Tanzanite class had a busy week, taking a trip down each day to Archway Leisure Centre for an hour of swimming. We worked with our instructors who gave us plenty of time to practice our…
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Fun with Mosaics in Year 5!
A lovely week for Year 5! We certainly had fun in music focusing on rhythm and beat and copying drumming patterns with Mr Bunting. To continue our learning on Anglo-Saxons, we used our own research…
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Year 5 have had an eventful week. Alongside our fantastic sports day, we continued to practice our tag rugby skills, practicing our sideways passing skills. We also completed a character narrative for English. We worked…
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In music, we have been learning to read and respond to music notation. We composed 4-beat rhythms in pairs and performed them using Kodaly sounds – a method to vocalise note values. In science, we…
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Our first full week in year 5 and the first topics of the year are now underway! In English, we continued to work with our focus text, ‘The Promise’, and explored a character’s actions and…
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Welcome back! We are so excited to have you all back in school, ready and raring to learn. We had an eventful first day back – sharing stories about our dream holidays and reflecting…
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This week the Year 5 boys took a trip to St Aloysius college to take part in two taster sessions – a Science lesson and an English lesson. In the Science lesson the boys looked…
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This week Year 5 visited St Aloysius playing fields to take part in a sports taster afternoon. The sessions were led by staff and pupils from St Aloysius college and involved a whole range of…
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This week in their English lessons the children in Year 5 have been preparing to write survival guides! The children had recently written survival narratives and have now started thinking about the different equipment and…
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This week Year 5 were thrilled to welcome British gymnast ‘Jaydon Paddock’ to the school. Jaydon spoke to the children about his life as a gymnast, his early influences, his intense training sessions and his…
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