7 years ago
Posted on 05th Mar 2018 by Admin

Class 2 World Book Day

On World Book Day, Class 2 were introduced to our new class story ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’. We had a day based around this story, completing lots of fun activities. We began with listening to the story, followed by acting the story out in a group and presenting it to the rest of the class. We then thought about the Tiger’s diet and decided he didn’t have a very healthy diet as he ate lots of food from Sophie’s house. The children were given the task of designing a healthy meal for the tiger and drawing their design onto a paper plate. Before lunch we decorated biscuits ready for our Tiger Tea Party in the afternoon. The children had a lovely afternoon, decorating a tiger mask and eating lots of goodies at the tiger tea party.

7 years ago
Posted on 04th Mar 2018 by Admin

School is OPEN Monday 5th March

School will be open on Monday 5th March, 2018. Please can all parents/guardians and children use the pathways that are snow/ice-free and avoid any areas that may still be snow-covered.

Thank you

7 years ago
Posted on 03rd Mar 2018 by Admin

Class 2 Weekly Update

English: Blue group and Red group have worked within Read Write Inc groups Monday-Wednesday, whilst Green and Yellow group have worked independently on Little Red Riding Hood. These children have been writing questions to interview the Big Bad Wolf and then carrying out their interviews using the Ipads to record themselves. On Thursday (World Book Day), the children were introduced to our new story, ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’, we will focus on this story on Thursdays and Fridays. They began acting out the story and performing their presentation to the rest of the class, we then had a lovely Tiger Tea Party in the afternoon (photos to follow on Monday).

Maths: In Maths, the children have continued with place value and comparing numbers using the more than, less than and equal too symbols.

Science: The children investigated using magnets on Tuesday. They were challenged to find magnetic objects within the classroom and then had to draw and label these. On Thursday they decided that the Tiger in our new story does not have a very good diet as he eats everything! We designed a healthy, balanced meal for him and drew these ideas onto paper plates.

RE: Our question in RE, this half term is, ‘Why does Easter matter to Christians?’ The children began by thinking about Springtime and how we recognise signs of Spring. They then listened to the Easter story and discussed the sad and happy parts of the story.

Phonics: In phonics, we are now recapping on sounds as we have covered all of set 2 and 3 sounds in the Read Write Inc program. The children are now having phonics lessons focusing mainly on the spellings of different sounds and looking closely at real and nonsense words in preparation for the Phonics Screening test in June.

Spellings: We will complete our spelling test on Monday due to the snow day on Friday.

The new spellings for this week are to be tested on Friday 9th March 2018.

Spellings 2.3.18

I hope you have a lovely weekend and enjoy the snow!

Miss Edwards

7 years ago
Posted on 02nd Mar 2018 by Admin

Class 4 weekly update

English – This week’s focus has been on play scripts. The children have been role playing a scene from the book, ‘The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe’, thinking of ways to develop their ideas. Then they looked at the main features of a play script and explored the layout conventions. They used an extract from the chapter and changed the text into a play script and used this as a basis to draft, edit and improve their own ideas.

Maths – They have been focusing on number this week – decimals and fractions. They have used a place value grid to make numbers with up to 2 and 3 decimal places and understanding the value of each digit. Then they have been looking at decimals as fractions, concentrating on more complex decimal numbers (0.96, 0.03, 0.27) and numbers greater than 1. Some children have had a go at recording the numbers in multiple representations, including expanded form and in words.

Science – The children completed an investigation about parachutes and tested a range of materials, size of materials and length of parachute string to find out which key features made the most effective parachute. They had lots of good ideas about gravity and air resistance to support their ideas and findings.

Computing – They have been looking at multimedia and have started exploring multimedia.

Art – They have been looking at structures of a range of buildings.

Everyone made a fantastic effort dressing up for World Book Day and it was wonderful to see all their outfits. Thank you for all your efforts with this. We spent some time looking at and talking about our favourite books which was lovely to hear.

I hope you all have a great weekend and stay safe in the snow!

Mrs Thomas & Mrs Lupton

7 years ago
Posted on 02nd Mar 2018 by Admin

Class 5 weekly update 02.03.18

English

This week we have revisited diary writing. Children have created some excellent diary entries in role as Lucky from our novel Phoenix. Children’s main focus was to infer to the reader the different emotions that Lucky was going through, by using carefully-chosen vocabulary and punctuation to enhance their writing. We will finish the diary entries on Monday, before starting a new unit on poetry.

