6 years ago
Posted on 11th Feb 2019 by Mrs Neal

No After School Clubs – Friday 15th February

In view of the Valentine’s Disco this Friday the 15th February, there will be No After School Clubs.

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Feb 2019 by Admin

Class 2 Weekly Spellings 08/02/2019

Spellings-08.02.19

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Feb 2019 by Admin

Class 2 Weekly Update 08/02/2019

This week in English the children have been reading some lovely stories together in their RWI groups. Some groups have been reading about Pirates, some about bath times and others about play days. They have all read ever so well and are more readily recognising that answers to comprehension questions can sometimes be retrieved from a text. The children have been assessed on their phonics and some children have been moved on to different stages of the RWI scheme. We have also done an independent write linked directly to our Victorian school experience we had at Blists Hill. The children have also been doing some work based on our class story ‘Beegu.’ They have been using adjectives to describe both feelings and appearances of the characters during different stages of the story. The children’s repertoire of vocabulary is flourishing more and more by the day.
In Maths the children have been learning more about adding and subtracting. By using partitioning they have been working systematically through their calculations. They have also tried to fully understand the concept of bar models. More work has been done on related facts and comparing number sentences involving addition and subtraction too. The children have also been assessed on their learning in certain areas through practical activities.
In Science the children have been looking at different parts of common animals. The children then used their knowledge of specific body parts to create their own creatures from a given criteria.
In Topic the children have talked about and written about their trip experiences at Blists Hill. They have also learned about the different jobs the children of their age (and younger) used to do in Victorian times. Not only has it been extremely thought provoking for them, it has made them realise that they may need to do a little more around the house to help you at home.
In PE the children have continued with both outdoor hockey with Embrace and games with Mr Sudlow. Please make sure that your children have the appropriate PE kit including outdoor trainers for a Monday and Friday.
Spelling lists have gone home today. Please see attached for our spelling list if your child has been off ill.
A big congratulations to Kyler for getting star trophy award for the week. He has worked incredibly well in all areas of the curriculum and has set a wonderful example in class.
Have a lovely weekend together and I look forward to seeing you on Monday.

Mr Mavin

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Feb 2019 by Admin

Class 5 spellings for 14/2/19

Yellow and Orange group

Community

Criticise

Define

Desperate

Develop

Embarrass

Equip

Familiar

Green group

Accommodate

Accompany

According

Achieve

Aggressive

Amateur

Ancient

Apparent

Appreciate

Attached

6 years ago
Posted on 08th Feb 2019 by Admin

Class 5 update

Hi all, massive congratulations to everyone in class 5 for an amazing week! You’ve all worked really hard and have produced some fantastic work.

In English we have been focusing on letters. We started by having a brief recap around the features of this genre and discussed which features we may have to slightly adapt due to the setting of this piece of work. We identified that soldiers writing home during WW1 would be forbidden to reveal their exact whereabouts, or any other sensitive details about life in the military, as this could lead to a negative impact on the war effort if the information fell into enemy hands. After this the children picked the evidence they wanted to use out of the text so they could plan their letters. They wrote a first draft which resulted in amazing pieces of work and have since evaluated and started to edit their initial piece of writing, expanding on the work they have already produced. We’ll complete this on Monday before moving onto a diary entry for next weeks genre.

In Maths this week we rounded off our work on perimeter before moving onto looking at the area of rectangles. The children have worked incredibly hard on this and have shown a great amount of accuracy and efficiency in their work. Some of the problem solving tasks they have been working on required a large amount of investigative skills and they have risen to the challenge, producing some outstanding work that we will build on next week when we move onto looking at the area of compound and irregular shapes.

Just to note there will be a slight change of schedule next week due to our languages day visit at the Corbet school on Friday. Because of this we will be doing our weekly spelling test on Thursday 14th.

Have a fantastic weekend,

Mr Sudlow.

6 years ago
Posted on 01st Feb 2019 by Admin

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.