A fantastic end to Year 5

18/07/2025 · No comments yet

Hi all, We had a great fun week to finish year 5. The children thoroughly enjoyed the French cafe and fashion show. We ordered food, said what we were wearing and then enjoyed some party games in French! Finally, we have loved every minute this year. When trying to select the highlights of the Read More

Malham

11/07/2025 · 3 comments

Good evening, Photos from 5B’s trip to Malham today can be found below. Thank you to all the parents who were able to offer their support on the trip today. 13

Superb singers

04/07/2025 · No comments yet

The highlight of the week in Year 5 was when eight of our children took part in a music festival at Leeds Arena. They have been working hard, learning the songs and practising for weeks and the improvements they have made have been massive. After the performance, the singers in 5B gave a talk Read More

Science forces

20/06/2025 · No comments yet

Science Science this week has seen both classes start the new topic of Forces. Testing gravity. Was Aristotle or Galeleo right? Aristotle thought heavy things would fall faster. Galleleo thought the weight didn’t matter. Objects would fall at the same speed, unless affected by air resistance. In Science we tested this by dropping the Read More

Growing a garden in Year 5

14/06/2025 · 1 comment

Hi all, We have had a fun week in Year 5 this week, completing lots of science and work on plant reproduction. We labelled and dissected flowers, learning about all the male and female parts. Next, we learned about asexual reproduction. We took cuttings of tomato plants, rosemary and started an experiment growing potatoes Read More

06/06/2025 · No comments yet

Good evening, Firstly, happy Eid to all those celebrating today. The first week back has flown. We started by chatting about the holidays and memories of the residential (which seems an age ago). Then, straight on to Maths. Maths This week, we have been looking at coordinates and translating points and shapes. The most Read More

5B residential – final day

23/05/2025 · 3 comments

There are only a few photos today, mainly of the walk to the Ribblehead viaduct and then on to the river study, although the sandwich making skills deserved a few pics! This morning, we headed out in two groups to walk from either end of a route from the viaduct to Chapel-le-dale. From the Read More

5B residential – Day 2

22/05/2025 · 2 comments

Caving was the best thing ever – Clara I liked climbing in the caves – Frank I loved biking down the hill – Evie I liked caving because I enjoyed looking at the pretty rocks – Layla I loved biking as there were so many turns – Maisie Caving was amazing – Lewis These Read More

5B residential – Day 1

21/05/2025 · 6 comments

Good evening (or more probably good morning when you are reading this), We have had an absolutely packed day today. We left school this morning just before 10am and arrived at Gearstones at 12:30pm after a very enjoyable train journey. Following lunch at the lodge, we drove the 20 minutes to the Ingleton Waterfall Read More

5KH residential Day 2 evening

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In the evening, after some recreation time, half the children visited the church graveyard and viaduct (no photos), whilst the other half did the night walk. The night walk session begins with a map reading lesson: orientation, contours, symbols and six-figure coordinates. The children did well with this and Zach excelled – knowing that Read More