In DT this half term, Year 5 have been designing and then making their own pizzas. To introduce the topic, the children completed a comprehension task all about the history of the pizza. This was then followed by a lesson learning about how different foods make their journey from farm Read more…
Today in Science, Year 5 have been learning about the different phases of the moon. The Moon’s appearance changes over time when viewed from Earth. Sometimes, the Moon is not visible at all and at other times it can appear as a thin crescent, full circle – or somewhere in between. Read more…
Today in Geography, Year 5 have been learning all about tornadoes. They have learnt about how tornadoes are formed and the effect that tornadoes can have in the areas that they occur in. In small groups, they followed a set of instructions to create their own tornado in a bottle. Read more…
Today, Year 5 started their new Computing topic for Spring 2: Creating Media. For the first lesson, they created vector drawings using Google Docs. To begin with, they were each given a sheet of paper with six shapes on it and had to create a vector drawing by cutting out Read more…
In Year 5 this term, the children are going to be designing and then creating their own pop-up books. In the first lesson, pupils looked at pop-up books for children and identified the mechanisms used and the target audience. Today, the objective of the lesson was to follow a set Read more…
Today, two of the Year 6 Digital Leaders came into Year 5 to talk about being safe on the internet, linking to Safer Internet Day. They had planned some great activities, which really made the Year 5 pupils think about what they use the internet for and how to stay Read more…
In Art this term, Year 5 are studying the work of Henri Rousseau. In Tuesday’s lesson, the pupils began to create their own interpretation of Henri Rousseau’s ‘Tiger in a Tropical Storm’. To begin with each pupil was given an image of a tiger and then they began to sketch Read more…
On Wednesday, five children from Year 5 and five children from Year 6 visited Harwood Park Primary School for Science Ambassador training. The children took part in a variety of activities throughout the afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed it! They represented themselves and Heap Bridge brilliantly. Well done to you Read more…
In Art this term, Year 5 have been learning about lino printing. Lino Printing is a form of block printing that involves carving a pattern or design into a linoleum, rubber or vinyl surface that can then be printed from. In today’s lesson, we carved our final design into the Read more…
In Science this term, Year 5 have been exploring different forces. Last week, we looked at air resistance. Air resistance is a type of friction between air and another material. For example, when an airplane flies through the air, air particles hit the airplane making it more difficult for it to Read more…
Today during PE Year 1,2,3&4 continued their celebrations for the Queens Jubilee during their PE lesson. We didn’t let the rain stop us, we started off with completing a Jubilee dance dancing through different years, then we went on to complete an obstacle course. During the obstacle course the children Read more…