Thank you for all your contributions to yesterday’s party. Hopefully your child’s energy levels, from rather a lot of sugar, were starting to fall by the time they arrived home!

As your child may have told you last night, Oliver has been absent for most of this week after quite a nasty accident on his trampoline on Tuesday evening. We are looking forward to seeing him back in school next week and I know Class 5 are all keen to look out for him and help him in any way they can.

Many thanks.

As in previous years, I would like to do a party on Friday afternoon (in school time) to reward Year 6s for their hard work this week and also to say thank you to Year 5s for ‘coping’ with the changes to the timetable.  I would be really grateful if Class 5 children could bring in something to eat or drink e.g. cakes, biscuits, crisps (I know these don’t sound very healthy but it’s what the children deserve this week!)

They may also bring in casual clothes to change into for the afternoon, if they wish.

Thank you for your support this week and in the past few months in the build up to SATs.  It really has made a difference and I know your child/children have benefited from it.

Mrs Natalie Johnson

Class 5 children certainly came back raring to go after the Easter holidays!

In Literacy, most of our writing activities have been themed around a new toy, the Zing Air Storm Z-Curve Bow, which children seemed to really enjoy.  They wrote a review for the Zing manufacturer/retailers, the script for a radio advert and a letter to persuade me why I should buy Class 5 a Z-Curve Bow. They also wrote instructions to get to a mystery prize on the playground, the contents of which will be revealed this week! If they have been successful in persuading me to part with my cash, they will be planning activities this week involving the toy so watch this space…

In Numeracy we looked at how factors can make multiplying 2- or 3-digit numbers easier and revised different written methods of multiplication. This week we will revisit different methods of division and the association with multiplication.

Other highlights including planning and carrying out a quick investigation in Science involving carrier bags, practical tasks creating shelter structures and starting a new P.E. unit on volleyball.

Well done Class 5 for working so enthusiastically – keep it up!

I just wanted to say well done to Class 5 children on their fantastic effort with their Easter homework. Their postcards from Brazil really showed what they have learnt during our topic and made me want to visit!

Well done also to Year 6s for getting stuck into the revision activities I gave out; we’ve started to work through these today and I will be setting further small tasks for Year 6s to do up until SATs week (May 12th onwards.)

Thank you for supporting your child with their homework tasks which is a great help to me, as well as your child.