Welcome back to Spring Term 2 in Year 5 where our topic "Why should the world's rainforests matter to all of us?" continues, in our attempt to explore the impact of climate change.  This term we will focus on presenting an assembly to Key Stage 2,  to impart Year 5's new found knowledge about this growing problem.  We will explore Greta Thunberg's book about her own efforts to help the planet and we will continue to read the award winning novel "The Explorer" by Katherine Rundell.  The class will write their own adventure narratives about

Year 5 had some intelligent and in depth discussions this week to look at the stages of child development in our Life Cycles topic in Science. For instance, at what age would a child start to recognise sounds in words?  Or when would they read a range of books independently?  They used their knowledge of themselves or their younger and older siblings to decide.  This is an example of Science Capital - what you know about scientific literacy and your related knowledge.  Brilliant work Year 5!  Mrs Blomeley

Year 5's Creative Homework Presentations were amazing!  They all chose an endangered animal to research and then delivered their presentations in class!  They ranged from power points to hand made posters, with a Herules Beetle cake thrown into the mix!  Year 5's presenting and listening skills were so impressive and we all learnt so much!  Thank you and well done everyone!  Mrs Blomeley

Awards this week were given for fantastic, fluent reading and being an amazing, enthusiastic role model in Year 5!  Good to be Green awards for following our school rules and Silver certificates and badges were also awarded for achieving 100 Star Points!  Finally we had a few Mathletics certificates for achieving great results on Mathletics!  Well done everyone!  Mrs Blomeley

We met author and illustrator Sean Perkins today who read us his book 'Ben and Oscar birthday party' 

He was very creative and used sound effects to narrate his story. We even enjoyed a sing song with his guitar to finish.

Please remember that you can order one or both of his signed books. Bring in your slip and money next week.

Congratulations to Sam and Amaze this week. Sam created a very emotional poem about a migrant based on our book 'The Arrival' Amaze is new to the class and has made an outstanding start to his time in year 6.

Our Good to be Green winners are Eva and Isobel.

Congratulations to all of our Silver Award winners too!

Well done to this weeks Head-Teacher and Good to be Green awards! You have really stood out this week, well done and keep up the hard work! 

Here is our meduim term plan for this half term.  We will be learning all about Africa and why it is so amazing.  

There is also an optional home learning grid for anyone wanting to complete some additional challenges.

Mrs Kleban

A great first week back Year 4, well done.