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Sandpiper Class (Year 5&6)

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Please scroll down to find useful resources and to see photos of our learning in Years 5&6.

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Dance Festival at Campus West

Sandpiper Class have worked incredibly hard over the past few weeks to choreograph their class dance to the theme 'Under the Sea'. We performed our dance at Campus West along with other local schools. 

Setpoint STEM K'Nex Challenge

Sandpiper Class enjoyed taking part in the annual Setpoint STEM K'Nex Challenge. This year they designed and made rockets with detachable thrusters and capsules. Well done to Callum and Finley for being the class winners! Their design will be judged alongside over 300 winners across the country - good luck!

Science Week 

Thank you to the Year 6s for organising an engaging and interesting Science Fair for the whole school to visit - what a fantastic way to start Science Week! Topics included magnets, earth and space, rocks, light, and electricity. In class, we investigated light and refraction. We used prisms, glasses of water and Newton discs  to help us understand how light is distorted when travelling through transparent objects and that white light is a combination of all the colours found in the rainbow.

Netball Festival at Stanborough

Well done to our Year 5&6 netballers who attended the friendly festival at Stanborough. Through fantastic team work and perseverance, they won all three games!

Indoor Athletics session with Mrs Moxham

Mrs Moxham, our Stanborough Schools Sports Partner, led an indoor athletics session for Sandpiper Class. We enjoyed taking part in activities such as long jump, triple jump, hurdles, speed bounce and chest push. 

Cloud Tea Monkeys - tea tasting!

Sandpiper Class held a tea tasting to help them set the scene for our class book. We enjoyed the cosy feeling of sitting with a warm tea amongst friends whilst we learnt about the history of tea plantations and how tea is grown. 

Cooking in DT - food from around the world 

We enjoyed preparing, cooking and tasting a range of foods from around the world. We developed our knife skills when chopping and slicing vegetables, we used a hob to soften vegetables, kneaded and proved dough, and had to be particularly careful when rolling filo pastry to make spring rolls and samosas. 

Christmas jumper day!

 

Tag rugby festival

Well done to our team of 10 children in Year 5&6 for attending the tag rugby festival at Welwyn Rugby Club. They showed brilliant teamwork throughout their wins and draws!

A visit from former pupil Esmee! 

Esmee is a keen cyclist - she is the national youth champion for time trials and has recently been selected for the GB cycling team! She spoke to Sandpiper Class about how she first became interested in cycling, her training schedule, and competitions. She shared brilliant messages about perseverance and resilience too!

 

Taking part in the Stanborough Schools archery competition 

English – Letters from the Lighthouse

Art - Making coral reef sculptures 

Learning First Aid skills, including CPR and using a defibrillator 

RE Enrichment Day and Outdoor Learning - exploring Psalms and coding micro:bit thermometers

 

Visit to Stanborough School - Science and Art 

Geography - features of rivers 

 

Indoor athletics (outdoors!) with Mrs Moxham

We choreographed a dance as a class and performed at the Dance Festival at Campus West!

Watercolours inspired by 'The Search For The Giant Arctic Jellyfish'

STEMPOINT K'nex Challenge - build a fairground ride

Computing - using Microbits to make accelerometers (step counters)

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Art - Marble printing

Science - Properties of materials. Investigating solubility and separating mixtures

Lion Dance workshop to learn about Chinese New Year

Art - Inspired by The Willow Pattern Story, Sandpiper Class designed their own patterned plates!

 

English - News reports based on 'Boy in the Tower' by Polly Ho Yen

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Exploring Brocket Hall House!

Art - Henry Moore Blitz inspired drawings

Harvest Service at St Alban's Cathedral

Well done to all our Level 1, 2 and 3 Bikeability participants this week!

Well done Year 5 for taking part in the Fun Run! Congratulations to Teddy for coming 3rd!

Visit to Brocket Hall and the Rose Ladies Open

St Alban's Cathedral 'Away Day'

Stanborough School visit (Art and Science lessons)

Art collages - Headteacher's Awards

Gardening with Mrs Shannon

K'nex Go Contruct challenge - build a bulldozer!

D&T sewing project

Music Concert with Mr Rapson

Pop Art - Keith Haring inspired paintings

Forest School - Feeling Good Week

History workshop with North Herts Museum - Stone Age and Bronze Age

Art - Pop art printing (click to enlarge!)

Christmas Concert Performance

Class 4 performed in the Music Concert. They sang and played their own accompaniment,

Drawing detail using pen - Art

Musicale woodwind workshop

Class 4 visited Stanborough School during Science Week

Art - clay monkeys inspired by Frida Kahlo's art work

Wellbeing Week - Class 4 finding joy in music

Jullian Opie style self-portraits

Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Festival - 2nd place!

K'Nex challenge - building a movable bridge

Hapa Zome - Art

Ancient Egyptian inspired masks - Art

  • Live news broadcasts - English We have been reading 'Boy in the Tower' as part of our English unit. We wrote and filmed some live news broadcasts reporting on the buildings falling without warning and the unexplained deaths around Camberwell. Our broadcasts needed to explain the events and facts clearly, use appropriate vocabulary, use present and past perfect tense, and have a little bit of speculation in too!

Daydream Art Work Year 6

Welcome to South America! - Geography

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