Comic Relief cake sale

 

Class 2 Weekly Update 15/03/2019

Class 2 have done English work this week based on the interests they have brought into the classroom. It has synced brilliantly with our Science topic of Animals and Humans; literacy based work on SHARKS! They have experienced visual literacy from media and simple text sources in the first instance. Then they were reading and retrieving, recording ideas for labelling and describing sharks along with facts about them. In addition to this they have been demonstrating excellent reading and sentence building skills in their RWI groups.
In Maths we have been learning about length and height in our measurement unit. We started off making comparisons and describing lengths and heights using new mathematical language. After sorting ourselves into height order we described and compared three objects at a time using words including longer, longest, shorter and shortest. Towards the end of the week we applied our learning to a maths investigation using non-standard units of measurement. We used metre sticks and toilet paper. Their investigation was to see if we could roughly measure and compare the lengths of four of the world’s best known sharks. We compared their lengths and found out how many of the children one above the other made up the lengths of each of them. By the looks on the children’s faces this was mind blowing and they got the gist of how enormous these creatures are in comparison to them.
In history topic work Class 2 have learned about the awful jobs which children were subjected to during the Victorian era. They focused on chimney sweeps and what the child needed to do and why there was a need for such a role. The children then moved onto their own piece of artwork on a chimney sweep after completing an extended piece of writing about this renowned Victorian job. We finished the week making a start on our Victorian clay tiles using various taught techniques. They have started to look fab before they are painted.
The children did wonderfully well on their weekly spellings again this week. A new list has gone in their books. A big congratulations to Cerys too for getting Star of the Week Trophy for some tenacious work done in her Maths and English lessons and for showing good listening skills in class.
I hope you have a lovely weekend together and I will look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Mr Mavin

Class 5 spellings to be tested on 22/3/19

Yellow and Orange
caution

cautious

fiction

fictitious

infect

infectious

ambition

ambitious

 

Green
unambitious

fictitious

infectious

nutritious

overcautious

contentious

expeditious

facetious

repetitious

pretentious

 

Class 5 Weekly Update

Well done this week everyone, it’s been a week full of challenges but you’ve risen to it really well and have made fantastic progress.

In English we’ve focused on play scripts, using a short chapter where two characters were discussing their friendship and school as our theme. The children have used a range of punctuation effectively to convey emotive adjectives, verbs and adverbs in their stage directions, as well as presenting their work in an appropriate fashion and we’ll be setting some time aside next week to see some performances of the scripts that the children have been working on.

In Maths our focus has been on multiplication. We started the week by looking at the grid method which the children mastered really well. Since then we have moved onto looking at other methods of multiplication including the column method. Being fluid between the different processes is really important as questions can be presented in a multitude of ways and achieving this fluidity takes a lot of flexibility in the children’s thinking, but the progress they have made has been great and as we move into next week we’ll be continuing with our focus on improving our fluidity between different methods and presentation styles.

Coach Neil will be in at the start of next week for our ‘Reading the Game’ session so PE kits with trainers on Monday would be great.

Have a fantastic weekend,

Mr Sudlow.

class 6 update

English

This week the children have done some shared writing to describe settings, character and atmosphere and they have done some charcoal drawings of what they think Mill House from our novel study looks like.  Next week they will be working on writing descriptive settings of Mill House, creating lots of atmosphere.

Maths

The children have continued their work on algebra and also completed some more SATs practise tests.

History

The children completed their world war 1 propaganda posters.

Science

The children completed line graphs to show the results of their investigations.  For example, a graph to show lung capacity of pupils in their class.

spellings to be tested on Friday 22nd March

Out 15.03.19

(to be tested on 22.03.19)

 

Words containing ie

Out 15.03.19

(to be tested on 22.03.19)

 

Words containing au

Out 15.03.19

(to be tested on 22.03.19)

 

Words containing ence

 

Out 15.03.19

(to be tested on 22.03.19)

 

Words containing ence

Y6 BLUE Y6 YELLOW Y6 GREEN Y6 RED

 

chief

thief

brief

relief

piece

shield

 

HFW

will

old

 

audio

author

caution

automatic

launch

August

 

HFW

told

keep

silence

patience

decency

existence

innocence

sequence

experience

obedience

jagged

intimidating

innocence

frequency

confidence

obedience independence

coincidence

sequence

conference experience

confidence

Class 3 weekly update

English – At the start of the week the children were planning their own story.  They made notes on who the main character was, what they see / what they do in the story and how their story will end.  They had lots of interesting ideas for their stories and we are looking forward to reading them next week.

