Today Pine class finished reading Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll and the children had a competition to write the best review. This was our winning review...

Dear passionate readers,

You won't believe the book that I have just finished reading because it's incredible, it's called Letters from the Lighthouse and I highly recommend it for everyone who is reading this now and loves reading in general. It is an insane book with many ups and downs and is about WWII and how kids were evacuated in the War. Letters from the Lighthouse was written by Emma Carroll, let me explain ... so it was many pages but was probably the most interesting book I have read because it was full of adventure I loved it and I bet you would too. It is very emotional as well but even with the ups and downs they figure things out in the end. I don't want to spoil it too much for you so I am going to leave it there, I would love to read more of Emma Carroll's books though. Hope you enjoy!

Today, the Year 5 children experienced a WWII style evacuation. We scattered all 92 children across the depths of Fairlands Primary school, where they all had different experiences, much like those who were evacuated during those times. Some children got put to work in Miss Madden's land army and some worked in Queenie's post office. Some children got to play and have fun with their new host families, some were even treated to hot chocolate in Mr Staples' office! The children all gained an insight into what it would have felt like to be evacuated.

Year 5 are completing a fitness unit in their PE sessions. Each week, the children build up their stamina, strength, agility and coordination through a range of small group games and group activities. This week, the children had to work on their team skills by demonstrating how their stamina has improved in a game of hands and feet. 

Spruce class took science outside today to test friction. We had already tested the carpet and our desks and then we took our Newtonmeteres out to the field to see how the grass compared.  Ask your child which surface had the most friction and what they learned about the floor at Duxford!

Today Year 5 visited Duxford War Museum. We got to see hundreds of military and civilian vehicles on display, plus exhibits on warfare linked to our ‘Conflict’ topic. We had an amazing day taking in all of the facts about how people lived during wartime.

Today, Yaer 5 took part in a Together Against Racism workshop with Stevenage FC. The children learnt what it meant to be an ally and worked collaboratively to find out how they could support one another and make changes to their community. The children really enjoyed their session and felt empowered afterwards. 

This week in science the children are looking at filtering different materials.  We are discussing which filters work best for different materials and conducting experiments to prove or disprove our predictions.

We have certainly had some interesting results!

Year 5 have had a fantastic day out on our STEM Discovery Centre trip. We took part in lots in exciting activities including designing our own tote bags with exploding paint and learning about the Mars rover.

We also had some time in the exploration room, which had lots of interesting things to look at and use, including an augmented reality sand box and a static electricity ball!

We have finished reading our core text for this term: Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. We have created our own book reviews to explain our thoughts and opinions about the story.

'The book is about a boy who is stranded on an island with company. He fell of a boat in the ocean, left alone to die...'

'I liked the part where the turtles came to Kensuke's kingdom because it felt heart warming that Kensuke helped them when they were born and they came back to where they were born!'

'I love that the book is imaginative and creative. I would recommend it to my Opa because he likes reading'