Blog by Helen Mackie

We had a fantastic day at Dowdales...descriptive writing in English, fireworks in Science, dance, PE and poetry wiring in French. 

Well done Year 5..... you were amazing!

We had some lessons in voice projection while waiting for our film to start.

We read Sticman then created our own Stickman animations.

We had an amazing day with Dr Irene Wise from Lancater Univerity!

Our first challenge was to develop our team building skills by getting our team through a piece of paper.

Then we learnt how to extract flavour from coffee beans.

This afternoon we had to make a…

To celebrate learning about Japan for International week, we dressed Mrs Shaw up in a kimono. We are now designing our own 

This week is International Week!

Year 5 are exploring Greece, so we decided to taste some traditional Greek food. 

Some were more liked than others!

Having some fun in the snow 

Dramatic scenes from 'Pyramus and Thisbe' in a Mid summer Night's Dream 

Demetrius and Lysander have been fighting over the beautiful Helena in a MidSummer Night's Dream

We have been predicting which circuits will work and making them to test them

We have been exploring Shakespeare and had a go at performing part of A MidSummer Night's Dream....very dramatic!