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 […]
Open Days for secondary schools
We know a lot of parents are already thinking about their child’s move to secondary school in September 2026 as the application process starts at the beginning of Year 6. You will get more information about the process in Year 6, but there are lots of Open Evenings in September and October which Year 5 […]
Y5 2024-25: Term 1 Week 1
Dear Parents/Carers, Welcome back to another school year – we hope you and your children have had a wonderful summer. The children have returned refreshed and eager to get started in their new classrooms. The summer break was the focus of our Literacy lessons this week. We discussed a variety of adventures, from journeys to […]
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