Over the Easter holidays, Year 6 were challenged to complete 10 sessions of home learning in an area of learning that had been chosen for them. For some children, they were battling with fractions, decimals and percentages. For others, it was modal verbs that were on the Easter menu.
We were amazed at the hard work and effort shown by Year 6 over the holidays with the vast majority of children bringing back their completed learning and their record logs. To celebrate, and reward them for their work, this afternoon we enjoyed some fresh fruit and a cup of popcorn along with a movie session. Well done Year 6!
In the first day of hook week we became real-life ancient Egyptians… by mummifying a tomato!
To kick off our new history topic about the Ancient Egyptians, we wanted to understand how and why the civilization spent 70 days preparing a dead body. Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death, and preserving the body was very important so the person’s soul could live on. By doing this experiment, we were able to see the science behind this fascinating tradition. Instead of using a real body (of course!), we used tomatoes to represent a human body because they are soft and full of water – just like our organs.
First, we carefully observed our tomatoes and made predictions about what might happen to them over time. Then came the exciting (and slightly messy!) part. We covered the tomatoes in salt, which represented natron – a natural substance the Ancient Egyptians used to dry out bodies.
Over the next week, we will observe our tomatoes and recorded any changes. This will help us understand how mummification preserved bodies for the afterlife.
🌟 Amazing Young Authors: Celebrating Your Non-Chronological Reports! 🌟
Wow—what a fantastic job you’ve all done! 🎉 We are so proud of the brilliant non-chronological reports that have been published. You have truly shown what it means to be young researchers, writers, and creators.
🧠 What Made Your Reports So Great?
Your work included so many impressive features:
Clear headings and subheadings to organise information
Fascinating facts that taught your readers something new
Topic-specific vocabulary
Pictures, diagrams, or captions to help explain ideas
A neat structure that made your reports easy and fun to read
📚 Becoming Real Authors
By publishing your reports, you’ve taken an exciting step—you are now published authors! That means other people can read, learn from, and enjoy your work. How amazing is that?
Writing like this helps build important skills:
Researching information
Organising ideas
Writing clearly for a reader
Taking pride in your work
These are the same skills that real journalists, scientists, and authors use every day!
You should feel incredibly proud of what you’ve achieved. Writing a non-chronological report isn’t easy, but you’ve shown creativity, effort, and determination. Keep up the amazing work! ✨
This week, Miss Newman’s maths group wrapped up the spring term in an engaging and rewarding way – by completing a fun and interactive Blooket quiz designed to consolidate all the knowledge they’ve built over the past few months.
Throughout the term, the group has worked incredibly hard, developing their understanding across a range of mathematical topics. From problem-solving strategies to key arithmetic skills, every lesson has contributed to their growing confidence and ability.
The children showed great resilience when tackling challenging questions and celebrated each other’s successes along the way.
Well done to everyone in Miss Newman’s group for a brilliant spring term – your hard work is truly paying off! We look forward to continuing this journey of learning and growth in the summer term.
Last week in Crew McLoughlin’s grammar lesson, the children became “clause detectives” as they explored how to add extra information to sentences using relative clauses.
Each child was given a main clause and worked collaboratively in pairs to decide where additional detail could be added to make their sentence more interesting. They then used their mini whiteboards to choose an appropriate relative clause from the board, carefully matching it so the sentence made sense. Once they had confidently built their sentences together, the children challenged themselves further by moving on to create their own relative clauses using new sentences provided at the front of the classroom.
It was fantastic to see their growing confidence in expanding sentences and adding detail, helping to make their writing more engaging and precise.
Today in maths, Miss Newman’s maths group took part in a fun and engaging multiplication wheel starter activity, where the children were randomly paired up to race against each other to complete the calculations as quickly and accurately as possible.
The friendly competition created lots of excitement and motivation, helping the children to build confidence in recalling their times tables while also improving their speed and accuracy. It was great to see such positive attitudes, with children encouraging one another and showing determination when faced with more challenging questions.
Everyone worked super hard and showed courage by participating in this exciting starter activity.
UKS2 were very proud to present their learning to their adults last week. After giving an introduction explaining all about our expedition titled: Justice through time, the children explained what we had done during our case studies to answer our guiding question: Does the punishment always fit the crime?
From showcasing their writing to demonstrating their growing historical knowledge, pupils have taken great pride in sharing what they have achieved.
We were all super proud of UKS2, we cannot wait to see and share our final product!
Miss Newman’s maths group have shown fantastic determination and resilience this half term, and it is truly paying off! They have been working incredibly hard on their arithmetic skills, practicing regularly and pushing themselves to improve. Many pupils have made significant progress since last half term. We are so proud of the progress they have made and look forward to seeing their confidence continue to grow as they build on this success. A special shoutout goes to these two children in particular who managed to double their scores! Well done everyone, keep up the amazing work.
