A visit from Alan MacDonald, our patron of reading.

5BO put in a MASSIVE stitching effort to make some wonderful ipad covers. Well done to them! 

As part of Science Week, we visited the National Space Centre in Leicester! 

We had an excellent time at The National Civil War Centre in Newark! We found out what life was like in Newark during the three sieges and learned about military life in the war.

We visited The Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre: a thought provoking and interesting trip. 

We made our own moving toys in Design and Technology!

Observing and examining eggs as part of our Life Cycles Science topic!

Making Joan Miro 3D sculptures for Spanish Day 2023 was fun. And most of them stood up!

Hula hooping at the Adbolton Lane field. Spot the staff joining in!

Practising our circus skills at the opening of the new Adbolton Lane play area.

The Mayor of Rushcliffe cutting the ribbon to re-open the new Adbolton Lane play area. Can you spot anyone from 5BM?

Greek salad, anyone?

We enjoyed the bouncing in Wellness week. What a great way to get fit and have fun at the same time.

Flat breads, anyone?

Performing a poem in our English lesson this term.

We love our Ancient Greek style pots and vases. It was worth all the time we spent and the mess we made! We enjoyed putting the designs on them as a finishing touch.

We added a layer or two of tissue paper to give a base colour

We spent a long time working with papier mache...

We had an excellent morning acting out 'Jason and the Golden Fleece' with Partake! 

Art homework display (because it was so good!)

Coronation parade on the playground.

The I-Pads have landed. Finally! Thanks for all your hard work designing, making and evaluating. Those sewing techniques were a bit tricky (even threading the needle was hard) but we think you’ll agree that they look fabulous now.

Trip to Mansfield to find out all about what happens to our recycling materials from our bins. Thank you Veolia and Lesley for a great morning. We learnt so much and enjoyed ourselves too. A great visit to help us with our work on sustainability. The machines were amazing!

Here we are in our safety gear before we look around the MRF.

Visit to Space!

The Cat in the Hat and The Worst Princess with all the other book characters from 5BM on World Book Day 2023.

Here are our William Morris inspired wallpaper designs. We enjoyed working together on these. Which one do you like?

Our English Civil War homework is finished. Well done everyone. What a lot of interesting information.

Art. We used rollers and acrylic paint to make a block print design.

Here are our printing tiles.

Art work. Repeating patterns are in!

Welcome to the Spring term 2023.

We had a fantastic school visit to the Civil War Museum in Newark to remind us all about King Charles I and his arguments with parliament in the 1640’s. Some of us dressed up as different types of soldiers and we all fought with (pretend) pikes in battles with our classmates. We also did some problem solving on how we could have survived the sieges in Newark and then the plague. We saw two films telling the stories of people who lived at the time and looked at all the artefacts (gruesome and otherwise) in the museum. Lots of us tried on some clothes of the time and we all learnt something new - musket training anyone? Can you spot a member of staff making a special appearance as the king?

Newark Civil War Museum 17.1.23

Happy Christmas. We hope you enjoy our exhibition of clay work from this term.

Do you think Henry Moore, sculptor, would have been impressed?

Here we are working hard on our clay models.

Here are our fabulous human figures (reclining).

Reclining figures made from tin foil. We drew the position first. We were very pleased with the results..

5BM sketching in the style of Henry Moore, war artist, when London Underground stations were used to shelter people.

National Holocaust Centre - linking history and RE this term. A thought provoking visit learning about the persecution of the Jewish people in the Second World War, Kristallnacht, children travelling on the Kindertransport and hearing the testimony of a Holocaust survivor.

We had an assembly from the NSPCC about their 'Speak Out Stay Safe' initiative and we participated in a workshop about keeping ourselves safe. 

Design and Technology - making moving toys with cams. 

Collaborative 'Jigsaw' RHE Work in Year 5. Making the highest tower we could using only newspaper and sellotape! 

Rainforest artwork and homework. What a fine display!

New Year, New You, New Yoga!