7 years ago
Posted on 14th Sep 2018 by Admin

Class 2 Weekly Update 14.09.18

Upon entering school, Class 2 had a very exciting surprise when they discovered that something had left footprints both inside and outside of their classroom.
After registration they heard a knock at their door….only to find a suitcase outside. The children then worked together to make sense of what it was doing there and who or what it belonged to. Another knock at the door revealed all. It was a lost penguin! The penguin shared its story ‘Lost and Found’ which prompted the children to ask questions concerning its journey and where it had come from and how it got lost.
This sparked the children into action where they created ‘FOUND’ posters to alert anybody looking for Penguin. The children recorded their questions concerning the penguins’ journey, homeland and feelings. They also planned and wrote about what they would have in their own suitcase if they were to take Penguin back to the South Pole. Penguin was then taken to our Class 2 airport where it had its destination found on a map, luggage weighed and in-flight meal of ‘fishy meat’ and a drink of ‘ice buy lorazepam uk water’ submitted on a form. Penguin was then seen off at terminal 2 for its flight back to the South Pole. At the end of the week we went penguin crazy writing down facts we learnt about our new favourite bird from Antarctica.
In maths the children have focused on place value and have really enjoyed all of the practical activities they have done. They have been learning about number sequences both using counting forwards and backwards verbally and with objects and have identified resources in class which can help them check their work in the future. They have been counting 1 more and 1 less than numbers from 0-20 and beyond and have compared groups of objects in various scenarios. Their group and individual work has been superb as a collective.
In other news, Class 2 now have another PE slot. So our days for PE will now be on a Monday & Thursday. Please make sure that your child has their kit in school on those days.
Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to seeing you all next week!
Mr Mavin

7 years ago
Posted on 14th Sep 2018 by Admin

Week 2

The children in Class One have had another super week. They have shared their favourite nursery rhymes and enjoyed singing them as a class. We have had fun listening for and spotting the rhyming words, then thinking of new rhyming words. We focussed on Humpty Dumpty and had fun cutting out his pieces to try and put him back together again!

On Thursday we had a practice fire drill, Class One children did a great job of calmly leaving the classroom and lining up on the playground. They spent the rest of the day pretending to be Fire Fighters, putting out fires and rescuing kittens!

At the beginning of the week the children were busy finding one and then two things. We remembered that 1 add another makes 2, and 2 take away 1 leaves 1.

Making 3 – the children exlored how 2 things add 1 more makes 3, and 1 thing add 2 more makes 3. They made use of the items in the classroom to prove it.

This week we have looked at the phonemes ‘s’ and ‘d’. When we write the sounds the children say:

‘s’ – slither down the snake

‘d’ – around the dinosaurs bottom, up his tall neck and down to his feet.

The children are making good use of the class room resources to enhance their learning through play.

7 years ago
Posted on 14th Sep 2018 by Admin

Class 6 update 14.09.18

Year 5/6 English

This week the children have been writing a ship’s journal based on Maia’s journey to the Amazon in ‘Journey to the River Sea.’ We focused on making our writing quite formal as a record of the journey.

Maths

We have worked on negative numbers this week and then focused on addition and subtraction using the column method. Some children were working with numbers up to 6 digits to solve some tricky problems.

Year 5/6 Geography

We revised the water cycle this week and made sure we understood the terms ‘evaporation’, ‘condensation’ and ‘precipitation.’ The children watched video animations of the water cycle and looked at one we made in class using a bowl of hot water. They then drew their own water cycles labelling the features they had learnt about.

Year 5/6 Science

The children enjoyed sharing their homework on plastic and we discussed how plastic pollution is affecting ocean wildlife. We shared our views on plans to use a giant floating barrier to collect plastic and how it could actually be detrimental to animals that are surface feeders. Children then used their existing knowledge of properties of different materials to plan how they are going to test these known properties in the next lesson.

Have a good weekend.

7 years ago
Posted on 14th Sep 2018 by Admin

Weekly News 14.09.18

Gardening day

We hope to see you at our gardening day tomorrow, if you are able to spare a couple of hours. We will be here from 10:00 onwards and refreshments will be served throughout the day. Thank you in advance for your support.

Parent lunches

We are looking forward to Nursery parents and family members joining us for lunch next week, followed by Class 1 the week after. Dates for Classes 2 to 6 will then follow.

FOBS wine and cheese evening

Tickets will be on sale at the school office next week for the wine and cheese evening on Friday 5th October. Details will be on the website next week.

