We have had lots of fun in Y5/6 learning to sing the Mexican song, ‘La Bamba’. It was very tricky as it is sung in Spanish, but we tried hard and soon picked up the words!
Once we had become confident singing the song, we then looked at the notes and learnt to play it on the glock. We have some brilliant musicians!
Y56 have been getting very excited about the Rugby World Cup, so much so that we had a go at creating our own ‘Haka’ at after school rugby club!
These girls have been working very hard after school at sewing club and have some fantastic pieces. Well done girls!
Year 56 have had a wonderful time today celebrating The Day of Dead as part of their ‘Who Like To Party?’ topic. Each child undertook four fantastic activities: a D&T activity making wearable skull heads, learning ‘La Bamba’ on the glochs, using paper to craft headdresses and making tributes and memorials out of clay.
The children had an excellent time and produced some fantastic work. Well done!
Y5 Boys making their ‘Skull Head’
Miss Jeffrey was making colourful headdresses out of paper.
Mrs Whitton has created a fantastic display of the children’s clay memorials.
The year 6 children were given another scientific task yesterday – to launch rockets for Miss Stainton’s Mexican party!
We used what we already knew about chemical reactions and mixed an acid and a base to create carbon dioxide. Using a cork, this built up pressure inside our rockets and the results were amazing! Some of our rockets went as high as the school building!
Fantastic work.
Miss Stainton’s class were given a tricky question today – How could they inflate balloons using only vinegar, baking soda and a water bottle?
They worked within groups to create their own plans and hypothesis. They then put these to the test to see if they worked. The groups were very successful and used their knowledge to create a chemical reaction which produced a gas to inflate the balloons! Well done!
Miss Stainton’s craft club have had lots of fun over the past few weeks. So far we have enjoyed making slime, friendship bracelets, autumn finger painting pieces, and oobleck! Things have been getting messy but we have enjoyed every minute!
Watch this space for some Christmas creations starting after half term!
Following our trip to Hull Fair last week, Miss Stainton’s class created detailed instructions on how to make a ‘fair inspired’ treat – chocolate apples!
We wrote up our instructions remembering to include lots of time adverbs and imperative verbs. We then voted for our favourite toppings as a class.
We had lots of fun making them but even more fun eating them! Yummy!
This week in year 5/6, we have been looking at the chemical reaction that occurs when bicarbonate of soda reacts with vinegar. The children used their prior knowledge of this reaction to create an investigation to inflate a balloon using carbon dioxide. They loved seeing the balloon inflate as the chemical reaction took place! They were able to explain that the reaction between bicarbonate of soda and vinegar resulted in a new substance(carbon dioxide) being formed.
Miss Stainton’s class were presented with the task of planning a luxury holiday for a family of 4 to Mexico for one week and loved using their team work to plan their finances!
They had to choose which hotel to stay in, which food and drink package to purchase, what day trips to pay for, along with lots of other important holiday fun to organise!
Fantastic team work and maths skills were demonstrated by all, if only we could actually experience our holidays in reality!
