Debate Week in Year Five
This House Believes that all 10-year-olds should bring a mobile phone to school. This House Believes that SATs should be scrapped. This House Believes that it would be good to be famous. These were our three debating topics (spread across the two classes) yesterday. There was a fair bit of preparation during the week, including […]
Another Toby in Year Five!
When we asked the children for their happy news this week, the overwhelming favourite moment was when our latest Toby paid us a visit. We were honoured that Miss Brakspear made us her first port of call. Toby is a beautiful little boy and although he slept through everyone coming to say hello, it was […]
Year Five – week 2
Well, we’ve got to start with the muffins! Your young people really rose to this particular challenge. Please see the pictures below, and thank you for your short-notice sourcing of the ingredients. The children were fully up to speed with everything, and the right people brought the right stuff in. We had to remember that […]
The week in Year Five
Welcome back – we hope you all had a wonderful Easter break. We certainly did. We have had a week of consolidation. The curriculum says that we have to teach ‘non-chronological reports’. Alongside ‘fronted adverbials’ and ‘subitising’, this is a bit of primary school gobbledegook that seems designed to confuse everyone rather than inspire anyone. […]
Open Days for secondary schools
We know a lot of parents are already thinking about their child’s move to secondary school in September 2025 as the application process starts at the beginning of Year 6. You will get more information about the process in September, but meanwhile we have a list of all the local open mornings/afternoon/evenings that we know […]
End of Term 4
Many thanks for your support to your children, and to us, this term. We feel we have accomplished more or less what we set out to at the start of Term 4, but we also hope that we have tweaked things and been flexible where appropriate. The best-laid plans are adaptable ones. We have got […]
Penultimate Week in Year Five
Well that is Week 5 done – it was great to meet you all this week and update you on your child’s progress. Literacy was focused on getting the biographies finished. Although several of the chosen subjects seemed a little young to be having a biography written about them, the end results were OK. It […]
Term 4 Week 4 – Year Five
Apologies for the late posting. Heavy week and busy Friday. Your children have been researching and planning biographies this week. They were actually given a choice – research and write up a biography of somebody, or write their autobiography. We thought the latter might be popular, but then we complicated it by saying that they […]
Year Five do Shakespeare!
We had the rare privilege this morning of two hours spent watching the Young Shakespeare Company do their thing in the school hall. The assembled ranks of Y5 and Y6 children were, at various times through the morning, the English army at Agincourt, the French army at Agincourt, the courts of King Henry V and […]
Year Five visit Maidenhead Mosque
Parents The highlight of this week was definitely our visit on Wednesday. Thank you for supporting the trip. Islam, Christianity and Sikhism are the three main faiths that we study in Year Five, so the trip fitted in well. After removing our shoes in the vestibule, we were shown into a large space just outside […]
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