Another busy week in Year Five
This week has seen a major writing task take place – a diary entry covering the escape of Jim Jarvis (the street child) from the workhouse. There was plenty of preparation – each day has seen one or more chapters read out loud, with associated tasks. Usually this has involved imagining, writing or drawing aspects […]
Year Five – Milestones and more…
As most of the talk this week has been about today’s trip, we will focus on that. Quite a bit of other work has also happened – including more work on Street Child (Jim’s escape from the workhouse), plenty of maths on multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000, as well as topic work […]
Year Five trip to Milestones
We are looking forward to the trip to Milestones in Basingstoke on Friday 10th November. The details: Milestones Museum Victorian Experience In normal school time Please wear school uniform (NOT PE kit) Bring a packed lunch Bring plenty to drink Please prepare travel sickness medicine if required (and give it in plenty of time for […]
Week 1 in Year Five
Year Five have enjoyed starting their Victorians topic this week. A major focus is the reading of Street Child, by Berlie Doherty, which tells the story of Jim and his family. We have a range of literacy activities which build on specific chapters – which this week included writing from the point of view of […]
Year Five – Term 1
Firstly, can we wish you a happy and peaceful half-term. We are certainly ready for it, but we are also gearing up for a strong Term 2 and the run-up to Christmas. In truth, the arrival of Ofsted in Week 2 was a highly stressful time for all of us, but we feel in Year […]
Week 6 in Year Five
‘The chocolate screaming at me to eat it…’ ‘Wicked witches wailing in the sky…’ ‘The biggest booming bonfire as hot as lava…’ ‘Demons pull everything into endless eternity…’ ‘I shout my barbaric yawp through the earth…’ Poetry week in Year Five. And not at all bad either. We finished up today with writing the poems […]
Week 5 in Year Five
Week 5 has seen your children become mini-poets! They have worked on different styles this week, with the acrostic poems being a particular highlight – on the theme of Hallowe’en. They were pleased not to have to worry about grammar and punctuation – poetry does give you that freedom. Maths has moved on from place […]
Year Five – Week 3 Update
We have had a calm and productive week in Year Five, which staff and students all seem to have enjoyed. Literacy has involved some careful planning, and then the final write-up, of Australian dreamtime stories. Each story features a real or imagined creature playing its part in the early development of the earth. They are […]
What a week!
Well that was quite a week in Year Five (and across the rest of the school)! Your children rose to the various challenges posed by an Ofsted visit magnificently. There were quite a few changes of routine as senior leaders and other colleagues were intensely quizzed by the inspector, but everyone seemed to understand the […]
End of Week 1 – Year Five
We have thoroughly enjoyed our first week. Despite the heat, your children have remained good-humoured and focused throughout. (And so have we!) Literacy has built to a Big Write this morning – largely for us to get a clear impression of their writing skills and levels. They were asked to combine a holiday they might […]
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