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Year 5 News
Fri 23 Feb 2024Despite the wet weather, we have had a good week. It was lovely to see everyone after the half-term holiday. This week, we have started our new topic in geography, learning all about rainforests. To help deepen our understanding, we will be writing a non-chronological report all about them in English. In maths, we have been focusing on decimals, looking at: place value, rounding, comparing and ordering. This term, we are continuing to learn about different life cycles in science.
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Year 4 News
Fri 23 Feb 2024This week we had our Mayan day on Tuesday, it was very exciting! We met an explorer and learnt a lot about where the Maya Civilisation come from, the climate, animals, religion and so much more! We even had the opportunity to dress up as Mayan Gods!
In English, we have started a new-unit writing folktales and have looked at the features of the Mayan folktale ‘The Chocolate Tree’ and have planned out our own versions to write next week. In Art, we have been researching about Mayan masks, as we will be creating our own later in the term.
We are studying animals and their habitats in Science now and this week we have looked at the seven life processes that define a living thing.
We have also resumed our Spanish lessons for this half term and have been learning about Spanish colours.
We start swimming on Monday, so make sure you bring your swimming kit and do not wear earrings on swimming days.
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Year 3 News
Fri 23 Feb 2024Year 3 have settled back into routine nicely this week, we are really looking forward to this half term as there are so many trips and exciting learning opportunities. In Maths, we have started learning about fractions, as staff we have been blown away at their knowledge on this topic. In English, we have been planning and starting to write our recount on the invasion of Britain. In Science, we have learnt about ‘photosynthesis’ and how water is transported throughout the plant. In PE, we have started to learn a dance routine and also Tag rugby. We hope the children sleep well this weekend with food tasting to look .
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Year 6 News
Fri 09 Feb 2024This week, children have enjoyed getting stuck in with our mental health and well-being week. Every day, we have dedicated 1 hour to mental health and well-being through a variety of different curriculum activities such as the daily mile and a number of PE activities on Monday, a mental health assembly on Tuesday and Spanish singing on Thursday! We have rounded the week off completing our RE unit, learning about how Jewish people were persecuted during the Second World War as well as completing our writing for pleasure on Friday afternoon! We hope the children have a fantastic week off for half term and we are looking forward already to seeing them on Monday 19th February.
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Year 5 News
Fri 09 Feb 2024It has been a slightly different week this week as we have been focusing on mental health and well-being. The children have taken part in a number of activities to try and make them aware of how they can look after their own mental health. On Tuesday, we welcomed a visitor from the MHST who delivered an assembly about well-being. After half term, we will be learning about rainforests and have a really exciting day to look forward to. More information will be given during the next half term.
As always, please see the spelling list below for the first week back after half term.
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Year 4 News
Fri 09 Feb 2024What a busy week!
We have learned all about Edmund Hillary- the first man to summit Mount Everest with his sherpa, writing a biography about him. We got to go to Clip n Climb to be mountaineers ourselves and the excitement- the staff there said all the staff said all the children were polite and engaging 🙂
Additionally, we have been studying our RE unit- all about pilgrimages to different places in the world for different religions. As it has been Mental Health week, we have also been investigating how we can feel good and happy and ways to manage stress. The MyHappyMInd work has supported this.
Happy holidays- we made it. After half term, swimming will start on a Monday afternoon on the second week back (26th Feb) and continues until Easter. I have enough parents for 26th Feb but need one additional one for 4th March,11th March and 18th and 25th March. Please see Mrs Marshall if you can help as it can sometimes get confusing when some tell the office and I don't receive the message.
The first week back - PE kit should be worn on the Monday but it is Mayan Day on the Tues so we won't be doing PE.
Have a great week - I am hoping it doesn't rain every day!!!
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Year 3 News
Fri 09 Feb 2024Happy Half term, this week we have worked the Year 3s very heard. In Maths, they have been learning about perimeter and adding and subtracting lengths. In English, we have been exploring emotions of those involved in the Roman invasion on Britain and writing sentences using speech, adverbs and conjunctions. In RE, we have explored learning about what is prayer and how people pray and what they use. It has also been Children’s mental health week so we have been doing activities that help us to understand ourselves better, like a self-care jar, writing our thoughts and feelings down and exploring how to find our voice appropriately. The children also thoroughly enjoyed our 5 weeks of Swimming and I am sure they will be very sad it has finished but they should be proud of all they achieved. We hope you have a restful week and here are the spellings for after half term.
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Year 6 News
Fri 02 Feb 2024This week, in English, we have been learning how we can use linking adverbials and relative clauses in our Anne Frank biographies. In PE, we have continued to develop the attacking and defending skills and tactics that can be used in a game of basketball. To end the week, we have spent the day learning about an aspect of local history - Sir Richard Arkwright. We found out lots of information about him and why he became famous whilst investigating the question 'Was he a hero or a villain?' The children have been using evidence and information about life as a factory worker, to justify their answers to this question.
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Year 5 News
Fri 02 Feb 2024It has been a lovely week in Year 5 this week. In English, we finally got the chance to have our debate about who would have made the best King of England after the death of Edward the Confessor. Everyone took part and it was so lovely to see the children speak so passionately and use evidence they had gained from their topic lessons to support their points. In Science, we have learnt about different ways the seeds of a plant can be dispersed. On Thursday, we welcomed parents in to the class for one of our Rainbow Grammar sessions, focusing on non-finite clauses. As always, it was lovely to have so many of you come and take such an interest in what your children are doing in school. They really do love it when you come!
Next week will be a little different in school as we are having a focus on mental health and wellbeing and will be completing our RE unit for the term.
Please see the spelling list for next week below.
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Year 4 News
Fri 02 Feb 2024This week, Year 4 have worked hard on being journalists and writing a newspaper article about Nigel Vardy's misadventure. We also learned about the climate of mountains and that it becomes colder, the higher up the mountain you go. Additionally, we painted a water colour image based on the work of Nicholas Roerich (a mountain!). Next week, we are looking forward to becoming climbers ourselves at Clip n Climb- thank you for the pennies for this.
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