Pegasus, Orion & Unicorn Class Blog

Welcome to Term 3! It was really nice to welcome the children back on Tuesday after the Christmas break and good to hear about what everyone got up to – particularly hearing about any new books they’d received! This term we continue with our enquiry, ‘How did the

Wow – we’re at the end of term two. It has been two long terms and the children have definitely earned themselves a two week break. This week has been all about finishing things off, like our persuasive writing piece and our unit on forces in science. We ended the

Year 5/6 had such a busy week; there was lots going on as we creep closer to Christmas. As performers, the Year 5s walked to the Winter Gardens and took part in the delightful carol concert with children from other schools and an audience of lots of parents.  It was

Week 5 has been super busy as we build up towards Christmas. As writers, we have been preparing for our writing week next week, so we’ve covered a lot of grammar, including creating banks of persuasive words and phrases we can use.  In addition to that, all of the children

Year 5/6 have enjoyed a busy week where we continued reading our class book, ‘A Christmas Carol’ and our English reading book, ‘Escape from Rome’.  The children are really enjoying these stories and are impressed by the high level language being used by Charles Dickens. As scientists, we explored friction

Year 5/6 have had a really good week of learning and have produced some great work, including our next piece of writing based on our book ‘Roman Quests: Escape from Rome’.  With this, they wrote a letter in role as the main character to his parents. As speakers, all three

We’ve had a great week in Year 5/6, with lots of hard work amid bikeability and poetry learning. As cyclists, some of the Year 6 children braved the weather and learned some valuable skills to keep themselves safe on the road.       As scientists, we learned about gravity

Welcome back! It was great to have everyone back this week and launch straight back into learning.  We introduced our new enquiry, the Romans,  and started our new science topic about forces. As readers, we began two new books.  In English we are reading Roman Quests: Escape from Rome and

As athletes, Year 5/6 continued to practice our rugby skills.  Including passing and remaining on-side. As readers, we continued to enjoy listening to the book ‘Wolf Brother’ after lunch and learning new vocabulary. As designers, we practiced our sewing skills in preparation for making our Stone

Week 5 At the end of week 5, Year 5/6 can be pleased with what they’ve achieved.  Both the Year 5s and the Year 6s completed assessments and showed an excellent attitude.  They were focused and determined to do their best. As scientists,  all classes completed investigations of conductive materials,