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Owl Class News (Year 5 & 6)

Welcome to Spring Term!

 

Week Beginning 6th January and 13th January 2025

Owls have begun learning about the Early Islamic Civilisation in History and they have started their Surrealism topic in Art and we are exploring the question - 'Are Angels Real in RE?'. They did some great descriptive recounts based on our next class text ' The Boy at the Back of the Class'.  

Week Beginning 18th November 2024

Owls have been very 'arty' this week, making clay Aztec sun stones and sculptures. They have also been painting and drawing some amazing Aztec Art and decorated masks! They also investigated the strength of beam and arch bridges in DT!

Week Beginning 11th November 2024

The whole school walked down to Bulmer Church to pay their respects for Rememberance Day. We painted pictures, made poppy wreaths and wrote poems.

Week Beginning 4th November 2024

 

Owls have settled back in well after Half Term. We have started our learning on fractions and we have been practicing our Arithmetic skills!

Week Beginning 21st October 2024

Owls have been celebrating Black History Month this week and learning about significant black people who have changed history and they also spent time finding out about black people who they are inspired by now. They created fact files about some of their chosen sports stars, musicians and other black people who are successful in their particular field.

Week Beginning 14th October 2024

 

Owls enjoyed their visit from the Wonderdome this week. They learnt all about Space and are looking forward to continuing their learning after half term. They already knew lots about Space already!

Week Beginning 7th October 2024

Owls have enjoyed learning about the Aztecs in History. They drew some pictures of the city of Tenochtitlan and labelled all the main parts that made up the city. They also learnt about some of the Aztec Gods.

Week Beginning 23rd September 2024

Owls have been continuing their learning about Zaha Hadid and produced some beautiful artwork based on her buildings that she designed. They focused on the curves she made and how her buildings blended into nature.

Week Beginning 16th September 2024

 

Owls have produced some amazing writing this week based on our class text Holes!

Week Beginning 9th September 2024

Owls have settled in really well into class and have worked hard this week. They did some amazing mood boards about Zaha Hadid in Art and have presented their work well in Maths!

 

Week Beginning 8th July 2024

Owls really enjoyed making and tasting bread rolls this week; they did a great job following the recipe and kneading the dough. The rolls turned out really well and they were yummy too!

Week Beginning 1st July 2024

 

Owls created some beautiful artwork for our Open Evening this week. They studied two artists; Torres Garcia and Beatrice Milhazes. They then created some artwork inspired by the artists. They also did some amazing pictures of birds from the Amazon Rainforest!

Week Beginning 24th June

Owls enjoyed our Computing lessons in class this week and created some name badges using the software 'Tinkercad'. They really impressed me with their skills. We don't have a 3D printer but the designs we are making are intended to be printed off as 3D models. 

They also combined Maths and Computing by surveying Fox class about their favourite ice-creams, films, food or sport and  then they created Pie Charts using Google charts to display the results.

Week Beginning 10th June 2024

Owls did some amazing writing this week based on our book 'The chronicles of Narnia; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'. I was really impressed with the quality of work!

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Week Beginning 3rd June 2024

All the school did an amazing job for Sports Day this week and I was really impressed with the Year 6 Owl helpers! Owls did a great job in all the races well done!

 

Week Beginning 20th May 2024

Owls had an amazing time on their trip to Audley End House. They loved the house and seeing all the rooms and enjoyed learning what it was like to be a Victorian worker in the house!

Week Beginning 13th May 

Year 6 did an amazing job this week with their SATS and made me proud! Year 5s were really supportive and got on with their learning with Miss Stewart really well too! Well done Year 6!

 

Week Beginning 6th May

Owls did some amazing artwork based on Andy Warhol's pop art. They also wrote some amazing descriptions using comparative and descriptive language in English.

Week Beginning 22nd April 2024

Owls have had a great start to the Summer Term! We have finished our book 'Who let the Gods out' and have started our new class text 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'. 

We are practicing for SATS in Maths and doing some extra reading practice too! We have started to learn about the Victorians in History and Andy Warhol in Art. We also researched weird and wonderful creatures for Earth Day. 

