GCPY5and6

Welcome to year 5 and 6 at Great Coates Academy. 'Success and happiness for all' - proud to be part of the Harbour Learning trust.

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This afternoon, the children completed a draw with Rob activity with @RobBiddulph as part of our Empathy Festival week. #Delightandjoy @EmpathyLabUK @PrimaryGreat

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Coach Kieron, from Premier Education, is in this morning teaching all three classes tennis skills. #delightandjoy @PrimaryGreat #GCPPE

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Empathy Festival 2026
Today, the children are creating their empathy glasses.
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The children are busy researching the space rover, Curiosity. #GCPComputing #GCPEnglish @PrimaryGreat

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After reading this fantastic book in our English lessons this week,this boy has made his own version of Curiosity at home. #GCPEnglish @PrimaryGreat #Delightandjoy

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This young man has shared lots of his favourite jokes from his new book with the class. #empower #delightandjoy @PrimaryGreat #GCPReading

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@SydandBridge @PrimaryGreat

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Look who we found hiding in our bags. @SydandBridge @PrimaryGreat

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Marshmallow toasting #Delightandjoy @PrimaryGreat

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Back to Bear residential #Delightandjoy @PrimaryGreat

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The children are busy looking at how life changed during WW2 at the Holocaust Museum. #GCPHistory @PrimaryGreat

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Today the children are comparing how Easter is celebrated in the UK with another country. Mrs Cox has chosen to compare a UK Easter with an Easter in Poland. #GCPRE @PrimaryGreat #Delightandjoy

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The children have designed and created some great games on Scratch today. #GCPcomputing @PrimaryGreat

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The digital leaders have been fantastic today. They have helped their peers solve lots of coding problems. #empower @PrimaryGreat

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The children have started Computing Day by creating sprites with different variables. #GCPComputing #Delightandjoy @PrimaryGreat

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This afternoon, Y5 had a visit from the @HumbersideFire to talk about fire safety. #Community @PrimaryGreat

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In our in class assembly today, we read this fantastic book to celebrate #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek @PrimaryGreat . We had lots of fantastic conversations after reading this wonderful book.

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Today Year 5/6 have been exploring which surfaces have the greatest friction on their shoes using a Newton meter to measure the force required @PrimaryGreat #gcpscience #delightandjoy

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The Y5 children are busy finding evidence of the main themes in our new class book, Hidden Figures. The children showed great empathy for the characters, whilst we read the book today. #GCPEnglish @PrimaryGreat

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This boy has really impressed Mrs Cox with his effort, content and handwriting in his last piece of independent writing, He is now Mrs Cox's handwriting star. #Delightandjoy @PrimaryGreat