6 years ago
Posted on 11th Mar 2019 by Admin

Crates, pots, pans etc

For our outdoor area we are on the look out for –

Crates – milk, bread that the children can use to construct with outdoors

Metal pots and pans for our outdoor mud kitchen

plastic pipes

old steering wheels

smooth planks of wood

If you have any of the above that you could donate, children in Nursery and Class 1 would be very grateful.

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Mar 2019 by Admin

Class 2 Weekly Spellings 08/03/2019

Spellings-08.03.19

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Mar 2019 by Admin

Class 2 Weekly Update 08/03/2019

The children have had another exciting week in Class 2. They have really enjoyed the story work done in their RWI groups and have also been focusing on fun phonics activities too. This week has also brought World Book Day which celebrated all of the wonderful characters and story books which have influenced and captivated our children’s imaginations. This was a day of the utmost priority in the children’s calendars and we were so delighted to see all of the wonderful costumes which they came in to celebrate that day. Their day focussed on the inspirational author Julia Donaldson who is famous for titles such as ‘The Gruffalo’ , ‘Room on a Broom’ and ‘Stick Man.’ The children started the day by both role playing and talking about their favourite books they brought in to show the class. They then learned about the author and had a variety of her stories read to them with interlinked activities throughout the day. These included making forever reader bookmarks, illustrated story maps, Gruffalo Crumble (baking), clay figure making, making potions and then finally eating their crumble. Story telling is big in our class and it was so lovely to hear the experiences the children have outside of school involving literature.
In Maths the children initially explored counting objects in 2’s (pairs) which then led them to comparing totals and looking at odd and even numbers. They then looked at the patterns of counting in 2’s to 50 and what that looked like on number grids and 100 squares. They ended the week doing the same for counting in 5’s and looked at how this might be shown on their own number lines which they then made with Numicon.
In RE the children have looked at what makes an excellent leader and explored leaders within the religion of Judaism. The story of Moses was a catalyst for great discussion
In PE the children really enjoyed their session with Embrace involving ball and invasion games.
A big congratulations to Paige who won class Star Trophy Award. Paige has made great impression on everybody with her willingness to help others, set a great example and also complete her work on time.
It was so nice to see you all on Wednesday for parent consultations. Thank you so very much for your continued support and remember I am always there with an open door if you wish to chat about anything concerning your child in the future.
I hope that you have a lovely weekend together and see you on Monday.

Mr Mavin

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Mar 2019 by Admin

Class 5 Spellings to be tested on 15/3/19

Yellow and Orange

vicious

spacious

precious

ferocious

delicious

malicious

audacious

atrocious

Green

vicious

gracious

spacious

malicious

audacious

ferocious

atrocious

precious

suspicious

anxious

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Mar 2019 by Admin

Class 5 weekly update

Well done to everyone on a brilliant week!

In Maths the children have been looking at more formal methods of multiplication. They have persevered really well as they have shown a fantastic understanding of the different processes and methods that they can use when attempting a multiplicative calculation that uses bigger numbers (two digits by two digits and four digits by one digit). They have shown great flexibility in their thinking, calculation and presentation which is impressive as they continue to improve their efficiency and accuracy.

This week in English we have looked at how a character has changed over time in our class novel. We began by discussing the description we attached to the character several weeks ago as well as the techniques we used to achieve that before discussing what has happened to our character since. As we read the next few chapters of our novel, it became apparent that the character has had to grow up very fast since going off to war and we talked about the impact of the war on him. For our extended writing piece, the children have composed a second character description, focusing on the change in personality and appearance that has occurred as a result of the war.

Our reading the game session focused on comprehension skills this week and we used an article on the history on Shrewsbury Town Football Club as the theme for our work. The children showed fantastic comprehension skills throughout the session before heading outside to have a go at learning some new freestyle football skills. The level of effort and perseverance in the practical session was amazing and the children demonstrated some great pieces of football technique. We also had a special visitor during the classroom session as Lenny the Lion took some time out to come into school and look at the children’s work. Our next session with Coach Neil will be on Monday afternoon.

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Mar 2019 by Admin

Class 6 Update

English

This week the children wrote leaflets to persuade wounded soldiers that Florence House was the best convalescent home. They used ideas from research and leaflets they explored to generate their persuasive language.

