Year 3 have had another busy week! They had a lovely visitor in the form of Mrs Hayes to lead an in class assembly from Galatians on the Fruit of the Spirit. The children then updated or wrote a plan to lead their own in class assemblies each week and I look forward to assisting them as do so. For Safer Internet Day they created their own, named, Gaming Guide, instructing him or her as to what advice they should give gamers, and then designing an avatar for their gaming Guide. In Art and design they finished their water colour paintings in the style of pop art to great effect.
As you can see they have worked carefully and precisely to create colourful images of everyday items, not forgetting to include the iconic Ben Day dots.
We’re awash with Roman artefacts as Year 4 have learnt more about life for people in Roman Britain.
As well as an impressive array of weaponry, the children have created replicas of everyday items such a cutlery, earthenware and coins. We also have some beautiful mosaics along with brilliant recreations of a Roman hypocaust and baths.
Great learning, Year 4! (And a big thank you to mums and dads who helped with this challenge).
Safer Internet Day takes place every February. It’s a great opportunity to celebrate all the amazing things we all do online; and also to find a different way, each year, for everyone to safe online. This year the theme is being respectful and maintaining good relationships when playing games online.
As a show of hands in the morning’s “kick-off” assembly showed, nearly everyone in the school loves playing online games: there was palpable excitement as the children thought of it! And every device is used to play games on. All the more reason to make sure we can all enjoy a favourite hobby while keeping ourselves and everyone else safe!
We want gaming to be a fun, respectful way of spending some time, according to each family’s rules. What we do online should make our online friends post emojis like these
We discussed the questions “Should you behave as well towards your friends online as well as you do offline? Why?“, “If you’re online and no-one knows your identity, can you behave how you like?” and, perhaps the most difficult one, “If someone else makes the wrong choice and doesn’t show respect, what can -or should – you do in response?”
Following are some photos of children completing activities in their classrooms and a few photos of the sharing assembly at the end of the day. As well as developing understanding of online safety, the activities provided opportunities for collaborative learning and creative writing.
We hope you enjoy finding out about what the children have learnt about the essential topic of internet safety.
At the end of the day the children shared what they had learnt with the rest of the school.
Reception learnt the Smartie the penguin song which tells us, “Before you click, click, click, make sure you think, think, think – and tell someone.”
Year 1 learnt about what it’s OK to share online and what not to. You can share non-personal things, such as the colour of your socks, or your favourite fast food, but not your full name or where you go to school.
Year 2 wrote “spells for internet kindness”. They learnt that whenever we play online games, we need to be prepared to show respect even if other people make wrong choices.
Year 3 wrote “gaming guides”. Some advice about what you can do online is the same as what you can offline – for example, don’t give out personal information like your address to someone you’ve never spoken to before or met.
Year 4 played “roll a story”, where they acted out given scenarios – such as your friends have fallen out during an online game – and then found ways to resolve the problem.
Year 5 discussed good and bad decisions in online behaviour, including how hard it can be to make the right choices.
Year 6 also considered the different scenarios in “roll a story” and made posters informing people how to resolve situations, based on these predicaments.
All the activities provided the children with opportunities to discuss the issues, focusing on solutions and remembering that online games are a source of fun and communication for nearly everyone.
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Year 2 wrote some spells for a kinder internet.
We all stirred up the spells in our cauldrons and recorded them. Here are some of our spells. Can you think of any other ingredients we should add?
Year 2 spells for a kinder internetYear 6 presenting at the end of the day.Year 4 presenting at the end of the day.
We have had a fun filled day raising money for the NSPCC and also celebrating numbers. We learned more about the 5x table and also used stopwatches and counting to see how many actions we could do in a minute. This was a great way to see how we use numbers in science, PE and maths!
This week, we have also been taste testing lots of different foods as we explored the Eatwell Plate and considered what combinations of food would be healthy as well as tasty. We are looking forward to designing and making our own wraps next!
This Friday, bones and numbers featured highly. Year 3 practised their times tables by playing a “four in a row” dice game. They all looked great in their number-themed home clothes
We also played a quick game of “The product is…. what’s the equation?” You had to find at least two multiplication equations (excluding 1 x ….!) to make the answer. Products used included 24, 36 and 30. How many possibilities can you find at home?
We continued to learn about skeletons in science, this time the human skeleton. On seeing an image of a human skeleton on the whiteboard, a very astute member of the class asked, “Is that an adult or child skeleton? Because an adult has more bones than a child.” What a fantastic science question to ask! We learnt the Latin, or scientific versions of the names for different bones. Can you remember which one is called which name?
We also practised the mostly commonly mispelt words from the spelling assessment, so well done everyone for learning these as home.
As well as snowing, there were cakes at the end of the day. What a fantastic Friday!
This week in Year 1, we celebrated Number Day. As we have been looking at shapes in Maths this week, patterns fitted in nicely with our learning. We made lots of different patterns using things around the classroom, patterns which included both different shapes and colours.
In English, we have sadly finished our book ‘I want my hat back’ by Jon Klassen, writing some excellent stories with our own innovated versions. Next week, we will be starting our new book, ‘Billy and the Beast’ by Nadia Shireen.
Thank you for the children who have handed in their RE homework. If you haven’t already, please could it be handed in by next Friday (11th February).
The children in Year 4 joined classes across the UK for the NSPCC fundraising Number Day.
As well as dressing up for digits, we learnt about the huge impact that maths has on our lives and on our history.
We learnt about the work of Alan Turing and the code-breakers at Bletchley Park, whose mathematical skill brought an early end to the second World War and saved millions of lives.
We then became code-breakers ourselves to puzzle out the riddles and break the cipher.
The design of the Bank of England’s £50 note features the mathematician Alan Turing.
In our RE topic, we celebrated the bible and immersed ourselves in our favourite stories. We created some amazing posters that showed just how much we have been inspired by the bible. We reflected on how the stories told in the bible help us to make better choices.
As part of the topic, we had great fun learning about the baptism of Jesus. We created a story map to help us to tell the story and then acted out the story in teams. Can you work out who is taking on the role of storyteller, John the Baptist or Jesus?
Year 3 have been studying the Pied Piper of Hamelin by Michael Morpurgo and the rather drastic action he took when, having rid Hamelin of the rats, the Mayor and his councillors refused him the payment he was promised. Year 3 then acted as the councillors and debated if the Pied Piper should be paid. They then wrote their final answer as a correctly punctuated sentence, with their reasoning. For instance; ‘If we pay him, what’s to stop him bringing the rats back?’ or ‘If we pay him and the rats come back, then we can ask him to get rid of them again.’
Year 3 then wrote their own stories based on this version of the pied Piper of Hamelin, and they all show what great imaginations the class has…
