Year 6 Forest School

Today was an action-packed Forest School session with our brilliant year 6’s, and what a day it was!

Den building was top of the list – and let’s just say, they really got into their knots…it took me a while to untangle everything at the end, but totally worth it for the creativity and teamwork on show!

The fire pit was glowing as the children helped light the fires and cooked up delicious pizza and s’mores – definitely a highlight!

We played an energetic game of shoe bingo, made colourful God’s eyes, and got delightfully messy in the mud kitchen and mud pit.

It was a day full of adventure, laughter, and muddy memories – just how Forest School should be!

This was the last session at COA, and Fiona has thanked us for being such a fantastic school to work with.

Fiona will be back working with us next year!

A busy Thursday afternoon in 5/6M!

First, gymnastics with Josh from Dudley Gymnastics Club followed by setting up our own science experiments to investigate the growth of micro-organisms.

History detectives

In 5CS, we have been investigating Ancient Greek artefacts. What do you think they are? What do they tell us about life in Ancient Greece?

Year 5 Pandora’s Box

We have started to look at the Greek myth ‘Pandora’s Box.’ We completed a conscience alley to persuade Pandora to open or not to open the box.

‘A Regatta on the Grand Canal’ art project

This week has seen the start of our art project using ‘A Regatta on the Grand Canal’ by Canaletto.  We started with a diamond 9 activity identifying what we considered to be the most important thing about art. We also tried sketching from memory in 3 minutes and even drawing with our less dominant hand. Where will this project take us next?

Year 5 and 6 cricket success!

Our Year 5 and 6 cricket squad took to the field at Stourbridge Cricket Club in the Dudley competition.  Four successive victories saw the squad play a tense final against Colley Lane.  Batting second, our squad just came up 6 runs short of winning despite a flurry of boundaries by our batters.  Well done, team, you played with skill, determination and with a great sense of fairplay!