Pegasus, Orion & Unicorn Class Blog

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

It has been wonderful to welcome all the Year 5 and Year 6 children back to school after the half term break ready for the summer term – and for many, their final term at primary school. We are continuing with our geography enquiry about ‘Have we made the world

The weather hasn’t made its mind up this week so we have adjusted our learning experiences accordingly! With the Year 6s away on residential camp at Charterhouse for the week,  Year 5 children have been enjoying a week as historians by studying our local history – with a focus on

This week has certainly been busy and the Year 6s have shown fantastic determination and commitment in their SATs – well done to all of them! As mathematicians, Y5 have enjoyed exploring 3D shapes and used a range of apparatus to investigate the properties of the shapes they created.

The summer sunshine seems to have arrived at last and it has been great at break and lunchtimes to be outside enjoying the field and the warmth! Our outdoor PE sessions have seen us practising and developing our tennis skills: While some of us have been focussing on our

Amidst the wind and the rain this week as we found ourselves now in the month of May, Years 5 and 6 have had a great week in school.   As scientists, we have started learning about the circulatory system in the human body and how it has the function

We have had a successful week two in school showing great attitudes towards our learning in all aspects of the curriculum. As writers, Y5 and Y6 practised their fluent, neat and joined-up handwriting this week; they took pride in their work and were really focussed on doing their absolute best.

Welcome back to Term 5 – we hope you all enjoyed the Easter break! It has been lovely to see all your children back in school and we have started off in a positive manner.   Our enquiry for this term is ‘Have we made the world a better place?’

As we come to the end of Term 4, it has hard to believe how quickly time is flying! This week has seen the end of our history enquiry ‘How did the Romans rule?’ and we have been busy showing our understanding of all things Roman: we made large A3

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.