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  • Year 5: How did William Shakespeare and Jane Austen change the English literature?

    Published 03/02/26
    This week we have been thinking about how William Shakespeare and Jane Austen changed British Literature, theatre and the language we use today. Before William Shakespeare, many words in the English language had never been written down. As he was the
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  • Year 5 - How are chickens and humans similar and different?

    Published 27/01/26
    This week we have found many connections in our learning. In History this week we were looking at Charles Darwin and his work "On the Origin of Species." He travelled around the world during Victorian times and discovered that some ani
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  • Year 5 – Who is Emmeline Pankhurst and how did she change British History?

    Published 20/01/26
    In History this term we are thinking about people who have changed British History. We started by learning about William Wiberforce and how he worked hard through Parliament to abolish slavery. We discovered that the slave trade was very lucrative in
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  • Year 5 - Why are bees important?

    Published 12/01/26
    This week we have learnt why bees are so important. We discovered that bees are responsible for pollinating so many plants, including the crops we grow and plants we eat. Without them, we wouldn't have much of the food we eat. They transfer
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  • Year 5 - Happy New Year!

    Published 06/01/26
    It was great to welcome the children back into school today. We have started the term by reminding the children of all the great learning we have completed so far this academic year and have introduced the new topics. We are excited about our brand-n
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  • Year 5 – What is happening in the playground?

    Published 16/12/25
    The highlight of our week has got to be the reopening of the trim trail on the playground. It is bigger, better and so much more fun than anything we have had previously. Another highlight this week was watching our 'Little Friends' from rece
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  • Year 5 - What have we been doing with our Little Friends?

    Published 10/12/25
    This week we met with our little friends from Reception to make Christmas hats for our Christmas lunch today. We used a range of collage materials, and they really did shine! We have been writing and publishing our Star Write diary entry about a surv
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  • Year 5 - Why did Frida Kahlo paint so many self portraits?

    Published 02/12/25
    Our artist this term is Frida Kahlo. We have discovered that she had an extremely difficult life, overcoming severe illness as a child, which left her weak. This was compounded by an accident which left her recovering in bed from many broken bones. T
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  • Year 5 - Why was the RMS Titanic such a special ship?

    Published 25/11/25
    This half-term we have been learning about the RMS Titanic. Did you know that RMS stands for Royal Mail ship? One of her main jobs was to deliver mail across the Atlantic Ocean. This obviously didn't happen. As a vessel, she stood out for he
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  • Year 5 - What is BFLF?

    Published 18/11/25
    In Year 5, we start a project called "Big Friends, Little Friends" (BFLF), which is when we partner Year 5 children with children in the Reception classes. Throughout the year we will be working on different projects which will go across ma
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  • Year 5 - Where in the world is...?

    Published 11/11/25
    This week has definitely been a week when we have learnt a lot about the countries in the world. We have been preparing for our Around The World day, where parents can come to travel around the world as they walk through school on 24th November. In Y
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  • Year 5 What is a news report?

    Published 04/11/25
    To conclude our work on Hacker by Malorie Blackman, we wrote and presented news reports. We thought about being an anchor in the newsroom, as well as being reporters out on location. We interviewed a variety of  witnesses to the case from t
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