Autumn Term

21st November 2025

Years 5 and 6 have been working extra hard this week on some really tricky fractions work. I have been so impressed at how well they have persevered and managed to achieve some amazing outcomes despite finding some the work extremely challenging. Great work Owl Class!
We have started our new core text for this half term: Holes by Louis Sacher and the children are enthralled by the story so far. We are writing letters home from the main character, Stanley, to his family from Camp Green Lake and have been learning how to use parenthesis and semi-colons to improve our work. 

We are still swimming this half term and we have seen amazing progress from all our swimmers - the top group are now working on survival skills and will require long sleeved/full leg pyjamas for their lesson next week. I can't wait to see them all jump in with their clothes on next Wednesday! 

 

14th November 2025

I hope you all had a wonderful two week break and feel refreshed and recharged ready for an exciting and jam packed half term leading up to Christmas!
Important dates for the diary are:

W/C 24th November - PIRA and PUMA assessment week for both year group

27th and 28th November - Christmas jumper swap

6th December - PTA Christmas Fayre - 2-5pm

11th December - Ks2 Carol Concert 6pm

16th December - Theatre trip to see Tom's Midnight Garden

18th December - Christmas lunch and Father Christmas visit

19th December - End of term church service 12pm and early finish 1pm.

Our prep for Young Voices continues this term and Owl's homework is to practice the songs at home until they are word perfect ready for our performance on January 13th!

 

22nd October 2025

As our first half term comes to an end,  Owl class have continued working hard and showing high levels of effort in their lessons, despite the long eight week slog to the October break! After half term, our ancient Greek topic will continue, as will our science topic on forces. 

This week we have been writing our own Greek myths based on the many we have read this term as part of our topic. Many many monsters have been slain by Greek heroes and an awful lof of cities and princesses have been saved in Owls class this week! 

Our maths work has moved onto fractions, and although this is usually not a favourite area of maths for many, the children have been working hard and doing brilliantly as always. This unit will continue for a few weeks after half term, offering the children a chance to consolidate their new learning and improve their confidence with fractions.

I hope you have a lovely half term break and look forward to seeing all the children on the 10th of November! 

 

 

14th October 2025 

This week we have been finishing off our maths unit around multiplication and division with some consolidation lessons focused on multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.  The children have started their final writing unit of the half-term and will be writing their own Greek myth based on our reading of Theseus and the Minotaur and King Midas.  Our history lesson this week has asked the questions 'Was the Athenian democracy a true democracy?' and we have also compared our modern UK democracy to the system used in ancient Athens. 
All the children who have taken part in their 'Bikeability' classes and assessments have done brilliantly and should be very proud of themselves - the assessors have had nothing but praise for their hardwork and excellent behaviour. 

9th October 2025

4 of our Year 5 students attended the Princethorpe College Maths Challenge this week. They worked hard and represented the school amazingly well! We are so proud of you boys!

3rd October 2025

We have had great fun experimenting with paper helicopters to test air resistance this week!

22nd September 2025

The children have completed their baseline SATS papers this week so that we can help as much as possible in the year leading up to their end of year 6 tests.  Year 6 parents will be given these scores on Parent's Evenings to facilitate our discussion around progress, attainment and targets. 

Year 5 parents; we use these tests to ensure we are covering the areas of the curriculum which will best support your children.  You will not receive the scores for these tests but will still get the chance to discuss your child's progress and attainment. 

16th September 2025

This week, Owls Class have been continuing their work on the Ancient Greeks - learning about Greek city states and drafting their non-chronological reports about Greek gods. We have created charcoal images of a Greek theatre production of Daedalus and Icarus, carried on with our place value topic and completed science experiments on both friction and gravity! Busy busy busy!

9th September 2025

KS2 visited the Houses of Parliament to learn about democracy, how our country is run and we even got to watch a debate in the House of Commons!