Blog by Jo Smith

This term in English, Year 5 have been using a text called ‘Hidden Figures’ for their learning. The book is based on the true story of four black women (Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden) and the Space Race between Russia and America. The children have learnt…

We would like to introduce our ECO Team. The six children above are going to help lead our school to achieve the Green Flag award. They will be responsible for leading projects within in the school such as litter picking, emptying recycling bins and caring for our garden areas. All the children…

Well done, Christina (Year 5) for her amazing achievement in a golf competition: the Friday’s Stableford Juniors. Christina was the youngest competitor and gained 5th place. She is always the first in her family to be out practising her swing and it’s obviously paying off! We look forward to…

Today (11.11.2020) in Year 5 we have spent time learning about Remembrance Day and why we take time to reflect on this day. The children have created these lovely ‘Black-Out’ poems. They used the poems: In Flanders Fields and For the Fallen as their starting point. Next, the children chose words…

For our second unit of English this term Year 5 have been learning how to write an explanation text. This has engaged the children in a range of different structural and language features used for this style of writing. Our main focus was the use of cause and effect sentences where the children…

Year 5 have been learning a dance linked to our focus text The Lost Thing. The children have worked really hard developing their sequencing of movements and have completed a final performance to share with you all!

In Year 5 this week we have been learning about All Living Things. In particular we were looking at the parts of a flower and identifying them by carefully dissecting a real flower and labelling each part. We learnt About each parts individual job and how together they all play a vital role in the…

On the morning of Tuesday 10th March, 2 teams from Year 4 competed in the quicksticks competition at the Polo Farm, Canterbury. Both teams played brilliantly and demonstrated all the School Games values. Team 1 achieved first place and will go on to represent the county. Well done,…

“On Tuesday 14th January, 13 children from Year 6 entered a Dodgeball competition at Canterbury Academy. We all played at least 4 matches against schools around Canterbury. Bridge 2 came 16th and Bridge 1 came 11th.” Cleo and Lucy (Y6)

” In the Dodgeball competition, we entered 2 teams.…

“On Thursday 16th January, we played a match against St Peter’s  and Chartham. The match against Chartham was 9-0 (we won) and the match against St Peter’s was 7-0 (we won). Everyone played exceptionally well and made big contributions.” Hannah (Y6)

Today Year 5  have been scientists investigating properties of materials. We wanted to find out which material was the best thermal conductor. The children were given a list of equipment they had access to and then they were tasked with planning an experiment that would provide an answer to our…

What Am I?

This term, Year 5 have been learning to write poetry, in particular riddles. The children learnt what the features of riddles are and then planned and created their own. Some children chose concrete nouns, whereas others chose abstract nouns. The children took great pleasure in…