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Congratulations to our outstanding learners, Timofej and Elsa!

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Congratulations to Milo and Platon, our outstanding learners!

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Thank you to all of the parents who joined us for our reading morning. The children enjoyed sharing their stories with you!

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Congratulations to Rivija and Elenora, our outstanding learners of the week. They were thrilled to receive the award, honest! 😂

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Well done to the girls in Holly, who won the dorm inspection for being super tidy and also putting on a great performance!

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Alan I, Alan D and Platon all managed to get to the top of the quad pole, before they pushed each other off and had fun dangling in the air!

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Kristians enjoying his time on the low ropes.

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Completing the bridges after a fun and tiring day of activities.

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Charlie and Alan working together and making memories.

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Platon, ready and waiting to experience the zip-line.

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Whilst waiting for our turn, we had lots of fun!

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Today, group 2 have been challenged with problem solving activities. Here, watch the team successfully help every member climb the tunnel. This required strong communication skills, teamwork and a lot of resilience.

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Some of the children waiting for their turn during bridges.

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Some of the girls relaxing between activities.

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Group 3 have taken part in problem solving activities. They were required to order themselves on a bench in alphabetical order and then in order of age.

They also challenged themselves to work as a team to pull each other up through a tunnel.

They showed excellent teamwork skills.

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This morning, group 2 had a go at the climbing wall. They learnt how to attach a harness safely, and worked in teams, with one child climbing and the others pulling the ropes.

We were very impressed to see so many children challenging themselves to climb to the highest point!

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This morning, group 4 tested their skills at archery. They learnt how to set up the bow and arrow, aim and fire at the target. Some even struck gold!

Here is Phoebe having a go at hitting the target. We had a lot of fun!

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Some of the girls enjoying chocolate cake for pudding. Smile!

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Today, group 1 were challenged with conquering the low ropes which require the children to use teamwork to navigate different obstacles.

In the photo above, Tai and Harper are working effectively whilst having a great time.

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This afternoon, Group 3 have traversed the night lines, an obstacle course which must be completed blindfolded with only the help of a friend.

See above, Lewis crawling through a tube guided by Zac who may have wanted to see his friend get muddy.

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This afternoon, group 4 have been tackling the high ropes. Here, George has bravely crossed all three bridges. It was great fun!

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We’ve arrived at Bell Heath and, whilst we wait for access to our dorms, we’re working in groups to consider the skills we might develop.

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On Friday 13th March 5C ventured out into the local community armed with their litter pickers! We found all different types of litter and our oldest find was a bottle dated from 2002. We all enjoyed our afternoon.

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On Wednesday 11th March 5S ventured out into the local community armed with their litter pickers! We found all different types of litter including a drinks can from 1989. We had lots of fun!

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We had some fabulous outfits for World Book Day, where all of the children were asked to dress as a word! On the day we completed a reading trail, shared stories with year 2, swapped teachers to share a story and designed our own book covers. A lot of fun was had! Here is Brooke dressed up as the word 'crazy'.

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Congratulations to Josh and Alex, our outstanding learners!

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In PSHE, we have been learning about being healthy. As part of this topic, we have learnt about the health risks of smoking. We completed a fun activity where we drew around each other and then labelled the health risks of smoking around the body outline.

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We enjoyed a day learning about forces on our WOW day to introduce our new science topic. We designed different sized parachutes and then tested their air resistance, learning that the surface area of an object can have an effect on its air resistance. We also made paper aeroplanes of different designs to see how aerodynamic they could be.

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We have also been learning about how to separate mixtures in science. We have made lemonade, first separating the lemon pulp and rind from the mixture using filtration and then separating the sugar by evaporating the water.

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In science, we have been learning about soluble and insoluble solids. We have tested whether items such as sugar, flour and bicarbonate of soda are soluble or insoluble by trying to dissolve them in water.

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Over the past few weeks, we have been working hard designing and constructing our automata toys. Here is Valentin using a template to create his cams and followers.

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Last term we completed the RSPB bird watch. The children enjoyed searching for birds including woodpigeons, magpies and sparrows. Well done year 5!

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During our maths morning with parents, we were introduced to decimal numbers containing tenths and hundredths. It was a lot of fun drawing place value charts on the tables and using counters to make the decimal numbers. We then learnt how to partition the numbers. Thank you to all of the parents who joined us!

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Congratulations to our outstanding learners, Erich and Layla!

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Congratulations to our outstanding learners, Lexi and Brooke!

