Blog Author: Gaynor Stevens

Today we have been working on our map reading and compass skills

Thank you to Catherine from the Wordsworth Trust who came to see year 5 and do a review of our Shakespeare play. 

We are so very lucky, the author S F Said has sent us copy of his new book Tyger and dedicated it to the children of Roose School. 

This afternoon we have been dissecting flowers and identifying the different parts. 

What else to do on a really hot day but gardening and water fight. 

We have been learning about Hindu beliefs around reincarnation and what happens to the soul. Year 5 worked on some creative pieces about what they think happens to the soul. 

Turns out practicing for sports day is as much fun as sports day. 

Wow. These Anglo Saxon homework projects are amazing. Thank you so much for all of your hard work on these. We have enjoyed looking through them all this afternoon. 

Today we have been learning to translate shapes on a grid and write the coordinates. 

That was a fun morning of learning tennis skills 

Today y 5 and 6 had a visit from our PCSO and the Child-Centred Police Team to talk about staying safe online, cyber-bullying and the use of mobile phones. 

We’ve been using digimaps to compare the climate and how it has changed since 1970 in the UK and China.