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  • Year 5 & 6 9.1.26

    Published 09/01/26

    Year 5 Jaguars have begun their 'Dodgeball' PE unit by playing a few fun games. They had to think about their dodging and targeting strategies and how they could change these if it was unsuccessful. 

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  • Years 5 & 6 28.11.25

    Published 28/11/25

    This week the Shark class have been using descriptive writing to create tension and atmosphere around Shackleton's journey to Antarctica.  We have used relative clauses, personification, similes and metaphors, plus an element of 'show don't tell' to evoke a sense of panic and fear.  Finnley S completed his work using the checklist and colour-coded these elements afterwards.

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  • Years 5 & 6 21.11.25

    Published 20/11/25

    Here is a double page spread by Eshan, showing his knowledge of our Science topic on evolution and inheritance.

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  • Years 5 & 6, 7.11.25

    Published 07/11/25

    Ava J.created a wonderful pen profile based on a suffragette she had researched.  

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  • Years 5 & 6, 17.10.25

    Published 17/10/25

    In the Chameleons class this week, in maths we have been demonstaring two different methods of long division. Here is an example below by Franck.

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  • Years 5 & 6, 10.10.25

    Published 10/10/25

    In Year 5 this week we have been writing adventure stories about a magic sandwich who escapes from a boat, based on the story A Boy, A Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton.  We've then made our stories into sandwich shaped books. Here is Isla's sandwich story.

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  • Years 5 & 6 19.09.25

    Published 19/09/25

    Here is a piece of work by a child in the Chameleons work. This week we have been looking at the artist Lubaina Hamid.

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  • Years 5 & 6 23.05.25

    Published 23/05/25

    In the Cobra class this week we have been creating some self-portraits. Below is an example of one of these portraits.

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  • Years 5 & 6, 02.05.25

    Published 02/05/25

    Callum in Year 5 has created a watercolour painting inspired by the setting of 'The Highwayman.' He then wrote a detailed setting description which included a variety of sentence types.

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  • Years 5 & 6, 25.04.25

    Published 25/04/25

    Annabelle has completed a wonderful interpretation of an illustration by Levi Pinfold. This was inspired by the book ‘The Dam’ 

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  • Years 5 & 6 04.04.25

    Published 04/04/25

    Katie from the Toucans has created a wonderful double-page spread, comparing an Eastern European country to England as part of our geography learning. Well done Katie!

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  • Years 5 & 6 28.03.25

    Published 28/03/25

    In English we have started reading The Dam by David Almond. As part of this we have done some research on the setting for the story Kielder Water in Northumbria. Here is Lewis’s double paged spread sharing what he found out from his research.

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