Merlins – Year 5 & 6


Teacher: Mr Greenway
Support Staff: Mr Stokes
Location: Askrigg
Click here to see the class timetable
Click here to see spring term’s curriculum overview

Merlins – News and Information

How good are you at British History?

on by Gemma Gurden

As part of our work on the Tudors, we have started by developing our understanding of chronology and where the Tudors fit within British history. Test us out and see if we can remember the order of th…

Tudor House designs

on by Gemma Gurden

Just a selection of some of the Merlins sketches of Tudor houses. We used view finders to focus in on features we found interesting before labelling the common features of Tudor housing.

Fool’s Gold didn’t fool us!

on by Gemma Gurden

A great time to shine all about rocks from Olivia. We were lucky enough to investigate some of the rocks from her collection, including fool’s gold and quartz. The class had lots of questions ab…

SAT’s practice going really well!

on by Gemma Gurden

This week, while the year 5 were away swimming, the year 6s worked through some of their practice SATs papers, looking for any additional marks they could have picked up and identifying areas for impr…

Lights and Lines …

on by John Crabtree

Creating our own science experiments to prove that light travels in straight lines.

Merlins – Forthcoming Events

25 January 2022

Merlins Tudor House Construction

Please can pupils come in with a shoe box sized cardboard box, and any extra resources they desire, to construct their Tudor houses

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Askrigg School,
04 February 2022

Forest Schools

Forest schools for those taught in Merlins.

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21 February 2022

Half Term break

BAWB Federation school Half term break February - 21/02/21 - 25/02/21

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28 February 2022

Staff Training Day

School closed to children.

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11 April 2022

Easter Holidays

BAWB Federation Easter Holiday break - 11/04/21 - 22/04/21

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02 May 2022

Bank Holiday

School closed to children.

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This week’s Awards

21st January 2022

on by Charlotte Harper