Last week, we did a STEM lego learning challenge which was really fun and tested our brains. We also learnt that STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Altogether we did five lego challenges (such as designing and building a vehicle that could explore a planet), which were amazing and we all had a really good time building. 

Written by Seth & Amelia

Note from Mr Bamford: Big thanks to Wymondham High School and Mr Brown for the loan of the kits and the opportunity to complete these challenges which were introduced and delivered by RAF in collaboration with ‘Raising Robots’.

In our first week of Year 5, we did a 15 question quiz which was really fun and we all had a good laugh. We also played a game called ‘Mystery Me’ where we had to guess each other’s identity. Then we did art where we had inspiration from a video to decorate the front cover of our art books with all different shades of colour. It went really well! Finally, we did some writing about what we are good at and what we are looking forward to in Year 5!

Written by Seth & Amelia

We were programming robots called ‘Spheros’ in computing and maths. Spheros are little spherical robots that you can program to follow different commands. It was lots of fun and we all enjoyed it because we were all creative and very happy. 

The programming was very fun but also a little bit hard. We had to use code blocks on the iPads and Mr Bamford set different challenges, like make it go in a circle, or make it change colours. The final challenge was to code it to navigate a course and end up in a square. 

We had lots of fun and hope we do it again!

By Willow & Clara

A big thank you to Wymondham High School for the loan of the Spheros.

We took part in a zoom lesson with an artist from Egypt called ‘Faz’ last Friday. He told us about Refugee Week. Refugees are people who get forced out of their country and we want them to feel welcome in ours. We talked about how building a welcoming community is our superpower. We then made a superhero mask to go with a superpower of our own – we all found it super fun!

Written by Mabel & Clara

We tried out different watercolour painting techniques e.g. using bleach, salt, crayons and sparkly gel pens underneath or on top of the paint. We found it really entertaining. All of us had lots of fun. This is so we can choose our favourite techniques to make a paint brush painting next week.

We had a fun trip to Whitlingham Lake. We spent the whole day there and did 2 activities, paddleboarding and raft building. 

We built the rafts out of string, barrels and pieces of wood which we then tested out. Some worked but some knots were too loose so some us fell off our rafts but some managed to stay on. 

Paddleboarding was really fun. Some of us were in pairs and some single. We had our own paddles to move. Loads of us fell/jumped in! 

We all had lots of fun!

By Mabel

Mars Experience hosted by the DT department at Wymondham High School

We went to Wymondham high we learnt about mars . We also made different things involving lego and mars.

We built houses, rockets ,aliens and robots .

We could control robots to make them speak and make them do different things.

Also Wymondham high were so kind and gave us cookies in are break time.

There were different jobs e.g leader, builder, and researcher. 

Over all we all loved it .

Thank you Wymondham high .

By Mabel, Ben, Mollie and Clara

On World Book Day yesterday, we dressed up as our favourite characters from books. Someone even dressed as a wardrobe from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe! 5 people were Oompah Loompahs and Willy Wonka was there too!

We had a “Bringing Books to Life” dance workshop. It was about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl and we performed how the story went. We were split into groups to make the machines from the book. It looked amazing when we put it all together.

We made review videos in computing. For example, one group used Toco the toucan and described him. After we filmed the videos, we had to edit them by using iMovie so we could add transitions and sound effects. After we made our videos, we watched them all as a class. 

By Freddie M & Ben. 

Here are 3 examples: 

We had karate black belts come and teach us how to punch kick and more.

We have been doing gymnastics in PE. We did partner work with hoops and ropes.

We also have been practicing dodgeball. Some people went to a dodgeball competition and we came 3^rd and 4^th !

When we came back from the winter holiday we did 2025 art. We did graphite styled art! 

In Geography we discovered that Europe has a  bigger population than north and south America!

 In English we have been writing action scenes! We even did an obstacle course and pretended we were in an action scene! 

In PSHE we have been doing life saving like the recovery position which is for people who are breathing but unresponsive.

In music we have been going to year 6 to learn how to play guitar and the drums!  

In French we learnt how to say what the weather is like a French forecaster.

In computing we have been learning video techniques and doing reviews on different things!