Huge congratulations to our year 5 and 6 children who brilliantly represented the school at the recent cricket tournament. They all showed fantastic teamwork and sportsmanship!
A special shout-out goes to our year 5/6 girls’ team for an incredible performance bringing home 2nd place ! We are incredibly proud of you all. Well done!
Today, our UKS2 Festival of Sport was a fantastic celebration of teamwork, determination and sportsmanship. The four house teams competed in a range of exciting races including the sprint race, obstacle race, egg and spoon race, skipping race and relay race. Every child gave their best effort, cheering each other on and showing great resilience throughout the day. The atmosphere was full of energy and encouragement, making the festival a brilliant event for everyone involved.
One of the highlights of the day was the parent vs teacher race, which brought lots of laughter and excitement from the crowd. Both teams competed enthusiastically while pupils eagerly supported from the sidelines. We are incredibly proud of everyone who took part and are excited to find out which house will be crowned the overall winner on Friday!
Crew Gray have been investigating to determine if exercise directly impacts our heart rate. We conducted a controlled experiment measuring our heart rate at resting, low intensity exercise and high intensity. We did this by recording our pulse before and after each activity, before recording our findings, which we are now going to use to write our investigation report.
In Crew Gray, we have been discovering all about blood and what it is made of! During an exciting hands-on lesson, we explored the four main components of blood and uncovered the important job each one has to keep our bodies healthy.
We used water mixed with yellow food colouring to represent the plasma, which gave the liquid a realistic look. Marshmallows were used to show the white blood cells, which help the body fight infections. Cheerios represented the red blood cells, which carry oxygen throughout the body and give blood its red colour. Small pieces were also added to represent platelets, which help blood clot when we get a cut. As we carefully added each part to create our own “blood model”, we were amazed to see how these components work together to help our bodies function every day.
Crew Gray have been working hard to build their teamwork and communication skills, especially during our Crew Challenges!
Our UKS2 pupils recently stepped back in time for an unforgettable Time Odyssey workshop, where they explored the fascinating world of the Ancient Egyptians – before fast-forwarding to a lively trip to Doncaster Market!
We participated in an exciting, hands-on workshop that transported the children thousands of years into the past. The children asked thoughtful questions and showed great teamwork as they tackled challenges and shared their ideas.
We then swapped this for shopping stalls with a visit to Doncaster Market. This provided a wonderful opportunity to connect our learning to the present day. Pupils explored the vibrant market, observed how goods are bought and sold and even practised their communication and money-handling skills in a real-world setting.
Overall, it was a truly enriching experience that combined History, Design and Technology and real-life learning. We are incredibly proud of how engaged, respectful and enthusiastic the children were throughout the day.
Crew Gray have been learning all about web crawlers today and how search engines create index pages of all of the websites using web crawlers and hyperlinks. We explored how web crawlers work using non-fiction books to find information from the index and contents pages, and realised that this can take a long time for a human to complete, especially if you have to look through more than one book to find the correct information. We then looked further into how Google uses web crawlers and found that these are not actual people, so can get the job done much faster! After that, we became web crawlers around the classroom and rated our classroom objects using a table. We included the quantity of the object, the quality and the distance from where we were. These numbers then totalled up and we were able to rank the resources from highest to lowest. From this, we were able to see how search engines rank different websites using the quantity of times a key word is used and the quality of the information on the page, and how this affects the order that websites appear within search engines.
Today, UKS2 children had a fantastic visit from a bee expert, who shared fascinating insights into the important role bees play in our world. The children learned how bees help with pollination, allowing plants to grow and produce the food we eat. They were especially interested to discover that every bee in a hive has a specific job, from worker bees collecting nectar and pollen to the queen bee laying eggs, all working together to keep the hive thriving.
The session also explored the different products that bees create, with a particular focus on beeswax and its many uses. The children were amazed to learn that beeswax can be used to make lip balms, soaps, and beard wax, and enjoyed seeing and smelling real examples. The visit inspired thoughtful discussions about how we can protect bees and support their habitats, leaving the children excited, informed, and eager to learn more about the natural world.
Crew Gray have been Getting Smart by working in small teams to complete our times table relays. This was fun and active way for us to continue consolidating our times table knowledge.
Crew Gray have been working hard in Maths, we have been ordering and comparing decimals. To consolidate and tie all of our learning together, we were challenged to measure our heights and ordered these in ascending order.
