Sycamore - WEEK 7, by Miss Taylor

Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 3:24pm

Hello everyone!

What a fantastic week we’ve had in Year 4 and 5 – it’s been full of creativity, curiosity, and some truly brilliant discussions. The children have worked incredibly hard and we’re so proud of their enthusiasm and teamwork across all subjects. Here’s a little peek at what we’ve been up to…

✏️ Writing

This week, we’ve been busy planning and developing our sentence structures for our space explanation pages. The children have been thinking carefully about how to make their writing clear, factual, and engaging – just like real information texts you might find in a science magazine! We’ve explored ways to vary our sentences, use technical vocabulary and add those all-important conjunctions to make their explanations shine. I can’t wait to see the finished pieces next week – they’re shaping up beautifully!

📚 Reading

In reading, we’ve started looking at World War II extracts. The children have been brilliant at discussing how characters might have felt during this time, as well as identifying key vocabulary and exploring the author’s choices. We’ve also begun to look more closely at different reading aspects, such as inference and retrieval, to help deepen our understanding of the texts. It’s been lovely to see how engaged and thoughtful the class have been in their discussions.

🔢 Maths

We’ve just finished off our unit on time, and I have to say, the children have done a super job tackling those tricky conversions and time problems! Next, we’re moving on to fractions – starting with equivalent fractions and fractions of a whole. We’ll be using lots of visual models and practical activities to help everyone build a strong understanding before moving on to more complex work.

🎨 Art

Art has been an absolute hit this week! We’ve been exploring retrofuturism – combining futuristic ideas with a vintage twist. The children have loved experimenting with bold colour palettes. The results have been stunning (and a bit cosmic too!) – we definitely have some budding designers in our midst.

As always, thank you for your continued support at home – whether it’s helping with reading, practising times tables, or simply chatting about what we’ve been learning, it all makes such a difference.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Sycamore Blog - Week 6, by Miss Taylor

Date: 9th Oct 2025 @ 2:04pm

Hello everyone!

We’ve had another busy and exciting week in class — the children have been working so hard and really showing off all the wonderful skills they’ve been developing this term.

In Reading, we’ve been blasting off into space! 🚀 The children have absolutely loved exploring books all about the solar system, planets, and what it might be like to be an astronaut. Their curiosity has been fantastic — we’ve had some brilliant questions and discussions about what life might be like beyond Earth!

In Maths, we’ve been focusing on multiplication and division. The class have been working hard to make sure they’re really confident with their number facts, as these are so important for future learning. Any extra practice at home with times tables will make a big difference — we really appreciate your support with this.

In Writing, we’ve just wrapped up our PVPG (Purpose, Voice, Grammar, and Presentation) units, and now we’re putting those skills to use by creating our very own space explanation texts. The children are loving using their PVPG tools to explain different space phenomena — it’s been wonderful to see their creativity and knowledge come together!

We’ve also started some spelling interventions, focusing on spelling rules and patterns. This will really help strengthen the children’s confidence and accuracy in their writing.

In Science, we’ve been finishing our topic on space, and the children were fascinated learning about why and how shadows are formed. They’ve loved experimenting and making observations — lots of budding scientists in the room! 🔭

And finally, we’re wrapping up our Geography topic on Liverpool. The children have enjoyed exploring our wonderful city and learning more about its history, landmarks, and significance.

Just a quick reminder that homework is due in every Wednesday, please. Thank you so much for helping the children stay on top of this — it really supports what we’re doing in class.

Have a lovely week ahead, and thank you as always for your continued support!

Miss Taylor 🌈

Sycamore: Summer 2 Week 5, by Miss McCahey

Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 1:39pm

Another great week for Sycamore!

English
This week, we have been deepening our reading and comprehension skills as well as our grammar!

Maths
In Maths, we have moved on to angles! We have been recapping our fab knowledge of acute, obtuse and right angles.

CHESTER TRIP!

This week, Sycamore, Willow and Aspen class all ventured to the Roman city of Chester! After a lovely coach trip, we arrived at the museum, where we were greeted by a REAL ROMAN GLADIATOR! We followed our new commander through the streets, now eqiupped with swords and soldiers, and gave members of the public a real surprise! Walking through the Roman gardens, we learnt about the different formations and the amazing team work Roman soliders demonstrated in battle. The highlight was certainly when our class was given the very rare opportunity to attack our teachers! Although, Miss McCahey and Miss Clough soon got their revenge...

Another quick march across the street found us in the ruins of Chester's Roman ampitheatre. We were very excited, especially after learning about gladiator battles in History. Before we knew it, we were watching our own gladiator fight! Well done to our brave volunteers.

After a much needed lunch break (being a gladiator is very tiring), we were given an exclusive tour of the museum!

We learnt all about Roman gods, soliders, gladiator battles, their food, and even Roman toilets!

We all had a very fun day!!

Next week in Sycamore...

Transition week!