Ethrington Brothers Trip to Birmingham Airport

A number of children in year 5 & 6 attended a trip to Birmingham Airport yesterday.  This is Emmanouil's and Ibrahim's  account of the morning:

We talked about stories and the 6 most  important things you need to include in a story; A setting, characters,time, new ideas and old ideas and event.The workshop was about key features to create a fun,imaginative story.We also met the Ethrington brothers Lorenzo and Robin.

Tunes Times Tables

We've had a fantastic morning with NK.  We sang our hearts out in assembly in preparation for our Guiness World Record attempt next year,  We are very proud of ourselves for learning all of our times tables and that's all thanks to NK for inspiring us and making it so much fun.
A special well done to William who taught the whole of KS2 the 7 times table.

Thanks NK!

Year 5 trip to Safeside

Year 5 have had a fantastic day at Safeside today.  We've learnt how to stay safe in many situations.

BIrmingham Royal Ballet come to The Oval

"Year 5 are lucky enough to work with dancers from the Royal Ballet. We are learning moves from the Nutcracker with a dancer who has actually performed on stage in this ballet.

We had an earthquake in year 5 this week. We built our towns back up again and made sure we had systems in place to help us survive the next one.

Suspense and mystery stories

In year 5 we are learning how to write suspense stories, we have learnt one off by heart called 'Staying Out'.  Here is the story in pictures - can you guess what happens?

JASS Trip to Sutton Park

We started on our first step to achieving our JASS award yesterday with a trip to Sutton Park.  We completed lots of map reading activities and orienteering.  In the afternoon we took part in problem solving team games.  Well done to everyone in team 1 for winning the orienteering and the problem solving.