Stanway Fiveways Primary School

This week we have had lots of fun at Forest School, exploring the exciting areas of the outdoor area. We have also started squash sessions, developing our skills in preparation for a tournament at The Garrison next term. 

The highlight of our week has been our visit to Duxford Imperial War Museum where we enjoyed seeing close up the aircrafts and vehicles used during the war. We had the opportunity to go on board a range of aircrafts and heard stories of war time heroes. It really was a day to remember.

We also finished writing our warning tale in English and continued programming our sprite as part of our computing unit. 

This week has been action packed from beginning to end. In Forest School we made  scones and cinnamon apple slices over a fire, built dens and enjoyed the delights of the open space. In DT we began building our WW1 inspired cams following the plans that we put together last week. We also had a fantastic Tag Rugby session with SCS practising our passing skills.  

This week Oak and Olive class enjoyed their last Forest School of the term. Among the outdoor activities the children made flowers from twigs, leaves and string. 

In English we began to innovate our information text called the Tree Giant and in Maths we worked on multi step problems and BIDMAS. In DT we began to assemble our war scene for our cams. 

It is safe to say that it has been an extremely busy and productive week in Year 6 :) 

We had such a busy end to the term which included finishing our WW2 cams, completing our Independent Information Text and taking part in Scary Hair Day for charity! We also received lots of wonderful projects from our Homework Menu which we displayed at the Open Classroom.

It has been a very eventful and productive term, filled with lots of learning experiences. We are now looking forward to a well earned Half Term break :) 

We have had a fantastic start to the new term, beginning our new Talk for Writing unit ( a Wishing Tale ) and looking at fractions in Maths. For PE we will be engaging in Invasion Games and Hockey with SCS. 

At the end of the week we had lots of fun during our WW2 Day where we had the opportunity to play games which children would have played during the war, such as dominoes and penny against the wall. We also made our own spitfire, learnt how first aid was administered to wounded soldiers, made a poppy for our Year 6 Remembrance wreath, learnt what rationing during the war looked like and practised how to mend and sew. 

It was really action packed! 

This week has seen us begin our Hockey sessions with SCS where we learnt to control and dribble the ball skillfully. We also built and tested circuits in Science and continued our learning of Fractions in Maths where we converted improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice vera. We ended the week taking part in Children in Need, wearing yellow and/or spots to raise money for a good cause.