Year 5

We celebrated our many musicians who entertained us this year superbly with their huge range of pieces played on a vast range of instruments. The document below captures some of the musicians who played in the concert as a flavour of the lovely atmosphere in front of parents and our children. Anyone who has been inspired […]

This document provides a review of our year for parents to reflect on what has been a fun and exciting year.  We hope you find the information in the review interesting. It is a very brief summary of the huge amount of learning experiences that have taken place this year. You can dowload this document […]

We have held our end of term concert which was a wonderful showcase of such a diverse range of musicians. With over 60 children performing this was a wonderful morning of entertainment. It was lovely to see children throughout our junior classes taking part in brass, violins, flute, clarinet, guitars, accordion, clarinet and a wealth […]

Our school council joined with the school council with Beetham School to visit The Houses of Parliament. We had an early start but it was certainly worth it!  We walked arounf London taking in the sights such as Downing Street, Whitehall, Horseguards Parade, Buckinghm Palace, The Mall (including the changing of the guard), Thames, London […]

Year 5 took part in a Swim Safe activity at Windermere, organised by the RNLI and ASA. They had a talk on swimming safely in open water, discussing the flag system. The instructors got them to practise calls for help and safety positions. Getting into the wetsuits was entertaining! Once in the water they practised […]

Year 5 and 6 representatives of our school council have attended the final South Lakes Pupil Parliament of this academic year. During which the children worked with other schools on team building activities, explored issues relating to children’s rights and needs, diversity and looked at identity.  After which the children delivered a presentation about children’s […]

Recently we attended the local athletics tournament held at Casterton, Sedbergh Prep. We took a superb team and with our Year 6 children on their outdoor and adventurous residential, many children had to race  in different classes. For example, our Year 2 children raced in the Year 3 events etc. Impessively we had many individual […]

In science, Year 5 are looking at ‘Materials and their Properties’. Today we have carried out an experiment to see which solids are soluble. They have had to plan their own fair test and select from  a range of materials and equipment, so building up their skills knowledge and understanding. The new test tubes and racks were very […]

Year 5 have had another wonderful afternoon in the sunshine learning new bike skills. We have had two qualified instructors teaching them how to fit their own helmets; safety check their own bicycles and ride safely with great balance. It is wonderful watching them enjoying developing skills which will help them for years to come.

As part of our celebrations for the Queen’s 90th birthday we were making paper plate crowns. Children from around the school came together to different activities. We had brilliant fun and created some crown masterpieces, with added sparkle.