Our amazing chef, Chris held a masterclass in sushi-making for our Year 5 and Year 6 children separately. They had some vegetarian and pescatarian ingredients and created some absolutely delicious food! Here they are enjoying the process. Thank you Chris for all your...
Today as part of our ‘Extreme Earth’ topic Years 5 & 6 took part in the ‘Beat the Flood’ challenge. We used our scientific, design and maths skills to design, cost and build a model of a flood proof home for the people in flood hit countries such as Bangladesh....
If the school can’t go to the theatre then we’ll bring the theatre to the school! Years 5 and 6 enjoyed a special performance of The Lorax from The Old Vic Theatre today for Earth Day and Year 4 also had a viewing too!
Greek Monster Puppets In order to wind down after a busy week we've also been finishing off our Greek monster puppets, using plaster of paris, and sewing skills to be really creative when making our hand puppets. We can't wait to see the finished product and...
This week we’ve had great fun learning about the Trojan war and the Trojan horse in our topic lessons, where children wrote fantastic diary entries imaging their lives as Spartan soldiers. In our Maths lessons we’ve been learning all about Angles and using protractors...
This week we have had a varied and fun week. We loved learning about Theseus and the Minotaur in our topic and English lessons, composing poetry inspired by Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ on Remembrance day and investigating some tricky fractions in...
Year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to take part in Cycling Club Hackney’s school cycling competition this week. The challenge was to complete 250m - the circumference of the velodrome in the quickest time possible on a stationary bike. This proved to be a really exciting...
Today Years 5 & 6 were lucky enough to be paid a visit by Dan from Dantastic Education for a full day of learning about the Ancient Greeks. We learnt all about their civilisation; from daily life, Greek myths and the various and impressive weapons used by the...
This week we have been working hard on our writing skills. We have been writing instructions for how to capture the Greek mythical beasts that we designed last week in our workshop - this has been really creative and fun. We’ve also worked really hard in our maths...
As part of black history month, Year 5 have been learning about the amazing and inspirational life of Dr Martin Luther King. After learning about the Alabama bus boycotts, we wrote our own versions of his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, inspired by the era in which...
