Cover photo Patrick Case
Our SSCO enjoyed meeting Lucy Turner who came to lead our sponsored event.
We enjoyed a fantastic visit from GB Heptathlon Athlete, Lucy Turner. The children first completed their sponsored circuit, before enjoying an inspirational assembly by Lucy. The energy throughout the afternoon was electric and the children asked her some super questions. Thank you to everyone for your support and remember, you’ve got one more week to get your sponsor money into school.
Year 5 enjoyed a visit to The Open Zone this week where they learned 3D Cad Design using the Design Software, Tinkercad. Children were tasked with coming up with a design for a Mars Rover, thinking carefully about how their robots would navigate the rugged terrain on Mars. They also used Scratch to program an animation, which included a soundtrack to a scene from Beowulf, using features like looping and repeating sounds. We all had a fantastic day and particularly enjoyed a demonstration of how the 3D printer works.
As part of our ‘Light’ unit we visited the Centre for Life. It was an amazing day. We rotated zones, live shows and a ‘Light’ workshop where we used prisms, light sources, spray, magnifying glasses, maze resources, mini disco balls and laser beams to explore the path of light, how to alter it and how to create rainbow colours using bubbles and prisms to show the spectrum of light. We also learned about scientists like Isaac Newton who have ‘light’ links.
Year 6 enjoyed a day at the Vertu Motors Arena playing in a basketball tournament.
In Design and Technology lessons, year 6 are working in groups to prepare either a starter dish using peppers, a main dish using salmon fillet or a dessert that uses pineapple as the main ingredient.
This week our start pairs created some wonderful concoctions ranging from pepper and vegetable soup to stuffed peppers using rice, cheese, capers and even anchovies to red pepper salsa nachos and finally minced beef and red pepper salad tacos. The pupils worked tenaciously and thoroughly enjoyed the cooking opportunity. Their manners and skill building in the school kitchen were first class and then when their groups joined them at the end of the cooking session, all were able to taste test the dishes and rate them.
On Thursday 22nd June, 20 Year 5 pupils took part in a tag rugby tournament. We all played excellently and won our groups! Biddick A also received the ‘Spirit of the Game’ award for their group for having outstanding attitude, team work and sporting behaviour.
On Tuesday 13th June, 3 teams of Year 5 pupils took part in a football tournament. We all played excellently and two of our teams received medals for winning their groups. All of the children were excellently behaved and were a credit to the school.
