Blog Author: S Benson

Today, Ben, who is the lay chaplain at Our Lady’s Catholic College, visited Year 5 with a group of students from the chaplaincy and Mr Eidsforth. Ben led us in a reflection on scripture and helped us to prepare for our pilgrimage to Our Lady’s which takes place in a couple of…

What a joy it has been to look at the creations produced by Year 5 as last half term’s homework. They could choose between a project about the Vikings, creation or legends of the British Isles. Some children have done some great research and used it to produce a poster or information text. Others…

Year 5 became Viking raiders this afternoon! There was some raiding, there was some invasion of monasteries, a fair bit of fighting and a lot of fun! 
We made a timeline, recreated some key events as freeze frames and learnt a lot about the Viking invasion of Britain.

Thanks to Laura and…

Today, Year 5 enjoyed a wonderful Lego Workshop. Wojtek from PrepareRobo provided techno Lego for us to build robots with sensors and control units. We connected these to a computer so we could program the robots to move without crashing into objects. It was a fantastic morning filled with…

Year 5 voted for their school council representatives this week following a round of fantastic presentations from all the candidates. The two pupils with the most votes presented some strong ideas about the environment and improving reading areas around school. 
 

“Hello, I’m N and one of year…

We’ve started Year 5 off with a bang and throughly enjoyed our Marvellous Me topic week. 
As part of the week we participated in a Healthy Heads Day. Here’s what some Year 5 pupils had to say about it…

”To unwind our bodies we did some stretches and my favourite stretch was snake pose. In…