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  • Year 5 Rap!

    Published 15/04/24
    The spring term was concluded with a fun and creative English topic: Rap music. Following on from looking at this genre in Music, children further deepened their knowledge and opinions of different types of rap music, before researching, planning and
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  • End of unit hockey tournament for Rowan

    Published 27/03/24
    As we come to the end of the Spring Term, Year 5 have taken part in hockey and tennis lessons within PE this half term. Today we took part in our usual end of unit tournament through the medium of hockey. We managed to avoid the rain and working i
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  • Moving Toys in Design and Technology

    Published 22/03/24
    In Rowan and Willow Class, the children have been designing moving toys. The children learned all about cam mechanisms and then experimented with different types of cam to see what kind of movement they created. They then worked in pairs to investiga
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  • Willow Class debate

    Published 28/02/24
    As part of our focus on British values, we have discussed the important role of democracy in our society, which has linked in with our English topic on persuasive language and debating. Beofre holding our own class debate, we discussed how to argue a
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  • Rowan Class get competitive!

    Published 15/02/24
    This week has seen a number of different areas of learning come to a conclusion with particularly exciting endings. In games lessons within PE, we have been progressing our tag rugby skills. As all our games modules at William Ransom do, we ended
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  • Magic and Mischief

    Published 14/02/24
    Some lucky Year 5 children recently received invitations to attend a magical club which celebrated a love of the Harry Potter books and films! In the first week, the children made their own magical wands and were sorted into their Hogwarts houses.
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  • Year 5 Still Life Drawing

    Published 23/01/24
    Our current Art topic is Objects and their Meaning, where we have been looking at a variety of different artists’ compositions, and discussing the objects they have used, and what they might mean. We have also spent time thinking about our own
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  • Year 5 Viking Day

    Published 27/11/23
    Yesterday, Year 5 were lucky enough to take part in a whole day dedicated to our learning about Vikings! We had an amazing teacher, ‘Irik the Viking’, to teach us lots about many different elements of Viking life. He started with l
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  • Another fabulous Hawthorne Schools’ Project!

    Published 16/11/23
    Year 5 children had the most wonderful time getting to know the patients and staff at the Garden House Hospice this term. Each visit gave them a new and exciting experience. The first visit included some ‘getting to know you activities&rsquo
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  • Circus Science!

    Published 20/10/23
    Years 3 and 5 have been learning all about forces in Science this term and today had the opportunity to see forces in action in a Circus Skills show. Nick from Shooting Stars demonstrated his amazing juggling skills and explained how different types
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  • Rowan’s first PE tournament of the year!

    Published 19/10/23
    At the end of every games PE unit, every class should take part in some some of competition specific to the learning that has taken place across the 6 week block. Learning competition skills in PE is so very important; we work on winning and loosi
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  • Design & Technology

    Published 10/10/23
    Our unit of work in Design & Technology this term started with exploring which fruits and vegetables grow in the UK. We then discussed ‘seasonality’ and knowing when different fruits and vegetables are naturally ripe and ready to eat.
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