Today, some of the year 5’s went down to Y3/4 into Mrs Burkill’s maths class to model how to answer reasoning questions. I was super impressed with the clear explanations from my Year 5’s but also the hard work of the Year 3/4’s! Both classes learnt a lot today, with…

On Thursday Class 11 had the privilege of meeting a professional print artist, Samantha, who helped them to create their advertising t-shirts with their own company logos! First, Sam showed us how to create a template using craft foam and how we could create layers for our print. Some of…

Today was our final let’s get active day, but the rain meant we had to do it indoors! This didn’t stop the whole school (including Year 5) taking part in activities. This morning Year 5 took part in a mixture of dance, fitness, yoga and curling. This afternoon in Class…

Today we completed this year’s SMSC project looking at British Values and specifically democracy. The children in Y5 held an open hustings where the 8 political parties were grilled before the votes were cast. It was a heated debate in the school hall and tempers were flared as each party…

Today Y5 had the opportunity to meet Troy Conner, veteran Parachute Regiment, who told us his life story. It was informative, moving and very thought provoking. Please ask the Y5 children to tell you Troy’s story. Here are a few photographs from his visit.

Yesterday we had our trip to the National Videogame arcade! It’s fair to say that we had an amazing day filled with playing games and more games! We also did a workshop where we got the chance to create our own games controller. What was your favourite game you played…

Last week we were applying our addition and subtraction skills to multi-step problems in maths. To make it a little more interesting, we played a game of guess who! The children worked in pairs to try to guess who I was thinking of. Every time they eliminated a character, they…

After the visit of Stephanie Peacock, our local MP, the children in Y5 have been split into 8 groups and will be starting their own political party. Today they were thinking about a name, logo, slogan and 4 main manifesto pledges. I am so impressed with how they are working…

I hope you are all having a good Easter break so far Year 5! Just a quick reminder that Class 11 Maths, your Easter area and perimeter homework is due in next Tuesday. Also a little update on the Battle of the Bands so far… Enjoy the rest of your break…

The Battle of The Bands between Class 10 and Class 11 Maths will begin on Monday 26th March and finish on the Tuesday when we are back at school. Will Class 11 Maths be victorious again? Get practising your times tables Year 5!