Our current RE religion is Christianity.
During Interfaith Week, we used paper collage to create stained glass windows – like they have in Christian churches.
The week beginning 14th November was Anti-Bullying Week.
The whole school wore odd socks to begin our work in anti-bullying, to celebrate what makes us all unique.
As part of our PSHE lessons, all classes spoke about who they could “reach out” to if they were being bullied.
We also thought about how we could “reach out” to each other by being a good friend.
On Friday 18th November, the whole school “showed our spots” to raise money for Children in Need.
Everyone wore spotty clothes, including face paints and Pudsey ears.
We held a cake sale, in place of our usual healthy tuck shop, and raised over £80.
Thank you to everyone for your effort and kind contributions.
As part of our instructional writing in English, we made chocolate crispy cakes and then decorated them.
We then wrote instructions!
They were delicious!
Chestnuts have great fun in PE every week!
This week, we were playing games in the school hall.
Look at us moving across the floor in different ways.
As part of our explanation writing in English, we created huge posters to explain the water cycle.
This also linked to our science curriculum.
This term we have really enjoyed our French lessons with Madame Smith. We have been learning parts of the body and had lots of fun using the vocabulary by joining in with exercises, songs and dances! 
Chestnuts had a lovely time celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee! We researched events of the decade 2010-2020 and made timelines of our findings. We also created some fantastic artwork of the Queen and made beautiful crowns with our friends in Apples to wear at our Jubilee picnic. 
Chestnuts have settled extremely well into Year 5 life and have taken it all in their stride. We have been using Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as our class text and have linked our English and Art through it. In English we have been writing diaries as we journey to Hogwarts for the first time, have created instructions for making a potion and have written an adventure story for rescuing a stolen object from the Forbidden Forest! In Art, we have focused on adding texture and thinking about scale and proportion when sketching. We hope you like our art from the photograph! In History, we have found out about history in our local area, the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the North East and have studied specific jobs such as Mining. Excellent work Chestnuts!
On Tuesday 13th July both of our year 4 classes, Chestnuts and Willows, took part in their sports afternoon. Sports coach Adam had prepared lots of fun and exciting events for the children.
The events were: Sprinting, ‘Egg and spoon’, Obstacle race and a rounders match. All of the children gave the events their all and had so much fun taking part. Even the teachers got to join in!
Have a look at them in action…