Car park safety

Please could we remind parents and other adults to drive slowly into and out of the school car park, particularly when dropping off at Breakfast and 8:30 Clubs.

Letters out this week

Class 1 parents’ lunch

Year 5 and 6 Bikeability – please return as soon as possible.

Have a nice weekend!

Mrs Johnson

7 years ago
Posted on 14th Sep 2018 by Admin

Class 3 weekly update

English – We have been continuing to focus on punctuation and writing sentences including capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks. We have also been using commas in lists and using the apostrophe to mark singular possession in nouns.

Maths – We have been solving problems by using tens and ones in addition – identifying and explaining mistakes, describing number patterns and finding different ways to represent a number in a number sentence. We have also been using a place value chart to represent 2 and 3 digit numbers.

Science – Introduction to our topic on ‘Animals, including humans’. The children have been discussing the basic needs for survival and identifying what we ‘need’ (e.g. food, water) and what we ‘want’ (television, toys).

RE – The children listened to the story of ‘Creation’ and looked at / discussed a range of images representing the days of creation. They had a go at drawing what would be in day 6.

Spellings – To be tested Friday 21st September. 14.9.18

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas

7 years ago
Posted on 14th Sep 2018 by Admin

Year 5 & 6 Spellings to be tested 21.09.18

14.09.18 to be tested 21.09.18

7 years ago
Posted on 08th Sep 2018 by Admin

Class 5 weekly update

Welcome back everyone! We’ve had a brilliant first week in class 5 and everybody has settled in really well.

English

This week we have read the first chapter of our class novel ‘Journey to the River Sea’ and the children buy roaccutane have been very interested in the setting of the book asking lots of questions about the rainforest which we have researched together as a class. We have looked at creating a character description for the protagonist of our novel Maia and the children have worked really hard to pick out key points about her that they can back up using evidence from the text. Next week we will be looking at creating a journal from Maia’s point of view that documents her journey over to the city of Manaus in Brazil.

Maths

The children have worked really hard in Maths this week as we covered place value working with numbers up to 10,000 and Roman numerals. They have worked well in small groups to problem solve and have also shown a great level of understanding as they have been able to explain the reasoning for the answers they have come up with. Next week we will start to look at rounding numbers.

Our PE session next week has been moved to Monday afternoon as a one off so if the children could have their PE kit in school that would be fantastic. I will be available before and after school next week so please don’t hesitate to pop in and see me should you need to.

Look forward to seeing you all Monday,

Mr Sudlow.

7 years ago
Posted on 07th Sep 2018 by Admin

Class 5 and 6 homework

plastic research homework 07.09.18

7 years ago
Posted on 07th Sep 2018 by Admin

Year 5 & 6 spellings to be tested 14.09.18

Spellings to be tested 14.09.18 – Years 5 and 6

07.09.18

7 years ago
Posted on 07th Sep 2018 by Admin

Year 5 and 6 weekly update 07.09.18

Class 5 and 6 have settled back into school quickly and have worked really hard this week, both during their separate lessons for Maths and English in the mornings as well as joint lessons in the afternoons for other subjects.

Year 6 English

This week we have started our new class novel, Journey to the River Sea, which children seem to be enjoying. We have focused on the main character Maia and used evidence from Chapter 1 to help write character descriptions/fact files to show what we know about her so far. Next week we will be creating journals, in role as Maia, describing her voyage to Manaus in Brazil.

Year 6 Maths

Our work on place value this week has focused on numbers up to ten million. We have looked at comparing and ordering numbers and next week we will look at rounding and negative numbers before starting a new unit on the four operations.

Science

In science we worked in groups to share what we already know about the characteristics, properties and uses of different materials. At the end of the lesson each group was given just ten minutes to plan how to persuade the rest of class in only 60 seconds why their material was better than all the other materials. We were really pleased that every single child in the class was able to take part verbally in the presentation which was quite a daunting task for some children with such little warning! Well done everyone.

Homework

The homework task this week is following on from our science lesson on Tuesday. We would like children to research plastic as there were quite a few misconceptions about how plastic is made and what resources are needed. This piece of homework needs to be given in by Tuesday please and all children have been given instructions in their homework books. They will be sharing their work with other children in their group.

Geography

We were absolutely amazed at children’s summer holiday homework on rivers and mountains and they seemed to enjoy sharing their research this week. Their work looks wonderful on the displays outside Class 6 (the old Class 5) so please feel free to come in and have a look.

Spellings

07.09.18

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Johnson, Mrs Foster and Mr Sudlow