Welcome back everyone!

This half term we are Walking Through The Jungle and learning all about the Rainforest.

I have attached the Medium Term Plan and Home Learning Grid for anyone wanting to do some additional learning.

Mrs Tennant

Year 6 braved the cold weather to practise their cricket skills. What a great way to finish our first day back at school. 

Welcome back to Spring 2; we are now halfway through year 5! This term, we continue to explore our topic “Why should the world’s rainforests matter to all of us?”. We will learn about Greta Thunberg and her efforts to save our planet, with a focus on climate change, and we will be working on creating a climate change assembly for the whole school to watch! In addition, we will be working on writing a new chapter to our class text, The Explorer. Year 5 will be creating a soft toy after practising some needlework!

As a hook to our new writing topic (to write a new chapter about a mysterious fruit) the class tried some exotic fruits. 

This half term we will be focussing on Teamwork and I will be looking out for this key employment skill. 

Why some schools are pushing for 'active' uniforms over traditional ones - BBC News

Take a look at Broadbent Fold in the BBC news! 

Here is the home learning menu for this half term linked to our topic 'Can you explain the unexplained?'.

Please complete your home learning in your homework book or upload to Seesaw. Star points will be earnt for all pieces of homework completed. 

Times tables or SPaG homework will be sent out every Friday also. 

I cannot wait to see all the exciting things you do!

This half term, our topic in Year 4 is 'Can you explain the unexplained?' where we will be learning all about unsolved mysteries such as Scottish myths and Bermuda Triangle tales, creating our own working lighthouses and taking part in a Crumble Coding workshop. 

Please see the attached topic web for more information about what your child will be learning this half term.

Our Year 4 and 5 girls had so much fun at the very first glow futsal festival in Tameside. They showed great team work and loved dressing up for the event. Well done girls! 

Year 4 had lots of fun designing, creating and evaluating their Victorian pottage in their DT lessons. They decided which vegetables and stock they wanted in their soup and if they wanted it blended or not. The class loved getting to try each groups creations and tried lots of vegetables they hadn't had before. Well done everyone!