Class 6 update

This week the children have been doing assessments so have not had any maths lessons this week.

English

The children received letters from WW1 soldiers which they imagined were from a member of their own families.  They then worked on writing a letter back to the soldier in the trenches.

History

We explored the technology of WW1.  The children chose a weapon to research in more detail and produced a Top Trump card to show key facts about the weapon.

Science

The children learnt about the different structures that are in our lungs and how oxygen is taken through our body.

Class 3 weekly update

English – This week in read, write, inc the green group have been reading the story ‘Red Ken’ and the yellow group have been reading ‘Look out!’  The rest of the class have been working independently to add the suffixes ‘er’ and ‘est’ to an adjective, e.g. short – shorter – shortest and using these in their own sentences to show comparisons.

Maths – In maths the children have been using their previous knowledge and understanding of addition and subtraction to apply this to solving two-step money problems.  They have all worked really hard to decide which operation to use in each problem, discuss their reasoning and show all their working out clearly.

The children have also carried out assessments in reading and mathematics this week and they have all worked really hard to demonstrate their understanding in these areas.  Well done!

Science – This week the children worked in groups to look at a range of properties of materials, e.g. rough, brittle, flexible and discussed what each one meant.  Some were trickier than others and we discussed these as a whole class.  They then found some examples of each type of property, e.g. a waterproof jacket, a transparent window.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 15th February

08.02.19

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Thomas and Miss Moran

Chinese New Year in Class 1

Weekly News 01.02.19

Safer School update

We had a very successful Safer School group meeting on Monday afternoon. Ian Bartlett, sent the following report after the meeting:

The involvement of Bicton CE Primary School in the ‘Safer Schools’ initiative is excellent. Mrs Johnson recently held a ‘Safer School Group’ meeting with staff/governor, pupils and myself representing Shropshire Council. The Police normally attend but were unavailable and sent their apologises. A thorough meeting, covering all aspects of the security/safety process. This included a pro-active approach to security/safety, reflecting on any school issues and planning for the future. Part of the Safer School process includes consultation with parents/carers/pupils and during the meeting, we reviewed the parent/carer and pupils surveys. Reassuringly, the survey results were excellent and included some good observations. The meeting was really positive, with an excellent contribution by the pupils. Overall, an excellent example of ‘Safer School’ involvement – well done to Mrs Johnson, governors, staff and pupils. A future meeting will be held in the Spring term 2020.

 Ian Bartlett

Crime Prevention Officer

Shropshire Council

The responses to the survey will be published next week and the School Council are now working with Mrs Johnson on a number of initiatives in response to the comments made by parents and pupils.

Allergies/dietary requirements

Thank you for the forms received so far. If you have not yet returned it, please can you do so at the start of next week so that we can make sure our records are uptodate. Thank you.

Mobile phone use

Just a reminder that mobile phones must not be used by any adults on the playground at the start or end of the day. This is part of our safeguarding procedures and we thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Have a good weekend.

Mrs Johnson

Class 6 update

English

This week the children learnt about how first aid was administered in the trenches in WW1.  The children have then worked on writing instructions for a medic to follow when treating a shrapnel wound.

Maths

The children have learnt how to convert fractions to decimals using visual representations or division.

History

Following our trenches role play last week, this week the children have written diary entries as if they are a soldier in the trenches during WW1.

 

Spellings to be tested 08.02.19

Out 01.02.19

(to be tested on 08.02.19)

 

Words containing oi

Out 01.02.19

(to be tested on 08.02.19)

 

Words containing ie

Out 01.02.19

(to be tested on 08.02.19)

 

Words ending with tious

 

Out 01.02.19

(to be tested on 08.02.19)

 

Words ending with tious

Y6 BLUE Y6 YELLOW Y6 GREEN Y6 RED

 

spoil

choice

poison

join

voice

point

 

HFW

with

your

 

believe

ceiling

quiet

achieve

weigh

eight

 

HFW

much

place

cautious

ambitious

fictitious

nutritious

facetious

repetitious

infectious

contentious

wounded

attention

 

unambitious

fictitious infectious nutritious

overcautious

contentious

expeditious

facetious

repetitious

pretentious

Class 5 Weekly Update

Well done to class 5 for working so well this week.

Our English focus has been on character description. We began by recapping the key features of the genre before planning the extended writing pieces using evidence from the text to support the description of the character. The children have worked incredibly hard on this and they have shown a deep understanding of the genre which has resulted in fantastic quality within their final draft.

In Maths we have been working on perimeter and how to calculate unknown dimensions as well as converting between units of measurement to help solve problems. Some of the reasoning problems we have been working on have required a lot of perseverance through trial and error, which the children have really risen to and their understanding over the course of the week has grown impressively, this is down to their hard work so well done.

Have a fantastic weekend,

Mr Sudlow.

 

Class 5 Spellings for 8/2/19

Yellow
Shoulder

Ancient

Apparent

Attached

Average

Bargain

Bruise

Cemetery

Green
Secretary

Signature

Sincerely

Sufficient

Temperature

Thorough

Twelfth

Vegetable

Vehicle

Yacht

Orange
Shoulder

Ancient

Apparent

Attached

Average

Bargain

Bruise

Cemetery

 

Class 3 weekly update

English – At the start of the week the children did some fantastic diary writing linked to the Great Fire of London.  They wrote about Samuel Pepy’s thoughts and feelings and what he might have seen.

In Read, write, inc the blue group read ‘The greedy green gremlin’ and the red group read ‘The foolish witch’.  The rest of the class worked independently using the suffix ‘ly’ to turn adjectives into adverbs.  They changed words and used these in their own sentences, remembering to use interesting vocabulary and conjunctions to extend their ideas.

Maths – This week the children have been finding totals of amounts of money and using these in problem solving and reasoning style questions.  They have been thinking carefully about explaining our answers and finding the most efficient method to solve each problem.  The children have also been using their knowledge of using multiples of 2, 5 and 10 to help find the answer.  At the end of the week they were finding the difference between two amounts of money.  They used equipment such as a number line to help them count on or back depending on the numbers used.

Science – The children have been testing properties of materials this week.  They used a range of objects made from materials such as plastic, wood, rubber and fabric to test for a number of proprieties including if they could bend, twist, squash, stretch, scratch or rip them .  They had lots of fun testing these!

Spellings- To be tested on Friday 8th February

01.02.19

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Thomas and Miss Moran

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