This half term in Science, we have thoroughly enjoyed researching a range of female scientists past and present such as Katherine Johnson, Florence Nightingale, Rachel Carson and Caroline Herschel. We worked in groups to find out about their inspirational lives, what...
This half term, our topic is netball. Following a quick fun warm up to remind ourselves of the tactics involved in attacking and defence, we recapped various passes used in netball; chest pass, bounce pass and shoulder pass. The children thought about the positioning...
Last week, St Aidan’s enjoyed celebrating Book Week with many book-themed activities across the week. We discussed the importance of reading for pleasure to develop our vocabulary, knowledge and understanding of the world and learning across the curriculum as well as...
At the beginning of ‘Think Good, Fell Good’ session 5, the children played a warm up game called, ‘Would you rather?’ The theme of this week’s session was ‘Managing your feelings’. We chatted about how our feelings can become very strong and sometimes they can be hard...
On Wednesday Year 6 had a wonderful music lesson with a visiting music teacher. The children worked very hard throughout the lesson to learn the song 'Ordinary' by Alex Warren. The children mastered the tune, lyrics and even the harmonies. They then performed the song...
In this week’s session of ‘Think Good, Feel Good’, we focused on ‘How we feel’. As a warm up game, we used 9 pictures of either alpacas, dogs or cats and referred to one of the pictures as to how we were currently feeling and discussed as a group. Some of the pictures...