Class 12
Autumn Newsletter
17th October
Well done to all of our certificate winners:
10th October
26th September
On Friday we celebrated the European Day of Languages with lots of exciting activities. Pupils took part in quizzes and bingo games, as well as doing their own research to learn more about different countries and cultures. The highlight of the day was when Year 6 organised a special French café in the hall, where they served food and drinks. It was a fun and educational day that helped everyone appreciate the importance of learning languages.
Awards
Well done to our award winners this week!
Scientist of the Week: Theo
Writer of the Week: Jaeden
Star of the Week: Huang
Dojo winner: Jesse
19th September
Year 5 had a fantastic trip to see Northern Ballet’s production of Merlin at the Grand Theatre. The class were amazed by the performance and the superb dancing as the story was told. Everyone loved the dragon puppet as well as the special effects. Children demonstrated excellent behaviour and listened and watched well.
Year 5 also had an introduction to the workshops that they will be doing each Friday with Dagma, who explained all about the different productions they will look at and the reasons why dance is an important part of our P.E. Curriculum.
Week Ending 12/09/2025
This week, Class 12 began their history topic for the autumn term which is the Victorians. The children took part in a pre-launch session where they considered their previous historical learning in KS1 and LKS2 and the knowledge they already had that could be built on. They thought about the chronology that they have already learnt and historical facts from each era. Next, was an exciting launch session. To begin with, the children completed an ‘Impossible, Maybe, Possible’ Task where they had to sort statements about the Victorians and decide if they could be true or not. They had to use their wider knowledge of history and what they had previously learned about the Victorians in Year Two to help them. Next, they created a mind map of what they already knew and could remember about the Victorian era. After that, the children completed a carousel of different stations to help them devise the key questions to guide our learning throughout this topic. Ideas were recorded on post-it notes then Class 12 used these ideas to formulate open ended questions to research and answer. We used the following headings to generate questions:
Arts and Leisure
Victorian Leeds
Queen Victoria and the British Empire
Life in Victorian Britain: Equality and Change
Victorian Childhood
The children will answer the questions they have devised throughout the autumn term. Mrs Sturman was very impressed with their prior knowledge and the way in which they were able to talk about the chronology and facts connected to their previous historical learning. Well done Class 12!
Awards
5th September
Class 12 had a good start to the term this week. They started there new Science topic of Forces and work in English on the text "Oliver Twist" to tie into the TSU about Victorians, this term.
Well done to our certificate winners:
Star of the Week — Leana 🌟
Dojo Winner — Harlow 
Mathematician of the Week — Theo 🧮
