This week, Jaguars class have been investigating how levers, pulleys and gears work and how they are helpful. We have explored how different things work from cranes to hammers to tin openers to Mrs Newton's Bicycle!
The Chameleons this week have been writing introductions to a narrative. Here's Arimai-Mya's fantastic work.
In Year 5 this week we have been designing mythical creatures as we prepare to write our own myths next week. Here’s Camden’s monster ‘Corruption’.
Year 5 Jaguars have begun their 'Dodgeball' PE unit by playing a few fun games. They had to think about their dodging and targeting strategies and how they could change these if it was unsuccessful.
This week the Shark class have been using descriptive writing to create tension and atmosphere around Shackleton's journey to Antarctica. We have used relative clauses, personification, similes and metaphors, plus an element of 'show don't tell' to evoke a sense of panic and fear. Finnley S completed his work using the checklist and colour-coded these elements afterwards.
Here is a double page spread by Eshan, showing his knowledge of our Science topic on evolution and inheritance.
Ava J.created a wonderful pen profile based on a suffragette she had researched.
In the Chameleons class this week, in maths we have been demonstaring two different methods of long division. Here is an example below by Franck.
In Year 5 this week we have been writing adventure stories about a magic sandwich who escapes from a boat, based on the story A Boy, A Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton. We've then made our stories into sandwich shaped books. Here is Isla's sandwich story.
Here is a piece of work by a child in the Chameleons work. This week we have been looking at the artist Lubaina Hamid.
In the Cobra class this week we have been creating some self-portraits. Below is an example of one of these portraits.
Callum in Year 5 has created a watercolour painting inspired by the setting of 'The Highwayman.' He then wrote a detailed setting description which included a variety of sentence types.
