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17 February 2023

Year 5 Cyclewise 2023

Year 5 have had a great week completing Cyclewise. They have learnt lots of new skills to keep them safer when cycling on the roads. To enhance their safety further all the children designed and made a high visibility armband to wear when they are out on darker days. 
 

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10 February 2023

Safer Internet Day 2022

We have been learning about the importance of taking time to talk about life online. We discussed what worries us, what we should do about it and if we had the power to fix one online safety issue what would it be and how would we do it. 
 

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10 February 2023

Mental Health Awareness Week 2023

Today we wore bright coloured clothes to mark the end of Mental Health Awareness Week. The theme this year was ‘Let’s Connect’. We discussed how making connections with our friends, family, pets, neighbours and community can help with our mental health. These connections can make us feel…

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3 February 2023

Times Tables Rock Star NSPCC Challenge

KS2 took part in the NSPCC Times Table Rock Star challenge today. They all tried very hard to be the winning class with the highest number of correct answers per pupil. The speed and recall of some of the pupils was very impressive! A huge well done to everyone. 
 

 

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23 January 2023

Year 5 Dance

In PE Year 5 have been putting together their own dance routines with a Bollywood theme. They learnt 3 hand movements and 3 different steps which they combined in their own way to create a unique dance. They enjoyed watching each other’s routines and commenting on strengths and areas for…

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23 January 2023

Year 5 Freeze Frames

Year 5 enjoyed recreating freeze frame scenes from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. We  then tried to guess which scene it was. 
 

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30 November 2022

Football Tournament

Congratulations to all our footballers who represented the school in a tournament against other local schools. They all had a great time and enjoyed putting the skills they have been learning in PE  into practice.

 

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30 November 2022

Year 5 Art Trip

Year 5 visited the Beacon today to view the painting Saskia Van Uylenburgh by Rembrandt. The master piece is on loan from the National Art Gallery and we felt very privileged to be able to see it. We learnt that it is a painting of Rembrandt’s wife and that it is over 400 years old. We were asked…

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11 November 2022

Year 5 Design and Technology

Year 5 have enjoyed making flatbread and Smorrebrod in design and technology. They learnt that Smorrebrod is a type of Danish open sandwich made on rye bread with a variety of toppings in order to provide you with lots of nutrients. 
 

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3 November 2022

Maths in Year 5

In maths we have been finding factors of numbers. We made arrays with counters to help understand this. We learnt that numbers that only have 2 factors , 1 and the number itself, are called Prime Numbers. 

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3 November 2022

Year 5 Library Visit

Year 5 visited Egremont library to choose a book. They read the blurb to find out what the book was about to help them decide whether to choose it or not. If they were putting a book back they learnt the importance of placing it back with the spine facing out. They checked their books out then…

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7 October 2022

Active Feet First In Year 5

Year 5 braved the wet weather this week to either walk the whole or part of the way to school in order to take part in Active Feet First. They were all rewarded with a high viz slap band.

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