A selection of year 5 and 6 children took part in a writers day where they were lucky enough to spend the day with the author Colin Parsons! The children participated in workshops and produced amazing WWI inspired stories. The children then read the stories aloud and impressed Colin with their efforts!
They had a brilliant day and everyone is enjoying reading Colin’s stories they have brought back to school!
On Monday, year 5 arrived at school and they were transported back to the year 1665. Boys and girls were separated into different classrooms, with the teachers being very strict, much like in a Stuart era school. The morning started with the boys and girls learning, in silence, an extract from Shakespeare’s Macbeth which they then had to recite to the class.
As year 5 arrived at school this morning they were transported back to the year 1665. Boys and girls were separated into different classrooms, with the teachers being very strict, much like in a Stuart era school. The morning started with the boys and girls learning, in silence, an extract from Shakespeare’s Macbeth which they then had to recite to the class.
Year 5 have had a fantastic day exploring Christianity through lots of different activities. We have learnt about the Bible and how Christians use it to teach them about God and the world, the 10 Commandments and about influential Christians like Desmond Tutu and William Wilberforce.
We did lots of fun activities including research on the iPads, lots of discussion, drama, making comic strips and presenting our learning!
As the Volkswagen deadline draws nearer (Wednesday 12th November!) year 5 have been working extremely hard to ensure their final product is of the highest quality, ready to be shown in Volkswagen headquarters this week!
Today, we identified Volkswagen factories around the world. Andrew, a manager from the Volkswagen group, came in to explain how Volkswagen decide where to produce their vehicles and parts. We looked at the graphs which showed us how expensive it was to build in each country, how many cars are sold in each country and also the quality of living in each country. All of this information will help us to decide where we would like to build our car!
It has been an amazing week in year 5, the children have been buzzing about Volkswagen week.
Yesterday, we worked in groups to research and create a timeline for the Volkswagen Beetle. We then presented our timelines to Andrew, who is a Manager at Volkswagen! He even told us some more information about the Beetle which we didn’t know already. Here are some pictures of us sharing our learning with him:
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What an exciting start to our Volkswagen project. Yesterday we had the privilege of becoming part of the Volkswagen group as the company set each year group a project question to answer!
In year 5 our project is:
How can we rebrand the Volkswagen Beetle to make it popular in 2014?
To ignite our project we have had several exciting activities going on. First of all, the playground became a car park when Volkswagen kindly bought along some of their cars and vans for us to look at! This included an electric Golf, Audi’s, VW Scirocco, campervans and most excitingly a 1970’s VW Beetle! We enjoyed climbing over the cars, playing the stereos really loud and beeping the horns! The most popular car was definitely the campervan which even had a bed in it!
Today the excitement continued as Year 5 were visited by an experienced member of the Volkswagen team. We looked at the history of Volkswagen and the history of the Beetle, we asked our expert lots of interesting questions to grow our learning and understanding of the Beetle, how and why it began being produced and why it was such a popular car. The knowledge and expertise we have gathered today will be extremely useful as we plan our re-branding of the beetle.
And finally, we also got the opportunity to explore breakdown vehicles as we were visited by the AA and VW roadside assistance! We spoke to the engineers about the calls they respond to and how they fix some of the cars.
We will now be working hard on our project so we are ready to share our findings and ideas with Volkswagen in November. We look forward to sharing our projects with you too!
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Thank you to all the parents, children and staff that came to the cross country on Saturday morning. The children’s attitudes were amazing and they all made everybody very proud.
Years 2-6 are currently sitting in an assembly presented by Laura and Lara, from VW.
A range of cars are currently arriving in the car park as I type.
The atmosphere in school is amazing! We are all looking forward to working together on our exciting whole school project.
All of the children are especially looking forward to working with the VW staff and welcome them to our school.
Year 5 were extremely lucky to be able to spend the afternoon with the artist Walter Jack. The children were given the opportunity to share their creative ideas and design different structures.
