Month: May 2021

21 May 2021

Year 6 would like to say from the bottom of their hearts a humongous THANK YOU for all of your support for their enterprise project. With orders placed for over one thousand items, the children have been overwhelmed by your generosity to Safe Passage and your faith in them that they can deliver all that is…

21 May 2021

Our Year 4 pupils have turned their worlds upside down to learn all they can about a little country at the south western edge of the Pacific Ocean called Aotearoa/New Zealand. They are becoming so well versed on the physical and human geography there so, as a challenge, they were asked to devise some really…

21 May 2021

Y1 Pearls have been enjoying their topic on animals around the world. In Art, the Pearls looked at a range of animal patterns and skins. They used careful observational skills to create their own oil pastel artwork, thinking about colour and texture. We now have an amazing gallery full of animal prints, from furry leopards…

21 May 2021

Year 2 Sapphires got stuck into measuring last week. We practised reading off a scale by measuring different amounts of millilitres into vessels of different shapes and sizes. We made observations about the varying height of the water depending on the width of the vessel. This practical activity involved teamwork and communication and was enjoyed…

14 May 2021

The Year 3 Rubies have greatly enjoyed getting immersed in our class reading book for English – The BFG. Here are a selection of BFG character profiles, which we have drawn using Roald Dahl’s wondrous, descriptive language found throughout the book. Not only that, but in true Rubies style Kitty completed some extra work at…

14 May 2021

Year 2 Sapphires have been thinking about the effectiveness of the tubes that carry the water from the roots to the leaves in a plant. We tested this by placing some celery in a cup with food dye and water. Although it did not make the whole of the celery red, as some of us…

14 May 2021

This half term, Y1 Pearls have become animal experts, learning about animals from all over the world. They have been reading a range of information texts and learning about some of the features of non-fiction writing. The Pearls chose their own animal to research, and used a range of sources to collect as much information…

14 May 2021

The Year 6 entrepreneurs are busily at work! They are creating adverts both on paper and with movies, ordering stock, making production plans, inputting orders into a spreadsheet, as well as eagerly preparing to fulfil all the orders placed, each day. As you will see here are a few examples of the adverts that have been…

7 May 2021

The Year 3 Rubies had great fun investigating forces last week. First, we made predictions about which surface would allow the car to roll the furthest. After discussing how we can ensure we have a fair test, we rolled a car down a ramp onto different surfaces and recorded the distance in centimetres. On which…

7 May 2021

This week the Diamonds have been constructing. By using constructing kits, 3D shapes or reclaimed materials they have been building, stacking and designing everything from a wooden chalet to a ladybird and a rocket. We have been learning about the faces of 3D shapes and the body parts of ladybirds. Did you know that ladybirds…