As part of our geography topic on Brazil, children will be designing and making their own masks/headpieces following the theme of carnival. In lesson time, we have explored the key themes of a Brazilian carnival and children have had the opportunity to analyse example masks/headpieces and their use of vibrant colours. On Tuesday, they were informed that over the course of the week, they need to bring in materials to make their masks/headpieces. Materials could include, feathers, gems, coloured card or cardboard. They will be making their masks during lesson time on Monday, therefore children need to bring in their resources for Monday 18th September.
Year 5 Parents Information Meeting Powerpoint
Dear Parents,
It was lovely to see so many of you at the meeting on Tuesday. However, for those who were unable to attend, I have attached a copy of the powerpoint presentation that was used at the meeting which gives an outline of the key information . Of course, should you seek further clarification on any aspect, please feel free to contact me via the school office.
Thank you for your support,
Mr Creaton
Year 5 Parents’ Meeting 12-09-2017
The Parents’ Meeting for Year 5 is scheduled for 9 O’Clock on Tuesday 12th September.
I look forward to seeing you to give you an outline of the curriculum and the expectations for Year 5.
Mr Creaton
Year 6 are ready and raring to go
Meet the new year 6 class. We are excited and ready for the year ahead.
Year One Welcome Meeting 11.09.17
The Year One children are settling into their new classroom very well and have responded enthusiastically to the learning. This week, we have focussed on counting and measuring accurately, creating patterns and writing independently.
The Year One meeting with parents is scheduled for this Monday morning at 9am – I look forward to meeting with you all in the Year One classroom.
Welcome to Year 2!
It’s been a great start to year 2 and all the children have settled in really well, especially our new boy Joseph. Here are a few of the activities we have been doing this week. We look forward to seeing you next Wednesday at the parents meeting.
Year 2: homework
Homework for this week is to read the books that have been sent home. Please aim to return them sometime during next week. We will explain how the reading book system works in year 2 at next week’s parents meeting. Remember to sign the reading records!
Y4 Learning@Home
Week ending: 8th September 2017
It’s great to see all of year 4 back at school and full of enthusiasm.
Our learning this year is built on the solid foundation of what has gone before. For maths, it is particularly important that children can count in multiples and recall and use multiplication and division facts.
Children at the start of year 4 should be able to count in steps of 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 50 and 100. They should also be able to recall and use multiplication and division facts for the following multiplication tables : 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10.
Please support your child to check that they have secured these.
Through year 3 and 4, children work to secure the spellings of the statutory word list. There is a copy of this list in the back of their spelling journal. I have asked the children to choose 5 or 6 spellings to learn during the week ahead. We have also revised different spelling strategies. This week we have concentrated on Trace – Copy – Write strategy.
It is important that the spelling journal comes back to school each day as this is a tool that supports all of our learning.
The final piece of homework focused on punctuating direct speech. Please complete this homework in your English homework book. Take care to get the punctuation right.
Our PE day is Monday. Please make sure that you have a labelled PE kit in school for our lesson.
Our swimming lessons start on Tuesday.
Mrs Goldsmith will be starting guitar and recorder lessons next week. The children will need to bring their instruments to school on the following days:
| Guitars A Monday |
Guitars B
Wednesday |
Recorders
Wednesday |
Guitars C
Thursday |
| Hana
Roisin Christian Oliver Noah Celeste Amelia Jack M |
Owen
Ciaran Katy Adam Melanie Adam |
Camille
Niamh Sofia Jacob
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Holly
Archie Sean Lois Toby Amadeus
|
I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Y6 Mr Bedford’s and Mrs May’s English homework
English homework 8th September 2017. Due 13th September.
We have revised word classes and some grammatical terms this week. For your homework I would like you to create and complete a table like the one below.
|
Word class/ grammatical term |
Explanation |
An example sentence |
| Noun | ||
| Verb | ||
| Adverb | ||
| Adjective | ||
| Preposition | ||
| Conjunction | ||
| Fronted adverbial | ||
| Subordination |
I have included a link to our Year 6 Grammar Glossary. You should look through this and see how many of the terms, which are marked as Year 1 -5, you understand. Come to class on Wednesday with questions for us to use as a base for revising.
Yr 6 Maths Homework Mr Bedford’s and Mrs May’s Groups
Maths homework 8th September 2017. Due 13th September.
This week you have completed some tasks from Youcubed Week of Inspirational maths https://www.youcubed.org/week-inspirational-math/.
We began by looking at unusual ways we could shade half a square. Here are some examples. Remember half the area is shaded and the red and white parts occupy an equal area. Halves can be do not need to be symmetrical.
In your homework books create a series of squares. Make them large enough to shade; say 10 x10. Then design your own representations of unusual halves. Write a brief explanation underneath to convince me that the shaded area is one half. Try three or four designs. Remember it is more challenging to do the unusual rather than the simple representation of a half.
For an extension you might like to get some other coloured pencils and show quarters.
As Youcubed give all their resources free they would like us to feed back on the week. Take the survey at:
https://gse.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9KSp0GzUNARQ9sV
For those of you who enjoyed the straight line cut investigation here is a link to more fold and cut ideas.
http://erikdemaine.org/foldcut/
I would love to see some of your efforts.