Welcome to Year 5 and 6

The children will need to bring a water bottle everyday. In Spring term, PE will be on a Wednesday. Children are encouraged to bring their PE kits on Monday and leave them in school for the week, just in case the regular session changes. Children are given homework every Monday which they should return to school on Friday. In addition to this, we actively encourage the children to read at home every night.

On Thursday 5th March, we celebrated World Book Day with a Harry Potter themed day. The Year 5 and 6 classroom was full of wizards and characters from the stories. During the magical day, the children found out what their Hogwart's names were, writing with feather quills, creating magical creatures and writing some amazing phoenix based poetry.

Friday 27th February saw Nat return to our school for a fun filled afternoon of wheelchair basketball. The hall was filled with excited shouts as we got to grips with how to manouevre the wheelchairs!

On Thursday 12th February, we had our first Oracy afternoon. Parents and carers were invitied into our class to take part in our historical debate: All citizens (including women, young people, enslaved people and people born outside Athens) should be able to vote.’

Both sides argued their points with confidence, backing up their statements with evidence from their own research. Parents and grandparents joined in and asked some really challenging questions!

Mental Health Week, February 2026

We spent time thinking about the importance of having healthy minds this week. Emma Moon, a local author, came into our class and shared her wonderful books with us. We were all very relaxed and enjoyed simply having the time to clear our minds.

In the afternoon, students from the Northern College of Music visited. They played some amazing music in the hall before teaching us how to produce sounds from different woodwind instruments. Some of us were more successful than others! Some of us were inspired to think about learning to play one of the woodwind instruments!

What an amazing afternoon.

We finished the Autumn term with our Christmas party. We had a great time and there were some very competitive games too! We're all really looking forward to spending this peaceful time of year with our families.

We had an amazing day at The Beacon on Tuesday!!

We found out lots of interesting information about Copeland during the war years and were able to handle different artefacts from the war too.

The Roman exhibition was great too...worth a visit!!

This morning we used our knowledge of circuits to create Steady Hand Games or Electronic Quiz Board Games. We then had to draw the correct circuit diagrams.

SKILLS BLOX

Today we discussed how the things we do in school help us to get better at 7 key skills which will help us succeed in all areas of our lives.

GOOD LEADER/TEAM PLAYER, ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE, CURIOUS & IMAGINATIVE, GOOD COMMUNICATOR,

GOOD USE OF INFORMATION, GOOD PROBLEM SOLVER, FULL OF IDEAS.

We designed our own crests which reflected what we like doing and how we like to spend our time.

SCIENCE

We had an amazing morning at West Lakes Academy just before Christmas! We were exploring how much force it takes to make a party popper explode!!

We learned how to use safety equipment and how to make the investigation fair.

Some of our party poppers didn't pop at all and we ran out of weights to add!!

We put our data onto graphs when we got back to school.

STEM Day

We had a brilliant time working on our Lego Challenge!! We found out which of us were great leaders in the process!

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY:

This half-term we are trying to make an automata window display!

We've been through the planning stages and have just started the actual construction.

Keep watching to see how we get on!

SCIENCE:

Our Science topic this half-term is Forces.

We had great fun exploring how many Newtons different classroom objects were!

There were some surprises!

I had some new Teaching Assistants helping to deliver the football lesson this afternoon!

They were amazing and the rest of the class gave very positive feedback after the lesson!

There might be a couple more volunteers later in the year!

We had a great afternoon with Bill talking about what careers we might follow when we are older!

The best bit was the Lego competition! We were challenged to build the tallest tower that we could.

We decided that girls seem to have more success because they think about it a bit more than boys!

Sarah Dodd came to visit us at school today. She's an author and she lives in Lancashire. Her latest book is 'the Keeper of Secrets'. 

We had a great discussion about our views on the re-introduction of lynx into the wild in some areas of the UK.

Sarah's visit definitely gave us food for thought!