School Blog

All of Year 5 have made a brilliant start to the year. We have got stuck in straight away with some brand new learning: ordering numbers in Maths, writing job descriptions in English and learning about the properties of different materials in Science, as well as a whole host of other subjects. We look forward to getting to know each other more and discovering new things together as the year progresses.

On the 7^th of July, a group of year 5 children travelled on the train to London to attend their graduation at Kings College for the completion of The Brilliant Project. The children were joined by other primary and secondary schools, and were absolutely amazing in both their behaviour and attitude to their independent learning. All children were well deserving of their fantastic degree results and made both their teachers and parents very proud.

Poplar class have been busy creating a banner to be displayed at the infamous 'Glastonbury Music Festival.' The children have been working in collaboration with the charity 'Water Aid' to raise awareness of the global crisis surrounding water. I am sure you will agree that their colourful artwork should attract the eyes of the visitors to the festival. Remember to look out for it if you are going there this year!

On Wednesday, year 3 and 5 took part in a litter pick to clean up the local parks around our school. We were met by Stevenage Borough Council environment department, who provided us with High-Viz jackets, hand held pickers and rubbish bags. The children worked together as a team to see just how much rubbish visitors leave in the parks. The children worked collaboratively and were able to make a real difference to the environment. Well done year 3 and 5!

The children in Poplar class have designed and created their own graffiti art. Working in the style of the infamous graffiti artist 'Banksy' they created their own stencils and used sponge painting to give an effect of using spray paint. They used pencils to draw their own brick wall to paint their 'TAG.' For those of you who do not know, a tag is symbol or sign that graffiti artists use as a form of identification. As well as this, the children have also written balanced arguments as to whether graffiti is a good or a bad thing. The majority of children in Poplar class believe graffiti is good and should stay because they feel it is a way of expressing themselves and some pieces can be fantastic works of art. What do you think?

This week, in our PE lesson we have been thinking about the different sports which involve strength, stamina and flexibility. Stevenage Borough have been leading our weekly sessions in Poplar class and have taught us some activities to develop our core strength. Moving a small foam ball from one cone to another whilst holding a plank position was tough, but we all managed it.