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Herons Church Visit

To complete our RE unit on the Big Question “What does it mean if God is loving and holy?”, Herons walked up to All Saints Church to explore and reflect.

We began this unit thinking about the staggering number of people in the world today who have a religious faith – 2.6 billion Christians and 2 billion Muslims. Then we zoomed in on the Christian religion and looked briefly at the huge variety of beliefs and practices all within the same religion. We noted that, despite all of their differences, one key concept that unites all Christians is the idea of a God who is both holy (divine; perfect; separate from and ‘above’ us) and loving. And if God is both holy and loving, then Christians feel a duty to worship. This beautiful church in our village, with its magnificent architecture, is itself an act of worship designed to glory in a holy and loving God. We finished our visit with a rehearsal of Silent Night/Stille Nacht to hear the beautiful acoustics in the church.

Which Age Was Better: Stone Age or Bronze Age?

In this insightful debate, Heron’s class was divided into three groups. The first group presented arguments favouring the Stone Age, the second supported the Bronze Age, and the third consisted of the audience, who had the opportunity to pose questions to the panel.

Who’s in space? Herons Invasion Games

Herons are working hard in their Invasion Games unit in PE, learning to attack and defend territory and create space for teammates in football. These same skills can be applied in other invasion games like basketball, tag rugby and handball.

Leavers’ Assembly 2023 Photo Slideshow

A photo montage of our wonderful Year 6 students. It will play automatically from Slide 3 onwards.

Herons Maths 

Year 5 Herons can be seen here working hard on furthering their understanding of decimals. They have been adding and subtracting decimals with up to two places and applying this to lots of reasoning and problem-solving questions. Since Year 6 have largely completed the Maths curriculum in the run-up to SATs, they can be seen going over their knowledge of decimals, fractions, percentages and ratio, and also using problem solving and reasoning to complete investigations on these areas. For this, they have been using the Maths website ‘Nrich,’ which is hosted by the University of Cambridge, as well as other interactive resources. Just look at the detail in their books and their determination to trial, improve and display the theories they have come up with!

Herons English 

As part of a non-fiction Writing focus, Herons have researched and written their own non-chronological reports on a theme of their choice. Animals was by far the most popular category, the children devising their own subheadings and thinking carefully how to present and show off their work. The results can be seen here and on our ‘achievement work’ display in the classroom. 

Herons Science

This term, Herons Year 5/6 have been investigating different materials and their properties. Here, the children are devising their own investigation into the hardness of different materials. As part of this line of scientific enquiry, Herons discussed and wrote down how to conduct a fair test, what the variables and constants would be and how they could both show and explain/interpret their results in their written work. Can you spot all of the materials used? 

Herons PE 

Take a look at Herons’ indoor PE unit with Mr Ward using balancing, movement and bodyweight. After practising and performing different balances by themselves, they have honed their skills to perform with a partner in various positions. You can see the concentration on their faces as they experiment with different poses and positions!  

Year 6 SATs

This week, our Super Year 6s have show dedication, resilience and determination in seeing their SATs through. We would like to say how incredibly proud we are of all of the children. They have tackled a wide range of questions based on Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, Reading, Maths Arithmetic and Maths Reasoning. They have dug deep to show off the best of their knowledge and they know that they are so much ‘more than the score’ of their test papers. Here are some photos taken following the final test, demonstrating how witty, insightful and imaginative they are: see them taking part in some drama led by Mrs Church!

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