Have a look at the wonderful memory posters we have made to help us to remember our 2D and 3D shapes….

Onyx Class had a wonderful time raising money for Red Nose Day today and especially loved taking part in our Red Nose Day obstacle race. Mrs Wagg and the Sports Captains set the event up and after “3-2-1-NOSE” we were all off!

Did you know that Nelson Mandela had a law degree? Did you know that his teacher gave him his name Nelson? Did you know that Nelson and his friend Oliver Townsend started the first black law firm in South Africa?

Onyx class did!

Over the last few weeks, the Year 5s and 6s have worked hard making visual timelines by choosing and ordering key events in chronological order and using different sources to gather their information.

Today they used their timelines to produce part of an oral biography about Mandela. They concentrated on speaking loudly, clearly and not too fast; using exaggerating language to make him sound fabulous; using linking words so that their biography was cohesive and using notes so that they were not just reading off a piece of paper.

Each and every one of them did a superb job and we can’t wait to get stuck into writing our full biographies next week!

Nelson Mandela was an incredibly inspirational man!

Although we know that there are no larger life forms on Mars, Onyx class researched the planet and created their own creatures, thinking about what adaptations it would need to survive on the planet. We found Mars is extremely cold, sandy, has little oxygen and lots of ice.

We also thought about how marvellous our bodies are at fighting viruses and we tested our patience and resilience by making origami virus structures.

Today, Onyx class had a go at creating their own ‘classroom’ mountain environments. They tried to use all of their key vocabulary such as summit, slopes, valleys, faces, peaks, ridges.

They also learnt that Mount Everest isn’t the biggest mountain on Earth! Mauna Kea is in fact taller as it’s base is underwater! 😱🤯

Which big art do you think represents our beautiful mountainous regions the best?!

Onyx Class have had a brilliant day today celebrating World Book Day. Where else would you find Coco Chanel with Dumbledore and Minnie Mouse?!😂

Throughout the day we completed lots of brilliant, book related activities. We drew our favourite character using our sketching skills; took part in a live lesson based on ‘Books as a way to imagine the impossible’. We met some of our favourite authors and illustrators such as Rikin Parekh, Michael Morpurgo and Nathan Bryon and learnt how a lot of stories are written from things we see in real life eg a fox crossing the road with a bag of chips! We watched how Nadia Shireen gathers her ideas together using an ‘imagination map’ and we even had a go ourselves. This is definitely something we are going to use when we plan our own stories in the future!

We even took part in our own Read-a-thon, munching on a few goodies half way through. Mrs Kyle and Mrs Booth got stuck in as well and Mrs Kyle loved finding out the ending of our class novel ‘Holes’! Tense! 😬

Creating our own book reviews using our word processing skills was the task for the afternoon. We loved challenging ourselves to using all the features, including bullet points, auto shapes and inserting tables. Sharing these and recommending our books to our friends was lots of fun!

Finally, we took part in the Big Book Bonanza Quiz with Table 2 taking the winning🏆 ! Well done Keelie, Lewis and George!

WE LOVED CELEBRATING WORLD BOOK DAY and can’t wait to get home and get reading some more! 📖