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19 June 2023

The Peloponnesian War

This week in history we are continuing our learning on Ancient Greece. We have looked at the Peloponnesian War which happened between the Greek city-states Sparta and Athens. The war lasted for 30 years, it ended with Athens surrendering. Sparta ordered Athens to knock down their walls but the…

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19 June 2023

Sports day superstars!

Year 5 and 6 participated in their sports day today, which saw us take part in a range of activities including sprints, obstacle course and javelin. I am so proud of each and every child today for showing determination to finish each race. Here are just some of our competitors! 

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19 June 2023

Our last Sports Day!

We had a great afternoon complete in many different activities for our last ever Sports Day at Primary School!

We had some tight calls for first place during the sprint, some egg-cellent egg and spoon finishers and some outstanding obstacle course winners! 

I couldn’t believe how far the…

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19 June 2023

Amazing arithmetic!

Year five Dolphins polished their arithmetic skills today, using a layout WAGOLL to help them. 

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16 June 2023

Marvellous maths!

Year five Dolphins have been investigating how to correctly read two-way tables today.  They have learnt and used vocabulary such as catogories, rows and columns to aid them in explaining their understanding of their work. Brilliant!

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15 June 2023

Brilliant Blood!

Over the last two weeks, we have learned all about the circulatory system and what it is made up of: blood, blood vessels and the heart. In today’s science lesson, we learned more about the three different blood vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries) and what our blood is made up of! Did you…

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15 June 2023

Plants

This week in science we have started our new topic Plants. We looked at what plants need to survive and grow. We then conducted an experiment where we planted seeds, some have a lack of space to grow, lack of air or lack of light and we will continue to observe how they grow.

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15 June 2023

Lines of symmetry

Today in Maths we recapped Lines of Symmetry, we cut out different shapes to help us to decide if the shape had a vertical line of symmetry, 

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14 June 2023

Cruel Child Labour!

This week in History, we have learned all about the awful life that children had working in factories during the Industrial Revolution. We discussed the Factory Act of 1833 then wrote a diary entry from the point of view from a child worker in a mill in 1833 after studying some historical sources.…

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14 June 2023

Migration

In our Geography topic ‘Migration’, we have learnt about a young girl called Serra who migrated from a small town in Turkey to Tottenham, London. We talked about her push and pull factors, and whether her migration was voluntary or involuntary. Finally, we compared this to another migration story…

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14 June 2023

Dazzling DADWAVERS!

Year 5 Dolphin class worked really hard in English this morning, planning their setting descriptions of Camp Green Lake (the setting of the book HOLES by Louis Sachar) using the DADWAVERS format.  They used each sense to formulate a specific structure, that will really aid in their independent…

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13 June 2023

Climate Zones

In Geography we have been learning about Climate Zones. We have learnt countries closer to the Equator their climate tends to be hot and dry compared to countries that are further away from the Equator they tend to be cold and wet. We also looked at the difference between tropical and polar…

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