This half term, Maples class continued our Topic, 'Britain at War'. After finishing our WW1 study, we then moved on to WW2, where we studied the causes and impact on civilians. We were extremely lucky to have a special visit from Historical Workshops, where children had the chance to look at real artefacts from World War 2, practice first aid and even use real stirrup pumps from World War 2 that were used to put out fires from air raids. After this, we had a look at key events, such as the evacuation of Dunkirk and looked at important figures such as Anne Frank.

In Art, we have looked at the unit ‘Birds Bees and Butterflies’, where pupils have created impressive pieces of artwork using mixed media inspired by Pop Art. During RE, we have looked at important qualities in a person and what our names represent. Also, we performed our end of year show ‘Let the Games Begin’ to a fantastic audience! All the children put a great deal of effort and enthusiasm into the play and it was a great success.  It has been an amazing yet busy last half term and we are very proud of all of the hard work, responsibility and resilience shown. Additionally, Maples took part in bikability training, where they learnt how to ride a bike safely and responsibly beyond school groups. The instructors were very impressed with the children’s’ approach to learning new skills and we hope they will continue to carry forwards what they have learnt.

Another huge well done to our Year 6 pupils, who have gone above and beyond with their incredible SATS results! We have been preparing our leavers speeches and it has been lovely to see the journey that they have all been on, we wish them all the best of luck for their future adventures!

This half term, Maples class started their new topic 'Britain At War'. We looked at the causes of World War 1 and studied how views of war changed over time. Also, we have looked at different examples of persuasive posters during wartime and created our own! After this, we looked closely at life in the trenches, where we wrote fantastic fact booklets, diary entries and to top it all off, had our own trench fight in the hall! 

Maples have worked very hard on their Art unit, where we looked at different types of abstract art and created our own. During Computing, we have been using Tinkercad software and creating 3D models. Additionally, we have looked at various inventors and scientists during our Science lessons. A big well done to our Year 6s, who took part in their end of year SATS this half term, we are really proud of all your resilience and hard work!

This half term, we have continued our topic 'Frozen Kingdom', looking into the lives of famous polar explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. The children created some fantastic biographies and learnt about the Terra Nova expedition and Endurance. After this, we started our Titanic unit, where the children studied what happened to the Titanic, the impact of this and analysed historical sources and evidence. After this, we had our own class debate, where each group had to defend themselves. In the end, it was decided that Bruce Ismay would be the culprit! The children also produced some wonderful historical narratives and fact pages based on the features of The Titanic. During Art, we created our own models out of recycling materials, representing environmental Art. In our DT sessions we learnt about the different types of bridges, engineers and constructed our own bridges. The children have engaged extremely well in this topic and look forward to starting our new topic, Britain At War, during the summer term.