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We invited our grown ups into school this morning to help us be an environmental superhero!

We put on some special gloves to protect our hands and set about the playground looking for litter that we could put in the bin. 

Thank you to all the adults that joined us in helping keep our…

Thank you to Joanne for coming into our class today. As part of our superhero topic (people who help us), we had one of our parents coming in and showing what she does. She showed us how she would weigh a baby, measure the baby and the resources she needs to check a child’s development.

We…

In P.E. this term we have been putting our travelling, jumping and rolling skills to the test on the large apparatus. We soon discovered we could go up and down the climbing frame but travelling through proved to be a much bigger challenge.  The ropes were also very tricky but some of us managed…

In maths we are learning that multiplication and division are inverse operations.  We know that we can multiply any numbers in any order but this is not true when dividing.  We have also learnt that good mathematicians like to be organised and one good way to organise our thinking is by using an…

Over this half-term we have been learning about qualities that make us effective sports people and how these can help us in our wider lives. We have looked at confidence, perseverance, resilience, team work and encouragement. In every session we have discussed different qualities and then…

We all went in the back of the police van today! We tried on the police uniform and found out all about how the police keep us safe.

We helped celebrate Chinese New Year and the year of the rat by learning all about dragon dances, Chinese food and and traditional customs our friends are celebrating this week. Take a look at some photos of our fun activity…

Year 5 are enjoying a series of lessons with Coach Dan, all based around having a healthy mind as well as a healthy body. So far, we have been thinking about resilience, confidence and gratitude. After working in the classroom on these topics, we go out and try to show these same qualities as we…

We had a fantastic time learning about how the police help us.

We have been exploring how we can make numbers to 20 by looking at the tens and ones in a number. 

Coach Steve is coming in this half term to help teach us the fundamentals in cricket. Not only are we working on throwing, hitting and catching, but also to be a good sport and show the ‘ spirit of cricket’. 

This week we took our first look at the operation of division.  Here we are exploring division as 'sharing'.