4th December
Hello, welcome to our blog. We are the Year 5 blogging team!
This is a blog all about Barleyhurst Park Primary School and how unique it is and why we enjoy it. We are writing this blog so that we can share the events that have happened at our school and hopefully inspire children to join our school so that they can make new friends and learn along the way.
Carol Concert
Over the past few weeks, we have been practising the Christmas songs ready for our annual carol concert which we hold in the school hall. We do this to spread Christmas Joy to our friends and family to get ready for Christmas. Our Key Stage 1 pupils will be practising their Nativity show ready to perform in front of their parents later in December.
Christmas Fayre
Each year we also do a Christmas fayre which has lots of games for the children to play; there’s also a raffle and a tombola that people can win treats and prizes by playing. As well as creating a game to play, each class makes a treat for their parents to buy. Also there’s a stall where you can purchase homemade baked goods, such as cookies, brownies, cupcakes and other tasty treats. The game created by Year 5 was ‘decorate the Christmas tree’ and players had 1 minute to put as many baubles on the tree as possible with prizes available- a big prize for the person who got the most decorations on the tree. Year1’s game ‘Stick the nose on Rudolph’ gave players 3 red balls which had to be thrown onto Rudolph’s face; if the ball stuck players won a prize.
Other Christmas treats
Something we are looking forward to at the end of the year will be our class Christmas parties- they are fun because we get to eat tasty treats and play party games while listening to Christmas tunes. In the last week of term, we will also have a Christmas dinner together in the hall which lots of children enjoy doing. We also look forward to wearing our Christmas jumpers to school on National Christmas Jumper day as well as on Christmas dinner day.
Maths assessments
Year 5 have been trailing a new website called Maths.co.uk.it is a website that instead of printing paper slips for tests and assessments, it lets your teacher create tests that are accessible online, on laptops or tablets. We have found it useful because we are saving the planet by using less paper; it is also good because we get the results straight away. It is easy to use and so far, it has been fun- more fun than paper slips.
Year 6 SATs prep
This week our Year 6 pupils have been preparing for their SATs. The subjects they have been doing are maths, Reading and SPaG (spelling, punctuation and grammar). The reason they have been doing this is so that they are ready for the real SATs later in the year and to make sure they get in the right group/ set in secondary school.
That’s all for now. We look forward to sharing our next update soon.
Everly, Jasmine, Jouri, Nancy, Daisy, Hadleigh and Lauren