The children at home have also been working hard on their learning. It is great that so many of you have sent your photos to the Y5 email address - please keep sending them!This boy has been working on our water topic, as you can see. It looks as if he had fun getting wet. He also created a beautiful…

Hello everyone! The first week back to learning after the Easter holidays has been very busy. Some Y5s have been doing their learning at school this week and have done all kinds of different things. Mrs Rougvie and Mrs Loosley were teaching Y5 and Y6 together on Tuesday (there were only 7 children) and…

Hello everybody. We hope that you are all happy and healthy and that you have enjoyed your Easter holidays - whether you have been at home or at school. The children at school have had lots of fun doing a wide range of activities: art, baking, DT, Karate, Japanese writing, climbing, card tricks and much…

Thank you so much Y5s for all the brilliant egg creations. The annual decorated egg competition is a Lydgate Junior School tradition and it is great that we have still managed to find a way to do it, even though it is a bit different this year. Can you spot your egg? Or can you guess who made them? There…

It has been very different at school this week, with many of you working at home, leaving a small number of us at school. We have had lots of fun doing various activities: exhausting daily Joe Wicks workouts; karate sessions; making talismans and perfume in the woods; doodle art work; creating mini books;…

From all the staff at Lydgate, We'll be there for you. Stay safe.

As many of you will be staying at home for a while, we have put togethera guide to home learning for you. This is not compulsory but we hope itgoes some way to keeping the children engaged and busy for the next week or so.We will be in touch soon with more ideas.From the Year 5 teachersEnglish.· Read…

In Year 5 this half term we are really enjoying our brand new topic on Early Islamic Civilisations. It is really fascinating to find out what was going on in different countries at the time when the Vikings were settling in Britain (570 AD-1258 AD)We have learned that Baghdad was one of the most important…

World Book Day. On Thursday, we celebrated World Book Day at school. We had lots of exciting activities in Y5: guess the teachers' favourite childhood books; making book bunting; book cover art work; cosy reading time with blankets and cushions; sharing our favourite books; a book stall; and a book scavenger…

On Thursday we had a special day to end our Vikings topic. We had lots of activities: writing in runes, making top trumps cards, Viking drama, painting shields, drawing longhouses and trying out Viking flatbread and our version of a drink called mead. To end the day, we had a rampage around the playground…