Children in Years 5 and 6 had a brilliant week at Hagg farm! We went abseiling, canoeing, rock scrambling and climbing, as well as eating marshmallows by the fire pit and watching films in the evening. All the staff and children had an amazing (yet tiring!) week and we have memories that will last a lifetime. Thank you to all the staff at Hagg Farm and thank you to the children, who were so incredibly well-behaved, polite and smiley throughout.

In Maple and Cedar classes, we were given the task of creating aboriginal art work with the theme of the ocean and Australia. Part way through the lesson, some children were suddenly taken away and we were all very confused as to why they had to go and where they were going! It all became clear when we found out about our new Novel Study ‘Alone on a wide, wide sea’ where children were taken away from England to Australia!

As part of our whole school World Book Day celebrations, Years 5 and 6 had a class competition. Each child had to try and persuade the rest of the class to read their book. We spent time thinking about how we might persuade other people to vote for our book; through writing speeches, researching the author and making posters advertising our books. We then presented this to the rest of the class. The range of books inn Years 5 and 6 was brilliant!