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A brilliant afternoon using our knowledge of gears, levers and pulleys to invent some cracking contraptions based on Wallace and Gromit.

Year 6 were finding out about evolution and adaptation. They then went on to design their own new species using what they had learnt in the lesson.

A brilliant idea year 5 instead of sending Christmas cards. 

We were inspired by The Great Kapok Tree.

Jordan from Barrow AFC did some hockey skills with us today.

A lovely afternoon casting and practicing The Tempest. We also handed out the Spellbinding books for our reading challenge. 

Our new computing topic is digital photography. The children were very keen to start the topic by taking photographs of themselves inside and outside. The children were able to flip the camera and take selfies and take short videos of themselves. We are excited to start editing our pictures next…

Year 2 enjoyed their yoga session with Liane from yokids. The children all demonstrated fantastic balancing and core strength ability. They were able to  hold themselves in the different poses and made me very proud with their wonderful listening skills. 
 

The children took turns in our PE session to  lead the warm up session and decide which muscles we were stretching. The hot favourite had to be Ronaldo’s (footballers) trademark celebration which apparently was stretching all the muscles! 
 

In our English lessons this week we have been looking at ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl. The children have really enjoyed exploring the characters and using adjectives and similes in their writing. In today’s lesson we acted out one of the pranks that Mrs Twit plays on Mr Twit and then used a ‘freeze…

We have been creating drawings of classroom objects using vectors