Headteacher's Welcome

This week our focus story has been 'Pirates Love Underpants'. The children have loved the pirate themed activities and have shown great enthusiasm towards their learning. The children have been learning about sea creatures, sorting and matching, floating and sinking and matching numerals and amounts. They have also been counting gold coins and we were impressed with this! We finished the week with a Healthy Eating Week activity. The children cut up their own fruit and spooned on yummy yogurt to make their own healthy yogurt bowls. 

Next week we will be reading 'What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside'. 

English

This week in English we have started looking at the features of an informal letter and have looked at how to describe a setting based on our class text "Holes". Next week we will be planning an informal letter based on the events in this text. 

Maths

In Maths we have started a project "White Rose Tours" where we have looked at interpreting and creating graphs to show information and have revised how to convert between miles and kilometers. 

PSHE

This week has been healthy eating week. As our topic is MExico this half term, we have made our own salsa!

This week, Year 4 had a fantastic time on our school trip to Mountfitchet Castle. The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring the castle and learning about life in the past. We were incredibly proud of how well-behaved, respectful and enthusiastic they were throughout the day.

In Maths, we have been learning about position and direction. The children have practised reading and plotting coordinates and have used their skills to interpret information presented on line graphs.

In English, we have been planning and preparing to write our own narratives inspired by our class text, Secrets of a Sun King. The children have been developing ideas about a mysterious object discovered by their character. Alongside this, we have been focusing on using pronouns effectively to refer to characters and using inverted commas accurately to punctuate speech.

In Science, we became food scientists and made our own sherbet. We investigated how changing different ingredients affected the recipe and the final outcome, making observations about taste, texture and the reactions that took place.

This week was also Healthy Eating Week. As part of our learning, the children made a delicious garden salad and enjoyed tasting the different ingredients. It was wonderful to see so many children trying new foods and discussing the importance of making healthy choices.

Well done, Year 4, for another fantastic week of learning!

A reminder that next Friday is Sports Day! Children should wear their PE kit and a T-shirt in their house colour.

Please could you bring in any small cardboard boxes or clean plastic bottles that you no longer need for our upcoming DT lessons. These materials will be used as part of a project later this term.

Thank you for your support!

Well done year 3 for another amazing week at school!

In English this week, we worked really hard using our skills of choosing the correct determiner (a or an) and using simple past tense in our writing. We also finished our research and biography write about Boudicca! Next week we will be moving on to performance poetry!

In maths this week, we continued our topic of shape. We have been looking at parallel lines, perpendicular lines and the features of 2D and 3D shapes!

In science this week, we continued our work on curious critters. We went around the school playground investigating different microhabitats and what insects may be living in them! 

In history this week, we looked closely at Boudicca’s rebellion against the Roman Empire. This really helped us gain more facts to write in our Boudica biography’s.

This afternoon, as part of our Healthy Eating topic in PSHE, year 3 got the chance to chop up slices of watermelon and feta cheese! We all have a great time enjoying a healthy snack!

As always please continue to read 5 times a week and play on TTRS for 5 minutes a time, 5 times a week.

Please also see attached the spellings for this week!

Just a reminder that our PSHE topic this half term is 'relationships' and year 3 are focusing on touch. As we will be covering this topic, we will be looking at the scientific names for private body parts. If you have any questions please speak to Miss Bates. 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Well done for another great week everyone! 

This week we continued our learning of Marvellous Machines. We looked at vehicles from the past and present. It was very interesting to look at the differences between them. We looked at different machines in our homes and spoke about what they do and where they belong. We really enjoyed reading the story 'Car Car Truck Jeep'. 

In Maths this week, we explored and continued repeatting patterns. We focused on ABC patterns and created our own ABC patterns in the garden. 

This week we celebrated Healthy Eating Week by making our own Fruit Yoghurt Bowl. The pupils really enjoyed this and learnt about what foods are healthy and what foods are unhealthy. 

Some of you may have noticed we have had new sand delievered, the pupils have had an amazing time playing in the sandpit. Thank you so much to Sunbelt Rentals for donating it to us! 

Sports Day is next Friday please wear your house colour! If you are unsure what your child's house colour is then please check the classroom windows. 

Well done to Year 5 for another amazing week.

In English, we have continued exploring Myths and Legends. The children had the opportunity to edit a WABOOL, allowing them to put their editing skills to the test. They have also planned and written the first draft of their own Myth or Legend.

In Reading, we have continued with our class text, Treason. This week, we have been focusing on our retrieval and prediction skills, such as predicting what might happen next in a chapter. The children have shared some thoughtful and imaginative ideas.

In Maths, we have concluded our negative numbers topic. We focused on comparing and ordering negative numbers, as well as finding the difference between two numbers. The children performed well on the end-of-unit test. We finished the week by completing a pre-assessment for our new unit on converting units.

The children were very lucky this week and enjoyed a performance from "Miles the Mole" where they learnt all about Air Quality and Pollution.

We also finished the week by making and eating tzatziki with pittas to celebrate Healthy Eating Week.

Just a reminder that next week is Assessment Week for Year 5, and Sports Day will take place on Friday afternoon.

Please also remember that children should be reading at least five times a week and regularly practising on TTRS.

Year 1 have had a fantastic week!

Maths:

This week we have been focusing on describing position and ordinal numbers. Children have enjoyed learning through different ways. Next week we will begin our new topic on ‘time’ and counting from 50 to 100.

English:

We have read the story ‘Chapatti Moon’, where children have started using suffixes ‘er’ and ‘est’ in their writing. We will continue with this story next week.

Science:

In science, we have started our topic of ‘curious chemistry’ where children had a fun lesson doing experiments to watch reactions happening. We used skittles and milk to see how the colours disperse and mix. The children really enjoyed this lesson!

Healthy Eating Week:

This week is healthy eating week, where children in year 1 have made fruit skewers using different fruits. We have learnt what is healthy and not.

Phonics:

As we have had the phonics screening checks, children had been busy in the first part of the week doing maths and phonics provision, where there were different activities relating to our topic. Children had enjoyed this and learnt in different ways.

Well done to all the children, everyone has done very well in their phonics and we are so proud!

1S Assembly:

Next week Tuesday 16th June we have 1S assembly, please practise as much as we can at home and we hope to see you on the day! There is also shared learning for all year 1 parents who are welcome to join.

Have a good weekend everyone!

During English this week we focused on the word 'all'. The pupils took part in a daily activity where we cleaned 'all' the dirty animals using lots of bubbly water. They all did a great job of using sponges and cleaning the mud off the animals.

During phonics we used the playdough to model the sounds on the playdough mats. Since the beginning of the year, all the pupils have built up great finger strength and dexterity. There were pizzas being tossed and sausages being rolled too.

Sensory play has been very busy this week. We used chalk to mark make on the tables, finger painting flowers, painting on clingfilm and used handheld juicers with satsumas. 

Today was Healthy Eating day in school and the pupils got chance to touch, smell and taste lots of different fruits. We had pineapple, melon, blueberries, kiwi, apple and mango. Blueberries seemed to be the fruit of choice.

We also had chance to watch the tree surgeons in the reception garden cutting down the trees and using the chipper. This was very exciting and everyone enjoyed watching them, even though it was a little noisy. 

We are looking forward to some drier weather next week so we can get out in the garden more. Please send in a spare set of clothes (including socks) so we are prepared for lots of water play - thank you.