Year 5's new topic Exploring Europe has got off to a great start!  Yesterday Miss Laitl from Key Stage 1 gave a presentation on her homeland, Poland.  We found out about the population, the different districts within the country and that the diverse landscapes in Poland include mountains, beaches and even a desert!  We discovered that Polish buildings are colourful and there are lots of beautiful churches there.  We had a go at speaking in Polish and learnt about Polish currency which is called Zloty; Miss Leitl brought some in for us to look at.

Our new topic for this half term is "Food Glorious Food"

During this half term we will be learning about food from around the world, where food comes from and healthy and unhealthy food. We will also be focusing on the story of Oliver's Vegetables and we will be tasty lots of exciting foods along the way.

Year 4 will be studying The Romans during this half term. They will be zooming back to the past and exploring how the Romans lived, what they wore and what they ate. They will also be investigating what it was like to be a Roman soldier and seeing how influential Romans moulded history and changed the landscape and beliefs of Britain over 2000 years ago.

 THANK YOU!

Parents' Questionnaire- Thank you to all who completed the parent survey on the school website. I have met with a number of parents following the surveys and their suggestions and ideas have already helped move the school forward.  

Christmas Trees-A special thank you to Vaughan and Lester for their kind donation (again) of two Christmas Trees.

This half term we have had lots of fun during our Forest School sessions. The children have been playing games, exploring the environment, making fairy houses and lots more. We have also made twig Christmas trees to take home and the children have been looking at animals which hibernate over winter. We have really enjoyed ourselves and can't wait for our next sessions in Spring.

We were amazing in our nativity play and we loved taking part.

As part of Year 5's Spies topic, Friday 9th December was the long awaited Spy Day!  All the children came dressed as spies and entered the Spy Headquarters wiith a secret code!  Spy moves, invisible writing and gadget making were just some of the missions they carried out.  The Secret Agent in Key Stage 2 was revealed and the afternoon was spent watching the action packed Spy film Stormbreaker.  It was a fabulous day, enjoyed by all.  Mrs Blomeley.

What a jam packed half term! We have been very busy this half term writing our own spooky stories, learning how to use speech marks and researching and creating a fact file about Modest Mussorgsky. We have been practising our typing skills and using a variety of punctuation in our writing. In Topic, we have been using atlas's to locate mountains, exploring with paint and creating mood art to a night on bare mountain. In Maths have been learning our division and multiplication facts for our 3, 4 and 8 times table and using rulers and scales to explore different types of measure.

Children have really enjoyed learning magic tricks to perform to their class and their parents.