During the unforgettable Year 5 trip to Broughton Woods, they had the opportunity to participate in a wide range of outdoor activities aimed at enhancing their social and personal development while having fun and learning new skills. The meticulously designed programme ensured that the pupils were occupied from the moment they arrived. One of the…
Year 5 have been making sculptures based on Tony Cragg’s work. They initially made a collage based on an object and then identified the positive and negative spaces. Using the negative spaces from the collage they designed and created a sculpture. They then had to place their sculpture in a landscape and reflect on how…
Year 7 – “Au Café” This term, Year 7’s French topic has been “Au Café – manger et boire” and the children have been putting together sophisticated dialogues in French that they would use in a café. To make the experience a little more authentic, the children had to cook their own pizzas, describe and…
On Tuesday we took two maths teams to compete in the Littlegarth Maths Challenge. It was a fierce field comprising 16 other local prep schools, which was nearly double the number of entrants since it was last run in 2019. Our Year 5 team comprised Hannah, Huck, Oscar A and Oscar B and our Year…
Year 5 were set the challenge to use on Lego WeDo set to make the ‘strongest’ robot with the biggest pulling power! We made an arena in the library where the robots would have to be coded with the most effective algorithm. Pupils had to think about air resistance, friction on the tyres, mass the…
Years 4 and 5 put on a sparkling performance of Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits this week. They invited us to slip on our sandals for some sandy silliness and take a thrilling carpet ride with Ali Baba and his crazy camel on an amazing Arabian adventure! A huge amount of dedication and work…
There was a gasp of excitement when Mr White brought in the Lego We Do kits to Year 5’s DT/STEM lesson this week. They have been challenged over the next couple of weeks to construct and code some lego robots using the kits, which will culminate in Holmwood Robot Races towards the end of term. …
In the development of their project ‘Portraying Relationships’, Year 5 created a glazed pottery representation of their chosen character. These fabulous ceramic character faces have helped enhance the students’ confidence in their manual dexterity and knowledge of how to work successfully with ceramics. Having studied the relationship between ‘Mr and Mrs Clarke and Percy’ at…
Year 5 have worked hard on their shields this half of term which they have designed based on a fairytale, myth or legend. They have spent a lot of the term working planning and refining their designs and then produce the final piece made of card and modroc.
As part of their myths and legends project, Year 5 have been designing their own flags. Once they had reflected on their designs and developed them, they then started their final designs on fabric.
