak class have written their own openings to Macbeth and created a soundtrack using Scratch to play alongside, as we shared them with Willow class.

In Science we have been making solutions,which are special types of mixtures. We mixed 5 different substances with water to see if they dissolved.

Today we were honoured to meet a gentleman who fought in WW2. 
Popa, Mrs Long’s grandad, came in to answer our questions about the war, life when he was a child and generally all about his long, long life. 
Popa is 105! This is the first time a lot of the children had met someone who’s this age!
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In our art lesson today we have been learning how colour and brushstrokes can communicate aspects of our identity. We used different sized and shaped brushes whilst experimenting with colour and painting techniques.

We are so impressed with how our personalities have shone through in our…

In Science we have created our own filters to clean water. We had to use 6 different layers of materials which would trap the dirt but allow the water through. Our water was much cleaner at the end but we still wouldn’t drink it!

In our Art lessons we have created a continuous line drawing of our selves. This proved to be quite a tricky skill, one which we haven’t attempted before, however we persevered and tried our very best.

Next, we used our ideas to communicate our identity in the self portrait and wrote these…

This morning our year 5 children took part in their level 1 Bikeability session. Tim and Andy were very impressed with their abilities and how well they all listened to the advice and instructions given.

After a session around the playground, some of the children took theirs bikes out onto the…