Highfield Year 5

What a start to the week! The whole school have come together to create our own ‘peace chain’, to remind us that small acts of kindness help us spread peace in our communities and homes ☮️🕊️ @HelpPicture #schoolcommunity #christmasspirit @chatsworthschls #peaceatchristmas

🦠🧫👩‍🔬🧪Well done to these super scientists who represented Highfield at the @QuizClubUK Science Quiz area heat this morning! They had to answer tricky questions on all sorts of topics, from parasites to Pluto, and oxidation to ozone! Mrs Barbour was very impressed! 🦠🧫👩‍🔬🧪

It’s Mrs Barbour’s favourite science lesson of the year - air resistance! We are making parachutes to test how changing the size impacts the speed at which they fall. Here we are mid-make! #GirlsInSTEM @HighfieldScis @HighfieldHead @chatsworthschls

Year 5 are revising our knowledge of Roman numerals today!

Welcome back Year 5! It’s been a lovely couple of days so far 😊

Honoured to be shortlisted for ‘Independent Prep School of the Year’ in the 2023 Independent Schools of the Year Awards. @HighfieldPrep @ chatsworthschls @isotyawards

Humid morning at the Living Rainforest, experiencing the sights & sounds of this incredible biome. Thanks to our excellent guide, we learnt how plants & animals have adapted & the vital importance of rainforests to the climate & weather worldwide.@livrainforest @chatsworthschls

The children in Upper Preschool are getting so much more confident with their writing and drawing skills. They always come up and show me before popping it into their trays to take home. @EYChatsworthSch @HighfieldPrep #earlyyears #phonics #drawing #preschool #proud

Busy busy busy in #engineering today! The girls are using craft knives and saws to build cam mechanisms out of cardboard and wood to convert rotary motion into linear motion. #girlsinSTEM @chatsworthschls @HighfieldHead

Our afternoon session was kayaking down the River Torridge; here the girls were able to put in to practice the skills they learned in the pool last year. @HighfieldHead @chatsworthschls #HighfieldActivityWeek2023

Today we went bodyboarding! So much fun splashing in the waves 🌊🏄‍♀️ @chatsworthschls @HighfieldHead #HighfieldActivityWeek2023

Lovely evening lookout walk on our first night at Skern Lodge with @highfieldyear4 #HighfieldActivityWeek2023

Action shots from climbing yesterday! #HighfieldActivityWeek2023 @chatsworthschls @HighfieldHead

We have arrived at residential and are ready for our first activity - climbing and abseiling!

Year 5 are kicking off the term by taking part in the #ChatsworthIdeas competition, designing an idea which will solve a modern, urban problem with a focus on sustainability. We have refined our problem and have come up with a solution - now to create a prototype! #GirlsInSTEM

Check out these amazing board games Year 4 have made in Engineering! Lots of ingenious technical features like pulleys, conveyor belts, levers and lift arms - looks like they had a lot of fun making them too😁 @HighfieldHead #youngengineers #girlsinSTEM #creativelearning

We took part in a virtual assembly this morning run by the @NSPCC We learned what we could do and who we could talk to if we needed help. #speakoutandstaysafe @HighfieldPrep

Excited by engineering and smashing gender stereotypes - that's just a typical Friday afternoon at Highfield Prep! #youngengineers #girlsinSTEM #womeninstem #excellent #bespoke #empower @chatsworthschls @STEMAmbassadors @TeachingSTEM

We had some fun today exploring how different instruments create high and low sounds - AKA pitch. It's all to do with frequency of vibrations! We even got to try Mr B's very shiny electric guitar - rock on! 🤘🎸 #youngscientists #girlsinSTEM #handsonlearning #practicalscience

An enormous “THANK YOU!” to all the parents and staff who made our Easter celebration utterly brilliant this morning! Lots of crafts and a fantastic performance from all of our children in Pre-Prep & EYFS - well done all! 🐣 #Spring #celebrate #independentschool