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We are so proud of Years Five and Six for their fantastic performance of ‘The Jungle Book’. Enjoy! […]

in Design and Technology, we designed and made our own pencil cases. We learnt how to use a sewing machine as well as how to use embroidery stitches (running stitch, […] […]

Watch the film: Friday 28th May 2021 And some final fun on the coach home to end the most amazing of times at PGL! Thursday 27th May 2021 9:20pm How […] […]

In science, we have been learning about properties and changes of materials. We learnt that some changes are reversible whilst other are irreversible. We observed an irreversible change when we […] […]

In Design and Technology, we made Mars Rovers. We watched footage of the recent landing of Perseverance on Mars and looked at the features needed for such a vehicle. This […] […]

Today, we enjoyed a whole day of art. We focussed on developing our pencil sketching skills. Our day began by experimenting with different pencils to create darker and lighter tones. […] […]

In science this half term, we are learning all about forces. We began by learning about gravity, weight and mass. We discovered that weight is actually a force and is […] […]

Danes class have made a fantastic start to the new school year. It is so lovely to have everyone back in school after such a long time! All the hard […] […]

Danes class had a wonderful time at the Natural History Museum. […]

We are very proud to have entered two teams of Year 5 pupils into the Hertfordshire Cross Country Championships for the first time. The championships took place in St. Albans […] […]

We are very excited about our learning in Danes class this term. Our geographical theme is Extreme Earth – we will be learning all about volcanoes and earthquakes as well […] […]

As part of our learning in design and technology, we have worked in groups to design and make a Second World War Shelter. We learnt how to construct a jinx […] […]

On Wednesday 23rd October, we enjoyed at DT day. This linked our learning in science, history and design technology. We had to design and make a plane based upon a […] […]

Despite the rain, Danes class had a wonderful day at Duxford RAF museum to support our learning about World War 2 and in particular The Battle of Britain. Later in […] […]

On Tuesday 17th September, Danes class attended Crucial Crew at the Bowes Lyon Centre. During the morning, they took part in six different workshops to help keep themselves and others […] […]

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In design and technology, Danes class have been working with textiles. Their task was to design and make a pencil case. Initially, they looked at the different designs, materials and […] […]

On Thursday 28th February, Danes class had a whole day of Design and Technology. Their task was to design and make a moon buggy to link with our work in […] […]

We have made our own Solar System! We used papier mache to make the planets and, once they were dry, we painted them. They look fantastic! Whilst we weren’t able […] […]

On the evening of Monday 21st January, Danes class enjoyed a visit to Bayfordbury Observatory. At first, we spent time learning some interesting facts about space from one of the […] […]

Today we designed and made Egyptian shadufs. This linked our learning in dt, history and science. We have been studying the Ancient Egyptians in history and have found out about […] […]

Today as part of our work in history, Danes class visited the British Museum to explore the Ancient Egyptian galleries. We also enjoyed a workshop session ‘Decoding Ancient Egyptian Tomb […] […]

On Tuesday 18th September, Danes class attended Crucial Crew at the Bowes Lyon Centre in Stevenage. They learnt lots of important messages about how to make the right decisions and […] […]

Danes class have already made an excellent start to the new school year. Our topic this term is ‘The Awesome Egyptians’ which will include a visit to The British Museum […] […]

In textiles, we have designed and made our own cushions. We learnt lots of new skills including embroidery stitches and how to use a sewing machine. […]

We were so very proud of how hard Year 6 worked towards their SATs. They coped really well through all the tests – whatever the outcomes we know that everyone […] […]

On Friday 16th March, we visited Barnwell School to attend their Science and Technology Fair. It was a very busy afternoon during which we learnt so much about physics, chemistry, […] […]

We had a fantastic day at the Natural History Museum. Our visit supported our learning in both Geography (Extreme Earth -Volcanoes and Earthquakes) and Science (Evolution and Inheritance). We started […] […]

As part of our work relating to the Battle of Britain, we designed and made model planes. This linked our work in history and science in a design and make […] […]

This half term our geographical theme is ‘Extreme Earth’ which links well with our work in science about ‘Evolution and Inheritance’. We have been learning about the importance of the […] […]

Six Year 6’s were lucky enough to be invited to a day of motivational maths at Templewood School.  Maths certainly proved to be fun! As a team, one of the […] […]

On Thursday 28th September we visited Duxford IWM as part of our history theme – The Battle of Britain.  We had a fantastic day exploring the many exhibits.  A volunteer […] […]

It was a pleasure to take Danes Class to The Bowes Lyon Centre for Crucial Crew today. Crucial Crew is an innovative and interactive way of delivering personal and safety […] […]

We were invited to a Junk Modelling competition at Barnwell School.  Working in teams of six we had to design and make a spacecraft.  We made the teachers proud by […] […]