Week of 12th January 2026

We have continued to work on % in Maths - lots more practice for fluency as well as moving on to problem solving. This has been a great challenge for both classes - real life Maths to really stimulate our brains. Next week, we will move onto a very different area of Maths - coordinates and translating and reflecting shapes.

In English this week we have been learning about the indigenous people of North America - the first people to settle in these lands. We will be writing explanation texts next week about these fascinating cultures and have been busy doing our own research. 

'Electric' fun continued in Science with our investigation into whether adding cells to a circuit will increase the brightness of a bulb, the speed of a motor or the sound of a buzzer. It was a busily fun time and on the whole, most were correct with their predictions.

On Thursday, Georgia from Accent Catering, held a healthy eating workshop for us. The focus was on eating a rainbow of fruit and vegetables and the children made (and ate!) fruit kebabs. It was a really informative session and we all came away with some great ideas about how we could incorporate more healthy alternatives into our diet.

The week has flown! Have a great weekend everyone and see you again next week.

Week of 5th of January 2026

Happy New Year! A new year and a new term, spring although it’s definitely feeling very wintry!

Our first full week back and we continued where we left off before Christmas with maths: fractions, decimals and percentages and finding a percentage of an amount. Lots of practice this week and more to come next week; we will also move on to problem solving with percentages.

A new term means a new topic in English: North and South America, a geography focus that will prompt our English. So far we have learned about the North American continent and then looked more specifically at the USA: we have located the 50 states and compared the USA with the UK. Do you know how many counties there are in the UK? We now know!

In Science, we have continued with our Electricity topic and have been learning about the international symbols for the different components of a circuit and next week, we will be building circuits and investigating voltage.

Have a great weekend.