Pegasus, Orion & Unicorn Class Blog

A big welcome back to Term Two and we hope you all enjoyed a relaxing half term break. It has been great to see the children settle back into the routine of life at UVA. All Y5/Y6 children have been focussing on balance and co-ordination in PE as you can

How it has felt so autumnal over these three days in school this last week of term one! We have loved being able to enjoy the sunshine at lunchtimes and our Y6 prefects have been doing a fantastic job with their lunchtime roles and duties. Have a look at them

It is Black History Month and the Y5/Y6s have been learning about influential black people who have impacted life nowadays – Michell Obama inspired lots of us when we read about her in guided reading. As scientists and as part of our enquiry ‘Where i our place in space?’ we

During this week, we have continued reading our class quality text ‘Cosmic’ and we are really enjoying seeing how the plot and adventure is being revealed. As part of this, we are beginning to write a persuasive letter from the point of view of Liam – the main character –

It is London Marathon week and we have been trying to complete our own mini marathons in school – each child has been given the challenge of running 2.6 miles (approximately 20 laps of our track) during the week. Go Y5s and Y6s! As part of our enquiry, we were

It has been a packed four days in school this week for our Y5 and Y6 learners.   As readers, we have been grappling with a range of texts in our whole-class guided reading sessions during which we have discussed the meanings of unknown vocabulary. It is great to develop

We have been really settling into our new routines this week in Y5/Y6 and it has been great to recognise all those children who show consistently good attitudes towards their learning on our recognition boards, The hard work, concentration and drive to achieve high expectations has resulted in some high

Welcome back to a new academic year and what a wonderful first week we have enjoyed with our Y5 and Y6 children! It has been a pleasure getting to know our new three classes: Orion, Unicorn and Pegasus. As mathematicians, we have been practising reading and writing numbers to one

We can not believe how quickly this year has gone! Our final week has been full of fun activities for our Y6 leavers. Take a look at the photos from the Y6 party   On Tuesday, the Y6s enjoyed a water fight on the school field which was

As the temperatures have soared throughout the week, Y5/Y6 have risen to the challenge of performing their production ‘What a Knight!’ to the whole school as well as packed audiences on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. They did an amazing job on stage and with the tech – we were extremely