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18 April 2024

Perfect Planning!

Today we have planned our first person diary entry ready for when we complete our independent writes next week. We ensured we included the correct Year 5 standards in our plan to really help us when we are writing next week! 

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21 March 2024

Science Crest Award

Today Y5 took part in the Science Crest award which saw them taking on a day long challenge to create a handing washing sanitation device. These sort of devices are used in places like Kenya to provide children with clean water and the children in Y5 learnt a lot in terms of STEM as a result of…

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11 March 2024

Automata Animals

Today we have started our new DT topic of automata animals, this has been presented to us linked to the WWF and our first task was to investigate the way animals moved and what sort of environment they lived in, we looked at a range of animals such as tortoises and penguins!

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7 March 2024

World Book Day

We celebrate World Book Day by cosying up with a good book and a hot chocolate.

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1 March 2024

Junior Reporters

Today the children have used what they saw in Wicked to create some quotes for their next piece of writing, they have focused on using both direct and reported speech and learnt how these differ in terms of the tense and pronouns used as well as the punctuation. They’ve come up with some brilliant…

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23 February 2024

Forest School - Knots and Frames

This week Y5 had a fantastic PE lesson, starting their forest schooling with Miss Barker! It’s truly a unique experience and the children loved getting the chance to learn how to tie knots and using this skill to make frames out of sticks. We can’t wait for the next lesson!

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23 February 2024

Change4Life Excel Academy Event

This week Year 3 and 4 took part in School Games ‘Change4Life’ event that took place at Excel Academy. We had so much fun taking part in a range of active activities putting our skills to the test. We took part in activities we have done in school such as fitness, multi skills, parachute games. We…

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22 February 2024

Active 60 Festival at Fenton Sports Manor

This week year 1 and 2 went to Fenton Manor to take part alongside other schools. We were able to stay active for a full 60 minutes, taking part in a range of sporting activities. 
We had such positive feedback from the children and it was lovely to see them working as a team and communicating to…

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26 January 2024

Creating a Character

Today in Writing we introduced the next topic we would be writing about and that is an alternative character, the class was very excited when they learned they would be working together to create these new characters and we ended up with some amazing creations, such as; a Sheep who lost his baa,…

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23 January 2024

Imperial War Museum

Year 6 visited the Imperial War Museum after studying ‘War Horse’ in our English lessons. We further extended our knowledge of how animals were helpful in the war effort through an interactive tour of the museum. 

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22 January 2024

Master Puppeteers

Year 6 have worked in teams to brainstorm ideas for their shadow puppet creations. They have considered the scenery, characters and what resources they will enquire to create their performance.

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19 January 2024

Year 6 citizenship

Year 6 completed their first citizenship task by helping out in another year group. We helped year one to plant flowers, showing friendship, respect and determination in doing so.

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