Beautiful Kite Designs

Beautiful Kite Designs

In our DT lessons, we have been designing and making kites. We explored a range of materials and considered which would be appropriate to achieve the success criteria. Our kites needed to be strong, light and look attractive. After making our kites, we completed a set...
Science at Lord Lawson

Science at Lord Lawson

As part of our STEM week activities, Year 5 visited Lord Lawson’s Science labs to take part in a science lesson. Miss Frater showed us some slides with images of what different objects look like through a microscope e.g. hair, fingernails, sand and salt.  We...
Space Challenge

Space Challenge

As part of Science Week, Years 5 and 6 took part in an exciting project led by the Royal Air Force. In the morning, we completed a ‘Space Challenge’. We became Royal Air Force engineers – designing and building space rockets. Whilst testing our creations, we...
The Dreadful Menace

The Dreadful Menace

In English, Year 5’s poetry unit has focused on The Dreadful Menace (anon) which was used in the advert for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. As well as analysing the poem and writing our own verses, we learnt it off by heart. We performed the poem for Year 6 and...