Maths

This week we started work on algebra, looking at 1 step and 2 step problems and algebraic rules.

History

We began work on the Home Front during WW1 and the children have started to design their own posters to persuade women to help in the war effort.

World Book Day

We had a great world book day and enjoyed working on our English work in the morning and making posters to promote our favourite books in the afternoon. The costumes were amazing!

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Mar 2019 by Admin

Spellings to be tested on Friday 15th March

Out 08.03.19

(to be tested on 15.03.19)

Words containing ew

Out 08.03.19

(to be tested on 15.03.19)

Words containing wh

Out 08.03.19

(to be tested on 15.03.19)

Words ending with ance

Out 08.03.19

(to be tested on 15.03.19)

Words ending with ance

Y6 BLUE

Y6 YELLOW

Y6 GREEN

Y6 RED

few

grew

knew

chewing

blew

news

HFW

come

house

wheel

whale

wherever

whisper

whirlpool

whisker

HFW

Jumped

stopped

substance

assistance

brilliance

distance

ignorance

importance

insurance

fragrance

disappear

exactly

substance

assistance

brilliance

distance

ignorance

importance

significance

compliance

dominance

resistance

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Mar 2019 by Admin

Class 1 round up

Read Write Inc

This week the children have looked at the trigraph air – ‘That’s not fair’ and the digraph ir – ‘whirl and twirl’

air ir

Some children have started to read Green, Read Write inc books. These books reinforce the sounds and words that we have covered so far, the children also use them as a basis for their sentence writing. The children on Green books will bring home a copy of the book to share and practise reading at home. I will change the book on a weekly basis.

Some children have read short ditties also based on sounds and words they have covered so far, each ditty will be added into the plastic wallet that is in your child’s book bag, so they can share and practise it at home.

All children have completed word time activities, where they have to build up words using the sounds taught.

Reading and Writing

The children have written shopping lists and recipes to help Mr Wolf make his pancakes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kBV1sqq5DM

Lots of children have chosen to write their own stories in their busy books, it is so wonderful to see the children choosing write during child initiated time.

Maths

We started the week by watching – https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6lpx0s

This week the children have concentrated on finding number facts related to the number 9. They looked at how 8 add 1 more equals 0 and 8 is one less than 9. The children then explored the parts of 9 practically and used the sentence – 9 is the whole, 8 is a part and 1 is a part, 8 add 1 equals 9 etc.

The children found the addition and subtraction facts for 9 with the help of counting Caterpillar. Sometimes Counting Caterpillar makes mistakes by having the wrong amounts and the children in class 1 are very good at explaining what he needs to do and why his maths sentence is wrong.

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Mar 2019 by Admin

Class 3 weekly update

English – This week the children have been using their plans from last week to start writing a newspaper report based on the Great Fire of London. They have been including facts about what happened, an eye witness statement and using conjunctions and adverbs to improve their sentences.

In Read, Write, Inc blue group have been reading ‘Snow’ and writing about playing the snow. Red group have been reading ‘A mouse in the house’ and writing instructions for how to look after a mouse. Both groups have been remembering to include extra detail in their written work, including adjectives and conjunctions. The rest of the class have been using words with the ‘ar’ sound to write sentences, then writing a phoneme spotter story using as many ‘ar’ words they have looked at this week.

Maths – At the start of the week the children were problem solving by writing and drawing multiplication sentences to support their working out. They have also been using arrays to see the relationship between multiplication facts and the difference between them, e.g. 5 x 2 and 2 x 5. They have been solving further problems by using a group of objects (e.g. 8 counters) and finding as many arrays as possible they can make from these.

Science – This week we continued to look at where materials come from, if they are natural or man-made and finding out any other information. We found out about wool, paper and glass. The children were able to discuss previous knowledge about these materials aswell and we have had lots of interesting discussions about their uses.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 15th March

08.03.19

Class 3 had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day yesterday. Thank you so much for all your efforts with their costumes, they all looked great! We started the day off sharing our favourite books and writing a book review. Then the children were involved in a range of activities which they really enjoyed. They made wooden spoon puppets of their favourite book character, bookmarks, character masks and designed a new front cover for their favourite book. It was lovely hearing about their favourite books during the day.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Thomas & Miss Moran