In Read, write, inc the green group have been reading ‘In the bath’ and writing about what they like and dislike about having a bath.  The yellow group have been reading ‘Jam tarts’ and writing their own shopping list.  The rest of the class have been working well independently improving their use of sentence starters in their writing.  They played a game in pairs to use a range of sentence openers, e.g. starting their sentences with a conjunction, noun, adjective, adverbs, feelings and similes.  Then they wrote a short story including a range of exciting sentence starters and interesting vocabulary.  They had lots of ideas first about their story and how they were going to link their ideas.

Maths – This week we have been focusing on multiplying numbers by 2, 5 and 10.  Many  of the children are now much more confident with these times tables from all their practise at home.  They have been using equipment such as counters to make groups of 2, 5 and 10 and solving problems by making different groups of these multiples and showing all their working out using drawings and number sentences.

Science – This week the children joined in with a discussion about how we can ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’.  They came up with lots of ideas about how we can do this to help our environment.  They also designed posters to explain to others how they can follow this principle.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 22nd March. 15.03.19

Please can children write at least 4 sentences in their spellings books each week using the spellings they have for that week.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas and Miss Moran

Weekly News 15.03.19

Comic Relief – Thank you!

Thank you for all the wonderful cakes and biscuits for our breaktime sale and for the donations for wearing non-uniform.  We will announce the amount rasied for the charity next week and upload some of the photos from the day.

Going Going Gone! Auction

Tickets will be on sale on Monday (£10 per adult) for our fundrasising auction on Friday 5th April. We really hope you will be able to join us!

Fairtrade Visit to the Co-op

Well done to the children who visited the Co-op last Friday, as part of their Fairtrade Fortnight activities. The children took part in a range of activities to help them learn more about Fairtrade, including a treasure hunt around the store and a tasting session. A big thank you must go to Laura for all the time and effort she put in, to make the visit so enjoyable and worthwhile for the children.

Gardening Day – Sunday 17th March

Just a reminder that we are having our first gardening and painting day of the year this Sunday from 10:00 onwards.  Refreshments will be served during the day and we hope you will be able to join us even if just for a couple of hours.

Condover meeting for parents

A parents’ meeting for children in Year 3 and 4 attending the Condover residential visit will be held on Tuesday 26th March at 2:30 pm.  A letter with more details, together with the kit list, will be sent out on Monday.

Dodgeball

Well done to the Year 5/6 children who played in the dodgeball tournament on Tuesday evening at The Corbet.  They came second overall and they should all feel very proud of their determination and teamwork.

Dinner money

Please could all outstanding dinner monies be paid as soon as possible as it is the  financial year end on Friday 29th March. Thank you in advance for your support with this.

Letters out this week

Class 2 and 3 parents’ lunch – week commencing 25th March

 

Hope you have a nice weekend.

 

Class 1 round up

Read Write inc

This week the children have looked at the digraph – ‘ou’, Shout it out.

ou

They have continued to do word time activities looked to all the sounds covered so far. Some children have written sentences based on short Dittys that they have read as a group and some children have done sentence writing based on the Green Book story ‘The Spell’.

Literacy

As a class we are reading ‘Room on a Broom’, the children have enjoyed joining in with the story and spotting the rhyming words.  The home corner has been turned into a potion making area.  We will continue with this story next week and the children will focus on character descriptions and writing potion recipes.

Maths

This week the children have looked at ’10’.  At the beginning of the week the children explored how 9 add 1 is 10.  10 ones are the same as one 10 / one 10 is the same as 10 ones.

We linked 10 to our class story and decided that the witch needed 10 ingredients to make a new broom.  The children explored how many more ingredients the witch needed in her cauldron to make 10 –

‘she needs 5 more because 5 add 5 equals 10’ – Benji

‘we can also say double 5 makes 10’ – Theo

‘I know she needs need 4 more because 10 takeaway 6 leaves 4’ – Lorcan

‘She needs one more ingredient because she only has 9, 9 add 1 ,more equals 10’ – Holly

 

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