Blog by Gaynor Stevens

We have been investigating thermal conductors and insulators. 

Today we have had a really interesting discussion about the Windrush generation and how people were treated when they arrived in this country. We will be writing a diary tomorrow. 

A thoroughly exciting afternoon of investigating irreversible changes. We made a type of plastic and mixed vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to produce carbon dioxide and blow up balloons. 

We have been studying The Walrus and The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll. Today we interviewed the three main characters. 

Today we have been investigating the Neolithic village of Skara Brae and built our own versions. We are all wondering what house 7 was used for and why it only locked from the outside ……

Today we took part in an online lesson with the Nekton project where we connected with a team in the Indian Ocean to find out how submarines work. 

Today year 5 decided that life as a Hunter gatherer in the Mesolithic would have been much harder than as a farmer in the Neolithic…..I put that theory to the test and challenged them to make flour from oats using stone age tools. 

We have started karate again with Natalie. 

We have been creating and telling Stone Age tales today. 

Year 5 sat beautifully and respectfully to watch the Queen travelling from Buckingham Palace to Westminster 

Year 5 have made commemorative bookmarks and designed hats which we are sure the Queen would have loved. 

Today we have been finding definitions of vocabulary for our science topic on properties of materials. Then we turned the classroom into a dictionary.