This term, (coinciding with the cold weather!) Year 5 have gymnastics for their Tuesday indoor PE lessons. So far the children have learnt and practised different shapes, symmetrical and asymmetrical balances, and different ways to travel. Working in partners on mats, the children identified what sk...

Our new core text in Year 5 is Street Child, by Berlie Doherty.  We have just read a chapter called The Shilling Pie, in which our main character, Jim Jarvis, has bought a pie for his family with the last of their money.  Set in Victorian England, it tells the story of his struggle, and li...