Equiano in the hot seat!

6th May 2022Amy Faulding

Yesterday, we were writers in the character of Equiano -who is the main character from our focus text this term. Equiano was a slave from the age of 10 who published his life memoirs in to an autobiography so we are very lucky to be able to unpick his life, what it must have been like for him and read about how he felt during the different stages of his life.

Thanks to Eleanor and Ozzy for volunteering to put themselves in to Equiano’s shoes for the hot seating activity to answer our questions. It was great to see you both think so carefully about your responses to the questions ensuring that you captured his feelings in the different moments of his life.

After this, we all then wrote a letter as Equiano to his parents, recounting what he’d gone through on his journey as a slave so far. I’m so excited to read these and share some on here later on! Watch this space….

We are historians!

6th May 2022Amy Faulding

This week, we have been historians! We have researched three different figures from the past related to slavery and have compared their experiences.

We are truly fascinated by these freed slaves; Mary prince and Equiano and their inspirational life stories. We also looked at the life of a slave trader and how much profit he made by trading goods such as sugar in return for slaves.

Next, we are moving on to the abolition of slavery!

I just want to make a shout out to my crew for approaching such a sensitive and dark subject so sensibly and maturely. I have been blown away by you all and what you have been taking away with you each lesson. Well done! ⭐️

Mrs Faulding x

We built this crew on rock n roll!

6th May 2022Amy Faulding

Throwing it back to last week when it was TT rockstar and world dance day!

Looking like the true rock legends that you all are Crew Faulding and Mrs Hardman looking amazing as always! You guys are smashing it on TT rockstars, keep it up!

Y5 Heart Dissection

5th May 2022Tom Ambler

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

XP Outdoors – Year 4 Reminder

25th April 2022Sophie Myers

Just a quick reminder that Year 4 will be starting XP Outdoors every Tuesday morning with Mr Kershaw.

Children will need to bring a spare change of clothing including suitable footwear to change into for the session.

Also, thank you to everyone who have returned their permission slips. Please can any remaining letters be returned to Crew Leaders so that children are able to take part in all of the activities.

Many thanks,

Miss Myers, Mrs Faulding and Mr Oldridge

Producing beautiful work in year 4!

22nd April 2022Amy Faulding

I just had to share some of the beautiful work that the children produced yesterday in one of our hook expedition lessons. These gorgeously illustrated posters show the production of sugar and how it transforms in to the sugar that we know it as in the shops.

Well done everyone, I’m so proud of the time you’ve taken to produce these!
You stars! ⭐️

Getting ‘clever’ with coordinates!

22nd April 2022Amy Faulding

We’ve had a great start to our week by grappling with coordinates. It’s been good fun making links between coordinates and the game ‘Battleships’ as well as working collaboratively as we were beginning to plot coordinates on a grid. Well done everyone, it’s been fab to see you grapple with this together as a crew!

Product designers in Class 12!

22nd April 2022Amy Faulding

To hook us straight in to our new expedition, ‘Why isn’t sugar so sweet?’, we’ve wasted no time in getting our design caps on and our creative juices flowing in the process of designing our final product. Despite our product not being created until later on in the term, it’s so important that we know what it is and what it will look like right at the start of our learning journey. That way, we know what all of this is for, and how each case study links together.

I loved seeing your individual, bespoke designs and I’m so excited to see them come to life in the next half term!

Mrs Faulding x