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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Class 6 News
Fri 26 Jan 2024This week, year 6 have had a great week with their writing unit, finding out many facts about Anne Frank and how the Jewish Religion were treated in the lead up to and during the second world war. Within out humanities, we also looked at how people stayed safe during the blitz and what precautions were put in place. All the children have worked extremely hard and we have had some fantastic outcomes in lessons. Below, you will see next weeks spelling list.
king
amateur
amateur
category
category
categorise
morning
correspond
correspond
because
environment
environmental
found
frequently
frequently
language
language
language
occur
occur
occurrences
queue
queue
queue
garden
signature
signature
twelfth
twelfth
twelfth
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Year 5 News
Fri 26 Jan 2024This week has flown by! In Science, we have continued learning about plants and the different types of pollination. In History, we learnt about the Doomsday book. We learnt about what it was, why it was introduced and how different groups of people would have felt about it. In English, we have been learning about debates and have started to develop our own thoughts and ideas about who we believe should have been crowned King after the death of Edward the Confessor. We are really looking forward to having our own debate next week. On Thursday 1st February, we will be inviting parents in to school for one of our English lessons. Please see the letter coming home tonight.
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Year 4 News
Fri 26 Jan 2024In Year 4, we have been continuing our mountains unit, writing a newspaper report about Nigel Vardy and his dramatic mountain rescue as well as learning more about the climate of a mountain in topic. In Science, we have set up an investigation regarding evaporation.
Remember next Thursday morning 9-10 is our Parent Workshop on writing. Also,in the last week we have Clip n Climb- please keep slips and pennies coming in (also for Mayan Day). Swimming letters have also gone out for when we start in the second week after half term.
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Year 3 Newd
Fri 26 Jan 2024Year 3 have had another jam-packed week of learning. In Maths, we have finished Multiplication and Division and started our new topic of Length and Perimeter. In English, we have finished our set of instruction on ‘How to Make a Roman Shield’ and the children are really excited that they will get to make these next week. In Topic, we learnt about all the inventions that the Romans created that we still use today and the children were fascinated at how clever the Romans were. In Science, we learnt about a scientist called George Washington Carver who invented over 100 uses of peanuts! In DT we have designed our shields and trialled different ways to make handles. We hope you have a lovely weekend, here are next weeks spellings.
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Year 6
Fri 19 Jan 2024This week year 6 have been getting stuck into their world war II topic. They have been learning more about concentration camps, reading their new class text (The Silver Sword) and they have also been finalising their writing unit on convincing young soldiers to go to war using a number of different persuasive features- something they have thoroughly enjoyed doing. In maths, the children have been working extensively with fractions and they are much more confident in multiplying and dividing fractions. As always, we are really proud of their effort and maturity in doing all they can to be the best they can be. Below you will see next weeks spelling list.
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Year 5 News
Fri 19 Jan 2024It has been a busy week in Year 5. In maths, we have been learning how to do long multiplication. Despite finding it a little tricky, all the children have shown great resilience and tried really hard. In Topic, we have continued learning about the Normans and have learnt about the male and female parts of a plant in science.
Please see the spellings for next week below and help your children learn them. They will be tested on them next Friday, along with their times tables. We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
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Year 4 News
Fri 19 Jan 2024This week, we have learned lots more about mountains- where mountain ranges are in the British Isles and in the world, how they were formed and the types of mountains. English has linked to our visit from Nigel Vardy last week and we have investigated the features of newspapers in order to be able to write a newspaper article about his misadventure in the coming weeks. In PE, Year 4s showed their co-ordination skills in starting to learn a new dance and are also enjoying the cold(!!!????) playing basket ball.
Please keep Clip n Climb and Mayan day slips and pennies coming in- and if there are any parent free on 8th Feb for the Clip n Climb trip- WE NEED YOU! I need 4 more adults in order for ratios to be ok. Leave school 11.30, back by 3 ish.
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Year 3 News
Fri 19 Jan 2024This week Year 3 have challenged themselves in all subjects as they have learnt some tricky concepts. In English, we have looked at adverbs, conjunctions and imperative verbs. In Maths, we have looked at multiplying and dividing 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers. In History, we have learnt how important the Emperors were to the Romans and how Women had no rights. In Science, we have learnt about the correct conditions for a plant to flourish. In DT, the children enjoyed practicing symmetry and how they would put designs onto their shields. Have a relaxing weekend and here are next weeks spellings.
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Year 6 News
Fri 12 Jan 2024We have had a really busy week settling in after the Christmas break and all the children seem refreshed and ready to go for another term. This week, we have started our new WWII topic. We have been learning about the different events that lead up to the start of the second world war ; in English, we have started our new writing genre using persuasive techniques to convince young soldiers to join the army.
As we move into this term, we just wanted to say that our PE days are Mondays and each week, children will be receiving a new spelling list. You can see this below.
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Year 5 News
Fri 12 Jan 2024It has been so lovely to have all the children back after the Christmas break and hearing about their lovely holidays. This week, we started a new unit in history - The Normans. On Tuesday, we looked at the events that led up to the Battle of Hastings and why it was significant. In English, we have started learning about playscripts and have identified the key features. In reading, we have started our new text for the term which is Robin Hood.
Each week the children are given spellings to learn at home and in school. They are tested on these at the end of the week. Below are the spellings for next week.
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