Cookie and Pizza Making!

17th June 2025Gordon Wilkinson

The Year 6 children who remained in school with Mr Wilkinson have been busy practising their mathematics skills to figure out accurate measurements to create their cookies and pizzas. They worked collaboratively by checking measurements, whisking, mixing, kneading, rolling and checking over the method. Everyone ended up with their own pizza and a handful of cookies for the afternoon! A skill many of them haven’t had an abundance of experience with but it is safe to say they all enjoyed baking these!

Charcoal Art Skills Practice

12th June 2025Gordon Wilkinson

This week, Crew Wilkinson have been inspired by the charcoal works of Henry Moore and began practising using charcoal for artwork. We have been smudging, stippling, hatching and using a rubber to create lighter details like the light from a headlamp. This work will support us in creating our final art piece which will form the front of our lapbooks.

Locating Mines of the UK

3rd June 2025Gordon Wilkinson

Crew Wilkinson have been honing their geography skills by navigating maps to locate historic mines across the UK. They’ve been using compass directions—north, east, south, and west—alongside counties, regions, cities, and major roads to pinpoint sites. Their learning has also included key geographical terms, helping them build a deeper understanding of the UK’s landscape and the role mining played in its history. This navigation will aid us in creating our own map of key mines in the UK in our next Expedition lesson.

Understanding Maps and Symbols

14th May 2025Gordon Wilkinson

In Expedition, Crew Wilkinson have moved onto Case Study 2 focusing on being a geographer. We began by exploring maps, symbols and our local area. Using a key, we were able to identify our own school, local golf courses, roads, woodlands, places of worship and most importantly Bullcroft Colliery! These skills will support our understanding as we explore maps further. We will be identifying changes over time and locating previous mines across the UK! Great start Crew Wilkinson.

Taking Strike Action

15th April 2025Gordon Wilkinson

To hook us into our learning, we are going on STRIKE! Today, we have learnt all about the coal mine strikes and the reasonings as to why these took place. We were shocked to find out that 142,000 people actually went on strike when Margaret Thatcher tried to close 20 mines in 1984. Did you know that people who didn’t go on strike were called scabs?! Inspired by what we have learnt, we are planning our own strike! We have decided that school uniform should be a thing of the past! This afternoon, we have designed and created placards which we are going to use when we go on strike later in the week. Keep your eyes peeled – we may just march past your house!

Art, Portraits and Deep Thinking.

24th February 2025Gordon Wilkinson

We began our second case study (Art) by evaluating and analysing works of art by various artists including some works by Jonathan Yeo. We discussed as a class What we liked about certain portraits and why. During a gallery walk, we then delved deeper into the choices the artist made e.g. the medium the artist used to create the portrait and why as well as questioning the colour choices and the impact these have on the overall composition. To finish, we began to think about why these people were chosen to have their portraits made and, if we were to make our own, who would we choose?