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28/09/23

⚽️ Well done to both of our futsal teams who played some great football and demonstrated some amazing team work throughout! pic.twitter.com/XlGQUTWa4S

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22/09/23

🎭 Pupils enjoyed a magical performance of Alice in Wonderland performed by 🗳️ A huge thank you to our school council and our PTA, who raised money to allow this performance to happen for our children. pic.twitter.com/qxCZBlVFMC

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21/09/23

OPEN EVENT ANNOUNCED FOR SIR FREDERICK GIBBERD COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 2024 YEAR 7 INTAKE Saturday 14th October (12pm - 2pm) at Latton Bush Centre, Harlow.Full information on: https://t.co/gDP8HGUXAB pic.twitter.com/3mytmoENzk

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12/09/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a SEND Co-Educator📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/dcXj88APm4

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11/09/23

OPEN EVENTSOur Essex Secondary Schools Open Events kick off this week.Tue 12 5:30pm - 8:30pm Burnt Mill Academy (Harlow)Thu 14 6pm - 8:30pm Epping St John’s School (Epping)Wed 27 5pm - 8pm Forest Hall School (Stansted Mountfitchet)Thu 28 6pm - 9pm Mark Hall Academy (Harlow) pic.twitter.com/6G2FMT4mE2

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30/06/23

👏 Well done to all pupils who took part in final enterprise event💷 After winning their individual selling to parent events, young people from all BMAT primaries were welcomed to 🎉 Thank you to all the parents, careers and members of the public who attended pic.twitter.com/ORG4YoJ2Pt

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30/06/23

👏 Well done to all pupils who took part in final enterprise event💷 After winning their individual selling to parent events, young people from all BMAT primaries were welcomed to 🎉 Thank you to all the parents, careers and members of the public who attended pic.twitter.com/ORG4YoJ2Pt

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26/06/23

🖌️ Our Enterprise Event is taking place on Wednesday 28th June 💷 Pupils from multiple schools will be selling fridge magnets, key rings, loom band bracelets and more!⚖️ All funds raised will go towards a charity of the winning classes choice pic.twitter.com/lEwnUKaGJA

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26/06/23

🖌️ Our Enterprise Event is taking place on Wednesday 28th June 💷 Pupils from multiple schools will be selling fridge magnets, key rings, loom band bracelets and more!⚖️ All funds raised will go towards a charity of the winning classes choice pic.twitter.com/lEwnUKaGJA

22/06/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a SEND Co-Educator📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/q5DofNutDd

22/06/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a SEND Co-Educator📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/q5DofNutDd

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21/06/23

🙌 THANK YOU MS PULLEN ⭐️#ThankATeacherDay23⁰#ThankATeacherDay⁰#ThankATeacher pic.twitter.com/LEmAlZLo2U

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21/06/23

🙌 THANK YOU MS CASTLE ⭐️#ThankATeacherDay23⁰#ThankATeacherDay⁰#ThankATeacher pic.twitter.com/3qUYYJTxgX

21/06/23

🙌 A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO MS BOAD ⭐️17 individual 'thank yous' from parents and pupils deserves some extra recognition so we arranged a surprise visit to let her know so many of you appreciate her. #ThankATeacherDay23⁰#ThankATeacherDay⁰#ThankATeacher pic.twitter.com/XB3r3aIEbh

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21/06/23

🙌 THANK YOU MS EVANS ⭐️#ThankATeacherDay23⁰#ThankATeacherDay⁰#ThankATeacher pic.twitter.com/wVMPbLLe5w

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21/06/23

🙌 THANK YOU MS DAVIS ⭐️#ThankATeacherDay23⁰#ThankATeacherDay⁰#ThankATeacher pic.twitter.com/8Z8h3RdqNo

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21/06/23

🙌 THANK YOU MS BALLESTEROS ⭐️#ThankATeacherDay23⁰#ThankATeacherDay⁰#ThankATeacher pic.twitter.com/niAo5OoiRC

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13/06/23

🙌 Huge thanks to for providing us with a new bench, books and a Bug hotel! 🐞📚 Pupils in Nursery and Reception classes can expand their reading skills thanks to your support pic.twitter.com/NvJmwOzEzA

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12/06/23

🙌 Huge thanks to for providing us with a new bench, books and a Bug hotel! 🐞📚 Pupils in Nursery and Reception classes can expand their reading skills thanks to your support pic.twitter.com/KFOmViT5yd

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09/06/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a Class Teacher📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/N1iJyrfySn

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Year 5 - Swallow And Amazon & The BFG

Swallows and Amazons & The BFGs

This half term we will be focusing on Shakespeare’s epic tragedy of ‘Macbeth’ retold by Tony Bradman: 

‘A battle on a barren moor, three witches and a blood-soaked room. A murdered king, a butchered friend, a ghastly ghost and lots of gore. Trees that walk, a fierce revenge, a severed head – this is the story of Macbeth.’ 

AS READERS 

We will be improving our skills as readers by improving our comprehension skills through our use of prediction, retrieval and inference skills using a range of resources and materials. 

Vocabulary focus: predict, retrieve, summarise, infer. 

AS WRITERS 

Learning Shakespearian vocabulary within ‘Macbeth’, we will incorporate it within written dialogue between the main characters and replicate the structure and rhyme scheme of rhyming couplets. Our trip to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London will be recounted, providing personal experiences from the day. Then, using our learning from history and geography lessons about London and The Globe Theatre, and comparing past to present, we will write an information text. 

Grammar vocabulary focus: dialogue, inverted commas, parenthesis, dashes, commas, fronted adverbials, subordinate clauses, conjunctions and adverbs, expanded noun phrases, expanded verb phrases, figurative language. 

AS MATHEMATICIANS 

We will be learning how to add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals by 10, 100 & 1000 as well as expanding our knowledge of angle to include: identifying, comparing, measuring, drawing and calculating angles and using a protractor accurately. 

Vocabulary focus: multiply, divide, product, quotient, divisor, dividend, fraction, decimal, place value, angle, acute, obtuse, reflex, straight line angle, right angle, revolution, protractor, degrees, measuring, problem solving and reasoning. 

AS SCIENTISTS 

Children will study space and our solar system: understanding the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies. We will learn about the movement of the Earth and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system, discussing the theories of heliocentric and geocentric models. We will use our knowledge of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night. 

PE 

Lessons will take place once a week on Monday and Thursday. Please ensure your child has the correct PE kit with them on these days and clothing is suitable for colder weather. (Please label all of your child’s clothing to help avoid lost items). 

IN PSHE 

We will be discussing and investigating the relationships children have with themselves and with the communities they are a part of online. We will be discussing what it means to be part of an online community, how to be safe online, how to understand relationships with technology and monitor our time online safely. 

HOME LEARNING 

On Fridays, pupils will be receive focused and targeted homework for spellings, reading, maths, English or other activities related to subjects covered this term. Homework will be handed out on Friday and will be due back in the following Wednesday.

 

 

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