Blog by Helen Mackie

We had a great time pond dipping this afternoon. We found hundreds of tadpoles!

We are having a fantastic day at Brentwood House.

The value of the month is Cooperation.

We read the story of The Two Greedy brothers and then tried to cooperate with each other to untangle ourselves.

We had great fun on the playground this afternoon...throwing paint around!

Using Kitchen utensils, brushes and even a dog treat ball we created amazing Jackson Pollock inpired art work.

We had a fantastic day at Dowdales...descriptive writing in English, fireworks in Science, dance, PE and poetry wiring in French. 

Well done Year 5..... you were amazing!

We had some lessons in voice projection while waiting for our film to start.

We read Sticman then created our own Stickman animations.

We had an amazing day with Dr Irene Wise from Lancater Univerity!

Our first challenge was to develop our team building skills by getting our team through a piece of paper.

Then we learnt how to extract flavour from coffee beans.

This afternoon we had to make a…

To celebrate learning about Japan for International week, we dressed Mrs Shaw up in a kimono. We are now designing our own 

This week is International Week!

Year 5 are exploring Greece, so we decided to taste some traditional Greek food. 

Some were more liked than others!

Having some fun in the snow