On Tuesday 13th July we went up the A1 to Moat Mount. We started off the day with some team building activities in groups of 6. Our first challenge was to come up with a team name - this was much harder than we thought it would be! We had to come up with strategies to solve various problems as a gro...

Thursday 12th March 2020 Today, we came into the classroom and had to the most boring tasks, such as counting string and standing up and sitting down – in complete silence! We later learnt that this was to represent the monotonous tasks Victorian prisoners did day in and day out in order to...

We learnt a unit on ‘Economic Wellbeing.’ We discussed what money is, why we need it, how we use it and the difference between wanting something and needing something. We explored, in depth, who and what influences the choices we make about how money is used. We shared the things we like...

Year 5 have created their own ‘perfect place’ artwork inspired by the work of Chris Jordan and the quote: ‘See to it that you do not spoil or destroy my world for if you do, there will be no one to repair it.’ Midrash Kohelet Rabbah, 1 on Ecclesiastes 7:13 We have been...

On Thursday 30th January 2020, we had a visit from Daniella, who works at ‘Camp Simcha.’ She came to talk to us about ‘The Treehouse at Number 9’ books, which were written to celebrate diversity and disability. We read ‘Meet the Genies’ together and worked th...