On Friday, our Eco-Cops presented an assembly to the whole school explaining the importance of looking after our world. They discussed ways to be more sustainable at school and what we could do at home too. We agreed to try and use less electricity, recycle,...
Yesterday, Year 5 took part in a space challenge called 'Road to RIAT'. In the morning, we created designed, created and tested rockets. During the afternoon we designed our own sustainable aircraft as part of a competition. The children demonstrated excellent teamwork and resilience whilst...
Year 5b class took part in a STEM day with other schools via YouTube Live this week. The children had to design and create a rocket and even had a special shoutout on the live video. Check it out below. [embed]https://youtube.com/shorts/HSHUX-9cJTw?feature=share?rel=0[/embed] ...
Year 3 and Year 4 had a special visitor this week, Richard the 'History Bloke'. We explored Roman artefacts, marched like Roman soldiers, wrote our names in Latin with ink and played a three in a row game called Rota. Ask your child to tell...
Today Riverside Primary Academy celebrated the Harvest Festival in school. We held an assembly in which children from Years 3 to 6 read out prayers and thanks for the harvest. Every class sang a harvest song beautifully. Thank you very much for all of the donations....
Today we celebrated World Mental Health Day across the whole school by getting up and active completing 'walk the talk'. The children went out on a short walk with a friend and shared any thoughts and feeling they had. We learnt several strategies to support...
The girls' team played very well last night. Although we did not win, we tried our very hardest and had lots of fun. Well done to all and thank you to those who came along to support! ...
Today is poetry day and the theme was refuge. Year 5b have written their own poem as a class and performed it today. Check out the video below. [embed]https://youtu.be/3YLyywPtMTc?rel=0[/embed] ...
Yesterday was the first league game that our recently created football team attended. Although we did not make it to the finals on Monday, the team played extremely well and should be very proud of themselves. The player of the match was the team captain, Riley....
Year 5 have had a brilliant time today baking Victorian sponge cakes as part of their 'Victorians' topic. They followed the recipe excellently well, worked very sensibly as part of a group and best of all, got to taste their Victoria sponge cakes which I can...