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Leavers 2024
Testing our bridges’ strength - we made them from 30 art straws and tape.
Traditional fish and chip lunch for the year 6 leavers. Thank you PTFA!
Fun times playing our Bridge games.
We had a fun morning presenting to each other our Bridge Projects which we’ve been working on at home over the past few weeks.
We created water lilies as part of our studies of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
Thank you so much to the PTFA for buying us some new books, paints, paintbrushes and card games.
We had a great day at the beach in Borth and it was sunny!
We had a great day at the Summer Games.
Sports Day fun!
The Owl and the Pussycat - Performance Poetry
We had a really interesting visit to The Priory in Leominster to see the Threads Through Creation exhibition. It was amazing and we all had our own personal favourite pieces.
One of the seven activities on Science Day involved learning about the behaviour of the particles in solids, liquids and gases and then exploring non-Newtonian fluids. It was great fun and very messy!
A collage made from natural resources.
Luctonians Tagfest. We all had a wonderful day playing tag rugby. All players played brilliantly and the icing on the cake was winning the Plate!
We investigated making earthquake proof buildings from straws and marshmallows and then tested our buildings on wobbly jelly!
Second group of Bikeability taking a well-earned rest!
Today we’ve enjoyed creating art work for the Leominster in Bloom competition. This year’s theme is British Wild Birds.
Year 6 first group enjoying Bikeability.
The school council did a great job at organising bingo for the whole school this afternoon.
In Music, through a story, we created “The Strange Visitor” using a range of percussion instruments. It involved singing, playing instruments and creating a character. The ending of the story made everyone jump!
We really enjoyed eating pizza, which Mr Farmer kindly brought over, to celebrate the end of SATs.
We had fun creating a chemical reaction with bicarbonate of soda and vinegar in our volcanoes to simulate lava flowing down a volcano.
We made hummus, guacamole, tomato salsa and a crème fraiche dip today as part of our learning about Keeping Healthy in Science. We then enjoyed eating them with pitta bread, breadsticks and crudités including celery, cucumber, carrot and pepper. It was all delicious!
Today we varnished our volcanoes.
Painting our 3D clay models of volcanoes ready for varnishing.
Having breakfast together before SATs.
Volcano pencil sketches focussing on skills of texture, tone, line, blend, soft and heavy.
Owl football and netball tournament
Some of Oak Class had a wonderful day at the Herefordshire Values Games. We won the award for Passion.
We had fun investigating reversible and irreversible changes in Science today.
Easter bonnets, vehicles entered in The Great Egg Race and Easter craft - a fun day!
In Science, we have been separating materials using filtration, evaporation, magnetic attraction and sieving.
We had a wonderful time at Lucton Cross Country today. We had 5 top 10 finishers including a first and second in the year 5 boys race. Everyone who participated finished - we are so proud of you all. It was very muddy and some even lost their shoes!
Experiencing a Victorian school lesson.
We’re having a fabulous time on our residential at Condover Hall.
Today we made clay fuel efficient stoves as part of our climate change and sustainability workshop.
We enjoyed a reading session with our families today.
HandsUP workshop exploring climate change and sustainability
Ready for the Valentine disco!
We’ve been learning about Victorian toys and comparing them to modern day toys. We made our own cup and ball games.
We’ve been investigating properties of materials. Today we were testing permeability of different materials.
Today we made Victoria Sponge cakes.
We made and tasted gruel today as part of our learning about the poor in Victorian times.
We have written arguments in English and today held a class debate. The motion was “Cats make better pets than dogs”. The debate was rather lively with some passionate speakers!
Cross Country training
What a lovely morning for the Daily Mile!
Winners of Leominster in Bloom competition
Party Day!
Christmas lunch today with our buddies.
Our dress rehearsal of The Twelve Days of Christmas went very well. We’re looking forward to performing to friends and family tomorrow.
We enjoyed choosing a new book from Father Christmas, as well as buying one or two extra too.
Santa Dash 2023
We had great fun making paper chains.
We have learnt about artefacts from Ancient Greece and have created wall hangings inspired by some of the patterns. We practised drawing the patterns, designed our own patterns on Greek vases, drew the patterns onto fabric vases and finally stitched them onto hessian.
Oak Class had a wonderful time sharing the non-fiction booklets they’ve created with Monkey Puzzle Class. They enjoyed sharing the booklets and talking about animals.
We dressed up to raise money for Children in Need.
We started a PE unit of Gymnastics today. It was fun!
Designing Christmas cards with PTFA
We won the cup at the Bromyard Rugby Club tournament!
Baking apple cakes with local home-grown apples.
Year 6 have successfully completed the Police STAR programme with PC Utley.
We enjoyed a reading morning with our families.
Learning about different types of governments in our studies of the Ancient Greeks
Trying to encourage our butterflies to leave for pastures new!
We were so fortunate to actually see three of our butterflies hatch. One more to go!
We’re enjoying watching the stages of a butterfly’s life cycle. It will be any day now that our butterflies hatch.
Writing play scripts of The Secret Garden
Drama workshop following Courtyard trip
Courtyard trip to see The Secret Garden. It was amazing!
Cooking and eating Greek yoghurt cake
Learning hockey skills in PE
Hampton Court Trip
Cooking and sampling Greek food
Enjoying reading with our reading buddies
Art inspired by our studies of the Ancient Greeks
Our Class Autumn 2023
