Year 5 2024-25: Term 5 Week 5
Dear Parents and Carers, Well here it is – the end of term 5. How have we got here so quickly?! The final week of term saw our Literacy sessions take on a SPaG focus. The children have practised using an ellipsis and also refreshed their minds when using relative clauses and pronouns in their […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 5 Week 4
Dear Parents and Carers, We spent this morning creating our eagerly awaited Mayan masks. So far, so good for both the children and their mask models – we will be decorating these with paint next week to conclude our work on the Mayan civilisation. Elsewhere, the classes picked several topics to debate in Literacy and […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 5 Week 3
Dear Parents and Carers, Despite the shorter week, the children have managed to engage with lots of new and interesting topics. In Literacy we have been learning about persuasive writing and the various features of these texts, as well as gathering ideas for a balanced argument about a range of topics such as whether school […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 5 Week 2
Dear Parents and Carers, In the week that our Y5/6 Girls’ football team became South Oxfordshire champions, there were also lots of positive things going on inside the classrooms. Literacy has revolved around the fantastic amount of animal research done by the children at home (the enthusiasm and support for this has been great – […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 5 Week 1
Dear Parents and Carers, Welcome back. We hope you all had a restful and enjoyable Easter holiday. Our new Literacy unit is all about non-chronological reports. This week we have studied their features and the children have learnt some new terms such as ‘formal language’ and ‘present tense verbs.’ They have also used their skimming […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 4 Week 6
Dear Parents and Carers, The final week of a really positive term is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than by getting involved in the ever popular ‘Easter Dash’ for the termly Interhouse Challenge, as well as spending a morning gaining an insight into the inner workings of a secondary school with a […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 4 Week 5
Dear Parents and Carers, This week the children have been participating in the annual STEM Week, which this year had the theme of ‘change and adapt.’ Both classes were visited by local scientists from Johnson Matthey, where they carried out an experiment to try and capture CO2. Towards the end of the week, the children […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 4 Week 4
Dear Parents/Carers, We’re sure that by this time you will have been regaled with stories of how Friday morning’s muffin making went. The children worked together nicely and have produced some tasty (healthy) treats which they very much enjoyed. With regards to the usual classroom based activities, the children began a new Literacy unit on […]
Year 5 2024-25: Term 4 Week 3
Dear Parents and Carers, How are we halfway through Term 4 already? Time is flying by, and we are certainly using it wisely in Year 5! We spent our Literacy lessons planning, and then writing up, our own sequels to the previously mentioned Jeremy Strong story, focusing on the journey faced by Ramona as she […]
Year 5 2024-2025: Term 4 Week 2
Dear Parents and Carers, Friday brings to an end another busy week at SCPS, and there have been a variety of new and interesting activities happening. Our week began with a performance of the Shakespeare play ‘Hamlet,’ full of the usual Shakespearean twists, turns and tragedies, and a great way to gain insight into the […]
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