Blog by Mr Griffiths

In Year 5, students learned about the importance of recognizing and avoiding online spam. They discovered that spam often includes unsolicited emails with too-good-to-be-true offers, which can be scams designed to steal personal information. To stay safe, students were taught to never click on…

In French today, Year 5 were learning more about the days of the week. Tres Bien Year 5!

Today Year 5's maths lesson was something a bit different. We all had fun writing, on the tables, factors of numbers.

Well done Year 5!

Building on yesterday's knowledge of electrical circuits, Year 5 created their own doodlers. 

The creating of the doodlers created several issues where the class had to use their problem solving skills to make sure the doodler moved across the paper.

Fantastic team work Year…

In Design and Technology today, Year 5 explored the world of electrical circuits. We built our own circuits with a motor. We will use our knowledge from today for our next D&T session where we will create our own doodlers.

This morning, Year 5's literacy lesson involved looking at a diary entry from the fearless Annie Edson Taylor.

The class had to assess the work, looking for any mistakes and then correcting them.

Well done Year 5!

Year 5 had an exciting science lesson today! They created model alloys using Play-Doh as the base material. By adding different additives like sand and salt, they explored how these changes affected the properties of their “alloys.” It was a hands-on experiment that helped them understand the…

Yesterday after school, KS2 held their Autumn disco. There were lots of fantastic dance moves on show!
We hope you all had fun!

Today in literacy, Year 5 plotted the journey of Ms Taylor as she travelled down stream in her balls towards the raging falls of Niagara. 
Children showcased their use of fronted adverbials and also wrote down what emotions Annie would of been feeling.

Well done Year 5!

Prizes!  Find out about our ‘Take a Chance’ initiative to celebrate and reward our pupils for their hard work and dedication.

How It Works:

• Earning ‘Take a Chance’ Slips: Throughout the week, children can earn ‘Take a Chance’ slips from their class teachers. These slips are awarded for…

This afternoon, Year 5 have been hard at work at seeing which items were magnetic an non magnetic.

Well done Year 5

This afternoon in science, Year 5 had quite the tasty experiment whilst looking at the difference in physical qualities of chocolate before and after having heat applied. We heated the chocolate up in our mouths and hands.

We also compared room temperature chocolate to frozen chocolate.

Well…