Pegasus, Orion & Unicorn Class Blog

The last week of June has brought us mixed weather, Y6 transition to their secondary schools and rehearsals for our Y5/Y6 production What a knight! We are very excited to be performing in real life for the first time in three years on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th July.

As the days have got longer and the temperatures have soared, we are well and truly enjoying the summer term. Take a look at our wild flower area which we are nurturing at the far end of our playing field. In the heat, some of us have been

What beautifully hot summer weather we have enjoyed this week and it hasn’t stopped us working really hard. In English, as readers, we have been developing our comprehension skills by working in groups to produce freeze frames showing our understanding of the characters. Take a look at the

Welcome to our final term of the year. How quickly the time is flying by! It has been great to be back in school and Year 6 have written some fantastic stories based on the short animation ‘The Present’. They showed how they were confident at structuring events in paragraphs,

The final week of term and what a busy one it has been celebrating the school’s 150th birthday! On Wednesday, we were lucky enough to be visited by Derek Stevenson who was the head teacher at Uphill from 1990-2000. He led a KS2 assembly first thing and the children then

The Year 6 children have been having a truly wonderful time on their residential camp at Charterhouse this week and the Year 5s have really risen to the challenge of temporarily being the role models across school. Reading for pleasure remains a priority for us and, as readers, the Y5

Our third week of term completed and the Y6 children have worked incredibly hard this week for their SATs – we are SO proud of them all. The daily breakfasts were very much enjoyed every morning to give us energy and to get us in a positive frame of  mind

We hope you all enjoyed the long Bank Holiday weekend – we have certainly packed a lot of learning into this four-day week! Being historians and looking at our enquiry question of ‘How did the Egyptian civilisation evolve?’, Y5 and Y6 explored the chronology of the era and constructed a

Welcome back to Term 5 and we have been super busy with our learning! Y5 children have thoroughly enjoyed investigating different types of angles and have learnt how to use a protractor (which can be really challenging!) in order to measure angles and draw them accurately.

How time flies and the last week of term has gone with a swing: thank you to all those children and parents who were able to join us for the Charterhouse information-giving session on Tuesday  and to those who came into school on Wednesday to share their child’s history learning