Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Year 5 News
Thu 28 Nov 2024What a great week we’ve had in year 5.
We’ve been visited by the dentist and found out there are 13 tablespoons of sugar in a McDonalds milkshake!!
We have finished our Isaac Newton bibliographies and made some fantastic progress with our fractions in Maths. In Science we explored the effects of water resistance with our plasticine shapes in water cylinders experiment and in Art we designed our Indus Valley jewellery. In ‘Go Zero’ we explored the school grounds and became nature photographers and perfected our dance routines in physical education.
Thanks to all those who came to the English lesson on Friday morning and looking forward to seeing you all at parents evening this coming Tuesday.
Below are next weeks spellings:
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Year 3 News
Fri 22 Nov 2024This week year three have had a very resilient week with tests. They have behaved incredibly well and they have tried their absolute best in all areas of learning. We have continued to practice our Christmas production and today, we have been exploring the importance of the triangle in construction work. This week, we also had a visit from the mental health support team to give the children some advice on how to regulate themselves when they may be feeling sad. They were polite and respectful and they worked very hard in these sessions! As ever, we are super proud of the way they have conducted themselves 🙂
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Year 6 News
Fri 22 Nov 2024We had a brilliant trip to Newstead Abbey, where we took part in a range of activities, to help us understand what life was like during the Victorian era. There was the opportunity to play with Victorian toys and make herb bags. The games in the great hall were really fun and lots of us had to do forfeits. We also got to see what a Victorian school room and bedroom would have looked like.
This week, the children have been completing their assessments and everyone has tried really hard, showing us what they have learnt during the Autumn term. Well done!
To end the week, we held our class debate in celebration of Parliament Week. The question was 'Should space travel be banned?' We had a great debate with lots of confident contributions. Everyone listened to the different ideas and shared their responses and counter arguments. The majority of the class voted in favour of space travel not being banned.
Have a great weekend
Miss Ottowell
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Year 5 News
Fri 22 Nov 2024Test week this week and what a wonderful job the children did.
We started the week with our parliament week assembly delivered by our school council. We learnt about parliament, how to debate and the reasons we would hold a vote. Science may have been the highlight this week with the children learning about forces applied to a parachutist.
In P.E we learnt how to ‘tut’ (dance with our hands and combine it with a routine. Spanish was devoted to animals and their descriptions. Wear what you want day was a huge success with many prizes donated for our winter fair and rehearsal for our Christmas singing concert is sounding wonderful.
Our new spellings for next week are below.
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Year 4 News
Fri 22 Nov 2024This week the children have worked really hard in all their assessments. As part of parliament week, both classes have held a debate and voted on a topic chosen by the school council. We have learnt about the different layers of teeth in Science and have sketched the face of Nelson Mandela in preparation for our art final piece. Next week, we will be continuing our Maths unit on Area and start a new unit on persuasive writing in English now that we have published our South African Diaries.
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Year 5 News
Mon 18 Nov 2024Another great week in year five!!
The clear highlight was karate day on Thursday. In English we are continuing with our biography writing, researching the innovative Isaac Newton (favourite fact so far was his dog set his laboratory on fire destroying 20 years of research).
Maths has concluded our multiplication and division unit with some great progress shown. In science we are exploring gravity and now know the difference between weight and mass while completed experiments using our Newton measuring metres.
Dancing continued with Mr Riley in P.E with some stand out performances and we continue to explore the issues of climate change in our new Go Zero lessons. Finally, this week our Art unit has begun with the children sketching ancient Indus Valley jewellery.
Our new spellings for next week are below.
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Year 3 News
Fri 15 Nov 2024This week, year 3 have been doing an amazing job, writing their travel diaries. They have used a range of different clauses to convey their feelings, thoughts and emotions. We have continued with our music lessons, exploring ballads and the deeper meaning behind them (The children have loved listening to David Bowie and Bryan Adams!) We are continuing with our DT unit on bridges (thankyou to your contributions so far on the project) and this week, we have explored some of the different bridges around the world. Year 3 have been brilliant this week and as ever, we are super proud of them!
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Year 4 News
Fri 15 Nov 2024This week in Year 4 we have finished publishing our South African diary entries and have also finished our maths unit on addition and subtraction, moving onto area of shapes. A highlight of this week was our karate session on Thursday, we learnt a few different kicks and were able to practise them. We have also practised our balancing skills in Gymnastics.
In Topic, we have looked at the different biomes South Africa and in Art, we have been able to show movement of figures by using lines.
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Year 3 News
Fri 08 Nov 2024Year 3 have had a really good first week back. We have started our next unit of work in English, writing a descriptive travel diary entry about visiting different places in Peru. The children have also enjoyed their first music lesson of the year, exploring different ballads. The music did not end there either as we visited St Helens church on Friday afternoon and celebrated our harvest festival and we also started practicing for our Christmas production! The children have been brilliant all week and we hope they have a good, well-rested weekend!
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Year 4 News
Fri 08 Nov 2024Year 4 have settled back in well after half term. In English, we have started our new topic on Diary entries, we have used at the typical features used in a diary entry and have had lessons looking at some of those key features for writing our own next week. In Maths, we have started a new unit on addition and subtraction and have moved onto 4 digit-numbers that require exchanges. Our new topic this term is South Africa and has a Geography focus, our lesson this week looked at different climate zones. Our reading unit this half term is from the book 'Journey to Jo'Burg' by Bevery Naidoo. Within our PE lessons we have had our first lesson in Gymnastics and Basketball. Our Spanish lessons have also resumed for this half term. On Friday, we had a lovely visit to the church as part of Harvest Festival.
