Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Year 5 News
Fri 27 Jun 2025Another fab week in the sun, children are looking forward to the upcoming sports day on the 7th and the Albany Adventure to the zoo on the 22nd July. We have been working hard to finish our newspaper reports on the tragedy at Macbeths castle and in Maths we completed our negative numbers unit with great success. Spanish we continue to use singing to learn our body parts and in History we are learning all about the infamous King Henry VIII and his array of wives. PE has been fun this week practising for sports day and Go Zero is back with us drafting a letter to our local MP. In Art we’ve had fun drawing and shading facial feature to improve our portraits on a Tudor style.
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Year 3 News
Fri 27 Jun 2025This week year 3 have been working hard on their last bits of preparation for test week next week. They have thought about grammatical features, shape and angles. The children have also particularly enjoyed their last trip to the library for this year and even got the chance to understand some of the rules of chess.
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Year 6 News
Fri 20 Jun 2025This week, we started our topic all about rivers. We have learnt about the importance of the water cycle and the features of a river. On Thursday, we enjoyed a rather warm walk to the River Erewash, to do some sketching for Art and we also investigated the speed of the river.
Today, to celebrate Refugee Week, we spent the day learning about refugees and their experiences. We also wrote a class poem and a class pledge, linked to the theme 'Community as a superpower.' Another task was to create a welcome letter or a postcard that could be given to a refugee, to make them feel welcome. The ideas and responses were brilliant.
Next week, swimming is normal.
Have a great weekend.
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Year 3 News
Fri 20 Jun 2025The children were very excited to have their first Juniors class photos! We have worked hard this week to continue to develop our writing and have built our confidence in using a number of mathematical skills. The children are nearly ready for our last test week, please continue to practise all key skills at home!
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Year 5 News
Fri 20 Jun 2025Lovely five days in sun this week. Might be a bit too hot for me though. But despite the hot weather, the children have continued to work hard. Year five have been writing a newspaper report on the wrong doings at Macbeth’s castle in Dunsinane. We are looking for patterns and sequencing with decimals in maths moving on to multiplying and dividing. We have moved on in art, drawing portraits in more closely by concentrating on looking at features in more detail and in Spanish we have also moved on as we are now learning part of the body. We had a lovely school picnic on the field on Wednesday and refugee day was on Friday, we looked at what refugees have to endure and what is being done about it.
More sunshine next week, enjoy your weekend.
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Year 4 News
Fri 20 Jun 2025This week in maths, we have started our new unit on money and have been learning how to convert amounts between pounds and pence and ordering and comparing amounts of money. In English we have started our new unit on writing a newspaper report about the Beowulf attack and have looked at the features of a report, sequenced the events in the story of Beowulf and have written our headlines and orientations. For our independent writing this week, we wrote diary entries as King Arthur on the day of his coronation, using the present perfect tense. In Topic, we have looked at counties within England and in Science, we have finished our lesson on how sounds are made. On Friday, we had Refugee Day and have learnt what a refugee is and why they become one, showing empathy and respect towards them.
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Year 6 News
Fri 13 Jun 2025Year 6 have worked really hard this week on their independent writing. There have been some excellent descriptive pieces and an emotive diary entry.
In Geography, we have found out about the human features of Scandinavia and we compared a location in this region to a location on the UK.
We have nearly completed our DAaRT sessions. This week, we have covered knife crime safety and how to be a good citizen.
Next week, we start our Rivers topic and will be visiting the local river. Please return permission slips. Also, there is no swimming on Monday.
Have a great weekend
Miss Ottowell
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Year 5 News
Fri 13 Jun 2025Year 5 have had a great week. We have made huge progress in our decimal work in Maths and we are now ready to write our letter from Macbeth to Lady Macbeth to warn of the witches predictions. Music produced some wonderful singing with new songs introduced in our Friday singing assembly and most children can now recall sentences about their family in Spanish. We had a fabulous tennis and rounders lesson in the sunshine with so real stand out talents and finished off the week with an experiment in science which is always nice. Have a lovely weekend everyone.
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Year 4 News
Fri 13 Jun 2025This week in Year 4 we have finished our English unit on writing a Viking-inspired narrative. We have also started a new unit on writing a newspaper report about Beowulf’s attack. In Maths, we have been finishing our unit on decimals and have been rounding them and converting them into fractions. In Science, we have started our new unit on sound and have learnt about how sounds are produced. On Thursday afternoon, we took a trip down to our local library to read and check out books and were lucky to be able to learn some of the basics of chess! We have also started our new topic on The British Isles and have learnt about the differences between the countries that make up Great Britain and the United Kingdom etc. and what constitutes the British Isles. We have now finished our torches and learn about Earl Sandwich as part of our next DT project; the man who the sandwich was named after.
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Year 3 News
Fri 13 Jun 2025Year 3 have worked really hard this week in all their lessons. In maths, we have been focusing on the notoriously tricky topic of time. The children have been reading both analogue and digital clocks and working out duration of events. Please ask your child to continue working on this at home - any practice is good practice!
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