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  • 09/05/25

    Cracking Science

    As we continue our work on life cycles, the children have been learning about different types of eggs. This lesson specifically focused on the structure of eggs from birds, and eggs from amphibians, comparing the two. The children learnt about the purposes of the albumen, chalaza, yolk, germinal dis...
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  • 09/05/25

    End of Summer 1 Week 4 Messages and Updates

    Week 4 has been another great one for the year 5s. We have started learning about writing a descriptive setting, continued enjoying our novel 'Floodlands', mastered coordinates and translation in maths and spent time reflecting on 80 years since VE day. Notices: Next week, the children...
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  • 05/05/25

    End of Summer 1 Week 3 Messages and Updates

    Week 3 ended with Y5M claiming the attendance trophy again thanks to another week of 100% attendance. This topped off a great week for the children in year 5 as they finished their amazing work in English where they completed their biographies on Kenton Cool, continued enjoying their maths lessons o...
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  • 02/05/25

    Creative Computing

    We have been continuing to create media graphics in computing. This week, the children learnt about Vector drawings and had a go at creating their own. This was a super-effective and thoroughly enjoyable lesson, which allowed the children to show off their creativity and computing skills. We can'...
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  • 25/04/25

    Life Cycles

    We have started our new Science topic this week: Living things and their habitats. The children kicked off the lesson by refreshing their memories on the different types of animals. We then began looking into the life cycles of various animals and how they differed from each other. We looked at h...
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  • 25/04/25

    End of Summer 1 Week 2 Messages and Updates

    Another superb week for our year 5 classes topped off with an amazing assembly to finish this afternoon. Because of the Bank Holiday last Friday, we didn't check our attendance figures - it turns out that both year 5 classes achieved 100% attendance for their first week back - well done everyone...
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  • 22/04/25

    End of Summer 1 Week 1 Messages and Updates

    What an amazing first week back we have had this week. The children have settled back into the swing of things and have picked up where they left off with their fantastic attitude to work.  Notices: Next week, Monday is a bank holiday so the children will be back at school on Tuesday. The...
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  • 13/04/25

    Soup Making

    The spring term ended with a bang as we finished our design and technology project by making our very own soups. We had the most amazing time preparing the ingredients we needed using techniques we had practised in prior lessons and then Miss Ballard worked her magic in the kitchen to bring the i...
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  • 17/03/25

    Precise Preparation

    As we continue our new Design and Technology unit, the children have been learning a variety of ways to prepare vegetables for their soup. The children learnt how to use the bridge and claw method for precisely chopping vegetables. They learnt how to use a peeler to remove any unwanted skin from...
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  • 14/03/25

    End of Spring 2 Week 3 - Messages and Updates

    What an amazing week we have had this week. The children have tried their best during a week of assessments. They should be incredibly proud of their efforts as they have shown excellent behaviour and effort despite the change to the school day. As well as the assessments, we were also lucky en...
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  • 09/03/25

    End of Spring 2 Week 2 - Messages and Updates

    What a wonderful week we had last week. The children worked hard and there were some superb highlights. We enjoyed another good set of spelling results, finished re-drafting our discursive writing, enjoyed a range of activities during World Book Day and started some new topics in design technol...
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  • 07/03/25

    Satisfying Soups

    We kicked off our new Design and Technology project with soup tasting! Our new project will be based on designing, creating and evaluating a soup, for a cafe owner at the base of Mt Kilimanjaro.  In our first lesson this week, the children began their research by tasting and evaluating a...
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