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

Term Three Week 3

Monday 16th January
Everyone is expecting colder temperatures so let’s make sure we wrap up warm this week. Working hard as mathematicians, Y5 children have been developing their maths talking skills each lesson. They use sentence stems confidently to structure how they explain their mathematical thinking. Each lesson, the children work

Term Three Week 2

Tuesday 10th January
It has certainly been a busy first full week back with many children from Years 5 and 6 going to Birmingham on Tuesday to take part in the Young Voices singing celebration and with Adele from Reveal Projects carrying out workshops in the three classes discussing emotions and feelings around

Term Three Week 1

Monday 2nd January
Welcome to 2023 and we are so looking forward to welcoming you back into school and embark on the next term of learning. Straightaway, we have began our next enquiry which is entitled ‘How does our world rage?’. As geographers, we will be finding out about natural disasters (earthquakes, volcanoes

Term Two Week 7

Monday 12th December
The final week of term has arrived and we want to thank you for all your support these first two terms – the time really has flown by and we have shown positive attitudes towards our learning.   As linguists, we have reached the final stage in our journey of

Term Two Week 6

Tuesday 6th December
The penultimate week of the term and indeed of 2022 in school and it has been packed full or learning as well as embracing the Christmas spirit. As citizens, Y5/Y6 children read the book ‘Rose Blanche’ by Christophe Galaz which told the story of a young girl who lived during