Headteacher's Welcome

Year 1 have had a fantastic week!

This week we have begun our new fractions lesson, recognising and finding halves. Children enjoyed find halves in shapes and objects.

We have been writing our own versions of ‘Handa’s surprise’ where we wrote and created our own book using illustration and focus on British animals and fruits.

In science, we are nearing to the end of our topic of ‘plants’ where we have continued to look at plants and different types of leaves.

Children had an exciting week where some attended the school disco and had a fun time; we also had a kind visitor who taught and allowed children to play with scooters!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Well done year 4 for completing another week!

In English, we have started our new topic ‘ informal letter writing’. We have looked at a WAGOLL and identified the key features. We have also identified and used informal language and using paragraphs in our writing. Next week, we will start planning and using these key skills.

In shared reading, we have learned how to recognise different word types within a text, finding evidence from the text to support our answers and writing down our impressions about a character from the text.

In Maths, we have been revising our time topic. We have gone over converting from a 12 hour clock to a 24 hour clock, writing the time and looking at time word problems.

In art, the children have created amazing mountain landscaped using water colours!

We also had our school disco this week, all the children looked amazing!

As always make sure your child is reading and going on TTRS 5x a week.

Enjoy your weekend!

A short but fun week in Reception. 

We started our week off with an extremely fun visit from ScootFit! We practised our scooter skills and got to dance and sing while doing it.

We have been consolidating our knoweldge of 3D shapes.The pupils have become very confident at recognising, naming and describing the properties of 3D shapes.  If you want to practise at home you can listen to this catchy song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNdJ5MtX1A. 

Our story of the week is Erroll's Garden. Erroll creates an amazing rooftop garden for all of his neighbours to enjoy. We spoke about what plants need to grow and labelled the different parts of a plant. We have been spending lots of time in our outdoor areas, working hard to create a beautiful garden of our own. 

We had brilliant fun at the disco on Tuesday - thank you to FOB for organising it! 

We hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Well done for a lovely short week at school, Year 3!

In maths this week, we started our new topic of Time, where we have been looking at Roman numerals to 12 as well as telling the time to the nearest five minutes. (Keep checking your clocks at home to see if you can tell everyone the time!)

In English, we completed our own newspaper reports about the volcano eruption in Pompeii. Next week, we will be moving on to writing a biography of Boudica.

In science, we learned about pollination and how plants are pollinated by insects.

Today in DT, we had a great time using clamps, saws and hot glue guns to create our very own mini greenhouses.

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

Have a wonderful weekend. See you all on Monday!

This week our focus story has been 'The Boy on the Bus'. The children have enjoyed singing along to the story, recognising numbers on pictures of buses, sequencing the story and counting the people on the bus. The children also had lots of fun role playing on the pretend bus. This week the children have continued to practise sound blending with Fred the frog in Phoncis. 

Have a lovely weekend! 

Well done for another great week, Year 5! A short week this week but full of exciting learning.

This week, in Maths, we continued with our topic of Position and Direction. This has included translating coordinates, looking at lines of symmetry and reflecting shapes in both horizontal and vertical lines. We concluded the week by completing our end of unit assessment. This children did well in this topic, with lots of them being confident with shape and reflection- well done!

In History, we focused on Anne Boleyn. We specifically looked at the crimes that she was accused of, including treason. The children have a real interest in our Tudor topic, with amny of them having bundles of prior knowledge, which has helped them to expand on their learning throughout this topic.

In English, we began our new writing journey; preparing to write an explanation text. This included looking at a WAGOLL, invesgating the key features of an explanation text, and recapping prefixes and suffixes. We are putting a big focus on our spelling during this term, particularly when changing verbs into adverbs using suffixes. 

Have a lovely weekend :) 

Maths

This week in Year 6 we have competed our unit of work on reflections and transformations. We have looked at how to reflect shapes in different mirror lines and have revised our knowledge of coordinates to solve problems. 

English

In English we have been revising our reading skills by looking at a range of comprehension questions using VIPERS. 

Science

In Science we continued our work on electricity and investigated how the number of batteries within a circuit effects the volume of a buzzer. 

We also had a great time with ScootFit on Tuesday afternoon and at the KS2 disco on Wednesday!

It has been a short week this week but we still filled our days with lots of learning and activities.

The core word/s of the week were, is/are. The pupils engaged with music that included these words and practised mark making using a variety of different tools such as paint sticks and pens.

In maths, we continued counting little men in a flying saucer and 10 green bottles. This is one of the most popular parts of our day and the pupils are learning to remove one little man at a time, aligned with the nursery rhyme! Fantastic work and great focus from everyone.

In phonics, our sounds have been nk, ay and ee. This has become quite a noisy part of our day with brilliant concentration and vocalising from several children. 

Sensory play has focused on scooping and mixing this week. We have used edible sand (cereal), sea (jelly) and ooblek. The pupils really enjoyed feeling the two different textures; the dry, grainy sand and the slimy, slippery jelly. It was a great opportunity to practise holding a spoon, using a mixing motion and a scooping action.

The garden has been popular again this week with the wind blowing in the leaves creating lots of sensory input. 

Have a restful weekend and we look forward to seeing you all next week.