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Owls 2024-2025

Summer 2 Term 2025

Year 6 Leavers' Service

Summer 1 Term 2025

Spring 2 Term 2025

Owls DT Project Showcase -  Complex Circuits

​Atlas Orienteering at Westonbirt

Whole School Trip to We the Curious

Spring Term 1

Portishead Visit - Geography Fieldwork

Coram Life Bus (Tent) - Decisions

Owls investigating circuits in science

Owls' Geography Fieldwork Trip to Portishead Beach

Autumn Term 2 2024

Our textile project as part of the Design Technology curriculum

Forest School Autumn term 2024

Black History Music Lesson 2024

Autumn Term 1 2024

Steel pan workshop by The Steel Pan Agency
One day creative Black British History Drama Workshop.

Owls 2023 - 2024

Viney Hill Video Dump

Viney Hill Photo Dump One

Groups at Viney Hill Residential 2024

British Values - Democracy
​Mock Election Results

Visit from the British Legion - Tim visited Owls to talk about D-Day and WW2

PE - Athletics - Lesson 1

Year 6 Leavers' Service at Gloucester Cathedral

Visit from our local PCSOs

Summer Term 1 2024

FGR Renewable Energy Trip

Science - Electricity - Lesson 4

Dimmer switches let us control the brightness of a light, anywhere from completely off to full brightness. This can be nice when you want to set the brightness "just right," as opposed to a regular light switch that only lets you turn a light on or off. It turns out that you can make a dimmer switch out of an everyday object—a pencil!

Claes Oldenburg-Inspired Sculptures

3D Modelling using Tinkercad

Science - Electricity Lesson 2

Spring Term 2 2024

Times Table Rock Stars Competition

Who can be top of the rocks?

K'Nex Challenge - Frame Structures

Debating Teams

Science - Light

PSHE - Fake or Fact News?

World Book Day 2024

Coram SCARF Visit

​The children from Owls learned the needs associated with staying mentally and physically healthy. Today's session focused on friendships and what healthy friendships looked like. They also discussed the dangers of smoking and drugs.

Our Visit to Pandora

This term, Owls class will be writing vivid setting descriptions and persuasive adverts based on the Literacy Shed's Discover Pandora.

Spring 2 Computing - Understanding Binary

Spring Term 1 2024

This term we will be focussing in school on the value of Forgiveness

Freedom is Coming - South African Freedom Song

Investigating Heart Rates in Science

Safer Internet Day 2024

Forest Green Rovers Community Match

Science Lesson 1 - Data Handling

Times Table Rock Stars

Gymnastics - Lesson 2

PE - Our Gymnastics Coverage

Art - Claes Oldenburg

Our Reading Teachers, Reading Pupils Novel

Our Class Novel - model texts based on extracts

Describing a Setting

Learning Tagalog

Camels in Pastel

Epiphany 2024

Autumn Term 2 2023

This term we will be focussing in school on the value of Service

Christingle Service

DT Food Project
​Lesson 4: Making the mince pies

DT Food Project
Lesson 3: Marketing and Advertising

DT Food Project 
Lesson 2: Designing Packaging

DT Food Project
Lesson 1: Testing and Market Research

DT Food Project - Coming Soon

Investigating Materials - Strongest Paper Structures

Hour of Code

Online Safety Update - PEGI rating for apps and games

Hour of Code - December 2023

Fitness - Lesson 4

Kapow History Lesson 3 - Viking Trade Routes

Investigating Materials

Atlas Football Festival

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Visit from our Schoolbeat Officer - PC Hannah Coll

We had a visit from PC Hannah Coll,  Stroud's School Beater Office, to talk to the children about drugs and peer pressure. The talk was very informative and the children asked lots of thought-provoking questions.

Short Burst Writing

This week in Owls, we began work on our new animation, 'Jotun – Journey of a Viking warrior'. During our first lesson, we watched the opening scenes of the short film before creating a class brainstorm of our initial thoughts and observations.

