Month: September 2026

Maths – Counting Challenges. We had a go at some counting challenges this week in maths to get our brains warmed up. Mastering flexible counting in upper primary helps children easily tackle addition and subtraction problems, while making multiplication, fractions, decimals and everyday problem-solving much easier.

World Leaders – Homework Projects. I have been so impressed with all the wonderful homework projects that have been shared this week. It was lovely to see the creativity of everyone and how different each project was. Thank you for supporting the pupils at home with their projects.

     

STEM – Land Yachts. On Wednesday, Eleanor came in to do a STEM workshop based on Lego land yachts with us. We first did the ‘1 minute duck challenge’ whereby we all managed to make completely different ducks from exactly the same Lego pieces. Then we were tasked with creating a land yacht in pairs. There were lots of different designs, that were modified and tested, before everyone took part in the final test. Maisie and Ragnar’s yacht managed to go the furthest in the final test. At the end of the lesson, Eleanor asked the class to think of all the skills they had used and I was blown away by all they identified – problem solving, resilience, communication, critical thinking, teamwork, adapting, creativity, intelligence, focusing, building, curiosity, attention to detail, sense making, and planning. Fantastic effort P5/7!

Big Question – Life Cycles. This week we’ve been learning about life cycles of animals, in particular the life cycles of the 5 vertebrate groups. Each group was given a different animal to find out about and create something to explain their life cycle to the rest of the class. Amazing creativity and teamwork again P5/7!

Hi everyone. It’s Eleanor and P5/7 here with our outstanding, amazing work. Have a look below to see what we’ve been doing this week.

🐊 Roald Dahl Day. For Roald Dahl Day on Monday, we started by taking part in the ‘Enormous Crocodile Challenge’. We had to work in teams to make a crocodile from limited resources. We then were given the choice of ‘The Minpins’ or ‘Esio Trot’ and had to design a cover for it. We enjoyed doing this whilst listening to Fantastic Mr Fox.

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Writing. For writing this week we’ve been using Aladdin as our stimulus and one of writing tasks was to write a diary entry about walking through the Agrabah market. As we’ve also been getting familiar with Canva, so we used this to create our diary entries.

Super Spelling. One of the activities we did was to go outside and do spelling hopscotch. We had to create hopscotch grids and then write our spelling words in the boxes or spell out the words as we played the game. Some people did spelling races with beads or scrabble tiles, some did sign language spelling and some did fancy letter super sentences.

 

Big Question – Inheritance. This week we’ve been learning about inherited and learned traits. We played a quiz of Savannah animal statements and whether ‘the thing’ was learned/acquired or inherited. Me and Isla got 12 out of 12 on the quiz which was fun, educational and interesting. We then got to choose a random pair of Savannah animals and then mixed them together to make a new species with different inherited traits. Can you guess the different animal pairs?

Thanks for the reading, have a lovely Friday and enjoy the weekend. 🦁😎😁🌞

Have a look at some of the things that we’ve done in P5/7 this week.

PE – Here is a snapshot of some of our PE activities with Mrs. A.

This or That. We had to take everyday objects and turn them into something else. There was a lot of creativity and ingenuity in the classroom with this task.

Maths. This week, the P7s helped us to learn two new maths games – Storm and Race to 100.

Big Question. We started by learning about Apex predators of the Savannah and worked in groups to create animal fact files. For our mindful moment, we created some ‘Zentangle Apex Predator’ artwork. We then learned about the different classifications of vertebrates and what makes an animal a mammal or bird or fish or reptile or amphibian.

 

Hello and welcome to our P5/7 blog. This week, it’s me, Megan helping to write the blog.

Writing – Alice in Wonderland. For writing this week, we have been watching clips of Alice in Wonderland as our stimulus. We wrote about falling down a rabbit hole, our adventures in our own wonderlands and how to play ‘Flamingo Croquet’. Here are some pieces of our instruction writing.

This or That. We had to build our own wonderland or do something mindful. Have a look at what we did below.

🦛🦒🐊🦓 Big Question – Animal Adaptation. We have been learning about how different animals adapt to survive where they live. We researched structural, behavioural and physiological adaptations and worked in pairs to created posters which we will turn into a class book.

Fabulous Friday. On a Friday morning, Miss Farmer is working with our class to do some ‘Maths in action’ which has a focus on baking this term. We discussed all the maths skills that are used in baking and then the first group of P5 pupils went to use these to make delicious waffles for everyone.

Thank you for reading this week’s blog. Come back next week to see what we’ve been doing.

Megan 😄