Year 4 are thoroughly enjoying all their new topics this term and have been working hard!

In English, we are reading The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo and are exploring what the South African Veld looks like ready to write descriptions. 4R are especially lucky as both Mrs Gill and Mrs Clothier have lived in South Africa so they have first hand experience!

In maths we are circling back to place value and multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 before moving onto measures of length and weight and in History we have started to study the Vikings and why they came to Britain.

Thankfully, our P.E. lessons take place inside this term so haven’t been subject to the rain and the children have really enjoyed gymnastics. We are looking at a range of partner and group balances to begin with and learning the importance of body tension to hold a position.

Finally, this week saw the first of our new music lessons- keyboard! Mr Garrod was really pleased with the effort the children put in and they are all looking forward to learning some new tunes ready for our spring music concert.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 4 Team

Year 6 have jumped straight into the new year with a wide range of learning.

In English, we've started our biography unit by writing the life stories of our teachers - next week, we'll have the chance to write about a celebrity of our choice (as long as we come in with notes on Monday - if not, we'll have to choose for them!)  We've kicked off our Ancient Greece unit in history, and we've also started new topics in art, PSHE, PE, RE and music.

In maths and guided reading, we are shifting our focus a little more in the direction of SATS.  Over the next term, Year 6 will see an increase in test materials during lessons so we become more familiar and comfortable with the style of questions we'll need to answer in May.

More excitingly, though, our trip to Liddington is now on the horizon.  This week, we recieved our provisional activity list and our room allocations, so the Year 6 team can begin making more specific plans for how the week will be arranged.  We also placed the order for our Year 6 hoodies this week - they will arrive in time for Liddintgon to give us an additional layer of warmth.

Don't forget our combined SATS / Liddington briefing meeting at 5pm on Tuesday 27th January - we hope to see lots of you there to learn more.

Today, many members of the Young Voices choir ventured out into the local community to once again spread some Christmas joy with their singing!

30 children visited Ridgemede Carehome. They brought their beautiful voices and Christmas spirit to share with the residents. We sang a range of classic Christmas songs and read a few Christmas poems. Our audience joined in gleefully with our singing and gave the children such a warm welcome. We also had the pleasure of singing Happy Birthday to an amazing resident named Polly who was celebrating her 107th Birthday!

A huge thankyou to the Year 5s and 6s who attended today. As always, you were a credit to our school.

Miss Pascoe 🎵

Year 4 are thoroughly enjoying all their new topics this term and have been working hard!

In English, we are reading The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo and are exploring what the South African Veld looks like ready to write descriptions. 4R are especially lucky as both Mrs Gill and Mrs Clothier have lived in South Africa so they have first hand experience!

In maths we are circling back to place value and multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 before moving onto measures of length and weight and in History we have started to study the Vikings and why they came to Britain.

Thankfully, our P.E. lessons take place inside this term so haven’t been subject to the rain and the children have really enjoyed gymnastics. We are looking at a range of partner and group balances to begin with and learning the importance of body tension to hold a position.

Finally, this week saw the first of our new music lessons- keyboard! Mr Garrod was really pleased with the effort the children put in and they are all looking forward to learning some new tunes ready for our spring music concert.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 4 Team

Year 6 have jumped straight into the new year with a wide range of learning.

In English, we've started our biography unit by writing the life stories of our teachers - next week, we'll have the chance to write about a celebrity of our choice (as long as we come in with notes on Monday - if not, we'll have to choose for them!)  We've kicked off our Ancient Greece unit in history, and we've also started new topics in art, PSHE, PE, RE and music.

In maths and guided reading, we are shifting our focus a little more in the direction of SATS.  Over the next term, Year 6 will see an increase in test materials during lessons so we become more familiar and comfortable with the style of questions we'll need to answer in May.

More excitingly, though, our trip to Liddington is now on the horizon.  This week, we recieved our provisional activity list and our room allocations, so the Year 6 team can begin making more specific plans for how the week will be arranged.  We also placed the order for our Year 6 hoodies this week - they will arrive in time for Liddintgon to give us an additional layer of warmth.

Don't forget our combined SATS / Liddington briefing meeting at 5pm on Tuesday 27th January - we hope to see lots of you there to learn more.

Today, many members of the Young Voices choir ventured out into the local community to once again spread some Christmas joy with their singing!

30 children visited Ridgemede Carehome. They brought their beautiful voices and Christmas spirit to share with the residents. We sang a range of classic Christmas songs and read a few Christmas poems. Our audience joined in gleefully with our singing and gave the children such a warm welcome. We also had the pleasure of singing Happy Birthday to an amazing resident named Polly who was celebrating her 107th Birthday!

A huge thankyou to the Year 5s and 6s who attended today. As always, you were a credit to our school.

Miss Pascoe 🎵