For your homework this week, we would like you to complete one of the two reading comprehension tasks below. Both are linked to our topic China and both will teach you something we will not have the opportunity to teach you in class this term. Enjoy the reading and good luck with the tasks (try not...

Year 5 have just started their new topic - China!  So this week, we would love you to take this opportunity to learn something new about this fascinating country. You can use books and the Internet for your research and can present your research in any way you like. You could write a fact fi...

This week, we started our new class text, The Firework-Maker's Daughter but in the first chapter one of the characters says that girls cannot be firework makers. The main character in the book, Lila, dreams of making enchanting, magical fireworks and is saddened that others feel this way. As a c...

Language of the term for term 3 is British Sign Language. For homework this week, we would love you to learn some of the basics of British Sign Langauge, beginning with greetings (hello, goodbye, good morning etc). You'll probably already be familiar with some of these, but some will be new to y...

Happy New Year! I hope you all rested well and had a lovely Christmas and New Year. Thank you for any presents that you so kindly brought in at the end of last term. Firstly, it has been great to see all of the children this week. Well done to Leo for being our first Pupil of the Week for Term 3...