Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Year 6 News
Fri 03 Oct 2025Well done everyone on another busy week, we have achieved so much! We have all written our first draft of our Greek Myths, we have made Ancient Greek inspired clay pots in Art and have conducted investigations into how circuits work in science. On Thursday we had a poetry morning where we read and created poetry for National Poetry Day.
Well done to everyone for taking part in the Great Athlete sport event and thank you to everyone who helped to raise money for our school. We are looking forward to welcoming our adults into class on Friday for our Grammar Workshop!
Have a lovey weekend
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Year 5 News
Fri 03 Oct 2025WOW! What an amazing week we have had. On Tuesday, we welcomed two Nottingham Panthers players to school and today, we have had the Olympian Joel Fearon in school. We have been overwhelmed by your support and generosity by sponsoring your child to help raise money for Great Athletes and our school, putting money towards new sport equipment. We will let you know how much money we have raised once we have the final total next week.
In English, we have written up our travel guides and have begun creating TV adverts for our location. Everyone is really excited to record their own advert. In maths, we have moved on to addition and subtraction and have been researching the astronaut Tim Peake in science. Earlier in the week, we started sawing our wood ready to make our money boxes.
Please see below for the spelling list for next week.
Have a lovely weekend.
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Year 4 News
Fri 03 Oct 2025Year 4 have had a very busy week. We had two Panthers Ice Hockey players join us on Tuesday afternoon who came in to share how much money we have raised for school by going to see them at their games. On Friday, we were also lucky enough to meet a Great Athlete and have a sports session with him, we were very inspired by his achievements. On Thursday, it was poetry day and the theme was play, we had a go at writing our own poems inspired by the theme. In English, we finished publishing our English unit on writing a set of instructions on how to make an Egyptian plaque and started our new Narrative unit inspired by the book Marcy and The Riddle of The Sphinx. In Maths, we have moved onto lots of work on Roman Numerals, even adding and subtracting with them. In Science, we looked at a scientist called William Beaumont and his remarkable experiment to find out how our stomach digests food. In Topic, we learnt all about daily life in Ancient Egypt, what they wore, what they ate and drank and what their homes were like etc. On Monday next week, it is Egyptian day and are really looking forward to learning lots more about the ancient Egyptians. The spellings for next week are below. Have a great weekend everyone!
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Year 3 News
Fri 03 Oct 2025Fun week in year three. We met the Nottingham Panthers on Tuesday, had athletes in school on Friday and also it was poetry day on Thursday. We have really enjoyed learning about the stone age family ‘The Croods’ in English and grammar lessons and working with numbers lines in maths. Spanish is great fun, with the children now perfecting their Spanish phonic starters and again learning the properties of rock and where they came from during our science lessons. Spellings and phonics are going well in the morning and these are below for next week to practise.
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Year 3 News
Fri 26 Sep 2025Four weeks in now and year three are flying. Making great progress in both English and Maths, looking at both Stone age life and place value. The children have made great progress in Spanish and are really getting to grips with the Spanish phonics. We are continuing with hockey and gymnastics in P.E and have completed some really interesting science experiments, looking at acid reaction on different rocks and whether they sink or not. It was great to have our first Merit assembly of the year, well done to those children. Spelling for next week below.
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Year 4 News
Fri 26 Sep 2025This week, Year 4 have been working on planning and writing their own set of instructions on how to make an ancient Egyptian-inspired cartouche. In Maths, the children have practised partitioning and the flexible partitioning of numbers to 10,000 and have been estimating and comparing numbers on a number line. In Science, we have done a couple of experiments and have also looked into the different digestive systems in different animals. In Topic, we have looked at the hierarchy in Ancient Egypt and the different roles they had.
The spellings for next week are:
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Year 5 News
Fri 26 Sep 2025How has another week gone already!
This week, we have been drafting our travel guides for a location in America and will be proof reading them on Monday ready to publish later in the week. Hopefully we will have photos of their fabulous work to share on our class news next week. In maths, we have focused on place value, ordering and comparing numbers and rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000. In geography, we have looked at natural and manmade landmarks and in science we have been learning about the different phases of the moon and why we have different seasons.
Next week, we will not have our usual line dancing session for our Friday PE as we have our fabulous visitor Joel Fearon coming to work with all the children in school. Don't forget to sponsor your child and sign up using the QR link or the following link: http://sportal.sportsforschools.org/events/landing
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Year 6 News
Fri 26 Sep 2025This week, Year 6 have been continuing their work on Greek myths and we researched some of the immortal and mythical creatures, which featured in these. In our independent writing, we wrote character descriptions of the Minotaur. The adventurous vocabulary really helped to show the appearance and personality of the creature.
In History, we discovered how the city states of Athens and Sparta were very different and in our Science lesson, we learnt how to draw circuit components, using the correct symbols.
Below, are next week's spellings.
Have a great weekend.
Miss Ottowell and Miss Carmichael
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Year 5 News
Fri 19 Sep 2025Another great week in Year 5. This week, we have been busy researching a location in North America so that we can write our own travel guides. It has been lovely to learn about the Grand Canyon, Yosemite National Park and New York. In maths, we have continued focusing on place value. During our science lessons, we have looked at the planets in the solar system and how views about the solar system have changed over time.
Next week, we will be focusing on the 9 times table in class and the spellings can be found below.
Today, your child should come home with a sponsorship for our Great Athletes event which will be on the 3rd October. Please sponsor your child and ask any friends or relatives too. The more money we raise, the more money we will get for school to spend on new sport equipment.
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Year 4 News
Fri 19 Sep 2025This week, Year 4 have started our new English unit on writing Instructions to create an ancient Egyptian-inspired cartouche after making their own in the first week. So far, we have looked at the features of instructions, using time conjunctions, imperative verbs, expanded noun phrases and precise adjectives and adverbs, which we will include when we start writing the instructions next week. In Maths, we have started our place value topic and have been representing, partitioning and using a number line with numbers to 1,000 and beyond. In Topic, we have been looking at how the ancient Egyptians wrote using hieroglyphs. We researched some facts about them and learnt about the Rosetta stone. We then made our own bookmark using papyrus paper and wrote on it using hieroglyphs. In Science, we looked at how the enzymes in our saliva break down food chemically with a cracker experiment! In PE, we have been continuing to work on the choreography for our dance and have been developing our skills in Tennis. Below are the spellings to practise for next Friday’s spelling test. Remember to read at least 3 times a week for your Starbooks and practise your times tables too! Have a great weekend.
