8.11.24 Weekly News!  Welcome back to Term 2! It’s been lovely to see everyone arrive with smiles on their faces and feeling keen to learning. It’s also been wonderful to see nearly all of Year 5 head to the swimming pool this week. Thank you to everyone who attended PTC meetings...

English Throughout English this week, we have moved on to persuasive writing. We have begun writing a persuasive letter to Shackleton to persuade him to give us a job on Endurance for the expedition. We have used modal verbs, persuasive openers and looked at the structure of our writing. Next wee...

English Throughout English this week, we have begun introducing ourselves to newspapers. We started the week by looking through newspapers and familiarising ourselves with the layout and the features. We then started to create our own newspaper report about Shackleton and his men returning home...

It has been another fantastic week in Year 5! English During English this week, we have continued working on our non-chronological reports about Antarctic animals. We started off the week by researching and writing two more paragraphs about seals, squids or whales. We got to pick which animal...

What a wonderful start to Year 5. We have loved welcoming the children back and seeing all of their smiles throughout the first week back! English In English this week, we started our new book called ‘Ice Trap’. This is a book about Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crews expedition t...