Musicians in the making!

Wow year 5 have been absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G in G-Block the past couple of weeks with our new music sessions! Not only do they look the part, but they are sounding brilliant and are developing and deepening their knowledge and understanding of music too! We have looked at different music notes, revised key words such as tempo and pitch, and the children can tell you the importance and purpose of a beat, as well as the style of different songs. They have enjoyed the vocal warm ups and have also loved learning our main song ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’ which we will continue to practice over the next few weeks ready for a final performance!

Keep it up my little rockstars!! I’m really impressed 😀

Mrs Hardman xxx

National Numeracy Day – 18th May

We are looking forward to celebrating National Numeracy Day on Wednesday 18th May!

Maths is all around us and in the run up to National Numeracy Day, I would love for you to take some photos of you that link to maths! Maybe it will be a picture of you using money to pay for something in the shop, maybe it will be of how many steps you have walked in a day, or maybe it will be of you practising your maths skills!

How creative can you be finding maths around your home and in the community? Please send all of your photographs to [email protected] so that I can make a video to celebrate maths!

Also, check out the official website (link below) because there are lots of fun activities that you can do with your children!

https://www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/numeracyday

National Numeracy Day | National Numeracy

Y5 and Y6 Out of this World Winners

A massive shout out for Friday’s winners for Out of this World. In year 5 we had Faith, Danny, Courtney and Lola, who have all shown excellent learning attitudes over the last couple of weeks. In year 6 we had Levi, Reion and all of Crew Knowles for their excellent attitudes as they have prepared themselves, ready to tackle their SATs this week.

Y5 Heart Dissection

During our next case study, Year 5 children will be learning about the heart and circulatory system as part of their science curriculum work for this expedition. The children will get the chance to dissect a lamb’s heart. In the past, children have found this session extremely beneficial and gained a greater depth of understanding of the organ and how it functions. We understand, however, that there may be some children who will not feel comfortable with this, and so we will ensure that only children who want to take part in the activities do so.

We will also take all the necessary safety precautions required, purchasing hearts of food quality and making sure that the children wash their hands thoroughly after the activity. Please could you ensure that your child brings into school an apron or an oversized old shirt to protect their school uniform. These activities will take place on Wednesday 11th May. If you have any concerns regarding this activity, please contact your child’s class teacher or through the Y5/6 phase email [email protected]

Thank you and best wishes

Y5 team

History of Medicine

Yesterday in expedition, Crew Ambler researched a variety of different pandemics throughout History. The children worked in collaborative groups to research the following pandemics: Polio, Covid, Ebola, Measles, Smallpox and Cholera

Answering the following questions

  • What is the illness? 
  • How did it affect people? 
  • How many people were affected/how many people died?
  • Which countries did it affect/how did different countries react? 
  • What were the treatments? 
  • Is there a vaccine? If so, who invented it?

I was blown away with the quality of research and looking forward to their presentations today. Well done Crew Ambler 🙂

Hook Week in Crew Ambler

This week we have been very busy in Crew Ambler. We have been historians, scientists and chefs hooking ourselves into our new expedition ‘How can a healthy lifestyle impact your body and mind?’ I have been blown away with the great work everyone has produced and how much everyone has hooked themselves into our new expedition already. Well done Crew Ambler!

Times Tables Rock Stars day!!! (International dance day) – Friday 29th April

On Friday the 29th April, we will be having a rock star dress up day in years 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1. Times Tables Rock Stars is an excellent site which helps children practice and improve their times tables. All children in these year groups have a login. To promote it’s use across school, we are encouraging children to dress up as rock stars on the above date. Not only will children have the opportunity to use this site on this day, we will be linking it to International Dance day which falls on the same date. Therefore, in the afternoon, children will also be dancing and crews will be making ‘rock-style’ music videos. Pictures and videos of the day will be blogged by each crew.

Red Nose Day 🔴

Well done to the winners of the ‘Design a Red Nose’ competition! There were some fantastic entries but the school council voted and decided that these would be the winning entries. Well done to all who submitted an entry.

We are also pleased to announce that the school managed to sell £300 worth of red noses in the run up to the event before raising a further £301.58 through donations when wearing something red. Thank you to every one for your generous donations!

Y5/6 Celebration of Learning

A huge well done to Y5/6 who shared their expedition learning this afternoon in the sunshine! They presented their gorgeous art work in their photo frames which were handmade by themselves!

I was also so proud of their passionate speeches about endangered animals and it was lovely to see how proud all of the children were when they saw their product hung up around the school grounds!