English
Through the study of English, St Aidan’s pupils will develop a joy of reading. They will learn to express themselves clearly and with confidence – both orally and in writing – using standard English. They will develop the skill to listen to others and reflect upon their own ideas to become effective communicators.
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For more information about our phonics scheme, the teaching of reading and a list of common exception words for each year group, click on this link: https://staidanscofe.org/teaching-of-reading/
National Poetry Day Celebrations
Our unit of work this week in English was Performance Poetry. We listened to, rehearsed and performed a number of poems about plastic pollution. We enjoyed working in groups to decide on the different techniques that we were going to use when performing the poem 'Just...
Poetry Week
This week, we celebrated Poetry Day on Thursday 3rd October. Each class in school were asked to learn a poem throughout the week. This was when performed in front of the rest of the school and to the children’s parents and carers at the end of the school day. Our poem...
Our School Councillor Speeches
Today in class, the children who had prepared and planned their school councillor speeches had the chance to speak to their peers about why they should be chosen as Year 5 school councillor. The children showed so much confidence! We have so many children who have put...
Our Year 5 Collective Worship Assembly
This morning, Year 5 took part in their first collective worship assembly of the year. The theme for our assembly was ‘Kindness.’ First, as a whole school, we sang a hymn called ‘Who put the colours in the rainbow?’. We chose this hymn because we as children, a school...
Computing – Systems and Searching
Our Computing topic this half term is ‘Systems and Searching’. First, we discussed the question, ‘What does the word system mean?’ Some comments included: ‘A journey’ ‘A system will be used for apps such as YouTube and Amazon’ ’The World Wide Web plays a part in lots...
Rivers
In Geography this half term, we are learning about Rivers. Last week, we answered the question; ‘Where are the world’s major rivers?’ We used atlases and google earth to find these rivers and learnt that lots of these major rivers are found in the continent of Asia....
Phonics
We are now in week three of our Phonics work. We are super speedy at recalling the graphemes we have learnt. We are all working extremely hard on our letter formation as well. We have been playing snap with the graphemes cards that we have learnt so far and also using...
What we’ve been up to this week…
This week in Year 5, the children have worked incredibly hard in each of their lessons. In Science, we looked at the human cycle. We discussed what happens to our bodies and how we grow and develop as we get older. In English, we continued our topic of ‘Fairytales’,...
Our First Week in Year 5…
What an amazing start to our new year group we have had! It has been such a busy, hard working and extremely fun start to our year. On Tuesday, myself and Mrs Bullerwell had a lovely day getting to know our children in class. We spent the day creating our Year 5...
Ahoy Matey!
Following on with reading ‘Aliens love underpants’, Nursery were so excited to take part in pirate themed activities this week. On Monday and Tuesday, the children created their own pirate hats. They designed the front of their hats using paint, sequins and tissue...