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Upton Junior School

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Y5 2021-22

 

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  • 20/07/22

    Have a Great Summer! Thank You for Being FABULOUS!

    As we reach the last day of year 5, we would just like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the children for being simply brilliant! We have been so impressed with their resilience, determination and work ethic. Every child truly embodies the Upton Core Values. We feel so lucky to h...
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  • 20/07/22

    Summer Reading Challenge!

    Summer Reading Challenge!  Next year, we really want to boost reading across the school, and this starts over the Summer. The Summer Reading Challenge is simple...read as much as you can in strange and wonderful places. Take a picture, or lots of pictures, and bring them to school in th...
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  • 15/07/22

    Year 5 Weekly News - Friday 015/07/2022

    English This week in English, we finished reading ‘Street Child’. The children loved how Jim was saved at the end of the book and were fascinated to find out it was based on a true story. We wrote a newspaper article about the opening of the first Barnardo's children's homes...
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  • 08/07/22

    Year 5 Weekly News - Friday 08/07/2022

    English This week in English, we continued reading ‘Street Child’. Our focus was around diary entries but from different point of views. The first two diary entries were from Rosie and Jim’s (try not to sing) points of view to portray how they saw the same situation differently...
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  • 01/07/22

    Year 5 Weekly News - 1st of July 2022

    What a week in Y5 this week!!
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  • 24/06/22

    Year 5 Weekly News - 24.6.22

    English This week in English, we started our new text 'Street Child' and the children are really enjoying it. We have already read the first few chapters and cannot wait to find out what will happen to Jim. We have been introduced to Mr Spink - the evil landlord! We drew him and collected...
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  • 17/06/22

    Year 5 Weekly News - 17th June 2022

    English This week in English, we continued our learning on  the classical poem ’The Lady of Shalott'. Over the course of the week, the children learnt about different poetic devices and developed their understanding of different types of figurative language. From this, the chi...
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  • 10/06/22

    Year 5 Weekly News - Friday 10/06/2022

    English This week in English, we read the classical poem ’The Lady of Shalott'. The children enjoyed the vivid imagery and couldn't wait to find out what would happen in each part. We built towards writing an entwined character and setting description of the Lady of Shalott and Came...
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  • 23/05/22

    Year 5 Weekly News - Friday 20/05/2022

    English This week in English, we approached the end of our text, ‘When the Mountains Roared’. It was quite a sad week of reading as a leopard was shot, however, Ruby now has the evidence she needs to take down the poachers. For our writing, we imagined that Ruby was now much older and...
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  • 13/05/22

    Year 5 Weekly News - Friday 13/05/2022

      English In English this week, we have been researching and writing our own explanation text on endangered animals. This learning has linked perfectly with our topic learning on deforestation and habitat loss in the afternoons, as well as the journey that Ruby is going on in our t...
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  • 06/05/22

    Year 5 Weekly News - Friday 06/05/2022

    English In English this week, our text ‘When the Mountains Roared’ has taken us to a scene where Bella has an intruder; a Bear! The children have loved creating word banks of vocabulary and descriptive sentences which create suspense. They have begun to write...
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  • 29/04/22

    Year 5 Weekly News - Friday 29/04/2022

    English In English this week, our text ‘When the Mountains Roared’ has been getting very exciting! The characters are now deep in the Indian jungle, so we visited our own jungle (the environmental area) to gather vocabulary for a setting description.  Mat...
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