Pegasus, Orion & Unicorn Class Blog

In order to promote our love of reading in Y5/Y6, we are looking at a question a week which inspires us to think about the books we read. This week we had to think of a character from a book that we would like to be and explain why. Here

A very autumnal week weather-wise in Y5 and Y6 this week! We have loved being historians and using photographs of ancient ruins to discover what a settlement would have been like in The Stone Age. We then presented our findings to the rest of the class. In RE,

We have experience another joy-filled learning week in Y5 and Y6. Our work continues with discussing the word settlement as historians and what that meant for people in the Stone Age. As scientists, we explored the process of photosynthesis and how to sequence what happens for plants to make their

We had a fabulous start to our week with a visit from Weston Museum which enabled us to immerse ourselves in The Stone Age: we were able to look at historical artefacts, learn facts about prehistoric animals and have a go at cave painting by carving our own piece of

    Week 2 has certainly seeemed to have flown by for Y5 and Y6! We have really enjoyed exploring place value and ordering numbers in a practical way. During this week, we have enjoyed starting to read our class quality text ‘Wolf Brother’ written by Michele Paver.

It has been wonderful to welcome our Y5 and Y6 children back into school. They have made a great start to the new academic year and are settling in well with routines and expectations. We made the most of the weather earlier in the week by taking our learning outdoors.

On Tuesday, we were visited by Kemo Jarju ( from the Violence Reduction Unit -North SomersetAvon and Somerset Constabulary) who spoke to our Y6 children about the seriousness of committing crimes as a youth and the consequences given to such actions. It was brilliantly presented and the children learnt a

We have had another busy week in school. As we are coming close to the end of our class book ‘Demeter and Persephone’, we have been using our summarising and prediction skills in reading as to what may happen at the end. Inbewetween showers this week, Y5 and Y6 have

We have enjoyed another successful week in school: we celebrated Mrs Hodder’s birthday on Wednesday; carried out Council Crew across the school and with Unicorn remotely and showed lots of perseverance and risk taking in our maths reasoning tasks. Work of the Week  

We have had a great week in school! Using practical resources, we explored constructing 3D shapes and making nets for them. Our sports day on Friday morning was a real success. It was great to see everyone participate with such enthusiasm, energy and enjoyment!