ANTIBULLYING WEEK 2025 – POWER FOR GOOD

By Miss L STEWART11th November 2025

 

This week, both Years 5 and 6 took part in the online BBC Antibullying lesson with the overarching theme being Power for Good.

We had various codes to crack and missions to undertake, whereupon the children explored how to identify when an altercation between parties may be considered as an act of bullying and how we should, and should not, deal with the situation.

We also explored and familiarised ourselves with some important terminology:

Target…the person or persons being bullied

Ringleader…the person causing physical and emotional harm to another

Bystander…an individual who witnesses bullying happening but does nothing to stop it

Upstander…an individual who stands up for the target and gets help

We unanimously agreed that being an UPSTANDER was by far the best in order to use our powers for good to stop or prevent an individual being harmed. In addition, we all agreed that kind hands, kind feet, kind words and being accepting and tolerant of others makes our world a much better place.

Y5 Comparison of Autumnal Religious Festivals

By Miss L STEWART1st October 2025

In Year 5 this term, we are learning how people of faith express their religious beliefs through the festivals they celebrate, the ways in which they practice their faith within their communities and through the clothing that they wear.

Today we compared 3 Autumnal festivals in the way that they are celebrated and the messages that they each convey to their faith followers:

The Christian celebration of Harvest is a festival that teaches that we should help and share those who are vulnerable and less fortunate within our community and be thankful to God.

The Hindu celebration of Diwali is a time for faith followers to reflect and and of uniting with others in their community to celebrate light overcoming darkness.

The Jewish celebration of Rosh Hashana is time for Jewish faith followers to reflect on the year that has passed and to seek forgiveness.

Our comparisons found that each of theses magnificent festivals occur in the Autumn; that each faith believes in a God or Gods (Hindus worship many Gods) and that sharing food either within or outside of their faith community is important.

We then enjoyed trying and eating ‘Apples and Honey’ which is a dish shared and eaten during the Jewish festival of ‘Rosh Hashana’ that symbolises the hope for a sweet new year ahead.

European Day of Languages 2025 – German

By Miss L STEWART1st October 2025

For this year’s ‘European Day of Languages’, Y6F learned and practiced a few German words, questions and phrases with Miss Stewart.  Here are the children putting some of their new language skills into practice to a familiar tune. Wunderbar kinder…Wunderbar!

In Mr Sutton’s class we looked at a variety of different ways for greetings and the children had to guess where the languages came from when given specific words. The children then worked together to create a class poster displaying the world flags and languages used.

partitioning numbers to 1000

By Mrs K SMITH23rd September 2025

Year 3 have been working on our place value unit in maths to start the term. We have looked at hundreds, tens and ones and how these make up numbers to 1,000. We have used the base 10 resources this week to help us partition our numbers. We began by making a number and the partitioning it in to hundreds, tens and ones.

We then looked at how these numbers could be partitioned more flexibly. We realised that when we add our parts together they add up to the same whole number. We moved our hundreds, tens and ones around to see how many ways we could partition a number.

ocean meets sky

By Mrs K SMITH22nd September 2025

Year 3 were surprised to find a mysterious suitcase left in our classroom this week. Who owns it? Where did it come from? What’s inside? Just some of the questions the Year 3 children had.

The children were very quick to notice that the suitcase had a label saying ‘Grandpa’.

 

Inside was many exciting things including a book labeled ‘Grandpa’s Stories’, some dumplings and a picture of a boy with a man.

We knew that these were all things telling us about our new story ‘Ocean meets Sky’ and we used them to help us make predictions.

Some children thought the story would be about eating dumplings on a boat in the sun whilst others thought the story could be about a special trip that Grandpa is going to take. We can not wait to discover who the characters are and what is going to happen in our story.

reflective materials

By Mrs K SMITH18th September 2025

Year 3 have been looking at light in our first science unit. We discovered that there are many light sources that we use every day including the sun, light bulbs, phones and televisions. We were very surprised to discover that the moon is not a source of light and that it only reflects light from the sun. We decided to see what other materials reflected light and which materials reflected this best. We carried out a fair test on materials including tin foil, card and fabric.

We discovered that the most reflective materials had a smooth surface and that the light reflected brightest from these types of materials.

First recorder session

By Mrs K SMITH16th September 2025

Year 3 were very excited to start our music lessons this week.

Over the year we will be learning to play the recorder. This week we began with getting used to holding our new instrument and practising where to place our fingers.

We had a go at making sounds and discussed how we will make different notes with our finger placements. We had a go at making soft and loud sounds by blowing gently through the mouth piece. We were very excited to start to look at the different notes and could confidently identify the first note. Year 3 can now confidently play a B note. We also talked about how we look after instruments and how to handle them correctly.

The history of hull

By Mrs K SMITH12th September 2025

This week Year 3 have been discussing chronology and what this means.

We have discussed how chronology tells us the order things happened in.

During our history lesson we have begun to look at the history of Hull. We spent some time looking at some different pictures showing different points in the history of Hull. We then discussed the chronological order of these events.

We discussed how black and white photographs must be older than coloured ones and how paintings must be even older as these were created before cameras were invented.

 

 

 

 

 

Once we had created our chronological timeline we discussed the correct order of events in Hull and how over the Autum Term we will be finding out lots more about these events.

We then created our own timeline in our books ensuring we thought about the chronological order of the events.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We cannot wait to find out lots of information about these events that shaped the city of Kingston Upon Hull.

Mental health and yoga

By Mrs K SMITH14th February 2025

This term Year 3 have been doing Yoga in PE and we were very proud of ourselves for remembering lots of poses we learnt in Year 2. Can you spot our tree?

As part of mental health week we talked about how Yoga can help us to clear our minds and help us to relax.

We tried lots of different breathing exercises such as box breathing and shark breaths. We all loved how calm this made us feel.

Scratch

By Mrs K SMITH1st February 2025

Year 3 are loving our new computing unit using the scratch programme.

We have spent time learning how to make our Sprite move, make sounds and even sequence a short string of sounds and movement together.

Some of us have made our Sprite walk across the screen before shouting, some of us have made our Sprite sing and dance to music.

We have also explored how to change a background when creating our scratch clips and even change our Sprites to different things.

We can’t wait to create more clips on Scratch.