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 […]
Y5 2024-25: Term 1 Week 6
Dear Parents/Carers, It seems apt to begin with a huge thank you to those who attended, ran and helped out at the Sonning Common 10k Run last Sunday. Your support was much appreciated, and it is always so nice to see our school (and school community) in action in such a positive way. Bringing the […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 1 Week 5
Dear Parents/Carers, And so there we have it – we have reached the end of yet another week at SCPS. The start of the week saw us begin our poetry unit in Literacy. Our opening lesson saw the children pick a topic for a poem and then add their own figurative language for description – […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 1 Week 4
Dear Parents/Carers, We hope the children have been enjoying their extra day off this week – they have been working hard all week and have certainly earned it! We spent the week working towards producing a description of a setting in Literacy. The children were shown a picture of a bright, colourful house in the […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 1 Week 3
Dear Parents/Carers, The end of the third week is upon us, and the children are becoming more used to their new routines and settling in nicely. We continued – and completed – our Dreamtime Stories in Literacy this week. We began with some practise of using expanded noun phrases, which involved turning a noun (for […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 1 Week 2
Dear Parents/Carers, Today brings a conclusion to the first full week (at least for the children) of Year 5. In Literacy, we began our unit on Dreamtime Stories. We read about the creative powers of the Rainbow Serpent; Tiddalick, a greedy frog who has consumed all of the water and who does not release it […]
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