The Wombats have thoroughly enjoyed exploring some new poetry this term. They were inspired by the poem ‘When The Colours Spoke’ by Grace Nichols, which led them to create beautiful watercolour paintings that reflected the colours and shades presented in the poem. Their inspiration didn’t stop there, the Year 5 children demonstrated their amazing writing skills by creating their own class version of the poem. This hangs proudly on the wall in the Wombats’ class.

In Year 6, we have been studying Light as part of our science curriculum. Jamie from the Toucans has produced an information page all about Isaac Newton and his discoveries with light.

George from the Toucans has written a descriptive piece, using dialogue accurately, about an image from 'The Dam' by David Almond.

Lily from the Sharks made this a WW2 propaganda poster aimed at the role of women during the war as part of our work in History.

This week Year 5 have been reading the Poem From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson.  We have created some performance poetry and discussed what it might be like to be a passenger on a steam train. Evelyn from the Wombats wrote a super letter to describe her journey.

Here is a piece of work by Ziba in the Toucans from our Reading Lessons. We had been studying the life of Harriet Tubman and read a book about her from the 'Little People, Big Dreams' series. Each child was then presented with this artistic mural and had to interpret and respond to the piece. Ziba has really thought carefully about this image and used some powerful phrases to express her thoughts.