Blog by Gaynor Stevens

Today we have been investigating the Neolithic village of Skara Brae and built our own versions. We are all wondering what house 7 was used for and why it only locked from the outside ……

Today we took part in an online lesson with the Nekton project where we connected with a team in the Indian Ocean to find out how submarines work. 

Today year 5 decided that life as a Hunter gatherer in the Mesolithic would have been much harder than as a farmer in the Neolithic…..I put that theory to the test and challenged them to make flour from oats using stone age tools. 

We have started karate again with Natalie. 

We have been creating and telling Stone Age tales today. 

Year 5 sat beautifully and respectfully to watch the Queen travelling from Buckingham Palace to Westminster 

Year 5 have made commemorative bookmarks and designed hats which we are sure the Queen would have loved. 

Today we have been finding definitions of vocabulary for our science topic on properties of materials. Then we turned the classroom into a dictionary. 

We have played on the new trim trail, we’ve all read and have books sorted and are now doing challenges on xxrockstars . All before lunch time! Lovely class and a productive morning 

It’s been a film and cold foot spa kind of afternoon. 

We have been learning about sexual and asexual reproduction in plants. Our two spider plants, Peachy and Percy have started producing runners so we have taken some cuttings. We are hoping for some baby plants. We have also sorted and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of each type of…

Year 5 created some Jackson Pollack style art work.