What goes up!

3, 2, 1 … Go! Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed their exhilarating trip to Chessington on Friday. Our day began by experiencing the twists and turns of scorpion express and later learning about the forces involved when we took part in our workshop. The children even got to design and build their own fairground ride using K’nex! After learning about gravity, spinning forces and how central petal forces kept us safe, the children were able to spot the mechanisms that helped each ride work, particularly on dragon fury where the wheels helped the ride move. All year six teachers were extremely proud of everyone’s behaviour which was of course impeccable. A great day had by all!

Below are some photos of our spectacular day. More to come shortly!

PE

This half term in PE Year 4 will be focusing on multi-skills. So far, we have learnt a variety of different passes as well as how to dodge. By the end of this unit of work, we should have learnt the basic skills required for most sports.

Each class has also selected their PE Leaders. the job of the PE Leader is to help run the warm ups before each session.

Congratulations to the following childen who were voted by their class to take on the role as PE Leader:

Tai and Megan in 4G

Jude and Ella in 4J

Anya and Mason in 4F

A fantastic start to year 6!

A warm welcome back year six! All children have returned looking refreshed and extremely smart, taking on the new but exciting challenges provided in year six. We have begun learning about forces, designing an advertisement for a favourite fairground ride and reflecting on our aspirations for the future. The children have already got stuck into reading ‘The Hobbit’ and we have started writing our own adventure story. You will be able to read these during parents evening. Keep up the hard work year six! Below are some pictures to show what we have got up to so far (more to come):

Miss Cooke, Miss Parker, Miss Connor and Mrs Shuttleworth

Campfire Stories

We were delighted to welcome Year 4 back, after their lovely summer holiday, and to hear all the activities they took part in.

We began the new term with a new reading approach to engage the children - stories around the campfire. A campfire was recreated in each of the classrooms (not a real one - so you can try this at home). 

In true campfire spirit we read the scary Russian folktale Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, which is the text we will be studying this half term. I'm sure that the children would love to tell you this story , if you haven't heard it before!