YEAR 5/6 (ORANGE)
Mrs J ReadshawWelcome to our Year 5/6 class blog.
Our class teacher is Mrs. Readshaw.
On this page, you’ll find lots of useful information and posts about what’s going on in Year 5/6 over the course of the year.
Check in regularly for photographs of our fantastic learning and achievements.
Dream, Believe, Achieve!

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Our Class Blog
Mystery Readers
We have loved welcoming more parents into our class to share stories with us. We have enjoyed lots of different texts including ‘Cops and Robbers’ and ‘The Giant Jam Sandwich’.
Food Chains
We have been learning about food chains in Science. We know that producers are usually plants that make their own food and are found at the start of a food chain. We discussed which animals were prey and which were predators. We then worked as a group to organise the...
World book week
This year in EYFS we chose the story ‘The Perfect fit’ to support our mathematical knowledge and PSED development. We took part in a shape hunt, a shape train game/dancing, making shape aliens and enjoyed hearing all about everyone’s favourite tests as just like the...
Technology from the past
Year 1 had lots of fun exploring different items of technology from the past including old phones, a gramophone, a cassette player, cassettes and records. We worked out what they were for and compared them to objects from the present day. We even had a little dance to...
Safer Internet Day 3M
On Safer Internet Day, we asked the question 'What do you do online?' and 'How do keep safe online?' The children made animations to show what they do online and they asked each other questions to make soundbites about how they keep safe online or what they...
World Book Day
This year in EYFS we chose the story ‘The Perfect fit’ to support our mathematical knowledge and PSED development. We took part in a shape hunt, created pictures using 2D shapes, explored 3D shapes and created some amazing towers! We talked about how the triangle in...
World Book Day
Year 1 and 2 had lots of fun on World Book Day exploring the text ‘The Kindest Red’. We explored the importance of being kind and made pledges of kindness to others and to our world. We made origami hearts with key words on too. We followed Faizah’s lead from the...
Listen to the Sounds of the Steel Pans
This year the children in Year 5 have been learning to play the steel pans with help from a great teacher, Lizzie. It has been a fabulous opportunity to look at a different musical instrument and play some great tunes. The steel pan originated in Tobago and...
World Book Day – Billy’s Bravery
Today on World Book Day, we read a story of Billy’sBravery who wanted to go to school dressed as Nature Girl. It was our job to persuade him to do it and the children really did a great job doing it. They created their own superheroes and we read lots of stories. What...
World Book Day
Year 6 had a fabulous WBD! We have taken part in a range of activities such as drama, art and design, poetry and writing all linked to ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell. Our favourite was acting out the plane crash scene from the book!
World Book Day (Billy’s Bravery- persuading Billy to dress up as Nature Girl)
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