Owls in action!

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Welcome to Owls 2025/26.

5th March 2026

World Book Day

Today the children came to school dressed up as book characters, bring their books with them too. What a fantastic effort by everybody. In class we enjoyed sharing our favourite books, creating new book covers and writing book reviews- hopefully this will inspire others to try our favourites!

4th March 2026

Bug Parc Trip

We had a brilliant time at the Bug Parc on Wednesday. In class we have been learning about Life-cycles, classification, habitats and food chains. We have been using our understanding to find out about different creatures from South America- our topic this Spring. At the bug parc we were lucky to see and handle many of the creatures we had found out about. The Leaf Cutter Ants blew our minds! Wow!

11-2-26

South America

We have been enjoying finding out about the countries of South America. Last week we made Argentine Biscuits Alfajores. In science we are finding out about Life-cycles in flowering plants, mammals, amphibians and birds, comparing and contrasting them. We have also shared our reasoning on different questions.

Why do amphibians lay so many eggs?

Which life-cycle produces the most intelligent creature?

Why do birds lay hard shelled eggs?

4-12-25

Christmas cake making

Year 5 enjoyed making a Christmas cake on Thursday- we had great fun. They have all taken them home to bake, Next week we will be icing them!

3-12-25

Design Technology

Making an Egyptian Shaduf

This week we have been finding out about Shadufs and what they were used for on the river Nile. We then tested different materials to see which work best to make our own. Next, we designed our own, including exploded drawings to show detailed parts of put design. Finally, we built them, using a handsaw, rulers and lots of patience. Once everyone had completed them, we tested them to see if they worked. A brilliant project.

24-11-25

Horstead

We had a brilliant time at Horstead. We all took part in all the activities, which were:

River survey- we all got in canoes and measured the river at different depths.

Flow rate- we threw balls in the river and timed how long they took to get to a certain point. We noticed that different points of the river flowed faster.

Riverbank survey- we looked for different trees on the riverbank.

Orienteering- we had to use a map to find different points.

Independent Project on Artefacts in Tutankhamen’s Tomb.

We worked in small groups to find out about an item found in the tomb, we had to write a detailed description, an explanation of where it was found and what it was there for, draw a labelled diagram ,and finally we drew maps of the tomb to show where the item was found. Some groups also had time to create adverts and posters. We all had work as part of a team to get it completed in time for the museums opening on Thursday. Watch the video below to see what it looked like before our visitors arrived.

Cross Country:

We had a brilliant time at Langley, everyone showed great courage and determination.

Science:

Owls have been enjoying finding out about reversible and irreversible changes. We have carried out lots of different investigations. Filtering, making solutions, and burning different things to see if its reversible.

We have learnt lots of new vocabulary like: solute, solvent, solution, dissolved, mixture, evaporation, condensation, reversible and irreversible.

We have also revised the water cycle, relating it to our sugar solution.

Archaeology:

We are all enjoying our topic helping us to write in so many different ways. We had a brilliant trip to the Castle museum which has given lots of knowledge. In class we have also been learning about the process of mummification. We have mummified an apple to see what happens.

10-9-25

Archaeology

In Owls we have fully immersed ourselves Iin our topic: finding out about Howard Carter and his discovery, digging for Egyptian Artefacts and using photographs of ourselves to create Pharaohs! We are now using all this knowledge to write 1st person accounts and descriptions.