Year 5

A selection of poems has been put together reflecting our outdoor experiences in the school grounds.  These poems have been selected from Year 5 and 6. We hope you enjoy them.  If you wish to purchase the book, follow the link here  

Year 5 have been doing lots on place value and decimal work this week. They are now very efficient at ordering them; especially outside in the frost! Mrs Smith thinks the extreme temperature makes their brains work faster!

Well done to everyone who made such a great effort in our inter house cross country.  Ingleborough won overall on this cloudy but dry day. The ground was soft resulting in muddy conditions.  Well done to all of the children who made such a significant effort to run for their house. Below are the winners […]

School Council have been debating this week about improvements to our school. We have agreed to spend £2000 on improving the infant play area.  We will be buying two new houses for the playground. School council will also be launching a competition to design a logo for the school council and take part in the South […]

This week, Year 5 went down in to Kirkby Lonsdale to look at the famous ‘Ruskin’s View’. It was a very misty, murky day which added to the mystery and history. The children took watercolours and painted what they observed. The results which dramatic and impressive. Next week they will compare theirs to different landscape […]

We will be hosting our annual Juniors cross country race on Thursday.  Please be prepared with kit and footwear and a determination to race for your house!

Year 5 have started their new topic of ‘Animals Including Humans’. Spot and Cupcake the rabbits have come in to the class; Spot is going home though! Cupcake will hopefully have some babies for us to study and monitor as they grow. The children are very excited! The classroom has a new odour, much to […]

As part of the Great Leaders topic, Year 5 have participated in the first part of their training to be a ‘Sports Leader’. This entails them preparing and then delivering games and activities to KS1 at playtimes. They have been taught about the safety and communication elements and now have to go away and plan their […]

Year 5 have been busy in the outdoors this week. We have had Drama outside, looking at what makes a good friend. In art we have collected sticks and we have made some natural Christmas tree decorations for the fair on Friday night. Some children have planted up our container on the banking with Spring […]

Year 5 have been fascinated with the recent events in America. We watched the news yesterday morning following the American elections. As part of our ‘Great Leader’ topic, we have been outside and made our own Donald Trump. There was lots of discussion about whether he could be classed as a great leader! We started […]