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  • 06/03/26

    End of Spring 2 Week 2 Messages and Updates

    What a great week we've had this week! We loved world book day, enjoyed weighing and measuring this afternoon as well as plenty of success in our maths lessons this week. We finished by celebrating our special mentions as usual - well done to Kray, Ella-May and Daisy from 5B and L...
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  • 05/03/26

    World Book Day

    We had a fantastic World Book Day celebration this year! The day began with a special assembly where children proudly showed off their wonderful costumes. We also enjoyed hearing extracts from some of our pupils’ stories and poems that had been published in a book as part of a recent competiti...
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  • 27/02/26

    End of Spring 2 Week 1 Messages and Updates

    What an amazing start to the half-term that was! We celebrated our special mentions as usual - well done to Lily and Olivia-Rose from 5B and Archie and Joseph from 5M - we are very proud of you.  This week has seen us start lots of new projects in quite a few subject...
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  • 26/02/26

    Balanced Arguments

    Year 5 have been exploring their debating skills as part of their balanced argument writing unit in English. Our focus question has been: Should animals be kept in zoos? The children investigated both the positives and negatives of zoos, thinking carefully about reasons for and against. They show...
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  • 13/02/26

    End of Spring 1 Week 6 Messages and Updates

    What a lovely finish to the half-term that was! We celebrated our special mentions as usual - well done to Lola and Emily from 5B and Allan and Macey from 5M - and then we presented our very first star of the half-term awards. A massive congratulations to the winners this time round, Freya in 5M and...
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  • 12/02/26

    Henri Rousseau

    Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed exploring collage through their study of the vibrant and imaginative work of Henri Rousseau. Inspired by his iconic jungle scenes, the children experimented with layering, texture, and bold colour to create their own rainforest artworks. Using Rousseau’s dis...
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  • 09/02/26

    End of Spring 1 Week 5 Messages and Updates

    What an amazing week we had in year five last week: number day was great fun, reading aloud was great and the children had a wonderful time working on their filming techniques. Thank you to all the parents who have been sending in pictures on classdojo of the children and their home interests. It...
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  • 06/02/26

    NSPCC Number Day

    The children had a fantastic time taking part in NSPCC Number Day this year! They thoroughly enjoyed a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?–themed maths quiz, which brought lots of excitement and friendly competition to their learning. Alongside this, the children tackled a range of Big Maths pro...
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  • 30/01/26

    End of Spring 1 Week 4 Messages and Updates

    We've had another great week in year 5 this week. It's been brilliant to see the children putting so much effort into their writing this week - there are some brilliant narratives which are ready to redraft next week. As well as this, the team work that some of the children have shown when t...
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  • 29/01/26

    Moon Phases

    The children enjoyed a hands-on science lesson all about the phases of the Moon. They learnt how the Moon changes shape over the course of a month and explored the correct order of each phase. To bring their learning to life, the children created the Moon phases using Oreos, carefully scrapi...
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  • 23/01/26

    End of Spring 1 Week 3 Messages and Updates

    What a fantastic week we have had in year 5 this week. we have really enjoyed getting stuck into writing our own narratives based on our how to train your dragon novel, we've loved showing our progress in our fractions unit of work and we've had some really great afternoon lessons, particula...
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  • 22/01/26

    Fantastic Fractions

    Year 5 have been enjoying our new unit on fractions in Maths, with a focus on multiplying fractions and mixed numbers, as well as finding fractions of an amount. Well done to the children for using their previous knowledge, making links to this unit, and showing great resilience when it has got...
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