Year 5 & 6: Jamaican Patties 🇯🇲

As part of Black History Month celebrations, the children made healthy vegetarian Jamaican patties. They worked in groups to create a shortcrust pastry, cut and cooked the vegetables for the filling, and secured them with a fork crimp. We also learnt about the history of Jamaica and how the Cornish Pasty influenced this Jamaican classic!

Year 6: WW2 Talk with the Darby & Joan Club

Year 6 visited Kingswood Halls this afternoon to talk to members of the Darby & Joan Club. We asked them questions about growing up in the war and heard about stories and memories of the past.

Year 6 Maths Dice Tournament 🎲

Year 6 spent their maths lesson playing in a dice tournament. We rolled two 12-sided dice to create a target number and then rolled three more dice to generate random numbers that we used to get as close to the target number as possible. After five rounds of battling, we finally had a winner!

Year 5 & 6 Anderson Shelters

After learning about the importance of bomb shelters during WW2, the children were set the task to create their own versions using a range of materials. They worked in pairs to plan and make model shelters and evaluated the structural successes and failures throughout the project so they could learn different techniques from one another. […]

Year 6: Tetris Maths

Year 6 used trial and improvement to complete a range of fraction puzzles based on the classic game of Tetris. The children had to create interlocking shapes and simplify fractions.

Year 6: Noun Hunt

Year 6 went on a noun hunt in the playground. They had to find common, proper, collective and abstract nouns and put them into a table. Finally they solved a spooky anagram to complete the task.

Year 6: WW2 Newspapers

Inspired by our recent learning about WW2, we decided to create our own newspapers based on the events directly after Black Saturday (the first night of the Blitz). We learnt a range of ICT skills, shortcuts and word processing tricks.

Year 6: Investigating heart rates

In this lesson, Year 6 counted their resting BPM, and BPM after strenuous exercise. We used Busy Things to create comparison bar charts for the people in our group. We will make conclusions and evaluations next week.

Thanks for helping!

Pre-school were so happy that their friends in Year 2 and Year 6 came to help them learn and play today 😃

Year 5 & 6 at the HQS Wellington

Today, we got the opportunity to visit a WW2 warship. We learnt about the struggles merchant ships had when transporting goods to the UK and had a go at trying some of the roles mariners took when onboard ship.