Blog Author: Mrs Newby

For Science Week, Year 5 students were given the exciting challenge of designing a way for Rapunzel to escape from her tower. To begin, the children brainstormed and came up with a range of creative ideas, including ladders, rope ladders, slides, and trampolines, all aimed at helping Rapunzel…

Year 5 and 6 representatives had a great time at the Bowling final at Carlisle. They all got to practice their bowling skills again and enjoyed taking part. 

Today, Year 5 celebrated the Feast Day of St. Patrick, their class saint. To mark the occasion, they dressed in green. The children learned about St. Patrick’s life and created fact files that highlighted key moments from his journey. They had fun making and decorating shamrock biscuits and also…

Today, girls from Year 5 and 6 participated in the "Girls Can Festival," an event designed to inspire girls to explore a variety of sports. They had a great time learning new skills in football, athletics, dance, judo, and kicky rounders. We hope this experience will motivate them to continue…

Year 5 students have been learning about friction in science. To explore its effects, they conducted an experiment using jelly cubes. They tried to pick up the cubes from a paper plate but found it difficult because the cubes stuck to the plate due to the higher friction. To reduce the friction,…

Today we all took part in the Biggest Ever Football Session to encourage girls to join in and have equal rights in football. ⚽️⚽️⚽️

Year 5 had an exciting science workshop yesterday led by Alex, a physics graduate. They learned about the Earth's rotation around the sun and how it spins on its axis, which causes day and night as well as the seasons. At the same time, the moon rotates around the Earth. To help us understand…

Year 5 had a really busy day for World Book Day! We visited the library to pick out a book and enjoyed some quiet time reading it. We launched our new book, "The Boy in the Tower” and listened to the 1st two chapters where Ade describes what he can see from his tower block window. We then drew…

Today, Year 5 and 6 went to mass at St. Mary’s Church. In one of the Bible readings, we learned how wonderful it is to find a friend who is faithful to us, and that having such a friend is like finding a treasure that we should cherish. We also learned from the gospel reading that to enter the…

This week's Prayer and Liturgy centered on the theme of "Love your enemies." Our prayer leaders organised the session, encouraging everyone to sit in a heart shape to emphasise the theme of love. We read from the Gospel of Luke, which shares Jesus' teachings on loving our enemies. We talked about…

In Year 5 we have been promoting the Pope’s message of love and social justice by making cards to send to our families to show how much we love and appreciate them. 

Year 5 have been learning how to be safer when using YouTube. They discovered lots of ways they can still use while protecting themselves from harmful content. They made posters to share their findings with the rest of the school.