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17 November 2017

Anti-bullying Week

During national anti-bullying week, year 6 have focused on this year's theme 'All Different, All Equal'. We have been learning about stereotyping, prejudice and how this can lead to discrimation and bullying. The children also had fun creating dramas about cyberbullying and not judging people…

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27 October 2017

Healthy Lifestyles Session One

Mrs Smith started her sessions on healthy lifestyles this week. It was interesting to learn about how food helps us in different ways and to understand portion sizes. 

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25 October 2017

Systematic sampling

A skill in the year 6 geography is to develop sampling.

The pupils worked in pairs to systematically sample the landscape of Gillibrand Primary School. The pupils started in different places in the school grounds and travelled in a range of directions to sample a wide area of the school…

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26 September 2017

Lego Robotics

Today we have had lots of fun in our Lego Robotics workshop. Nick, from Junior STEM, showed us the Lego we would be using to construct a model and then we applied our knowledge of algorithms and programming to programme, monitor and control our crocodiles. We all learnt a lot and managed to debug…

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22 September 2017

D.T Challenge

After researching sustainable energy and how the charity Practical Action help the people of Peru, we designed our own wind turbine. The criteria was to design and make a wind turbine that would create enough energy to lift a weight. The pupils worked in teams and had lots of iterative ideas…

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12 September 2017

Geography Messy Maps

Year 6 have started their geography topic of North V South. After studying the physical features of Alaska, they have created their own messy maps showing these. We also looked at how maps show land height and some children have used this mapping skill adding a key to their 3D map. Geography can…

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14 July 2017

Irreversible changes

Year 5 have been looking at irreversible changes in science.  Today we baked some cakes so that we could see what happens to some materials when you heat them.   The children realised they were unable to get the ingredients back to their original state once they had been mixed together and…

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5 July 2017

Transition Day

Year 5 have had their transition day to Year 6 with myself (Miss Baker) today and it was lovely to learn so much about all the pupils. You were very sensible, mature and ready to see what year 6 is all about. You have worked hard and had lots of fun! I’m looking forward to seeing you in my class…

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29 June 2017

Internet Safety

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In Year 5 we have been thinking about internet safety again.  We have looked at the different ways we can keep ourselves safe on line.  We discussed different scenarios and thought about the correct way of dealing with these.  The children all now know what to do if they are made to feel…

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19 June 2017

Sycamore Den Building

In order to support Save the Children, Sycamore Class took part in Den Building Day.  They had lots of materials to choose from in order to build the best den.  The children had to take on different roles to ensure it got built well.  We even managed to get some furniture inside.  

All the…

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26 May 2017

Earthquakes

As part of our geography, Year 5 have been finding out about the causes and consequences of earthquakes.  To help them understand this, the children were given a challenge:

They had to build a stable structure on a base of jelly.  They used spaghetti and marshmallows for their construction.…

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23 May 2017

Practical Science

Year 5 had a fantastic afternoon yesterday thanks to Mark from Empiribox, a science company that specialises in delivering practical science.

Mark demonstrated a series of activties and questioned the children about the science behind them.  All the children showed fantastic knowledge and he…

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