Pegasus, Orion & Unicorn Class Blog

This week has seen Y5 and Y6 children developing their oracy skills – in particular, those needed for discussion because we held debates in all three classes to discuss whether space tourism should be encouraged or not? We used sentence stems too give us the confidence to articulate our points

What an autumnal week it has been weather-wise and we have survived the rainy lunch and break times! As historians, Y5 and Y6 have been learning about The Space Race which ended in the moon landing in 1969.  That was definitely a day to remember when the eagle landed! !

November is certainly flying by and this week is busy in school with Odd Socks Day on Monday to launch national anti-bullying week (to celebrate each of us being unique) as well as Children in Need Day on Friday. As citizens this week, we have discussed bullying in our PSHE

Week two already and we hope you enjoyed a safe and happy firework weekend! This week, as readers, we have been developing our summarising skills by reading a chapter of our book ‘Cosmic’ and summarising the main points succinctly .    As part of our ongoing enquiry ‘Where is our

A big welcome back to Term Two and we hope you all enjoyed a relaxing half term break. It has been great to see the children settle back into the routine of life at UVA. All Y5/Y6 children have been focussing on balance and co-ordination in PE as you can

How it has felt so autumnal over these three days in school this last week of term one! We have loved being able to enjoy the sunshine at lunchtimes and our Y6 prefects have been doing a fantastic job with their lunchtime roles and duties. Have a look at them

It is Black History Month and the Y5/Y6s have been learning about influential black people who have impacted life nowadays – Michell Obama inspired lots of us when we read about her in guided reading. As scientists and as part of our enquiry ‘Where i our place in space?’ we

During this week, we have continued reading our class quality text ‘Cosmic’ and we are really enjoying seeing how the plot and adventure is being revealed. As part of this, we are beginning to write a persuasive letter from the point of view of Liam – the main character –

It is London Marathon week and we have been trying to complete our own mini marathons in school – each child has been given the challenge of running 2.6 miles (approximately 20 laps of our track) during the week. Go Y5s and Y6s! As part of our enquiry, we were

It has been a packed four days in school this week for our Y5 and Y6 learners.   As readers, we have been grappling with a range of texts in our whole-class guided reading sessions during which we have discussed the meanings of unknown vocabulary. It is great to develop