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Safeguarding: Social Media Trends and Pupil Safety letter.
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Mar 41 min read
Year 5 Colchester Zoo trip Thursday 26th March 2026 - payment reminder.
Please see details. A reminder that payments via ArborPay were due by 24th February 2026. If you have not already done so, please make payment promptly. Thank you to those parents who have already made payment.
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Mar 41 min read
Year 5 Weekly Blog wb. 9th March
Our Learning This Week English: We have been refining our storytelling skills by focusing on dialogue . The children are learning how to use direct speech not just for conversation, but to cleverly reveal character traits and move the plot forward in their 5-part stories based on Cogheart . Maths: We’ve moved into the finer details of fractions. This week, the class has been comparing and ordering fractions by finding a common denominator - a tricky skill that requires gre
Miss Jackson
Mar 42 min read
KS2 Cross Country at Garon Park Wednesday 4th March - reminder.
If your child is taking part, a reminder that they will need: Lunch (including extra drink) Wearing PE kit- Vests will be given out at the event. Appropriate running footwear Coat/jumper- Weather appropriate If payment has not already been made, a contribution of £5.00 towards the coach cost is due. Payment should be made via Arbor before tomorrow. Thank you to those parents who have already made their contribution.
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Mar 31 min read
KS2 Cross Country at Garon Park Wednesday 4th March
If your child is taking part, a reminder that a contribution of £5.00 towards the coach cost is due. Payment should be made via Arbor. Thank you to those parents who have already made their contribution..
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Mar 21 min read
Year 5 Tudor Experience Day 14th April.
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Feb 271 min read
Year 5 Weekly Blog wb. 2nd March
We hope you all had a wonderful and restful half-term break. It has been a joy to see the children return with such enthusiasm, ready to dive straight back into their learning. We’ve had a busy first week back, filled with rockstar outfits and some very impressive geographical discoveries! Our Learning This Week TTRS Day & Maths: We kicked off the week in style, celebrating Times Tables Rock Stars Day ! The children tackled various maths challenges, including the launch of o
Miss Jackson
Feb 252 min read
Year 5 Colchester Zoo trip Thursday 26th March 2026.
Please see details. A reminder that payments via ArborPay are due by 24th February 2026. Thank you to those parents who have already made payment.
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Feb 231 min read
Year 5 Weekly Blog wb. 23rd February
Following our deep dive into Peter Bunzl’s Cogheart , the children have turned into master inventors. We are currently busy drafting our explanation texts on "How to Build a Mechanimal Fox." The classroom is buzzing with talk of silver-plated fur and clockwork tails! This week, we officially began our new unit on Fractions . We have been mastering the "art of the conversion," learning how to navigate between improper fractions and mixed numbers . In Arithmetic , the childre
Miss Jackson
Feb 112 min read
Year 5/6 boys football club Friday 6th February - CANCELLED
Mr Bird's morning football club Friday 6th February has been cancelled due to the weather! Your child should attend school at the normal time or be booked into breakfast club.
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Feb 51 min read
Year 5 Weekly Blog wb. 9th February
We are still fully immersed in the world of Peter Bunzl’s Cogheart as we prepare to write our own explanation texts . To help us sound like true experts, we have been mastering several sophisticated grammar features: Passive Voice: Shifting the focus onto the action (e.g., "The gears are turned by the clockwork heart"). Modal Verbs: Expressing degrees of possibility (e.g., "The mechanimal could malfunction if over-wound"). Conjunctions: Using both subordinating and caus
Miss Jackson
Feb 42 min read
Aspiring Authors after school club Wednesday 4th February - CANCELLED
Please accept our apologies as the club has been cancelled this afternoon. If your child attends the club, please collect at the normal time or book into Night Owls https://www.westerings.com/book-online. Children in Year 5 or 6 with parental permission to walk home at the end of the day will leave school as usual unless we are advised otherwise. A refund for the session will be issued via Arbor.
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Feb 41 min read
Year 6 (2027) Sealyham residential trip Sunday 11th July - Friday 16th July 2027.
Following payment of the non refundable deposit, if your child will be attending the residential please find attached details with final costings and minimum monthly payment schedule. All payments must be made via your Arbor account. We apologise for the earlier issues with seeing the payment item on your Arbor account., this has now been rectified..
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Jan 291 min read
Year 5 Weekly Blog wb. 2nd February
While we are still immersed in the wondrous world of Peter Bunzl’s Cogheart , our focus has shifted gears. The children have moved on from descriptive writing to exploring explanation texts . It has been fascinating to see them break down the "how" and "why" behind the intricate mechanical inventions in the story. We are working on using causal conjunctions and technical language to explain exactly how a mechanimal might function! In Maths, we have put our shape classificatio
Miss Jackson
Jan 282 min read
Hockley Schools Cross Country 28th January 2026 has been cancelled.
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Jan 271 min read
Morning Netball club Tuesday 27th January
Weather isn’t looking good this morning so netball club for years 5 and 6 today is cancelled. Indoor halls are both in use.
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Jan 271 min read
Hockley Schools Cross Country 28th January 2026 - reminder.
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Jan 261 min read
Year 6 (2027) Sealyham residential trip Sunday 11th July - Friday 16th July 2027.
Following payment of the non refundable deposit, if your child will be attending the residential please find attached details with final costings and minimum monthly payment schedule. All payments must be made via your Arbor account.
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Jan 221 min read
Year 5 Weekly Blog wb. 26th January
After a week of careful planning and immersion into Peter Bunzl’s Cogheart , today is the big day! The children have been busy writing their Hot Task - a detailed setting description of the busy, clanking mechanical workshop. It has been wonderful to see them using expanded noun phrases and atmospheric vocabulary to bring the sounds of whirring cogs and hissing steam to life on the page. In Maths, we have shifted our focus to the properties of shapes. The children have been
Miss Jackson
Jan 212 min read
A reminder for parents of children in the dance festival Thursday 22nd January.
If your child is attending the dance festival on Thursday 22nd January, a reminder of the arrangements: All children need to be collected from school at 11:30am and transported to the Palace Theatre either by their parent or a named adult already confirmed by their parent. All children need to be collected from the Palace Theare at 2:45pm either by their parent or a named adult already confirmed by their parent. Children should bring a packed lunch and water bottle with t
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Jan 201 min read
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