Blog by Gaynor Stevens

A brilliant morning at Dowdales making carrot cake muffins and twirlers. 

We have had a brilliant day visiting St Bernard's School. Thank you so much to everyone there for making us feel so welcome. 

We have been exploring international time zones around the world. 

Sporting some impressive beards, some of year 5 played the part of Pliny the Younger, reading his eye witness account of Mount Vesuvius destroying Pompeii. 

Popcorn and a film……our film! We loved watching The Tempest 

We have been exploring properties of shapes 

We have had a great afternoon with Catherine from The Wordsworth Trust, thinking about the whole project of making the film and reflecting on the experience. 

We have entered a competition to visit the Sealife Centre. We investigated the problem of plastic in the oceans and made information posters about it, we collected plastic from the beach and our own homes to make some jelly fish and a turtle. 

We have moved to the hall whilst there is voting taking place in our classroom. We are writing our Alfred the Great and King Canute biographies. 

Today we have been researching Alfred the Great and King Canute ready for our biography topic next week. We also found out about the Vikings. We looked at some new vocabulary then did some map work about their journey. It’s been a busy old, historical day. 

We have had a brilliant morning looking at Anglo Saxon and Viking artefacts and thinking about who used them and why. 

Exploring databases