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 01 Mar 2024This week has flown by again! In English, we have finished writing our non-chronological reports about the rainforest and they look fantastic. In maths, we completed our end of unit assessment on fractions, decimals and percentages. I think it might have been their favourite unit as everyone did really well. In geography, we have been focusing on the different layers of the rainforest and the different animals that can be found there.
Next week, we have our special rainforest day where the children are invited to come to school dressed like an animal from the rainforest and contribute a small donation to help protect a rainforest animal. Last week, we voted to sponsor a jaguar.
Please see the spelling list for next week below.
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Year 4 News
Fri 01 Mar 2024This week has been a busy week. On Monday, we started our swimming lessons and we’re very excited to get stuck into our lessons this term. In English, we have completed our Mayan-inspired folktale stories and have now published them. Next week, we will start our unit on persuasive writing and work towards writing and creating an advert for chocolate (something that the Mayans are famous for)! In Maths, we have been doing more learning on fractions, we have been converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions and have practised adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator and simplifying our answers where possible! In Topic, we have looked at the Mayan timeline and have ordered important events during the Mayan rule and we have been grouping living things based on their characteristics in Science.
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Year 3 News
Fri 01 Mar 2024Wow, that week went by fast. I think the children’s highlight might have been the food tasting as part of our DT. This week the children have also written some fabulous independent writes about Boudicca, you can tell the children are inspired by her. We have finished our drafts and edited our writing about the Roman invasion of Britain ready to write them up neat next week. In Maths, we have been looking at fractions on a number line. In Science, we have been facintaed at how clever plants are and how the life cycle and pollination work. Our Tag Rugby skills are coming along nicely, as is our dance that we are creating together. We hope you have a nice weekend, next week is World Book Day, we will not be dressing up but still have lots of activities planned. Here is next weeks spellings.
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Year 5 News
Fri 23 Feb 2024Despite the wet weather, we have had a good week. It was lovely to see everyone after the half-term holiday. This week, we have started our new topic in geography, learning all about rainforests. To help deepen our understanding, we will be writing a non-chronological report all about them in English. In maths, we have been focusing on decimals, looking at: place value, rounding, comparing and ordering. This term, we are continuing to learn about different life cycles in science.
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Year 4 News
Fri 23 Feb 2024This week we had our Mayan day on Tuesday, it was very exciting! We met an explorer and learnt a lot about where the Maya Civilisation come from, the climate, animals, religion and so much more! We even had the opportunity to dress up as Mayan Gods!
In English, we have started a new-unit writing folktales and have looked at the features of the Mayan folktale ‘The Chocolate Tree’ and have planned out our own versions to write next week. In Art, we have been researching about Mayan masks, as we will be creating our own later in the term.
We are studying animals and their habitats in Science now and this week we have looked at the seven life processes that define a living thing.
We have also resumed our Spanish lessons for this half term and have been learning about Spanish colours.
We start swimming on Monday, so make sure you bring your swimming kit and do not wear earrings on swimming days.
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Year 3 News
Fri 23 Feb 2024Year 3 have settled back into routine nicely this week, we are really looking forward to this half term as there are so many trips and exciting learning opportunities. In Maths, we have started learning about fractions, as staff we have been blown away at their knowledge on this topic. In English, we have been planning and starting to write our recount on the invasion of Britain. In Science, we have learnt about ‘photosynthesis’ and how water is transported throughout the plant. In PE, we have started to learn a dance routine and also Tag rugby. We hope the children sleep well this weekend with food tasting to look .
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Year 6 News
Fri 09 Feb 2024This week, children have enjoyed getting stuck in with our mental health and well-being week. Every day, we have dedicated 1 hour to mental health and well-being through a variety of different curriculum activities such as the daily mile and a number of PE activities on Monday, a mental health assembly on Tuesday and Spanish singing on Thursday! We have rounded the week off completing our RE unit, learning about how Jewish people were persecuted during the Second World War as well as completing our writing for pleasure on Friday afternoon! We hope the children have a fantastic week off for half term and we are looking forward already to seeing them on Monday 19th February.
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Year 5 News
Fri 09 Feb 2024It has been a slightly different week this week as we have been focusing on mental health and well-being. The children have taken part in a number of activities to try and make them aware of how they can look after their own mental health. On Tuesday, we welcomed a visitor from the MHST who delivered an assembly about well-being. After half term, we will be learning about rainforests and have a really exciting day to look forward to. More information will be given during the next half term.
As always, please see the spelling list below for the first week back after half term.
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Year 4 News
Fri 09 Feb 2024What a busy week!
We have learned all about Edmund Hillary- the first man to summit Mount Everest with his sherpa, writing a biography about him. We got to go to Clip n Climb to be mountaineers ourselves and the excitement- the staff there said all the staff said all the children were polite and engaging 🙂
Additionally, we have been studying our RE unit- all about pilgrimages to different places in the world for different religions. As it has been Mental Health week, we have also been investigating how we can feel good and happy and ways to manage stress. The MyHappyMInd work has supported this.
Happy holidays- we made it. After half term, swimming will start on a Monday afternoon on the second week back (26th Feb) and continues until Easter. I have enough parents for 26th Feb but need one additional one for 4th March,11th March and 18th and 25th March. Please see Mrs Marshall if you can help as it can sometimes get confusing when some tell the office and I don't receive the message.
The first week back - PE kit should be worn on the Monday but it is Mayan Day on the Tues so we won't be doing PE.
Have a great week - I am hoping it doesn't rain every day!!!
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Year 3 News
Fri 09 Feb 2024Happy Half term, this week we have worked the Year 3s very heard. In Maths, they have been learning about perimeter and adding and subtracting lengths. In English, we have been exploring emotions of those involved in the Roman invasion on Britain and writing sentences using speech, adverbs and conjunctions. In RE, we have explored learning about what is prayer and how people pray and what they use. It has also been Children’s mental health week so we have been doing activities that help us to understand ourselves better, like a self-care jar, writing our thoughts and feelings down and exploring how to find our voice appropriately. The children also thoroughly enjoyed our 5 weeks of Swimming and I am sure they will be very sad it has finished but they should be proud of all they achieved. We hope you have a restful week and here are the spellings for after half term.
