Delicious Mud Puddings

This week, Year 5/6 made mud puddings for our Tea Party.
Here is how we made them:

1) First, we scooped the mousse into our containers.
2) Next, we put three chocolate bourbon biscuits into a plastic bag.
3)  After that, we carefully smashed the bag on the table to break them up- it looked like mud.
4) Then, we sprinkled it onto our chocolate mousse.
5) Finally, we added two jelly babies. Head first and leg first.
Top Tip: add worms for effect

Here is a picture of our wonderful desserts.

Here are some of the quote from us- we made up fake names when writing this blog... we know who we are!

"I loved it but I didn't get to finish it because I had to have dinner"- Random Man

"I thought it was pretty and it was nice. The bourbons and mousse mixed nicely together"- Chrissy

"It was OK, some parts were yum, some parts were disgusting" - Jane

"It was one of the best puddings I have ever had" - Bourbon Man

"I think it was rotton the only thing I liked about it was the bourbons" - Mr Potato

"It was delicious" - Dude

"I still have some left in the fridge because I wanted to save it" - Stacey

"It tasted delicious but looked disgusting"- Mark

"It was alright but I liked the mousse the best"- Johnny

Tea Party

Today we send out invitations to you inviting you to visit our class for a tea party on Monday 24th September from 2.45pm-3.30pm. This term, our tea party will have a reading theme.
We will;
- be showing you some of the books that we are learning about
-having reading SATs papers to talk you through
-offering some spare books for you to take home 
-talking through the book colour bands and library book choices
-give you information about how to support reading at home
- be here to answer any questions to have and give you recommendations of age appropriate books

We are linking our tea party with raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support by selling cakes (we will be making these in class on Monday). The staff are also doing a bake-off so come and vote for you favourite in the hall!

Evacuate!

The class have been really interested by our WW2 theme: this week we have learnt about Evacuees, why they were taken away and what the process of being re-homed was. They were given the task of listening to a real-life account of a woman who was evaluated when she was a little girl then use this information to write their own letter from the point of view of an evacuee.

Here are some of the examples of their work. I was blown away by the way they tried so hard to structure their letter in chronological order, write in paragraphs and add in interesting details.

We hope you are really proud of our work. Please leave us a comment to let us know your thoughts.

Growth Mindset- Igloo Challenge

During our first week back, Year 5/6 explored Growth Mindsets and the learning zones within this concept. We talked about the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset, matching behaviours and attitudes to each of the types. 

For example:

Trying to solve a problem but giving up when it became tricky would be an example of a fixed mindset. Whereas, someone who tried to find another way of solving the problem and persevered, even if it took a long time, would show a growth mindset.

The class were asked to investigate which type of mindset they had by completing the Igloo Challenge.

Each team had to use a box of sugar cubes to create an igloo- the difficulty was that they were not allowed to use glue and there had to be space in the center like the picture below. 

The teams worked for 20 minutes... their frustration grew when it was time to make the roof.

Here are some pictures which were taken during the challenge.

After 20 minutes, the time was up. I was so impressed by each team's resilience, communication skills and problem solving when something didn't work out the way they planned. 

I let the class know that this challenge was virtually impossible because of the instability of the sugar cubes without something holding it in place (like snow does on a real igloo).

The class felt that they had been "set up" but said they understood how the task had made them demonstrate the importance of a growth mindset.

Thank you for reading... ask us about the learning zones below!