by sarahkitching | May 15, 2026 | Class 5 Learning Page 2025-26
Class 5 enjoyed a wonderful morning outdoors at Hamsterley Forest. They took part in team-building activities, developing their communication skills and making sure everyone was included before moving on to some survival challenges. The children worked together to...
by sarahkitching | May 15, 2026 | Class 5 Learning Page 2025-26
Over the last few years, we have been participating in a program led by Durham University into soils. Today’s session was all about careers linked to soils. The children had the chance to explore how different people work with soils in a range of careers including,...
by sarahkitching | May 15, 2026 | Class 5 Learning Page 2025-26
This term, Class 5 will be exploring the exciting world of the Vikings! In our first lesson, children did some research into the background of the Vikings so that they could see how similar or different they are to the Anglo-Saxons. We will be delving into the history...
by sarahkitching | Apr 30, 2026 | Class 5 Learning Page 2025-26, News
Ruby recently attended the Cheer Youth Summit 2026 in Florida! The team did an incredible job and ‘Hit Zero’ (meaning no deductions). They placed 17th in the world in their category! They missed out on a place into the finals by 0.03, the top 16 went...
by sarahkitching | Apr 30, 2026 | Class 5 Learning Page 2025-26
In English, Class 5 have been studying the narrative poem ‘The Highwayman’. We have looked at the features, done reading comprehensions based on it and next week we will be aiming to rewrite the ending. To help us learn the poem, we performed it in pairs, coming up...
by sarahkitching | Apr 24, 2026 | Class 5 Learning Page 2025-26
Today in science, we were investigating how to separate different mixtures of solids and liquids. We saw if we could separate salt and water, pasta and salt, rice and paper clips and sand and water. To do the pasta and salt, you just needed to have a bowl with a sieve...
