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This week, we worked hard in our maths lessons to convert between tenths and decimals using number lines and scales. During our English sessions, we revised writing different types of complex sentences. We also continued with our collage artwork in the style of Maria Rivans.
We would like to introduce you to our Mindfulness Monitors.
These are children who will look after our new mindfulness toolkits in the classroom, and promote wellbeing in their classes.
The toolkit contains fidgets, cuddly toys and calm colouring to support children who may feel anxious, upset, worried or nervous during the school day.
This week we all went out and met Derek the lollipop man. He helped us learn how to cross the road safety. We talked about finding a safe place to cross and how we needed to hold an adults hand.
We have practised on the playground, written instructions and made our own lollipop signs.
Hopefully, we are now all experts!!
This week has been all about the very tasty Choc dip banana!
We know all about bananas and chocolate and where they are grown and how chocolate is made.
We decided to combine them both to make a tasty treat!
We had to peel and chop the bananas, melt the chocolate and then the best bit....dip and taste! Yummy.
We even wrote about this so we can remember all about it.
This week, as part of their 'Forces' topic, the Year 5 children investigated the effects of water resistance. After discussing their own knowledge and experiences of water resistance, they then went on to test the effect of water resistance on objects of different shapes. Using Plasticine moulded into different shapes, the children observed which shapes travelled more quickly through water, and they discussed why certain shapes took longer to sink. Perhaps they can tell you about this at home!
Year 6 have taken on a new responsibility this week in becoming learning mentors to a child in Year 3. This week, the children met with their learning buddy in Year 3 and listened to them read. It was lovely to see how mature and supportive the children were, and they all thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The Year sixes will continue to meet with their learning buddy on a regular basis to provide support and share activities with.
Year 1 have been learning about measurement in Maths. We have been using pasta and cubes to measure different classroom objects. We used length vocabulary to compare objects eg. long, longer, longest.
Next week we are going to measure with rulers.
The children in Year 5 produced some wonderful work as part of their World Book Day activities last week. This work is now part of some fabulous displays outside and inside the Year 5 classrooms. Their ideas for time machines were fantastically creative, and their visions for the future were incredibly insightful and imaginative. I wonder which of their ideas will come true! Will we ever be able to travel through time?
This week the Year 4 children have worked tremendously hard in every subject!
In English, they wrote some amazing instructions for creating some SPECTACULAR fireworks which included adding in some spectacular ingredients and using some bossy verbs – Imperative verbs.
In Maths, they have worked spectacularly to calculate fractions for a number using their D.A.D.’s help – (Draw A Diagram).
The whole school were very proud to see Year 4 being the first year group to perform in our singing assembly. They really were SPECTACULAR!
Finally, we are so very, very proud of the spectacular effort that the children made today. Their non- uniform donations collected a whopping amount of money. THANK YOU to all the parents and to the children; many of whom raided their own money-boxes. in order to donate. SPECTACULAR!
Year 3 have been working hard on their written methods of multiplication and division in maths, and using them to solve word problems and reasoning problems.
Well done to all the children for their perseverance. 👍😇
At home, why not get them to show you what they can do? If a toy box holds 37 toys, how many toys will fit in 8 boxes? If 84 children sit equally on 4 coaches, how many are on each coach?