Mrs Jones

Mrs Jones

World Book Day- 5 White

Welcome to World Book Day. Well done everyone for putting so much effort into your costumes today. You all look amazing! Today we have been looking at the book The Hobbit written by J.R.R Tolkien. We started the day by…

HSBC Smart Money Award 2023

Seven years ago, Broad Heath Primary School joined with HSBC to introduce a school bank. This has given many children over the years the opportunity to open their own bank account and save money for their future. Unfortunately, when Covid…

Exploring water resistance

Today we carried out an experiment testing to see which shapes travel through water the best. We looked at streamline shapes. A shark has a pointed nose to cut through the water and a smooth, low curved back to allow…

Times table group

It’s great to see everyone trying so hard with their times tables. Keep practising them every day and use the tricks we talked about to help you. I have posted a few times table songs for you to watch and…

World Braille Day

What is braille?Braille is a special code made up of six raised dots on a grid. There are 63 different combinations of these dots meaning that they can be translated into many languages. The dots are raised so that blind…

Iron wool combustion experiment – 5 White

Today in science we have been answering the big question: Are all chemical actions reversible?We sorted through a number of different pictures each of which showed a different reaction and decided whether it was reversible or irreversible. We learnt the…

THE ROAD TO El DORADO – 5 White

We took part in a hunt for gold around the school. We had to follow clues afterwards we read the story of El Dorado and used our experience to infer accurately. What new vocabulary have you learnt today? How did…

5 White Investigate cube numbers

We have been learning about cube numbers. Using the multi link cubes we created several cube numbers. What steps did you do to complete this task?What is a cube number? CHALLENGEExplain what a cube number is in your own words…

5 White Dragon’s Den

In groups of 2 or 3 you were given a new product to sell. The products were: Chocolate covered ants, Skirts for boys, Horse manure and Nappies for all ages.Using your persuasive skills. You first analysed your product and made…

E.ON Power your world workshop- 5 White

Our workshop today was to learn all about energy, sustainable energy and how we can save energy. We carried out a task to order power usage of household items smallest to largest. Our next task was to design a wind…

5 White Go out of this world.

Today, Year 5 visited The National Space Centre in Leicester It has been a fabulous day and a wonderful experience to deepen their knowledge about Space. The museum allowed the children to submerge themselves in all aspects of the Universe,…

Super Spellings

Well done to everyone who achieved and beat last weeks score. Writing out your spellings for homework will help you to embed the spellings and the rules. What are you doing to improve your spellings?

Eye witness accounts

In English we are learning about Newspaper reports. In this lesson we focused on eye witness accounts using drama to help with the dialogue. What is the difference between reported speech and direct speech?Write your best eye witness account for…

Super Spelling Scores

Well done to the children who all score 10/10 in their spellings. You have shown dedication and determination. For next week let’s see if we can achieve a class photo.👍 How do you practice your spellings?

History Week in 6B!

A lovely way to start the middle of the week. Our history week is centred on the Edo Period in Japan, between 1600-1890! During this time, Katsushika Hokusai used her wonderful artistic skills to draw and depict life during Edo…

Reading Gladiators

Hi reading gladiator Here is your new book for Summer 2. I know some of you have already had a quick look at this but now we will be going into more depth. Over the holiday I would like you…

Year 6 Portfolios – Summer 1 2022

Wow ! What a term. This half term started as a fun rollercoaster with non-stop learning and revising. You all gave 100% and showed great determined to succeed in your SATS tests. We are all super proud of you for…

PSHE: British Rights

Today in PSHE we looked and discussed British rights. We linked this to this half terms topic (The Holocaust) and compared the rights of a Jewish child during the holocaust with ourselves as British citizens. The video below shows what…

Year 6 Reminder for tomorrow

Please remember to bring in your swimming kits into school tomorrow as Year 6 swimming lessons will be taking place as normal. Looking forward to seeing you all at 8.30am tomorrow.

Year 6 Portfolio

Well time is flying by fast, another half term completed. Progress has been made by everyone as we compare recent Sat’s practice paper results. Well done! Take a look back at your learning and share your successes and love of…

Reading Gladiators

First of all, well done to all of you for the work you have been putting into your reading. I would like you to answer a few questions about the book ”A STORY LIKE THE WIND” 1 Do you think…

Reading Gladiators

You have all completed so great work around the book ”The thing about Jellyfish” You all wrote a short extract which could be added into the story and you were tasked to read it out loud using expression and intonations.…

The Maya Civilisation – 6 Blue

Our new Topic this half term is The Maya Civilisation.We created and visited a museum made up from secondary sources. This consisted of pictures, artefacts and a virtual reality experience. The Maya had many different cities and areas within their…

Year 6 – Portfolios Spring 1 2022

Well done everyone on another great half term of learning. Take a look back on your learning to see what you have achieved. Share these portfolios with your family and friends and celebrate your successes. Well done everyone.

Year 6- Reading Gladiators

In our Reading Gladiator’s group we have read several books, all of which have been written about WW1 or set in WWII. Our first book was called The children of the King. This was centred around evacuees. Some great inference…

Year 6 Portfolios-Autumn 2-2021

Wow! Another super half term of gaining. You have all worked really hard and challenged yourselves. You have impressed all of us with your determination, dedication and creativity. You have gained so much in all subjects so you should be…

6 White- Ode to Food Poems

Our new learning for the next two weeks is poems. We looked at lots of different poems such as : shape poem, sonnet, acrostic poem, ode’s, limericks, diamond poems and haiku’s. We created our own ‘ode to food poems” Can…

6 White- Working in a Winter Wonderland

Everyone woke up this morning to a blanket of snow covering the ground. Today in English we started a new writing unit: Winter Sonnets. So we took this great opportunity to go outside in this perfect winter weather to inspire…