Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Year 6 News
Fri 08 May 2026We have come to the end of our final week of revision, next week is the week! You have worked so incredibly hard and by this time next week it will all be over - but you will all be fantastic.
Don't forget that school will be open from 8am next week for SATs breakfast club where breakfast will be provided - although you don't have to eat with us if you prefer to eat at home!
Have a restful weekend, have fun and take a break
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Year 5 Class News
Fri 08 May 2026This week, we have been looking at the properties of 3D shapes in maths and calculating missing angles. In English, we continued looking at Scottish myths and legends, focusing on writing a character and setting description. In Science, we conducted an experiment to see how much sugar and salt it takes to make a saturated solution. In DT, we have started making the frame for our moving toys and will be making the followers next week.
Please see the spellings for next week below.
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Year 4 Class News
Fri 08 May 2026This week in English we have published our newspaper reports on the Viking attack at Lindisfarne and have had a rainbow grammar lesson on using non-finite clauses. Next week we will start a new narrative unit. In Maths, we have been rounding decimals and recognising halves and quarters as decimals. We will be moving onto money from next week. In Science, we made circuits and in Topic we looked at why Alfred the Great might have been given his title and whether we feel he was deserving of it. On Thursday, we had an amazing day meeting Astrid on our Viking trip! We had fun den building and visiting a Viking Longhouse, having the opportunity to try on helmets, chainmail armour and interact with other Viking artefacts. We also got to make Viking jewellery, grind wheat into flour using a quern and play ball games with Viking shields!
Here are next week’s spellings:
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Year 3 Class News
Fri 08 May 2026The children have completed so much in just a four day week! Maybe we should have more of them. We have started two new topics. In English we are now writing about Charlie and the chocolate factory and in Maths we have moved on to money, in which the children seem to lots of prior knowledge, which is great. The Andy Warhol unit in Art is proving to practically popular with the children and also exploring different plants in science, this week we have planted a number of seeds to see which environment suits their growth better. In 3Harding we say goodbye to Adebola who is moving house and schools, so we wish him good luck.
Spellings for next week below.
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Year 6 Class News
Fri 01 May 2026Well done everyone on a hard week of revision, we have done so much practice this week on grammar, reading and maths to ensure we feel our best on SATs week.
Keep up the hard work team, we are almost there! Have a lovely long weekend - you deserve it!
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Year 5 Class News
Fri 01 May 2026Another week has flown by in Year 5.
This week, we have started a new unit in English, looking at different Scottish myths and legends, getting inspiration for writing our own over the next few weeks. In maths, we have been looking at angles on a straight line and angles around a point. In history, we looked at different Scottish celebrations.
We hope you all enjoy the bank holiday weekend!
Please see the spelling list for next week below.
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Year 4 Class News
Fri 01 May 2026This week Year 4 have had an amazing time on their residential, getting to experience climbing, archery and even raft building… even if they did get rather wet! Fortunately though, we were very grateful for the good weather! Back at school, we have been doing more work on our decimals, learning how to partition decimals flexibly and compare them. In English, we have now finished our drafting for our newspaper report on the Viking invasion at Lindisfarne and have started the editing process before publishing next week. In Topic, we looked at the artefacts found at Sutton Hoo and what we have learnt from them. In Computing, we have had our final lesson on animation and have been looking at making stop motion animations. We are really looking forward to our Perlethorpe Viking trip next week! Take care and have a good weekend, remember to keep practising your spellings, handwriting and times tables!
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Class 3 Class News
Fri 01 May 2026A stop start week this week with the power cut on Tuesday, however the children came back and produced their best independent writing of the year so wasn’t all bad. Their perseverance with handwriting in and out of school is really paying off. In maths children are getting to grips of reading scales and working out what the different jumps on measuring cylinders could be. Mr Spencer has commented on their progress in cricket on Thursday and their progression athletics on Monday is also evident. Same spellings as last week due to the Merit, power cut and bank holiday Monday taking away spelling lessons. Have a good long weekend everyone.
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Year 4 News
Fri 24 Apr 2026This week in English, we have looked at using direct speech in our newspaper reports and have started writing our own version. In Maths, we have done more work on decimals, including making a whole with tenths and hundredths. In Science, we have started our new unit on electricity and have learnt how electricity is generated. In Topic, we looked at atlases and local maps of place names and too see if these were once Viking or Anglo Saxon settlements. In computing, we have used onion skinning to make our animations transitions more seamless. Your spellings for next week can be found below:
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Year 6 News
Fri 24 Apr 2026What a busy week! The children did a fantastic job this week while the OFSTED inspectors were in, explaining and showing them what life in our school is like and what our lessons are like. Well done everyone. Our moving vehicles project has now come to an end. A lot of resilience was needed to try and get them moving! Today, to end the week, we met our DAaRT officer, who taught our first session. We received our work books and found out about the laws and health effects of alcohol.
Keep working hard on your revision. Not long now until SATs week!
Try and rest over the weekend.
