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 27 Sep 2024This week, year 3 have had a great week starting our writing unit using the Croods as a stimulus to write newspaper reports about the invention of fire! We have been doing lots of work on place value, which we will continue next week! In science, we have been investigating the different types of rocks and seeing whether they are permeable or impermeable! We have another busy week next week and we hope the children get a well rested weekend 🙂 We are super proud with how they have settled into life at Albany
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Year 4 News
Fri 27 Sep 2024This week we have continued to learn about Ancient Egyptian life and the jobs that people had. We have been reading some Egyptian myths about the Gods and Goddesses. We also learned about the Ancient Egyptian Shaduf. PE has been fun as we have been developing our dance. Spellings have again been given out.
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Year 5 News
Fri 27 Sep 2024This week, we have continued writing our travel guide for places in North America and will be completing our final versions next week. In maths, we have come to the end of our place value unit and will be moving on to the four operations. We are really looking forward to welcoming parents into our maths lesson on Tuesday for our first parent workshop of the year. In topic, we have been focusing on physical and human features of geography. Mount Rushmore provoked some interesting discussions in class as to whether it was physical or human. In DT, we have started measuring and sawing wood, ready to construct our money boxes. We have also made some prototypes to test the best way of joining wood.
Your child should come home with their spelling book and the new spellings we will be working on next week, ready for the test on Friday. If they forget to bring their book home, please see the new spelling list below. We hope you have a lovely weekend.
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Year 6 News
Fri 27 Sep 2024This week in Maths, we have been continuing with our work around place value, using negative numbers and number lines. In English, we have written examples of direct and reported speech, making sure that our punctuation is accurate. We have also planned our newspaper reports about Theseus' victory against the Minotaur. Everyone is doing really well with their swimming lessons and we have learnt new vocabulary in Spanish, linked to our personalities.
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Year 3 News
Fri 20 Sep 2024This week, year 3 have finally got going after test week. We have had a fantastic week of English, where we have followed the story of Boy (A Stone Age Character) and maths, where we have been looking at number and place value. The children are showing lots of live for learning and we are getting to know each and every one of them in the process!
We are so proud of everything they have done this week! Keep it up.
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Year 4 News
Fri 20 Sep 2024This week, Year 4 have enjoyed practicing and performing a puppet section of their dance in PE. They have continued to learn about the ancient Egyptians and their writing by scribing hieroglyphs onto papyrus paper. In Science, we learned about the function of saliva by conducting an experiment with crackers and of bile using water, oil and washing up liquid.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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Year 5 News
Fri 20 Sep 2024Another week has flown by in Year 5. This week, we have been busy researching different places in America so that we can write our own travel guides. Some of the places we have researched are: New York, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon and Yosemite National Park. It has been really interesting finding out about the weather, what you can do there and how much things cost. In maths, we have been focusing on place value. In Science, we have continued learning about night and day and have looked at different states in the USA during our geography lessons.
We have not had a spelling test this week as we have not had our usual spelling sessions in school. The spellings sent home last week will be worked on in school next week and tested on Friday. We hope you have a fantastic weekend!
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Year 6 News
Fri 20 Sep 2024This week, we have started our first English unit, which is all about writing a newspaper report about Theseus defeating the Minotaur in the labyrinth. We have recapped our knowledge of fronted adverbials and subordinate clauses. In Maths, place value is our current topic. The children have been able to identify the value of digits in a range of numbers and we have been rounding numbers too. During our History lesson, we found out about some of the key events during the Ancient Greek era and created timelines. Lots of fabulous homework is continuing to be handed in, linked to this topic. Keep up the hard work.
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Year 6 News
Fri 13 Sep 2024This week, everyone has worked really hard on their assessments in Reading, Maths, Spelling and Grammar. Well done for staying so focused and trying your best. In our first lesson about the Ancient Greeks, we explored different locations and identified these on a map. Our final product in Art will be Greek pottery and this week, we created different geometric patterns. We also had our first swimming lesson, which everyone enjoyed.
Have a great weekend.
Miss Ottowell
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Year 5 News
Fri 13 Sep 2024It has been test week in school this week. All the children have worked really hard and tried their best. We have now started our Science and Geography topics for the term. We are learning about Earth and Space in Science and North America in Geography. So far, we have looked at countries that make up North America and why we have night and day in Science. On Wednesday, we had our first Music lesson where we learnt a song called the Gift of the Nile.
Next week we will be starting our spellings. Your child should come home with their spelling book and know which spelling list they need to learn. They will be tested on this next Friday morning. If they don't bring their book home, please see the list below.
