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Year 5 have enjoyed lots of fun things this week. We have been looking at a new poem in English called By St Thomas Water. In Mathematics, we have been looking at time and learning how to read timetables. In DT we have been designing a healthy dip that we could eat with snacks. Last week, we…

We began learning about Chernobyl in Geography. We watched a range of clips that gave us an insight into what happened at Chernobyl the day the reactor exploded. We then had to write a diary entry from the perspective of someone who was being evacuated from their home after the eruption. In the…

Highlights of the Week

1. We learnt about what animals need for survival. 

2. We made cards and gifts for Mothering Sunday.

3. We have been adding two 2-digit numbers with regrouping. 

4. We continued to learn and revise our reading skills. 

5. We have been blending Phase 5…

A beautiful week

What a beautiful week we have had in Moonbeam Class this week, both with the weather and with each other.

Highlights of our week:

- In Science we went on a plant hunt for wild and garden plants around the School grounds.

- We have identified half of a 2D shape…

This week our top moments have been:

• “We’ve been learning about the grid method.” – Maddison
• “We have finished making our Anglo-Saxon boats with Miss Hargreaves.” – Leyton & Israel
• “Yesterday we made Mother’s Day cards.” – Lucy
• “In English we have been looking at rap poems.” –…

We’ve got a spring in our step…

Apologies for no blog last week but I was off school poorly with shingles. I’m sure the children told you all about their fun and adventures with Miss Bryson and Mrs Hudson. I know they all really enjoyed red nose day too.

This week we have really enjoyed…

We have had lots of fun in Year 5 today. We celebrated Comic Relief in class with a number of activities. We all came dressed in red with a variety of noses, which we later ran 'nose and spoon' races. We played HeadHunters with Year 6, where we had to find a variety of pictures around the school…

This week we celebrated Comic Relief on Friday. To celebrate this in Gold Class we played HeadHunters alongside Year 5. In this game we had to find each of this years Red Noses alongside the original Red Nose and the Comic Relief Logo. In the afternoon we took part in a ‘Design Your Own Red Nose…

We like to move it, move it

We started off our week with a P.E day in the hall. We did circuit training, mile a day, zumba and yoga. We had an amazing day and the children were very enthusiastic with all the different activities. We were all ready for a rest by the end of the day!

Also this…

Our top five moments this week are:
 

1. On Wednesday we began making our Anglo-Saxon boats in DT using art straws for a mast and felt for sails and shields.
2. In PE we have learnt more about gymnastics in particular different types of balances.
3. In English we have become word detectives…

All About Comic Relief 

1. The first Night of Comic Relief happened on 5 February 1988. 

2. It raised £52,025,485 last year. 

3. The 10 noses all have different names and designs based on nature.

4. Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy…

Our guest bloggers this week are Hope and Hannah!

Here are our top 5 moments of the week:

1) "Today we made red nose biscuits because it is Red Nose Day! I made a giraffe!" - Hope

2) "I enjoyed doing the red nose headhunters." - Hannah

3) "In PE we have been doing gymnastics. We…