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 10 Jan 2025This week, we have had a very busy first week back after Christmas. In English, we have started writing the drafts of our narrative story and in math, we have continued with our multiplication and division unit. The children have settled back in to their classroom routine really well! The highlight of our week on the other hand has to be our assembly on Tuesday, where an outside provider came in and demonstrated the use of many different rock band instruments! It was loud, chaotic and extremely fun. We hope the children have a lovely weekend. Stay safe. Please be reminded that our PE days are Tuesdays and Fridays.
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Year 4 News
Fri 10 Jan 2025Happy New Year. It has been a busy week back. The children were fantastic in remembering swimming kits on Monday and enjoyed their session- some overcoming their worries which was great to see. We have started our Mountains topic in Humanities and States of Matter is our new focus in Science. Homework sheets have been given out and spellings will be usually given out on a Friday too. Have a great weekend.
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Year 5 News
Fri 10 Jan 2025We have had a fab start to the new term. On Tuesday, we had an amazing assembly from Rocksteady Music School. All the children learnt about the different instruments in a rock band and got to sing, dance and rock out to the different songs. It even ended with three members of staff forming their own rock band, performing 'We Will Rock You' to the school.
In class, we have started our new unit in history, learning about the Normans and why the Battle of Hastings was so important. In English, we are using our knowledge of the Battle and the events that led up to it to have a debate about who we would have chosen to be king. In maths, we have been learning how to do long multiplication. Although some have found it difficult, they have shown great resilience and starting to get the hang of it.
To support our Norman unit, we will be having a workshop in school. Please see the letter that was sent home on Tuesday and return to school ASAP. Without your support, the event will have to be cancelled.
The spellings for next week are attached below.
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Year 6 News
Fri 10 Jan 2025It has been great to see everyone back in school after the Christmas break, settling back into routines and new topics. We also had an amazing assembly from Rock Steady on Tuesday.
Our new topic is World War 2 and this week, we explored the reasons why the war began. In our English work, we have been using persuasive phrases and techniques in order to persuade young men to sign up and fight in WW2. There has been a lot of exaggeration and bias to make this sound appealing.
In PE this half term, we are going to be developing our skills in gymnastics and we started by practicing different leaps. Everyone tried really hard to show a cat, split and stag leap.
Miss Ottowell
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Year 3 News
Thu 19 Dec 2024Finally! We are there! The holidays have arrived and I don’t think the children could be more ready for a break. We’ve had an amazing first term with year three. This week we have explored Christmas through our RE sessions and we have been to the church to perform our Christmas performance. The children did an amazing job and they sang absolutely beautifully! We hope the children all have a fantastic , well- deserved Christmas break.
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Year 5 News
Thu 19 Dec 2024Merry Christmas Everyone,
Year 5 all did themselves proud at the church with some fantastic singing, it was lovely to see so many parents too. We have had a fantastic week finishing off our Indus Valley jewellery and even had a full hour of nerf wars on Monday. We finished our fractions unit with some great end of unit test scores and move on to multiplication and division. We managed to finish our instructions on how to steal Christmas and our topic was completing our R.E unit.
Next term we will be studying the Normans in History and in Science we move onto Life Cycles unit. In P.E we are back to two lessons a week learning Netball and Tag Rugby.
Have a lovely Christmas and new year and I loo forward to seeing you all in 2025.
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Year 4 News
Thu 19 Dec 2024This week in Year 4, we have finished writing a short narrative based upon Jack and the Beanstalk after our pantomime trip last week. We have had lots of RE lessons this week looking at the Christmas story, Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem and why they had to leave after the birth of baby Jesus. For our Independent Write, we wrote diary entries from the perspective of Santa and have focused on using the present perfect tense. On Thursday, we performed our Christmas concert at St Helen's church which was lovely to watch and we finished the week that afternoon with our Christmas party and Christmas quizzes. We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a safe holidays and look forward to seeing you back in the New Year.
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Year 6 News
Thu 19 Dec 2024We have reached the end of the first term and nearly the end of 2024!
In Science, we explored refraction by putting items into a glass of water, which made it look like they were broken. We completed our RE unit, thinking about Christmas traditions and what matters to us. Our Dolls' houses are now finished and they look brilliant. The attention to detail is fantastic - we have rugs, lamps and other decorations.
To end the week, we enjoyed a morning of music, dancing, games and other festive activities followed by our excellent Christmas performance at St Helen's Church. Well done.
Merry Christmas everyone. See you in 2025!
We have reached the end of the first term and nearly the end of 2024!
In Science, we explored refraction by putting items into a glass of water, which made it look like they were broken. We completed our RE unit, thinking about Christmas traditions and what matters to us. Our Dolls' houses are now finished and they look brilliant. The attention to detail is fantastic - we have rugs, lamps and other decorations.
To end the week, we enjoyed a morning of music, dancing, games and other festive activities followed by our excellent Christmas performance at St Helen's Church. Well done.
Merry Christmas everyone. See you in 2025!
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Year 3 News
Fri 13 Dec 2024This Week year 3 have been doing further work on their Secret of Black Rock English unit. We are nearly at the end with the final pieces coming after christmas. We had a blast at the pantomime and the children were really well behaved in a busy environment! You should be super proud of them. We have also been to the church to finalise logistics for our christmas concert next week! We think we are ready to perform! Have a lovely weekend 🙂
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Year 4 News
Fri 13 Dec 2024In Year 4 this week, we have been learning our multiplication and division facts for the 7 times table in maths and in English, we have been working towards writing a short narrative based on Jack and the Beanstalk after our amazing trip to see the Pantomime on Tuesday. In basketball, we have been practising our shooting skills and for our art unit, we have evaluated our clay busts of Nelson Mandela. We also went to the church on Wednesday morning to practise for our Christmas performance next week which we are all very excited about.
