We’ve been using tools to create tools in Forest School this half term! We demonstrated lots of care and precision when using the billhook, knives and peelers.
Author: William Stevens
Year 5 children have been learning how to calculate area and perimeter of rectilinear shapes. They have been exploring our school and finding objects to measure.
We explored the school grounds to see what natural resources we could use to produces pieces of natural art. We have been inspired by sculptures like Andy Goldsworthy and the installations he created.
This year’s British Science Week at EGPS was a resounding success, centred around the theme ‘Change and Adapt’. Our students engaged in a myriad of live lessons, scientific investigations, and activities designed to explore these important concepts. In Year 1, children participated in a live lesson focused on farming, followed by an exploration of the school grounds, assessing how hedgerows
This group of Year 5s has begun to ready our allotment area at school. We have turned over the soil and prepared many pots for seeds to grow. We’re hoping to plant vegetables very soon since springtime is now upon us.
Our Year 5s have been using their photography skills this week to produce some fantastic black and white photos. We have been exploring line, light and shadows this term in art and this has added another skill we can use to produce creative and thought-provoking artwork. Our next task is to pick one of our pictures to recreate using various
This week, we played a fun game in the learning hub as a way to reinforce our knowledge of multiplying fractions or mixed numbers to integers. We would construct our own questions from a selection of all the integers, mixed numbers and fractions we could think of.
The year 5 children were very helpful in rehoming a few of our more established saplings that we planted in raised beds last year. We positioned them on the far end of our field, where we hope they will grow into larger trees alongside the others nearby.
