- St Maria Goretti Catholic
- Primary School,
- Gamull Lane, Ribbleton,
- Preston, PR2 6SJ,
- bursar@st-mariagoretti.lancs.sch.uk
- 01772 700052
Spring
2021-2022
Space Cam Toys
Space Cam Toys
Space Cam Toys
Moon Phases
In science, children replicated the moon phases using Oreos!
Reading our stories to Year 1
Today, Year 5 read their completed stories to the Year 1's. The children in Year 1 loved hearing the older children's writing and were blown away by their use of ambitious vocabulary.
Freddy Fit
World Book Day 2022
Making Maya Temples
Today, Year 5 were fully immersed in their DT projects. After spending time learning about the Maya civilisation, researching temples/pyramids and designing authentic looking models, we started to bring designs to life. The children worked sensibly with new tools and supported each other wonderfully.
Maya Morning
This morning, Year 5 took part in a carousel of five short activities which introduced them to the Maya. In groups, they completed some ‘Maya Maths’ where they used sticks and rocks to represent numbers and complete sums following the Maya 20-based number system. The children also became ‘Web Detectives’ and scoured the web in search of information related to the Maya. Similarly, Children explored the glyphs used to represent ‘months’ in the Maya calendar (The jaab’), then chose a favourite to recreate using chalk. Children worked as a team to arrange pieces of information to create a Maya timeline, during this, children had to carefully consider the meanings of BC and AD. Finally, children discussed the location of the Maya civilisation and considered how they evolved across a number of Central American countries. Following this, they used computers and atlases to identify the different countries and settlements.
Reading our stories
This afternoon, we grabbed our English books and headed for the storytelling area. We had a fabulous time listening to each others warning stories.
Shadow Clocks
Space Suits
Our second investigation this week involved us researching space suits. The children were challenged with finding out the best material to make their space suits - a material that would provide the best insulation for the extreme temperatures on the moon. Somebody needs to let NASA know that newspaper is the best!
Saving the Egg-stronaut
Making Memories
