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 05 Jul 2024Wow, this term is flying by, another very busy week in Year 3. In English, children have been thoroughly enjoying writing about their very own factories and I have really enjoyed reading and watching the children’s imaginations get carried away. In Maths, we finished our topic on statistics and have been retrieving all we have learnt over the year. In Art, we have finished our pop art Fairtrade pictures. A highlight was the trip to the library this week, thank you to the parents who came along and got stuck in support the children trying to find books more than 50 years old. We hope the children have a good rest over the weekend. There is no weekly spellings next week as it is test week, but I have set 100 words practice on spelling shed for the children to have a go at.
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Governor Report on Girls' Football Tournament
Fri 28 Jun 2024So yesterday I had the absolute pleasure of watching the Albany Girls play football.
They went into the tournament with no previous match practice, a real mix of ages and little idea of the challenge that lay ahead.
With little or no game or club experience between them they went up against players from well established clubs and some having played for academy setups.
And they were brilliant, they played with each other and for each other. No one gave up and no one let anyone down.
There were moments of good passing and link ups, strong challenges and brave blocks. Great bravery, amazing saves and dazzling runs.
I know that some will move on but what a great start. It would be fantastic if they could carry on because with more practice and more games they could stand a real chance of making a semi final next year.
All the girls were a real credit to Albany. The sportsmanship and kindness they showed to teammates and opponents was brilliant.
Super afternoon and well done Albany Girls.
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Football Team News
Fri 28 Jun 2024Yesterday, a group of year 4,5 and 6 girls travelled to Round Hill Primary School for the inaugural girls football tournament. Although we did not win, the children played with fantastic spirit and came away with a point in one of the games, which is huge progress as most of the team had never played a football match. We had stand out performances from all of the girls and we are so proud of their relentlessness on the playing field. The tournament was eventually won by Fairfield Primary School with Round Hill finishing as runners up.
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Year 6 News
Fri 28 Jun 2024What a week it has been for year 6! We have been doing lots of rehearsals for our DA&RT Graduation and for our end of year performance. The children are really starting to learn their parts and learn the songs that they will be singing. We have also been working on our science, exploring the human body and the effects of keeping a healthily maintained diet. Today even, we looked at the effects on high cholesterol in an experiment outside! We had great fun! The children continue to behave impeccably at this busy time and we could not be more proud of them.
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Year 5 News
Fri 28 Jun 2024This week has flown by! In Year 5, we have continued learning all about the Tudors and learnt about the monarchs after Henry VIII. In English, we have been using our reading book 'Treason' to get a better understanding of life as a Tudor and what it would have been like for a child. In art, we have started looking at famous Tudor portraits and why they were important. On Thursday, we had our first trip to Stapleford library where some children were issued with a library card and managed to take a book home.
For swimming on Monday, all children will need to bring loose clothing as well as their normal swimming costume as part of water safety.
Please see below for the spellings for next week.
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Year 4 News
Fri 28 Jun 2024This week, Year 4 have been continuing to learn about the story of King Arthur and writing our own versions of the story. We have learned about John Montague who was the fourth Earl of Sandwich- it is though that the first ever sandwich was made for him. We have also enjoyed practicing some events ready for Sports Day.
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Year 3 News
Fri 28 Jun 2024Year 3 have had yet another busy week and have done well in the hot conditions. In English, we have started our next unit which is all about using descriptive sentences to describe their very own factory which is like Willy Wonka’s factory. In Maths, we have been learning about statistics and different ways to represent data. In Science, we have been carrying out an experiment on the impact of moving a torch away from an object and what happens to its shadow. In Art, we have been drawing our outlines of our pop art final piece ready to add lots of colour next week. In Topic, we learnt the process about how chocolate is made right from when the farmers pick the pod, this knowledge supported us in our independent write on Wednesday. We hope you have a great weekend, here are next weeks spellings.
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Year 6 News
Fri 21 Jun 2024Year 6 have had another busy week. We have continued rehearsing for our leavers' performance and we have now started to plan our DAaRT graduation, to show what we have learnt in these sessions. Wednesday was Arts Day and we created our river landscape in watercolours. We also worked with Miss Woolley for our parent workshop, where we explored rhythm. Thank you to the parents who came and joined in. Yesterday, we all visited Stapleford Library. It was great to see so may children borrowing books.
Miss Ottowell and Mr Tivey.
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Year 4 News
Fri 21 Jun 2024In English this week, we have started our Narrative unit inspired by King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and have made our plan ready to start writing next week. In Maths, we have moved onto Time, looking at o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. On Wednesday, we really enjoyed art day. In Year 4, we created a collaborative watercolour piece of a local landscape and developed our mark making and doodling skills. In Science, we have observed the effects of the vibrations made by sound using instruments and in Topic, we have looked at urban and rural land and have identified cities within England.
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Year 3 News
Fri 21 Jun 2024Year 3 have had another very busy week, the highlight being Art day, where children thoroughly enjoyed learning all about mark making and how you can connect art to music and emotions, they also had an opportunity to draw like Mr. Doodle. The children have also wrote up their Golden ticket invites to Wonka’s chocolate factory in English and these look really spectacular (I certainly wish I was going). In Maths, we have been finishing our topic of shape and even got to make some 3D shapes from a net. In PE, children have been learning more of the events that are in sports day, we hope you can join us on the 15th July. We hope you have a great weekend, here are next weeks spellings.
