All of Elm Class want to say a massive thanks to the amazing Miss Hathaway and wish her all the best for the future! We have really enjoyed working with her for nearly three years! We all know that you are going to be brilliant in your new role. Thanks so much Miss Hathaway, we will miss you!

Year 5 - Vector Drawing!

Who knew you could draw on a computer!

Year 5 have been learning all about vector drawings and how images are created by the use of layering of shapes.  They have learnt many ‘tools’ in googledrawing and have been able to create, select, change the colour and size, group, insert as well as rotate, crop, resize and flip images!

It has been great seeing the excitement across the classroom and what the children are able to do!

As part of our French learning, Year 5 have been learning to tell the time in 5 minute increments. They all asked the question formally or informally to their peers as well as replied appropriately.

As part of our Art this year, Year 5 are looking at what impressionism is as well as post-impressionism.  We are studying Van Gogh, Starry Night, and have spent some time looking at some of the techniques used to create this fabulous painting.  

One thing we have learnt about is the use of complementary colours which are contrasting to help the painting ‘pop’.  We see this in the Starry Night with the moons and stars.  Before we attempt our own ‘Starry Night’ paintings though, we had to create our own colour wheel to be able to identify the complementary colours - here are our attempts!

Our spring term has almost come to an end which means it is time to announce our overall winners for our class Doodle competitions! Our champions are... 

KS1 Maths: Y1 Redwood

KS2 Maths: Y6 Sycamore 

KS1 Spell: Y2 Elm

KS2 Spell: Y6 Sycamore 

Congratulations to all of the children in these classes; you have all earned a non-uniform day on Thursday 28th March! 

For our final week of the spring term, we say well done to...

KS1 Maths: Y1 Redwood 

KS2 Maths: Y6 Sycamore 

KS1 Spell: Y2 Elm

KS2 Spell: Y6 Sycamore 

Last week, Year 5 explored the importance of being able to distinguish between ‘wants’ and ‘needs’ and discussed the importance of being sensible with money.  They learnt about what a credit card was and how people are charged interest on the money borrowed and why it is important to make good choices with what they do with any money they received.

One activity that they looked at involved discussing as a group what they would do with a variety of amounts of money.  They had to consider whether they would put it into a savings account, invest the money, put it in their wallet for spending or put it into their money box.  There were some great collaborative conversations and sorting out of funds and surprisingly across the class, they were unanimous in their decisions.

In science this week, year 4 have been learning about how we can group animals depending on their features and into mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and fish. Children worked in pairs to identify the different features different animals had and explained why they had grouped them like this.

This week, we say well done to... 

KS1 Maths: Y1 Redwood

KS2 Maths: Y4 Cedar & Y6 Yew 

KS1 Spell: Y1 Ash 

KS2 Spell: Y6 Sycamore & Y5 Willow