Spring Term 2!

Owls have had a great half term! PGL was a fantastic, fun -filled week. The kids were amazing and got involved with all the activities. I was so proud of them and we had a great week!

 

We have been learning about Perimeter and Area and Statistics in Maths. In English we have been continuing with the reading of 'Who Let the Gods Out'.

In DT, we have learnt about mechanical Cam toys and they made their own moving toy. We have celebrated Lent, Easter and we had communion with Reverend Claire. We were also lucky to have a visit from a one week old lamb called 'Patsy'. She loved having cuddles!

Week Beginning 12th February 2024

Owls have produced some amazing war battefield pictures in Art based on Paul Nash's style. They were only given a piece of paper, a rubber and a piece of charcoal. I was really impressed with how they used their fingers and the rubber to create light and dark tones.

 

They also thought about 'What is evil in the world' and played a good and evil game in RE. They had to decide what actions were good and evil.

 

In Science they thought about connections based on our materials learning and decided which scientific words connected and explained why.

Week Beginning 5th February 2024

 

Owls have produced some amazing work in History this week learning about the Greeks' achievements and what impact they have on us today. They have also created some thoughtful acrostic 'light' prayers after our assemblies this week.

Week Beginning 29th January 2024

Owls have been working hard this week in class continuing our class text 'Goodnight Mr Tom'. They did some good thinking about the relationship between Tom and Willie. 

The Year 5s received their Bibles from Reverend Claire in our assembly this week. They have been really enjoying their swimming lessons!

Week Beginning 15th January 2024

 

Owls have been learning how to round decimals and turn fractions into decimals. They played some games to help them practice these skills.

In Science they did some work on changes of states and recapped what solids, liquids and gases are.

Week Beginning 8th January 2024

 

Welcome to Spring Term and Happy New Year!

Owls have been busy this week. We have started our new class text ' Goodnight Mr Tom.' We have also started learning about Properties of Materials in Science. In maths, we are learning about decimals and percentages. We are learning all about Ancient Greece in history and we will be studying the artist 'Paul Nash' in Art.

 

They also thought about what they were 'reaching for' in 2024 and created some goals for the year.

 

Week beginning 18th December 2024

It has been such a busy term and these last few days have been filled with all things Christmas. We had the crib service and we made Christingles too!

Week Beginning 11th December 2023

 

The children did an amazing job with their concert performances this week and I am very proud of how well they did! The singing and narrating was amazing!

Week Beginning 27th November 2023

Owls did an amazing job of walking their buddies to the church for St Andrews' Day. They were very sensible and did some great research into St Andrew, which they read out in church.

Week Beginning 20th November 2023

 

Owls produced some amazing biome pictures in Geography. In RE they created their own Byzantine Icons and in History we learnt about Christopher Columbus and they did some really in depth thinking about whether he was a hero or a villian.

Week Beginning 6th November 2023

Owls have worked hard this week. We started our DT unit by designing and making a playground. In maths we have been learning how to compare and order fractions and how add and subtract fractions. In English we wrote a diary entry from Lily ( character from our class text - Cogheart). Owls wrote some lovely, heartfelt poems for our Rememberance service too.

 

Week beginning 30th October 

Owls have started the new half term well! We have begun our maths work on fractions and we have started our class text 'Cogheart'. In history we have started learning about Explorers and we are learning about Biomes in Geography. In Computing we are continuing with our Communication unit. This week we learnt about data packets.

Week Beginning 16th October 2023

Owls have finished off this half term producing some great writing based on our class text 'Beowulf'. We have been learning how to multiply and divide numbers in Maths. They really enjoyed a visit from the Cambridge Science Museum and learnt lots about ecosystems.

Week Beginning 18th September

 

Week Beginning 11th September 2023

Owls really enjoyed having the Shakespeare company in school. They did some amazing acting and listening to the story Macbeth. We had been studying this in class so it was great to see it in action!

Owls also really enjoyed reading to their Reception Buddies and it was lovely to see them being great role models. The little Otters really enjoyed showing them their outdoor learning area.