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 04 Jul 2025Another hot one, not as hot as last week though. Test week for everyone, they have all smashed it, well done year 5. We had 3 maths, 1 spelling, 1 SPAG, 1 reading and our 200 Y3,Y4,Y5,Y6 spellings words, so very impressive. We looked at our British Values in the afternoons this week learning Rule of Law, Democracy, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance. We continued with Spanish and P.E, again sports day training and in Art we learnt how to draw a portrait form a different angle using the Loomis Method. Sports day Monday and healthy living week for the rest. Have a great weekend.
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Year 6 News
Fri 04 Jul 2025It has been another busy week in Year 6. Rehearsals for our DAaRT graduation and leavers' performance are going really well.
This week, most of the class spent a couple of days at their new secondary school, getting used to the new routines. The children in school, completed a range of activities, which were based on British Values and protected characteristics. We also enjoyed another visit to Stapleford Library. Today is the Summer Market, which everyone is really looking forward to.
It's sports day on Monday so there is no swimming. Remember to wear PE kits with a t shirt, which is your team's colour.
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Year 4 News
Fri 27 Jun 2025This week in Year 4 we have published our newspaper reports on the Grendel attack in the Beowulf story we have been reading. In maths, we have finished our unit on money and have moved onto our unit on time. In topic, we have looked at the cities within England and we have done some market research and planned our sandwiches in DT. Next week is Test Week and we will also be doing work based around our British Values. We encourage children to learn their Year ¾ spelling words and common exception words (see below) in preparation for next week as they will be tested on these. Have a lovely weekend!
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Year 6 News
Fri 27 Jun 2025This week, we have completed our topic on rivers. We found out why they are important and we researched some of the world's major rivers. We were amazed by the size of them.
In Science, we have been learning about inheritance and why variation occurs between living things. We took a Mr Men and Little Miss character and thought about what features their children might inherit.
We have also been working hard on our DAaRT and leavers' performances.
Transition days have taken place this week at Friesland. Next week, it's Bramcote.
Have a great weekend
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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.
