Pegasus, Orion & Unicorn Class Blog

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

It’s lovely to have everyone back! A great first week in Year 5/6.  The new Year 5s have settled really well into their new classes and been supported well by the new Year 6 children. We have already started the split Year 5 and Year 6 maths groups which will

The last full week of term and we have been busy amongst the rain and sunshine. As mathematicians, Year 5 and 6 children enjoyed the challenge of creating symmetrical designs with different types of triangles and trapezium shapes. And as musicians, they took on the challenge of composing

This week has seen our brilliant Y5 and Y6 children perform their production of Rock Bottom – and what superstars they were! From the singing to the dancing, from the acting to the jokes and from their commitment and enthusiasm, everyone shone and had smiles on their faces throughout!

The first week of July and the weather has made it feel like spring and not summer! All the Year 5s and 6s have been continuing to practise hard on our production of Rock Bottom which we are looking forward to performing to you next Tuesday (9th July 6:30pm) and

At last, the sunshine has been out and it has felt a bit more like summer this week which was perfect for our orienteering sessions which we really enjoyed on Tuesday. We had to work together in small groups to locate the photographs which had been placed around the school

It has been a busy week (again!) in school with rehearsals for our Y5/Y6 production well underway! As Uphill citizens, our Y6 learners continue to lead weekly council crew sessions with a range of younger children from across the academy. This week’s focus was discussing the question ‘ Why should