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24 October 2023

Collaborative Computing - Narwhals and Dolphins

Today for computing, the Narwhals and Dolphins have worked together on their computing work! As you may remember Narwhals had a visitor who taught them how to use the app ‘Clips’, due to technical difficulties Dolphins did not get a chance to complete this. So today Narwhals have had the job of…

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20 October 2023

Clay Art

Today we were very lucky to get the chance to visit an art exhibition at the local church, the children saw a range of winning art pieces that had been inspired by things like whale bones and sound. The children were then very lucky because they got to create their own tile that had seeds mixed…

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20 October 2023

TTRockstars Competition

This week we have been busy competing in the official Stoke-on-Trent TTRockstars competition against other schools in the city. We have been playing during our arithmetic time and some of us have been extra busy at home too. Winners will be announced next week!

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18 October 2023

Common Multiples

Today in maths we have looked at finding the common multiples of numbers, as you can see even when we get things wrong we don’t give up, we try again until we figure it out. We’ve also introduced the idea of the ‘lowest common multiple’ and how we can find patterns in sequences to help us find the…

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4 October 2023

Narwhal Sum

In Latin today we have learnt how to introduce ourselves! We were very interested to find out that if we were a girl our names would end in ‘a’ and if we were boys our name ended in ‘us’

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25 September 2023

Partitioning numbers

Today we have been using our iPads to partition numbers into their place values, we then looked at different ways we could represent our partitions to reinforce our knowledge and confidence 

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25 September 2023

Let’s be a bit dramatic

Today we have really immersed ourselves into chapter 4 of Rumaysa for our retell, we really wanted to focus on the powerful emotions that are showcased in this chapter as well as understand what we’re actually talking about, such as what a spindle actually is!

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30 June 2023

Child Labour Argument

Today we have begun writing our opening drafts for a discursive argument on whether child labour should be allowed, this links in with our class text of Holes in which the children are forced to work everyday! Our main focus today is relative clauses but it’s fantastic to see the children working…

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28 June 2023

Set Design

As I’m sure you know we’re gearing yo for our UKS2 production of Ali Baba, as well as acting and singing there is a lot of other work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure the production looks amazing and runs smoothly, today are stage crew have done an absolutely amazing job getting our…

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27 June 2023

Finding the skills

Today we have begun our new writing journey to create a discursive argument, to begin we have spent the lesson looking at the structure of a discursive argument and how our Y5 skills can be used in one.

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19 June 2023

Sports Day!

An amazing effort from all the children today for Sports Day 2023! All the children have performed brilliantly and shown true sportsmanship in the way they conducted themselves and showed support for each other whether they won or not! Also a big thank you to all the parents that came to watch,…

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16 June 2023

Reading SATs Booster

To prepare for year 6, as well as our usual lessons we have begun looking at the style of questions used in a past SATs paper

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