This week, Year 5 continued their Design & Technology project on bridges. After researching a range of famous bridge types and the features that make them strong, the children worked in groups to design their very own bridge structures. Each team chose different features to focus on...

This week, Year 5 became young engineers as they explored different ways to strengthen materials for their bridge projects. The children tested techniques such as folding, layering, tubing, and adding triangular supports to see how each method improved stability. They experimented with paper, car...

For Michael Rosen Day, Year 5 enjoyed a wonderful poetry morning inspired by one of his funniest poems, Hot and Cold Food. The classroom was full of creativity as pupils wrote their own versions, adding imaginative twists, surprising foods, and plenty of humour. After writing, the children teamed...

This week, Year 5 used play dough models to explore how tectonic plates move and why the continents drift. Pupils shaped different coloured dough into plates, fitting them together like a giant Earth jigsaw. They then pushed, pulled, and slid their plates to see what happens at different boundari...

This week, the children completed their final piece in our Printing unit — and what a wonderful way to end the first term! Using their carefully developed final designs, the children created beautiful repeating patterns, which they then applied to their own Ancient Greek-style vases. T...