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Thank you for visiting our class page. We are a class of Year 5 and 6 children. Elder Class is taught by Mrs Pyle on a Monday and Friday, and by Mrs Sawyer on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Keep reading to see what we have been up to...

In D&T, we have been designing and making our own electric Christmas decoration. We used our knowledge and skills from science to construct a working circuit, including conductors, insulators and switches. Take a look at some of our finished Christmas trees!

No soggy bottoms here! We had great fun making our traditional Christmas truffles! Ready... set... bake!

This year, we are taking part in an enterprise project where we each received a small start up fund to create a business. The Christmas Fair was a perfect place to showcase our business ideas. Any money raised is used to help Year 6 celebrate their last few weeks at the school and also goes towards whole-school projects.

We had a great day in York, visiting the magnificent York Minster & the National Railway Museum. At the Minster, we were shown many of its fascinating features, linking to our RE learning about church architecture, and found out about some of the key characters in the Minster's history, including Emperor Constantine and Queen Ethelburga. At the National Railway Museum, we were able to see up close famous trains such as the Bullet train and the Mallard.

As history detectives, we investigated evidence of Anglo-Saxon Christianity in Kirk Hammerton. We visited the local church which dates from AD 950 and carefully sketched the many original Saxon features (both inside and outside) including the church's Saxon tower which is unchanged and complete.

While the girls competed in the Netball Finals, we participated in the BBC's Anti-Bullying Week Live Lesson. We helped Hacker put on the ultimate sports day while learning how to play fair, work together, and show respect. We also got a shout-out!

In Music, we had fun working in small groups, following a graphic score. We had to count ourselves in, keep to a steady beat and play our untuned percussion instrument at the correct time. The beat goes on...

We've worked on an exciting Design and Technology project this half term. The brief was to design and make a toy with moving parts, using cams, for the 4-5 age group. Cams can make things move up and down, side to side, or around in circles. We visited Ash Class to do some market research and find out what they look for in a toy. We had enormous fun making the parts and sticking everything together. The classroom was like a busy toymaking factory! We are so proud of the finished results. Finally, we were able to show our Ash Class friends our finished toys and get some feedback.

As part of our learning about Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, we had a great time at the Hull and East Riding Museum of Archaeology. We were able to have a go with prehistoric tools, see a woolly mammoth as well as a 4000 year old Bronze Age boat, visit an Iron Age village, a Roman Forum (including the Roman baths), a Roman villa as well as look closely at different artefacts.

As part of our learning in history: 'Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age', we enjoyed curating prehistoric artefacts.
We examined items from York Archaeology, interpreted and recorded them, made careful drawings and drew up a conservation plan.