Year 5 Harry Potter trip- Friday 24th September

9th September 2021Miss Blackham

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Dear Parents, 

We are so excited about our first Expedition trip as year 5 on Friday 24th September to HARRY POTTER STUDIO TOUR (LONDON) 

We would just like to remind you of the following:

The coaches will leave school at 7.30am â€“ please arrive at your classroom by 7am.

The coaches will return to school at approximately 7:30pm (we will keep you informed via text).

Please take into account the length of the day we will be out when packing lunches. Children will require extra food in their packed lunch – eg. Cereal bar in the morning, normal packed lunch and a snack/tea prior to leaving the studio plus at least 3 drinks.  Pupils entitled to Free School Meals will be provided with a packed lunch from school but additional snacks will need to be provided from home.

Children need to wear their school jumper/cardigan and top, jogging bottoms / leggings and comfortable footwear.

Children MUST NOT bring a mobile phone on the visit but they are welcome to bring a camera (they will need to look after it themselves).  They may also bring a book or something to do on the coach that isn’t electronic.

Finally, if your child suffers from travel sickness, please ensure that they take their tablet before arriving at school and then bring one in a named envelope for the return journey and givethis to their class teacher. Parents will also be required to sign for this at the office too.

Yours sincerely

Miss Blackham

Y5/6 Phase Leader 

Year 5/6 reading challenge!

8th September 2021Miss Blackham

Calling all year 5/6 children… do you want to be in with a chance to win a £25 voucher to spend at Intake fish and chips… to treat your family to a chippy tea? Well listen up! From Monday, you will each be given a reading record and every time you read to an adult at home and they sign it, you will get a ticket into the draw. The winner will be selected on Thursday 14th October!

If you are struggling to read at home, you can opt to read to me at break times and I can sign this for you.
Let’s get reading!

-Miss Blackham

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Reading rivers!

7th September 2021Miss Blackham

In crew Topliss today we created our own reading rivers. We discussed just how much we read on a daily basis without even realising! We are always reading! When we saw just how much we had written down, we couldn’t believe it! We then made pledges to improve our accelerated reader scores to help us become even better at reading! I can’t wait to check in with your pledges later this week Crew Topliss!

-Miss Blackham

#LovePlover

Year 6- Star gazing on Thursday night

7th September 2021Miss Blackham

Just a reminder that Year 6 stargazing is Thursday. We are asking for a contribution of £1.50 to cover the bbq costs and we will be having hot chocolates and marshmallows! We are so excited to launch our new expedition in this exciting way! Please ask your child’s class teacher if you have any questions!
Children can be collected at 9:30pm

-Miss Blackham

#LovePlover

Fantastic fact splats!

6th September 2021Miss Blackham

I have loved teaching 6H this afternoon. What a fantastic start to our English cycle! We were hooked in by watching Pandora and we quickly realised the information we were noting down were in fact ,fact splats. We then had a silent discussion to add to the fact splats before sharing our favourite ones with a cold call. The facts will now
be used to support our non chronological reports.

A shout out to Lola and Demi for being the fact splats winners!

-Miss Blackham

#LovePlover

Making pledges this morning in crew!

6th September 2021Miss Blackham

What a fabulous start we have had in crew Topliss this morning. We reflected on our HoWLs from last week and made fresh pledges for the week ahead. We then added them to our crew display board to help remind us what we need to do to make this week the best it can be! Well done Year 5!

-Miss Blackham

#LovePlover

Are you ready for a Viking Quest?

5th September 2021Mrs Graves

Year 3 and 4 proved they were ready for the challenge of being a Viking Warrior this morning, demonstrating that they have both brains and brawn in our Viking Quest.

We were given the challenge to strengthen a Viking Hoard, but only if we could complete the challenges first.

We had four quests to complete that would give us a number combination to open the lock on the Viking Treasure Chest.

The Riddle of the Runes – could we decipher the words written in Viking Runes,

Timeline Trouble – could we find the missing event on the timeline

Warrior Wordfinders, had us searching for the missing Viking word.

And finally we were Amazing Archaeologists looking for Viking artefacts in our own archaeological dig.

After we successfully showed how we could use our brains, we then show how physical we were and how we could follow instructions by playing Capture the Flag, Viking Ships and Raising the Sail.

We had a fun afternoon watching ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ for a different peek into Viking life.

Have a look at at how we launched the day!