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Year 5 – Forest & Sage

Week 2

The children were very relieved to read the sequel to “The Watertower” which is called “Beneath the Surface” but were not so pleased to be left with yet another cliffhanger! We have been writing newspaper reports about the strange happenings in Preston, full of detail, quotes and mystery. Well done everyone! This week also brought …

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Happy New Year!

Welcome back to school this week and Happy New Year. We’ve had a great start to 2025 and have ended the week with some baking. Our DT project this term is savoury scones so enjoy the cheese scones this weekend. The recipe will be on Google Classroom if you wish to make some at home …

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Holidays are here!

We’ve had a fantastic last week at school in year 5. From the pantomime to winter drawing activities (and of course some Maths and Science!) We started off the week with an AI workshop from the University of Hertfordshire. Did you know that robots can do flips? Our latest DT project has been to make …

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The penultimate week…

This week we have finished off our “How to disguise yourself as a Christmas Elf” instructions. The children were so creative and created detailed and humorous writing. In Art, we continued experimenting with mixed media and used handwriting pen and watercolours to create landscapes. It’s lovely to see the range of ideas and pieces of …

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What a week!

Another busy week in year 5 with lots of work on fractions. We have been comparing and ordering them, learning to first find a common denominator to make it easier. In English, we have started our new writing on “How to disguise yourself as a Christmas Elf”. There have been lots of creative ideas and …

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Last week of November…

Today we had a wonderful trip to a local synagogue. The children wowed the people there with their knowledge of Judaism and they were a credit to the school. Lots of them were amazed by how large a Torah Scroll was! The weather was on our side as well and we certainly got our steps …

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Week 3 = complete

What a busy week! Practise for sharing assemblies are well underway and we look forward to presenting them in a few weeks time. In art we have been looking at landscapes using different media. This week we focused on using charcoal and pastels to created coastal scenes. Lots of creativity going on! Our English suspense …

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A creative week…

It’s been a fun week in year 5 with lots going on. Today both classes enjoyed a workshop with Herts County Council about the regeneration of Victoria Street in St Albans. The children were able to think of designs that could improve the area.  Sage class finished their moving toys this week – lots of …

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Remember Remember the first week in November

We hope you all had a lovely half term and it’s been a great week back for us! We have continued to read our new text “Who Let The Gods Out” and are enjoying learning lots of new vocabulary about the Ancient Greeks and getting to know the characters. We have been starting to think …

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Happy Half Term!!!!!

Wow – It’s been a long 8 weeks… but we have had lots of fun! Well done to everyone for their hard work The term ended with us creating our moving toys based on the Greeks. We used cams and did lots of problem solving to ensure that our mechanisms were moving well. Some people …

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