Term Five Week 1

Thursday 20th April
Welcome back to school after the Easter break – we hope you all enjoyed the two-week holiday. It has been great to see all the Y5 and Y6 children engaged with their learning this week and enjoying the field at break and lunchtimes. As readers, we have been looking at

Term Four Week 6

Sunday 26th March

Term Four Week 5

Monday 20th March
As geographers this week, Y5 and Y6 children have been studying ordnance survey maps using the map symbols as a key to understanding physical and human features of the local area. They are really looking forward to their class river walks next week which will enable them to see the

Term Four Week 4

Monday 13th March
Whilst March continues to provide us with ‘weather challenges’ of snow, wind and rain, we have been continuing to focus on our enquiry question of ‘How does our world rage?’. This week, as geographers, we have been researching information about the main rivers round the world with the aim of

Term Four Week 3

Sunday 5th March
We absolutely loved celebrating our Reading Week last week which was rounded off with World Book Day costumes last Friday. If you haven’t seen the photos of our reading activities already, take a look here at us reading at different times of the day and in different places.

Term Four Week 2

Monday 27th February
The second week of this term and it is READING WEEK! With World Book Day this week, we have a whole school focus on the importance and enjoyment of reading. We started with an assembly from Mrs Tinker who shared her love of stories with us and read a book

Term Four Week 1

Friday 24th February
What a busy four days back we have had – it’s been lovely to welcome all the Year 5 and Year 6 children back to school after the half term break. As mathematicians, Y5 have been learning how to calculate the perimeter of regular and irregular polygons by measuring and

Term Three Week 6

Monday 6th February
The last week of Term 3 has arrived and spring seems to be on its way – we have loved spotting the signs of spring around our school field. One sign of winter coming to an end was seeing the variety of birds flying in the skies over our school

Term Three Week 5

Monday 30th January
As we say goodbye to January and welcome February this week, we have been working hard in Years 5 and 6 on our enquiry question ‘How does the world rage?’. This week, we learnt about the causes of earthquakes and volcanoes: Following that, as geographers, we carried out

Term Three Week 4

Monday 23rd January
How exciting that this week sees us taking part in The Big Schools Birdwatch (organised by the RSPB)! To help us with our birdwatching skills and knowledge, we welcomed Mark Matthews into school to talk to the whole of KS2 about how to use binoculars effectively and what birds we