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Congratulations to Morgan, our outstanding learner!

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Thank you to all of the parents who joined us for our reading morning. The children loved sharing a book with you.

We look forward to welcoming you to one of our reading mornings again, later in the school year.

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Congratulations to Sam and Evie, our outstanding learners!

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Did year 5 enjoy the theatre? Oh yes, we did!

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Did year 5 enjoy the theatre? Oh yes, we did!

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Before Christmas, the whole school went on a trip to the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham to watch the pantomime Robin Hood. The children were mesmerised by the performance. They were fantastically behaved and were excellent role models for the school. Well done Year 5!

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Year 5 were overjoyed to see that Santa had paid them a special visit today. They listened to a special Christmas story from one of the elves, before telling Santa what they would like for Christmas. The children all received some reindeer food, which they can sprinkle by their doorstep on Christmas eve.

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Congratulations to Lilly-Rose and Leon, our outstanding learners!

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We also took part in a maths day this term. The children were challenged to complete problem-solving puzzles and to take part in a times table rockstars competition. Here are Tommy and Aadhev working hard to get 5C the most points!

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Ashley here is showcasing his aerial screw.

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This term, we enjoyed taking part in a history day organised by Mrs Edwards, in which we investigated Leonardo Da Vinci and his famous inventions. We even created our own aerial screw!

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Congratulations to Alan and Charlie, our outstanding learners!

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As part of mental health week, we wore odd socks. We loved seeing the colourful socks everyone chose to wear!

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Congratulations to Arda, our outstanding learner!

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We learnt about some of the punishments that Victorian children would have faced. Some of our children willingly accepted sitting in the chair wearing the dunce's hat, which we learnt was used when children had made a mistake. Here's Charlie really getting into character!

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On Wednesday, the children took part in our Victorian wow day. We had a thoroughly enjoyable day pretending to be in a Victorian classroom and completing lessons that would have been taught during that period. Here, the children are taking part in drill.

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Mia's fantastic felt case. Well done, Mia!

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In DT, we have been making felt cases. This required us to cut out a template from felt, cut individual pieces of felt for our design and then learn new stitches (a running stitch and a whipstitch) to sew the pieces onto our design. The children did really well with this and persevered even when it became tricky!

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Some of our fabulous outfits from cultural day.

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Before half term, we spent the day learning about Italy. We conducted our own research on the country, including learning about the main cities, famous landmarks and traditional food. George and Kristians even made a model of the Leaning Tower of Pisa!

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In PSHE, we have been learning about the importance of being able to work as a team. Teams of children were tasked with creating the tallest tower using paper, scissors and sellotape. It was lovely to see so many children working wonderfully together.

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Congratulations to Harper and Lewis, our outstanding learners!

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Well done to all of the children who were chosen as prefects. They help to undertake lots of jobs around the school.

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Assisting our head pupils are the pupil leadership team, who will be tasked with making important decisions for the school. Congratulations to all of the children who were selected!

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Congratulations to Henry and Jessica, our head pupils for this year. What a great achievement!

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We had an incredible time in London before half term. We got to visit the Natural History Museum, where many of us were fascinated by the dinosaur and earthquake sections! A walking tour allowed us to pass Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, Marble Arch, Horseguard's Parade and Big Ben. At the end of the day, we were given a tour of the Houses of Parliament and got to meet our local MP Nigel Huddleston.

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Congratulations to Matei and Tobiasz, our outstanding learners!

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Congratulations to Lilly-Rose and Jessica, our outstanding learners!

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In science this week, we have been conducting a sundial experiment. We went outside every hour to record the direction in which the shadow was facing. We found that in the morning and afternoon, the shadow was longer whilst at midday the shadow was shorter. We also noticed that the shadow changed direction throughout the day (we used compasses to measure the direction).

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Congratulations to Andrei and Tommy, our outstanding learners!

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We have been loving our new reading lessons this term. We have been looking at texts from 'Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls'. Here are Morgan and Tommy partner reading.

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In English, we have been learning about relative clauses (adding additional information into our sentences starting with who, whose, which, where, when and that). Here is Amelia showing her fabulous sentence containing a relative clause about Miss Trunchbull!

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Congratulations to Henry and Tai, our outstanding learners!

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Welcome to 5S's padlet page. We are looking forward to sharing all of our brilliant learning this year.

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Welcome to 5C's padlet page. We are looking forward to sharing all of our brilliant learning this year.