Term 3 Week 4

Friday 30th January
This week, Year 5/6 have started to bring their Roman enquiry to an end. The children have begun to represent their learning from the last two terms in a double page spread in their books.  For this, they have used pictorial hints about what they have covered and are annotating

Term 3 Week 3

Friday 23rd January
Year 5/6 have had a great week and we’re fully in the swing of term 3. Lots of the children have had successes this week, whether focusing on creating some of their best narrative writing, scoring a personal best in their arithmetic paper or having great discussions with their talk

Term 3 Week 2

Friday 16th January
After our first full week back, the children have squeezed so much in they definitely deserve their weekend! As citizens, we spent some time exploring prejudice and discrimination.  The children understood that prejudice is an attitude whereas discrimination is an action.  We explored example of prejudice and discrimination from history

Term 3 Week 1

Friday 9th January
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

Term 2 Week 7

Friday 19th December
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

Term 2 Week 6

Monday 15th December
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

Term 2 Week 5

Friday 5th December
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

Term 2 Week 4

Friday 28th November
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

Term 2 Week 3

Friday 21st November
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

Term 2 Week 2

Friday 14th November
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