Maths

At the start of the week children solved problems involving time, which included using bus/train timetables and converting between different units of times to answer word problems. We have now started a new unit on area and perimeter, involving rectilinear (compound) shapes. Next week we will focus on both area and perimeter, including using formulae to find the area of triangles.

Geography

In Geography this week, children were finding the capital cities of the North American countries. They recorded their information in a table and many extended their task by adding extra information such as population, the language spoken or famous landmarks. They will continue this next week before choosing one of the capital cities to research in further detail.

Art

On World Book Day, children designed their own front covers for our novel Phoenix. They produced some beautiful work which will be displayed alongside some of their English work.

We started a new unit on gymnastics this week and had a fantastic first session using the wall apparatus, the ropes and other floor equipment. The children’s perseverance and pride in their achievements was wonderful to observe and we are looking forward to seeing their skills and confidence increase over the coming weeks.

Homework

Because of the snow closure, homework will be given out on Monday and due in on Friday 9th.

Year 6 SATs Booster

In SATs Booster this week, we focused on grammar and explored the different types of noun: proper, common, abstract and collective, as well as looking at singular and plural. We also revised different word classes including determiners. Next week’s after-school booster session will be maths-based.

Hope you all have a good weekend.

Mrs Johnson and Mrs Foster

7 years ago
Posted on 02nd Mar 2018 by Admin

Class 5 spellings to be tested 02.03.18

This week’s spellings will now be tested on Monday 5th March.

Spelling to be tested on Friday 9th March Spellings 02.03.18

7 years ago
Posted on 02nd Mar 2018 by Admin

Class 3 Weekly Update

English: This week we have started to read the book ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’ which the children are really enjoying. We have got up to the part where George starts to make his medicine and sings a little chant as he does so. We have used this as inspiration for our own poems this week.. We have written a whole class poem and the children have had a go at writing their own including language features such as rhyming words, alliteration and onomatopoeia’s.

Maths: We have continued with our work on time this week.

The Year 2 children have continued learning how to read an analogue clock and have been learning about time intervals, thinking about how long different activities take and solving word problems where they have had to calculate how long an activity takes.

The Year 3 children have been learning about digital time and how to convert digital clocks to analogue clocks. They have also been applying their knowledge to help them solve problems involving calculating time intervals.

Science: We have moved onto a new unit of work on forces and magnets. The children have begun to plan an investigation which they will carry out next week.

Geography: This week we have been learning about counties and have been finding out about different counties in England.

D&T: We have started our D&T project by tasting and analysing different types of scones.

PE: This week the children had to use their previous learning from both PE and Science to design and make a variety of activities to work different muscles within the body.

Well done Class 3 for working so hard this week!

7 years ago
Posted on 02nd Mar 2018 by Admin

Class 3 Spellings – to be tested on Friday 9th March

02.03.18

7 years ago
Posted on 02nd Mar 2018 by Admin

Weekly News 02.03.18

Ms Carr’s New Arrival!

Congratulations to Eleanor and Matt on the safe arrival of Florence Ophelia, 7lb 9oz, born on 21st February.

Film Club – PG film showing

Next week, Tuesday 6th March, we will be showing the Disney film Moana (rated PG) at Film Club.

Gardening Day – Saturday 17th March

We are having our first gardening day of the year on Saturday 17th March starting at 10 o’clock. FOBs will be serving refreshments during the day and we thank the parents involved in advance for giving up their time to do this. There are lots of jobs that need doing in the wildlife garden and around the site and, if the weather is fair, we are also hoping to finish painting the fences at the front of the school. If you are able to come along and spare a few hours, we would love to see you.

Parent Meetings – Classes 2 to 5

The booking system will open next week for the spring term parent meetings which will take place on Wednesday 21st March between 9:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Letters out this week

Condover meeting date and kit list – Year 3 & 4

Change of opening time – Nursery parents

Arthog 2nd payment reminder – Year 5 & 6

Scholastic leaflet – whole school and Nursery

Many thanks

7 years ago
Posted on 02nd Mar 2018 by Admin

Spellings for 2.3.18

Spellings 2-3-18

As we are closed today the spellings for today will be tested on Monday.

Acorns

Willow

Birch

Hazel

Maple

Rowan

Oak

Admin

Class 2 World Book Day

School is OPEN Monday 5th March

Class 2 Weekly Update

Class 4 weekly update

Class 5 weekly update 02.03.18

Class 5 spellings to be tested 02.03.18

Class 3 Weekly Update

Class 3 Spellings – to be tested on Friday 9th March

Weekly News 02.03.18

Spellings for 2.3.18