Take a look at our Top Ten boards this week for each year group and our top progress children in each year group!

This week, we have also included the top 3 best progress in each year group- well done to everyone who has gained a certificate to take home for being in the top 3 for their year group for speed or progress!

Well done everyone - keep practising over the holidays to see if you can go up the charts!

What an exciting and busy end of term! We’ve experienced so many opportunities and have loved every second of being back together.

For Comic Relief, year 4 completed a whole range of tasks in our ‘Taskmaster Challenge’ including; untangling a human knot, backwards laps of the track, passing a ball around a circle using only our feet, standing up after 100 seconds without a timer and many more! It was a challenging competition with pride and Easter eggs up for grabs and the adults were very competitive. Class RL were the overall winners but we loved seeing everyone’s smiling faces and sharing in the laughter for a worthy cause.

Last week, we also enjoyed a body percussion workshop with Ollie Tunmer from the musical Stomp and investigated some mysterious goings on around the school after dinosaurs invaded the playground and laid an egg in the conservation area! As well as continuing our learning on fractions and decimals.

This week, we have been writing up our newspaper reports, making well balanced cous cous salads and learning about living creatures in the school pond and conservation area.

It has been a pleasure to have everyone back at school altogether and we have really enjoyed the fun experiences of the last week. Well done to every child in year 4 for settling back in so quickly and to every parent for supporting your child with their learning. We can’t wait to have you back after Easter. Enjoy the holidays!

It's the end of a busy but productive term in Year 5. The children have done so well coming back to school and getting back into their routines.

The children have now finished their descriptive writing work in English using Shackleton's story of his adventure across Antarctica. We have since been comparing the impact of self esteem on Gru's day in Despicable Me and writing diary entries to correspond to his feelings.

In Maths we have been learning about shapes and angles. The children had great fun building their own Shape Towns using a variety of polyhedrons and other 3D shapes. They did very well at using their mathematical language to explain their creations.

In Science, the children have been desigining their own paper aeroplane experiments with the aim of ensuring they conduct a fair test. We have had great fun researching and building aeroplanes using a variety of designs and materials.

We have now come to the end of our Ancient Civilisations topic with the children researching the causes and effects of various historical events that interest them.

All of the Year 5 team wish you a restful and well deserved Easter holiday. We look forward to welcoming you back in the summer term with plenty more exciting learning opportunities!

It's all about mechanics in year 6 as we are making CAMs and mechanical devices and soon there will be the sound of saws and drills as they make their very own moving toy automata.

Thank you so much for the talent show entries for year 6 - so many children had a go and it was great fun to watch them all. Well done Max the winner in year 6.

We have now started our Battle of Britain topic so it's a good chance for the children to chat to grandparents or great grandparents about any memories or experiences they had during the war.

Things are looking very promising for the school play this year as the children have thrown themselves into learning the songs and dances - we are pre-auditioning in the classes and will hopefully cast just after Easter but children can bring home the scripts during the holidays.

Now we are back in the swing of things, we will be testing using old SATS papers over the next few weeks and this will enable us to see if there are areas we need to work on with the whole year group or different children as well as using teacher assessment from their work in lessons. We will also do another test in May ( when they would have been sitting SATs.

The wonders of Chichen Itza have been revealed by year 6 who have written fantastic persuasive leaflets about this Mayan wonder. Hopefully it won't be long before we can actually visit it !

April Fools!

Did your child spot all of our April Fools' tricks today? Mr Kemp fooled a number of children he had broken his wrist, Mrs Fitzgibbon convinced her class they had tests all day long, and Miss Johnson convinced her class the carpet hadn't been cleaned properly and the children needed to take off their shoes! Other classes were fooled into completing a word search finding words which weren't there, and were also fooled that today's date was 32nd March!

However, we did have a fire drill practice- this was NOT an April Fool's trick! Great fun for the end of term at FPJS!