Next, we used our knowledge of relative clauses and expanded noun phrases to describe the opening setting, creating a clear image in the reader's head, which allowed them to be transported into a deserted Viking village.

​As we have only scratched the surface of our animation, we are very curious to learn what happens next on Jotun's incredible journey and can't wait to see if any of our predictions will come true in the coming weeks!

Remembrance Service 2023

Computing - Concept Mapping (Computer Science)

​KS2 Year 6 SATs Dates - May 2024

Anti-Bullying Week 2023

Half-term Homework

Maths
https://mathsbot.com/
https://mathsframe.co.uk/
​https://ttrockstars.com/
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/problem-solving https://www.education.com/worksheets/memory-games/

English
​http://www.pobble365.com/ https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-andgrammar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize http://www.ictgames.com/
https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb
https://www.getepic.com/ (sign up for free)

Science
https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental https://www.jamesdysonfoundation.com/resources/challengecards.html https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/community/collection/12746/year-4- sound

PE
https://www.gonoodle.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers

History
https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/
https://www.history.org.uk/primary/categories/ks2-enquiries

Geography
https://www.geography.org.uk/Resources-and-activities
https://www.3dgeography.co.uk/geography-topic

A New Book in Class...

English Planning - Jotun from Literacy Shed

Autumn Term 1 2023

This Week's Class Dojo Winners: Group 4

Each week, the group with the most dojos wins a treat and time on the iPad. As a collective group, the class decided that when 500 dojos have been awarded, they get free iPad time as a class; when 750 dojos are reached, extra play is gained, and finally, 1000 dojos, we get to watch a movie. ​

Class Notices

Spellings - Autumn 2 Week 1
W/B 6th November 2023
Testing all spellings from previous weeks

Harvest Sharing Assembly 2023

Harvest Celebration 2023

Owls Trip to Stroud Community Agriculture

Football Lesson 5 - passing accurately to a teammate

This is a dark and magical story about two children who find a mythical creature – a Tyger – in a rubbish dump in London - set in the near future of the 21st Century.  An altered, dark London, where the Tyger is in danger and our protagonists Adam and Zadie are driven to save the Tyger, and in the process save London too. 

This is a book that looks at spirituality, and ideas of community, whilst the Tyger teaches Adam and Zadie about the sheer wonder of the universe, of nature and about interpersonal relationships.  The Tyger helps the children find all their hidden skills and courage and release it all to fight against the awfulness in their world. It is unique book full of adventure, joy and hope in this thrilling read. 
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It is a book designed for readers of 9 to 99 who enjoy escaping into other worlds. Much anticipated and destined to be a classic that will be shared and enjoyed everywhere. 

Music of the Month - Carnival of the Animals 

Football - Lesson 4

Grammar Game - Relative Pronouns

Class Collective Worship

Multiplication and Division Practice

You can also find practice versions of the government MTC on the following web links:
· https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
· https://www.themathsfactor.com/times-tables-check/#/
· https://collins.co.uk/pages/primary-mathematics-times-tables-test-simulator

Maths - Place Value TBC

Good Samaritan Contemporary Song

Music of the Month: Holst - Planets (Jupiter)

First Week Back!

3D Hand Drawing

The Good Samaritan - Freeze Frame

The Good Samaritan, 1890 by Vincent Van Gogh

This Term's Value: Perseverance

‘Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.’ Galatians 6:9 

Song link: You Raise Me Up – Josh Groban 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyEokxi2hWY 
Bible Story: The Parable of the Persistent Widow (Luke 18:1-8) 

‘Yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice.’ 

Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think,  yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

Faith At Home: 
https://www.churchofengland.org/faith-action/faith-home/faith-home-videos/collective-worship-primary-schools-episode-6-resilience

Links to Times Table Games

Links to learning
Click on the images below to take you to websites we have been using in class. ​