Highfield CE Primary School Blog Feed - Year 5/6

Bright Sparks!

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:52:48 GMT

As part of Science week this week, children in South America class have been making circuits in afternoon lessons!

Year 5/6 Celebrate E-Safety Week with a BBC Live AI Lesson

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:43:57 GMT

As part of E-Safety Week, children in Years 5 and 6 took part in a BBC Live Lesson all about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it affects our lives online.

En Garde!

Fri, 6 Feb 2026 13:47:24 GMT

The year 5/6 children had a fantastic time trying fencing!

Wonderful writing!

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:36:48 GMT

It was fantastic to have the year 6 children showcase their wonderful pieces of writing over a biscuit!

Printing!

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:43:40 GMT

The children have shown fantastic resilience and determination in designing and producing two wonderful prints!

County finals!

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:08:17 GMT

A HUGE well done to our girls' football team who finished second at the county finals in Portsmouth!

Metacognition

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:05:28 GMT

In our meta-cognition lessons so far this half-term, the children have been incredibly reflective when talking about managing conflict and listening to others.

Panto!

Wed, 7 Jan 2026 11:50:44 GMT

Thank you Highfield Family and Friends!

Boy's football match report

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:01:04 GMT

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Representation and structure!

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:35:28 GMT

The year 6s have moved onto their fractions unit and showed fantastic knowledge of representation and structure to show their understanding.

Medusa art!

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:30:31 GMT

The children loved taking part in their Greek-themed art day!

League winners!

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:10:52 GMT

Congratulations to our boy's football team who finished top of their league this season!

New literacy topic!

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:41:11 GMT

The children have been LOVING the new literacy text for their explanation texts this half-term.

League winners!

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 08:13:43 GMT

It was a fantastic end to the season with two more great wins for our girls football team!

A positive start to the season!

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:48:26 GMT

The year 6 boys football team started the season off with 3 great results!

Primary maths challenge!

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:42:08 GMT

Well done to all the children in year 6 that took part in this year's Primary Maths Challenge!

DT prototypes!

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:30:00 GMT

The children have been fully immersed in their DT project this half, which was designing a bug hotel prototype!

Gathering!

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:12:46 GMT

The children in year 5/6 have been showing fantastic reciprocity to work together to plan part of our in class worships!

Girl's football success!

Sun, 9 Nov 2025 18:48:10 GMT

Our year 5 and year 6 football teams performed brilliantly in their recent Southampton School tournament!

RE - interpretation!

Sun, 9 Nov 2025 18:46:25 GMT

The children thoroughly enjoyed their first RE lesson for their new topic on interpretation!

Cross-country!

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:39:00 GMT

A huge well done to all the children that have taken part in cross-country this half term!

Year 6 residential!

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:42:30 GMT

What a memorable week for our fantastic year 6s!

Year 5 football

Sat, 4 Oct 2025 12:13:47 GMT

It was a fantastic first match for our year 5 football team!

Table tennis success

Sat, 4 Oct 2025 12:11:27 GMT

What a fantastic result for both our Highfield table tennis teams!

Batik art!

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:09:04 GMT

The year 5s have loved learning all about Batik art!

Taking flight!

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:04:39 GMT

Asia class thoroughly enjoyed their second PE lesson on vaulting, where they tried out a range of equipment!

Year 5 bike-ability!

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:00:18 GMT

The year 5s have shown wonderful resilience, courage and skill when taking to the roads this week for their bikeability sessions!

Rivers around the world!

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:23:47 GMT

Cartography skills!

Culture week smoothies!

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:50:10 GMT

The children in year 5/6 had a great time creating Brazilian-themed smoothies!

City Athletics!

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:37:41 GMT

A huge well done to all the children that took part in City Athletics 2025!

Year 5 football

Fri, 23 May 2025 08:32:12 GMT

The year 5s enjoyed another successful win with some excellent team play! They worked incredibly well as a team and demonstrated wonderful reciprocity, resilience and courage on the pitch! We also had one of our year 6 Sport Leaders as referee for the game - he did a brilliant job!

Lively Lifecycles

Fri, 2 May 2025 08:05:58 GMT

This half-term we have been looking at the lifecycles of living things!

Pointless Percentages!

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:29:51 GMT

The year 6s have had maths lessons which have been 100% fun!

Volcanic Eruptions!

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:22:18 GMT

This half term we have had some explosive geography lessons!

Biomes research!

Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:16:08 GMT

The children in year 5/6 finished their biomes topic by completing some excellent research.

AI writing!

Mon, 3 Feb 2025 08:27:48 GMT

Recently, in year 5/6, we have been using AI to help us with our description in literacy.

Geography Fieldwork

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:37:47 GMT

Recently, we got out and about for some Geography fieldwork!

Oh là là - très chic!

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:21:54 GMT

This week, the Year 5s and 6s put on a fashion show in their French lesson!

Fantastic Gymnastics!

Thu, 3 Oct 2024 11:16:20 GMT

This half term, Year 5/6 have been improving their balance skills in PE

The First Few Weeks Of A New School Year!

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:14:15 GMT

It's been a bust start to the new school year, and already, we've been getting up to a massive amount of learning! Here are some of the highlights...

Year 5 Maths

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:28:02 GMT

Volume of Shape

Winchester Cathedral Service

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 06:58:05 GMT

On Tuesday, Year 6 headed to Winchester for the annual leavers’ service, which was attended by lots of other Church of England schools from Hampshire.

Inflatable Fun!

Fri, 7 Jun 2024 14:27:06 GMT

The children in KS2 have enjoyed some time on an inflatable assault course today as part of their reading treat!

Well Done Year 6!

Fri, 17 May 2024 16:25:10 GMT

The week we've all been preparing for has finally come!

Bikeability!

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:43:36 GMT

This week, Year 5 are learning to be safer riders on the road as they take their Bikeability training!

South America's Class Assembly

Fri, 1 Mar 2024 17:36:40 GMT

Class assembly season kicked off again this week with a wizard assembly from South America class!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Fri, 9 Feb 2024 17:47:45 GMT

Celebrating culture week in Year 5/6

The Try-Wizard Tournament

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:32:54 GMT

For the past few weeks, Year 5 and 6 have been working extra hard in their Literacy lessons!

A Magical Return to School

Fri, 5 Jan 2024 10:39:25 GMT

We're thrilled to share the magical moments of our Year 5/6 Harry Potter Day, where our young wizards and witches immersed themselves in a day of enchantment and adventure!

Year 5/6 Clay Day!

Fri, 8 Dec 2023 16:17:08 GMT

A messy but fun afternoon in Asia and South America!