Year 5 had a fantastic day learning all about World War 1. We learnt about the causes of WW1 and how the feud actually started 20 years before the war began. We saw and held genuine WW1 artefacts which helped us to imagine how difficult fighting must have been. In the afternoon, we practised our cod...

On Wednesday, the children returned to Stopsley. The Year 5 teachers have been thoroughly impressed by the children's attitude towards the new academic year. The children are eager and ready for the excitement and opportunities that Year 5 will bring. Keep an eye on the Blog area to keep updated...

Year 5 had a fantastic time at the Space Centre! We were amazed by the models and artefacts that were on show. We walked 144 steps to reach the top of a rocket - most of us took the lift back down! By far, our favourite part of the day was a movie in the Planetarium, although it gave some of us moti...

As part of British Science Week, Year 5 were visited by Dr Davies. Dr Davies told the children about secret text messages that the teachers had been sending to each other. However, the messages were all encoded! The children worked as teams to decode the messages and reveal the secrets that the teac...

In year five this term we have been looking at WWI. Throughout the half term we have looked at the history of WWI as well as linked it through our English work.