Blog by Mrs Alfrey

What a great last week of term!  After working incredibly hard since September it was lovely to enjoy all of the activities this week.  We’ve had a gorgeous Christmas lunch, Santa dash, Christmas crafts, Panto and party day, a visit to Santa in the woods and a beautiful liturgy to finish the week!…

This week we have been getting to grips with simplifying fractions.  Year 6 have been working very hard and have been solving problems involving fractions and decimals.  We have also been continuing with our class reader Deep Water.  Many of us have become very angry with the main character Jon…

It has been a lovely first week back; Year 6 are well rested and ready for more learning!  This week we were able to go into the woods with Katy.  It was lovely seeing how the woods have changed and all of the signs of late Autumn.  Whist there, we were thinking about some of the worries that we…

This week we joined in on a live streamed Harvest Assembly by CAFOD.  We had a couple of technical difficulties, however we were still able to reflect and think about how important it is, especially at the moment, to think about how we can help those who are less fortunate than we are.  Thank you…

We’ve had another great week in Year 6!  On Wednesday we took part in a terrific Mad Science virtual lesson through Zoom.  It was a lot of fun!

Next week we will be taking part in a CAFOD assembly to celebrate harvest.  Please see Seesaw for information on how you can help to collect food and…

We started this week by getting musical and having a go at playing the glockenspiels to Pharell William's -Happy, it certainly got our week off to a great start!

We have been working on numbers up to 10,000,000 this week and have been comparing and ordering numbers and solving real life…

We have had a very productive week in Year 6!

We have been working very hard on reviewing all that we know about fractions in Maths and we have been practising writing with an informal voice in English.  In Science we have been learning more about fossils; we have some future…

This week we had our Head Boy and Head Girl presentations.  All of the children who put themselves forward for the positions gave excellent presentations and it was lovely to see so many children take part. Well done to you all!

The position are:

Head Boy- Patrick

Head Girl-…

It has been so lovely seeing all of the children back in school this week! I am very impressed with how quickly Year 6 has adapted to the new school routines and how they have settled back down to work, they are going to be fantastic role models!

Next week we will be voting for Head boy and…

Happy new year to all, I hope you have had a lovely Christmas!  The children have certainly come back to school refreshed, focused and eager to learn!  We have an exciting term ahead where we are learning about Space and reading and writing Science Fiction texts.  We are also going to visit the…

It has been a lovely festive week in Year 5!  We have finished our work on ‘A Christmas Carol’ and watched the Muppet version to draw comparisons.  We have also created Christmas themed maths problems for each other to work on. 

Of course, along side all of this we have enjoyed a delicious…

We are certainly feeling the Christmas spirit in Year 5 !  This week we loved watching the Reception and Year 1 and 2 Nativity plays.  What fantastic singers and actors we have in the infants! 

On Tuesday we went to the theatre to watch the pantomime Aladdin.  It was very funny and we all…