8 years ago
Posted on 15th Sep 2017 by Admin

Class 3 Weekly Update

English: This week we have been learning about how to add detail and description in our sentences. The Year 2’s have been learning about expanded noun phrases. They have been thinking of some exciting adjectives and have been learning how to use more than on in a sentence and how to separate them with commas. They Year 3’s have been focusing on adverbs this week. They have spent some time learning how to spot them in a sentence as well as having a go at writing their own sentences containing adverbs.

Maths: We have continued working on place value this week. The children have been learning how to identify the value of each digit within a number – Year 2’s have been working with 2 digit numbers and the Year 3’s have been working with 3 digit numbers. We have been looking at how numbers can be represented in lots of different ways through using equipment and through partitioning a number – e.g. 58 is 50 + 8.

Science: The children were introduced to our topic of ‘Everyday Materials’ this week. We spent some time looking at and identifying materials we already know. We were thinking of the ways these materials are used and why they may have been chosen for that specific purpose.

History: We went on a mini expedition around the school grounds to try to understand what it is like to be an explorer! We had to use a map to help us locate the different locations. We then found out about different explorers throughout history and some of the places where they went on expeditions.

RE: We had our first lesson on Islam this week. The children have watched a video of a Muslim child explaining what it’s like to be a Muslim and what her life is like. We then talked about all the questions we would like to find the answers to relating to Islam.

Music: The children began their ocarina lessons this week.

Computing: We spent some time working on Microsoft Word, learning how to change the style, colour and size of our font.

PE: The children have continued their dance and games lessons this week.

Please see other posts above regarding homework and a walk around Bicton Village next week as part of our science work.

8 years ago
Posted on 15th Sep 2017 by Admin

Class 3 Spellings – to be tested on Friday 22nd September

15.9.17

8 years ago
Posted on 14th Sep 2017 by Admin

Year 5 Forest School

Yesterday morning was a lovely first session at Forest School for year 5 children. Mrs Law and I were so impressed with how creative the children were with making dens, bug hotels and hedgehog homes. Here are some photos of our morning…

8 years ago
Posted on 14th Sep 2017 by Admin

Music

8 years ago
Posted on 13th Sep 2017 by Admin

Read Write Inc, day 2

Today the children looked at the phoneme ‘a’. To say the sound we opened our mouths wide and said a – a – a.

To write ‘a’ we say ‘around the apple and down the leaf.’

http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/parents/

8 years ago
Posted on 12th Sep 2017 by Admin

Times tables

Here’s a fun game to help your child learn their times tables.

Hit the Button

8 years ago
Posted on 12th Sep 2017 by Admin

A great start to the week!

Hello!

Class 4 have been busy so far this week. On Monday, as part of our Novel Study, we explored information on what is required to make a suitable home for a pig (Wilbur in Charlotte’s Web). The children were asked to design a suitable home and annotate their drawings using descriptive vocabulary. There were some lovely designs!

Year 5 had a great session of Brass on Monday morning. They all enjoyed it and came back from the session full of smiles. Year 4 children began to explore a musical programme called ‘Ten Pieces’ which has been developed by the BBC. It aims to introduce the younger generation to classical music. We listened to a composition called ‘No Place Like’ which was composed by Kerry Andrews. More information can be found via this link BBC Ten Pieces

The children all tried hard in a mental arithmetic test on Monday – we worked through the answers, methods and calculations together. On Monday afternoon, the children had chance to practise their programming skills using the App ‘Scratch Junior’.

We all revised our numbers 0-20 in French. We listened to a funny song which helped us to learn numbers beyond 30 too. The children then played a couple of games on our school language programme called ‘Language Nut’.

During Class Worship, we explored a passage from Hebrews 12:1-2 which helped us to understand that life can be compared to a race. We must persevere (our Worship focus for this half term) and focus on our goals.

In English today, we used the laptops to research how to care for a pig in preparation for compiling an information leaflet. We had to think about the use of sub-headings to organise our research.

We revised the use of landmarked and unmarked number lines to place numbers up to 10,000 in order from smallest to biggest.

In PE we explored the use of movement such as stretching high, bending down, marching, side stepping and much more to put together a sequence of movements in small groups. This was done to music in the hall.

We started to look at Stone Age artwork this afternoon. We had a look through topic books to find out any information we could on the different methods and types of artwork carried out by people during the Stone Age – more to follow next Tuesday!

Well done Class 4 – you have worked really hard.

Mrs Conde

8 years ago
Posted on 11th Sep 2017 by Admin

PE

8 years ago
Posted on 11th Sep 2017 by Admin

Read Write Inc – phonics

Today the children in Class 1 began the Read Write Inc phonics program. We started with the letter ‘m’.

The children practised say mmmm (pressing lips together hard). To help remember the sound and practise writing it we say ‘Maisie, mountain, mountain.’

More information about Read Write Inc can be accessed here : http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/parents/

8 years ago
Posted on 09th Sep 2017 by Admin

Class 2 Weekly Update

We have had a brilliant first week back in Class 2 and the children have settled into the class routine very well!

English: The children’s English lessons this year are taught through Read Write Inc. The children begin each lesson with a speed sound (this week the sounds are m, a, ay and ee). We then get into our groups and spend time reading a book with our partner, the children are then given time to discuss the story before moving onto sentence work. We have been focussing on the correct formation of our letters, using finger spaces, capital letters and full stops.

Maths: In maths this week we have been counting to 10 and 20 and learning how to create these numbers in a range of different ways, using play dough, cubes, bears, etc. The children have also been matching up numerals to amounts and writing numbers as words.

History: Our new topic ‘Toys – Past and Present’ has been a great success with the children enjoying telling each other all about their favourite toys! They have painted their favourite toys for a display outside Class 2 (in the role play area) and spent time Friday afternoon writing descriptive sentences. Just a reminder that the children have been asked to find out what an older person at home used to play with when they were a child, ready for our next lesson on Thursday.

Science: In Science we discussed the four different seasons and what sort of weather to expect. They then had an activity where they had to decide what clothes their character would wear in each season.

Spellings: The children have been given a yellow Spelling book to keep in their book bags. We will have a weekly spelling test on Friday mornings relating to the sounds they have been focussing on in phonics that week. We had a practise of our new spellings on Friday morning in preparation. Please could you continue to support your child at home with learning their new spellings on the sheet they have been provided with. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate in coming to see me before or after school.

Spellings 8.9.17

Have a great weekend!

Miss Edwards