Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Year 3 News
Fri 12 Dec 2025Year 3 are having a lovely week wrapping up their learning. Both classes have performed their group dances to some of their peers and had a great time doing it! They have worked hard to publish their diary entries, which look beautiful. All of the children also had an absolute blast at the pantomime. We were so proud of them and the way the conducted themselves and followed all of the adult instructions.
Reminders:
- Monday - Film night
- Tuesday - Christmas concert 10am
- Wednesday - Christmas jumper day and Christmas lunch
- Thursday - Class parties - please wear normal uniform
The same spellings will continue for the next few days.
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Year 4 News
Fri 12 Dec 2025This week, we have continued to write our travel diary in English about our experiences in South Africa- we have climbed Table Mountain, seen the penguins, visited gone on safari, found glorious beaches (depending on whether we visited Cape Town, Durban or Johannesburg). We have used our Times Tables lots in Maths- KEEP LEARNING THEM!!!
Obviously, the highlight of the week was the PANTO- what a great time we had. We were so proud of all the children- behaviour was great and the ushers commented how wonderful they were 🙂 Keep it up 🙂
Next week, keep learning the 100 words- they are in Partnership books 🙂
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Year 5 News
Fri 05 Dec 2025Only two weeks until Christmas!
In preparation for Christmas, Year 5 have been channelling their inner Grinch and have been busy plotting how to steal Christmas. We have been learning how to write instructions and have begun writing our own set of instructions all about stealing Christmas. Hopefully they will be ready to publish next week. In maths, we are still learning about fractions and have been comparing and ordering fractions. Once again, it highlights just how important times tables are and how much easier they will find their work if they learn them at home.
Next week is a busy and exciting week. On Tuesday, we have our trip to the Pantomime immediately followed by parents evening. We are looking forward to catching up with you and sharing how well your children have done this term. On Thursday, we will be heading to St Helens Church for our Christmas dress rehearsal. If you are free to walk with us, please contact the office. We are aiming to leave around 9am.
The spelling list for next week can be found below.
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Year 6 News
Fri 05 Dec 2025Well done to everyone on another busy week! This week saw the start of our Christmas traditions with the Albany Advent - we are so lucky!
In Maths we have been continuing to work hard on fractions, adding and subtracting fractions and applying our knowledge to problem solving. We have showed great resilience with some challenging questions!
In English we have published our diary entries from the perspective of characters in The Highwayman, the children were very proud of their writing.
We are looking forward to a busy new week with the Pantomime, Christmas singing rehearsals and seeing the parents at parents evening.
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Carmichael & Miss Ottowell
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Year 4 News
Fri 05 Dec 2025This week we have been planning a South African diary- Mrs Marshall has loved retelling stories of her visit there a few!!! years ago whilst travelling. The egg shells were looked at in Science and the lesson is- do not drink vinegar!!!!
It was fun building pyramids and predicting how many cubes would be needed for a higher pyramid- we noticed a pattern and talked about squared numbers. These will be referred to again next year in Year 5.
Keep practicing times tables and READ!!!
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Year 3 News
Fri 05 Dec 2025The children have worked hard this week and shown some great appreciation. They have enjoyed the start of advent and are really thankful for everything they have. The children have started their new unit in Maths (multiplication and division) and have shown some great mathematical understanding through this. We have had some great English lessons too both writing and editing our diary entries. Next week we will be starting to look at finishing of our topics ready to review them the following week.
Reminder:
Albany adventure and parents evening next Tuesday!
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Year 6 News
Fri 28 Nov 2025This week's news:
Y6 started the week with a brilliant trip to Newstead Abbey, where we were transported back in time to the Victorian era. We were able to watch a magic lantern show, we made our own herb bags and we found out what life would have been like for the children. We were really proud of how well everyone behaved and got involved with the activities.
In Science, everyone had the chance to create their own rainbow, using torches, mirrors, water and prisms. This showed us that light is made up of 7 colours. We have started working on our dolls' houses this week, thinking about suitable features and decorations that could be included.
It has also been test week. Well done to everyone for trying their best in all tests. Tests scores will be shared at parents' evening.
Here are next week's spellings - keep practicing them.
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Year 5 News
Fri 28 Nov 2025This week has been test week in school. All the children have worked incredibly hard and it is so lovely to see how much progress they have made this term. In Science, we looked at simple mechanisms and learnt about levers, gears and pulleys. In history, we looked at different cities in the Indus valley, comparing their houses, jobs and their structure. In music, we learnt how to play the Egyptian song on the glockenspiel and the structure of a piece of music. Lessons will be back to normal next week and in English, we will begin looking at instructions and in maths we will continue learning about fractions.
Please see the spelling list for next week below.
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Year 4 News
Fri 28 Nov 2025This week, Year 4 have been working hard in our tests- well done. We set up an investigation to see which liquids damage our teeth and we will check in on them next week. We learned about Nelson Mandela and his importance to South Africa.
Remember it's the Countdown to Christmas next week.
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Year 3 News
Fri 28 Nov 2025Year 3 have worked so hard in their tests this week and we are incredibly proud of the progress they have made in just one term! They have enjoyed spending time doing their normal curriculum learning in afternoons. The children have had chance to use altlas' to locate countries with volcanoes in geography, have begun to plan their own investigation in science and have really refined their typing skills in computing.
Reminders:
- Parents evening 9th December
- Albany adventure 9th December
- Christmas jumper day 17th December
- Christmas lunch 17th December
- Maths parent workshop 4th December
- Christmas stalls outside the office 1st - 5th December
Spellings:
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