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Year 5 - Writing to persuade

In Year 5, we have been writing to persuade. Before we did this, we had a class debate about whether Aunt Glo and Rashid should contact the press as their son has disappeared. Surprisingly Year 5 were were extremely good at arguing their point using evidence from the text.

We then used the information from the debate to write to persuade the reader. The last part of the journey was to edit our work.

We used editing stations to remain focused with what we needed to include. These stations included; punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, uplevelling words and spelling. Here are some pictures of our editing stations.

Year 5 – Unit 5.4 We are protecting our online reputation

The children in year five have been learning about the best ways of protecting their online reputation by developing strategies to avoid posting inappropriate content online. All the children have been asked to undertake a web search with their grown-ups at home about a member of their family (or someone famous, if more appropriate) to find out what information is available about these individuals. Please support them in their learning and contact the school if you need help in completing this task.

Year 5 - Science Day

Year 5 really enjoyed science day yesterday. They were on a journey to Antarctica trying to help Jason decide which type of material was the best to use for keeping the heat in when out in the cold.

As you can see, we were really enjoying finding which one was the best.

Year 2 - Science Day

What a fantastic day! We have become scientists for the day and have explored our big question. Our year group question was, “What solution do you need to make the best bubbles?” We thoroughly enjoyed looking at the different ingredients and exploring why some of them created bubbles but others didn’t. We know that the key ingredient was washing up liquid. Thank you to all the parents and carers that bought in the resources we needed. We really appreciate your support and co-operation emnabling us to carry out these exciting activities. We hope you enjoy watching our video and viewing our different photographs. 

Year 3 Online Safety - We are aware of our digital footprint!

The children in year three have been learning what is meant by a ‘digital footprint’ and how data about their internet activity is collected passively without them actively authorising this and how this compares with their active digital footprint. 
They have discussed how everything shared on the internet can be found, shared, broadcast and copied and that it lasts forever. Please discuss this with your child and support them in keeping a diary of their family digital footprint at home.