Photo Gallery
Maya artefacts: We were fortunate enough for students to be able to look first hand at artefacts from the Maya
Cadbury World
DT - Analysing, designing and making chocolate and chocolate box packaging
Immersion day costumes
Art - Year 5/6 have been working on creating clay wolves inspired by the sculptor Phillipe Faraut
World Book Day - During World book Day students worked in groups to re write a current narrative Year 5/6 looked at the book Flotsam
Phases of the moon - this week students took part in an activity that helped them visualise how we see the different phases of the moon based on its position
Special visitor - We were very fortunate to be visited by the Author Coral Rumble who read some poems from her book 'Riding a Lion'. She also guided students through some activities to activate their minds and help then think differently about to to approach their writing as an author
Creating clay wolves
STEM week - Creating our own brush cleaning machines
STEM week - Analysing current brush cleaning machines
Science - This week we had a special visit from a member of the Maidenhead Astronomical Society. He discussed the scale of the planets in relation to the sun and also the scale of our sun compared to others in the galaxy we also discussed the Parker solar probe that is tracing the flow of energy on the sun
Moon Rocks - We have been very fortunate to have bee loaned some actual real life moon rocks the children conducted a classification exercise to identify which object were fragments of Asteroids and the hold and look at rocks retrieved from the moon
Science - In Science we have been looking at how the planets move in relation to the sun and went out onto the playground to see this in practise
Special visitor - we were fortunate enough to be visited by a member of the Endurace22 expedition where they uncovered the location of the Endurance at nearly 10,000 below sea level
Sleeping bag relay
Tyre dragging activity
Christmas activities
Hampton Court Palace trip - learning about Tudor explorers and the goods they traded in
Our artwork showing the impact deforestation has had on the natural habitats of the orangutans
Creating self portraits in the style of Han Holbein
In RE we looked at what characteristics make a good Christian and which characteristics were most valuable to us
In Science this week we labelled the different components of heart and dissected them to measure the ventricular walls
In History we created freeze frames of the execution of a heretic
Archaeological dig at Hooke Court
Tudor Games
Looking at Tudor fashion and posing for portraits at Hooke Court
Trying out some Tudor recipes at Hooke Court
History How did Henry VII come into power
Immersion week
This week we immersed ourselves in various activities related to our new topic 'Off with their heads!' Tudor children would have used a hornbook to learn to read and one of our activities included making our own version of this.
We created a family tree for the Tudor family starting with Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York. We tried out some Tudor dancing alongside traditional music, made Tudor inspired jewellery and even baked some Bosworth Jumble biscuits which tasted amazing unfortunately I burnt half of them (sorry). Please take some time to look at some photos of our week.
Jumble biscuits
Tudor timelines and hornbooks
Tudor dancing and coat of arms
Tudor Jewellery
