“We live our lives like Jesus”
Kingfishers Nightingales Merlins
Miss J Dawson Mrs R Costello-Sharp Mrs C Packer
Mr D Byrnes
Mrs R. Sayin
English
This term we will be exploring the poem The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. The children will apply their previous unit skills and writing setting descriptions and a new adaptation of the story.
Year 5 maths
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Year 6 Maths
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Extra information
PE Days
All year 5-6 classes have PE on Wednesday and Friday.
On Wednesdays afternoons the children will be taking part in tennis lessons at Portsmouth Tennis centre.
Year 6 will start Swimming lessons this term on Friday afternoons at The Mountbatten Centre.
North End Library
As part of our drive to promote reading for pleasure across our school, all classes visit our local library each half term.
Library visit dates:
Friday 28th April: Merlins
Friday 5th May: Nightingales
Friday 26th May: Kingfishers
Friday 23rd June: Merlins
Friday 30th June: Nightingales
Friday 7th July: Kingfishers
Homework
Each week the children will recieve a piece of maths homework every Thursday. They will also recieve new spellings every Thursday. The children will be tested on the spellings the following Thursday. They should also be reading every night.
5th January 2022
Living museum
On Thursday afternoon, Year 5/6 created a living History museum for their parents to visit. They displayed their posters and presented the information to explain our learning from our Autumn term History unit, answering the question: Why was Baghdad a beacon of light in the Dark Ages? It was a great success and the children enjoyed sharing their work and creativity with their audience.
Tuesday 11th October 2022
Today KS2 got the opportunity to hear about another author. This time Sir Lenny Henry was interviewed by fellow author Tọlá Okogwu. Lenny Henry explained why he wanted to be an author and how he came up with the ideas for his stories. He also read us a snippet of his latest two books aswell as sharing some jokes with us. The children thought he was very funny and were excited to hear sections of his two books.
Wednesday 5th October 2022
The year 5-6 classses were lucky enough to meet Adam Baron today. They had a fascinating question and answer session and got to hear all about Adam's inspiration for his stories before taking part in a writing workshop.
The best bits from 2021-2022
Year 6- Take over day.
Over the last couple of weeks the year 6 children have been preparing to take over the school. The children had the opportunity to be class teachers, TAs, office assistants, Lead Practisioners and Headteachers.
The teachers had to plan and prepare the lessons for the class they were teaching.
The children really impressed us with their enthusiam and determination when taking on their new job roles.
Trips
Year 5
Stubbington 6th- 8th September 2021
What a fantastic three days we had in Stubbington. The weather was amazing and all children had a fabulous time away.
All children got to enjoy lots of different activities such as Stubbington Fox, Map reading, Earthquake, Amazon Adventures, pond dipping and small mammel hotels.
During the time away the children also got the visit the hide at nighttime to see some of the animals in the conservation area come out and eat the children's leftovers from meal time. The children got to see badgers and foxes.
Please see the photos below of the children taking part in a range of these activites.