Blog by Gaynor Stevens

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. 

Today we have been exploring and making an Anglo Saxon Village. 

Today we have been exploring the theories over time about the structure of our galaxy. We looked at geocentric and heliocentric theories and tried to create them. 

Some beautiful photos from our performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Blackwell, sent by some of the staff. 

Today we used the theory of Aristotle to prove the Earth is spherical.