Term Four Week 5

Wednesday 20th March
A busy penultimate week in school for us all as we have carried out end of term assessments as well as continue reading our quality text ‘Roman Quests’. As athletes, Y5 and Y6 have been developing their tennis skills while also making the most of the sunny spells this week.

Term Four Week 4

Thursday 14th March
Thank you to everyone this week who has made an extra effort to ‘ditch’ the car and walk or scooter/cycle more during their journey to school as part of the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel – it continues next week too so please try to support us in this event.

Term Four Week 3

Thursday 7th March
It has been a packed week for our Year 5s and Year 6s :  visitor talking to us about safety around gangs and weapons; trip to Broadoak and Reading Week culminating in World Book Day! On Monday, Saeed from St Giles Trust visited us to talk with us about how

Term Four Week 2

Thursday 29th February
It has been such a great week in Years 5 and 6: a visit from Megan who is a cyber-protection officer for the police and excitement ahead of reading week from next Monday. We learnt and discussed how to keep ourselves safe online as well as be aware of age-appropriate

Term Four Week 1

Thursday 22nd February
Welcome back to school for Term 4 and it has been great to see everyone after the half term holiday. We started the term in KS2 assembly with Mrs Tinker introducing our language of the term which is Greek. She developed our understanding of the country and some of its

Term Three Week 6

Wednesday 7th February
It has certainly been a busy week in school with National Mental Health Week and Safer Internet Day! Year 5 and Year 6 children have been discussing how feeling proud and celebrating achievements can help us with our well-being and we thought about how keeping our mind healthy is just

Thursday 1st February
We have reached February and it is so lovely to see the days are getting longer and lighter. As writers, we explored using thesauruses to find synonyms for our adjectives in our descriptive writing to create a greater impact on the reader. As musicians, we have been learning

Term Three Week 4

Thursday 25th January
It has certainly being changeable weather this week but we have managed to get out at break and lunchtimes to enjoy some fresh air and running laps for our challenge of Uphill Runs The World. As gymnasts, we have built on last week’s small apparatus skills and worked in pairs

Term Three Week 3

Thursday 18th January
What a freezing-cold week it has been! However, this did not stop Years 5 and 6 enjoying their trip to Caerleon on Wednesday – we had the best of days seeing our Roman learning coming to life through workshops, museum guides and exploration of barracks, amphitheatre and Roman baths.

Term Three Week 2

Thursday 11th January
It has been a freezing cold week but we have kept warm and have continued to work hard in Years 5 and 6. As writers,  we are thoroughly enjoying reading our new quality text ‘Roman Quests’ and explored the main character this week – Juba. He is a young boy