19/9/25

This week we are really starting to settle into the swing of year five and have done some amazing learning.  The children have been engrossed in our class book, ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ and used this to write some fantastic WW2 diary entries.  They have also thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘My secret war diary’, which inspired their writing even more.

In Maths, we have continued working with 6 digit numbers and are now partitioning confidently and loving the challenge of working with larger numbers and more unusual partitions. 

We are continuing to love our yoga sessions with Chand all come away feeling calm and relaxed before the end of the day.  In Science, we have been trying out the dying process ready for the real thing in a few weeks' time.  The children worked brilliantly in their pairs to test the effect of having a mordant before adding the dye. They also have lots of ideas for the different natural dyes they’d like to try out.

Thank you for to those of you who came to our curriculum evening on Tuesday evening – we hope you found it useful.  If you were unable to attend, please feel free to click on this link for a copy of the slides.

By Brook Valley C of E Primary School - *Curriculum Evening*

Have a wonderful weekend, and we look forward to more fun and learning next week.

Star of the week – Oscar Johnson!

  

12/9/25

It's been another exciting, jam-packed week in Kites! We have been loving our WW2 topic and learning about life in the 1930s.  The children have had so many questions and have enjoyed sharing their knowledge.  Look ou in your child's bag for a letter about our upcoming trip to the REME museum on Tuesday October 7th!

We have been recapping partitioning in Maths and moving on to partitioning numbers up to 6 digits long. The children have enjoyed challenging themselves by trying to partition in the most unusual and creative ways.  There have been some very complicated and impressive outcomes.

We have started learning about our science fair topic this week on natural dyes.  We have been learning about the different variables involved in the experiment and are excited to get going with the practical work.  Don't be surprised in the coming weeks if children start asking to try and dye some fabric using various food sources - apologies in advance!

In French we have been recapping French greetings and have enjoyed using finger puppets to practice these with each other. Music has taken us down the Nile, where we have been using hieroglyphic notation to build a score for the 80s classic 'walk like and Egyptian'.

Congratulations to our star of the week - Evie Tunsley!

   

5/9/25

We have had a wonderful start to the year in Kites class.  The children have all settled in well and have been enjoying the larger classrooms, outside space and lockers!

This week we have spent some time setting our goals for the term and learning about expectations of being in year 5.  We wrote some lovely prayers for our class prayer book after looking at our school values.  In English, we have been introduced to our class book, Letters from the lighthouse, which we have all enjoyed reading.  This is linked to our new History topic on WW2.  Everyone was very excited about starting the topic and are looking forward to learning more in the coming weeks.  Our Science topic this term will be natural dyes which will be presented at the school science fair after half-term.  This week we learnt all about what science is and how it explains many things we see and do in day to day life.  Next week we are excited to be starting work on our projects.

Despite it only being the first week back, we have managed to squeeze in lots.  We have learnt a new song in music, started learning about online communication in computing and have begun gymnastics with Mr Peters in PE.  We have so much to look forward to this term and can't wait to get stuck in.

Congratulations to our star of the week - Milah Fenwick!