9 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

9 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

9 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

9 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!

9 years ago
Posted on 02nd Mar 2018 by Admin

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

02.03.18

9 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

9 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.

9 years ago
Posted on 01st Mar 2018 by Admin

School and Nursery Closed Friday 2nd March

Due to the deteriorating weather conditions, and the forecast for this evening and tomorrow, we have made the decision to close School and Nursery now in order to give you sufficient time to make alternative childcare arrangements. Thank you.

9 years ago
Posted on 01st Mar 2018 by Admin

School Opening

Please keep an eye on the school website and Shropshire Council website on Friday morning to check if the school is open. We will make the decision as early as possible on Friday morning if we need to close.