Pegasus, Orion & Unicorn Class Blog

Another busy week for Year 5/6. As historians, Unicorn were identifying and learning about some of the main ancient Egyptian gods. As writers, the children were editing and publishing setting descriptions where they had included figurative language and relative clauses. We had a great end to the

We had a busy week in Year 5/6 and did some great learning. We started with Remembrance Day and our Year 6 house captains attended the village service by the war memorial where they read out the poem In Flanders Fields.  They were great representatives for the school. As

The children certainly benefitted from their break last week and now we are back up to speed with our learning. As artists, we explored remembrance and represented this with silhouette paintings.         As poets, we explored and rehearsed remembrance poems.  We practiced choral poetry and presented to

After a long term, we finally reached the last week.  The children are tired but we started with a bang and hosted Egyptian Ali for a whole day workshop all about ancient Egypt.  There were a lot of stories and activities which the children loved.

With so much going on this week, the children have done well to keep up and keep learning – particularly after such a long term. We’ve had bikeability with the lots of the Year 6s this week and the instructors were really impressed with the attitude of all involved. Well

Well, what a week!  With Ofsted in on Tuesday and Wednesday, the children have done their bit and been brilliant.  Lots of Year 5/6 children were asked to represent their year group and talk to the inspectors about various aspects of being a child at UVA.  We were so impressed

In week five, Year 5/6 have enjoyed some great learning. As scientists, we have been exploring  reproduction in flower plants by taking apart a flower and examining the different parts.            As artists, we continued our work with Egyptian headdresses and used coloured pencil to complete

Another busy week in Year 5/6.  We’re well into the swing now and the children have completed some great learning. The Year 6 children have really stepped up into their roles as council crew leaders and this week hosted their first meeting of the year.  Well done to them all. 

As an “everybody” school all of our year 6’s have the opportunity to become a prefect. However, if they take the badge, they accept the responsibility that goes with it. Delighted that ALL our year 6 children took a badge pledging to be outstanding role models in our community

In enquiry this week, we have been learning about where Egypt is and what its climate is like. In English, the children have loved the start of our book, ‘Secrets of a Sun King’ by Emma Carroll and have begun exploring the main character using evidence from the text to