Carol Concert on Thursday 19th December
Dear Parents/Carers, A slight correction to the Year 5 post on Friday – the Carol Concert this Thursday begins at 6pm, not 6.30pm as previously mentioned. Same venue. Apologies for this error. Previous post now edited to show this correction. Hope to see you there, The Y5 Team
Year 5 2024-25: Term 2 Week 6
Dear Parents and Carers, As promised, ‘Street Child’ reached its emotional conclusion this week. Shrimps did not recover from his ill health – he had simply been starving for too long -and Jim was yet again lost in the world, wondering why nobody around him either could nor wanted to provide help. Jim then entered […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 2 Week 5
Dear Parents and Carers, Thanks for your time and positive words during the parent consultations this week. We hope you found these conversations useful. Our week began with a special visit during Monday’s assembly. Mikey Akers is a young man who does a lot of great work to raise awareness of apraxia, which is a […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 2 Week 4
Dear Parents and Carers, We hope you are all well and excited for the approaching festivities. It has been another busy week in Year 5: Maths has seen the children take on, and respond well to, the challenge of using – mainly through converting from and to – improper fractions and mixed numbers. They have […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 2 Week 3
Dear Parents and Carers, We hope those of you affected by the loss of water on Monday are now all sorted. While the water may have been lacking, the educational experience of the children certainly hasn’t been! The children are very much enjoying reading Street Child, and the story took yet another dramatic turn this […]
Activities for Monday 18th November
KS2 Activities for Closure Day: In light of our school closing for the day, due to no water, here are some activities that you can try at home. This is also a good opportunity to complete some Spelling Shed, Rock Stars or Nessy as well as reading a good book! Please note that the activities […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 2 Week 2
Dear Parents and Carers, We have reached the end of Week 2, and it is so nice to hear how much the children enjoyed their trip to the Milestones Museum seven days ago. In Literacy, we have made further progress with the story Street Child, and the children are beginning to understand just how tough […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 2 Week 1
Dear Parents and Carers, Welcome back. We hope you all had an enjoyable and restful half term. This week we began our new topic – Victorians – by reading the first couple of chapters of the novel Street Child by Berlie Doherty. The children have already met the protagonist, Jim Jarvis, and have responded imaginatively […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 1 Week 8
Dear Parents and Carers, Half term is finally upon us, and the children’s first term as Year 5 pupils is complete. We have covered lots of new things, had some great discussions and have thoroughly earned a rest! Literacy has seen us focusing on our SPaG and comprehension skills. We have uplevelled sentences using a […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 1 Week 7
Dear Parents/Carers, Another week done, and one more to go before a we can all embrace a well-earned rest over the half term break. We commend the children for their energy, efforts and hard work up to this point – they have been a credit to you throughout the opening weeks of their time in […]
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