Ten years ago, a number of trees were planted around the school grounds by children who are now at least sixteen and these trees are growing really strongly and are much taller than anyone at school! To continue this legacy, an avenue of trees has been planted at the top of the junior playground. They may look small now, but in ten years time, imagine how tall they will have grown!
Year 2 are sculptors
Children’s Mental Health Week in Year 3
This week has been bustling with activities centered around children’s mental health and Safer Internet Day. To kick off our week, we delved into the theme ‘My voice matters’ in class, exploring ways to use our voice to share what matters to us. We took part in a dance and yoga session to help us focus on our physical well being.
For Safer Internet Day, we immersed ourselves in various activities aimed at enhancing our online safety awareness.
On the move with Year 6
This has been another busy and exciting week as we have looked for ways to care for our well being, including keeping ourselves safe online. We have learnt about the positive and negative affects of influencers, enjoyed a taster of street dance and found a moment of calm through yoga. As we have gone along, we have taken time to reflect on the golden moments in our day too.
As we have thought about ourselves, we have also thought of our place in the global family and learnt about the pushes and pulls of migration. Our posters bring together our personal views, together with what we have learnt about the benefits and disadvantages to source and host countries from migration and our persuasive writing skills.
Feeling good on and off line
.. has been the theme of this week. Some of what we have done is in the bulletin. On Thursday, the children also thought of an achievement they are proud of and shared this with their table. Also key to good mental health is a healthy outdoor environment and the Eco Councillors and other children planted some saplings on the field which will hopefully grow to provide shade and a home for birds and other animals.
The children are really enjoying “The Firework Maker’s Daughter” which is a beautifully written story of bravery and adventure, laced with plenty of humour.
Reading rich, varied and creative literature is a key aspect of good learning and the children are also loving exploring nonsense poetry, specifically “The Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll.
They have been learning about data – what it is, the pitfalls of collecting what seems to be straightforward data, and how well-suited computers are to gathering and processing it. They used data loggers, which are borrowed from a local computer hub.
Here is the display of the children’s writing about the (imitation) Roman artefacts we have here and their excellent accompanying sketches the children took great care in drawing.
The children used data loggers for the first time today. They recorded the levels of light and noise and the temperature in different parts of the classroom. Some children went to great lengths to ensure different readings!
Wishing you a relaxing, happy weekend.
Nursery – 09.02.2024
This week we took part in some of the well being activities including Dance with Miss Parkes and Yoga with Miss Cartwright.
In maths this week we carried on looking at and exploring the number 4. We helped Pete the cat get some new buttons for his coat, put 4 objects on a 5’s frame and made squares and rectangles using sticks.
In phonics this week we thought about the sound ‘c’, can you find anything in your house beginning with ‘c’? Upload what you have found onto Tapestry.
Other pictures this week:
RE
It would be lovely if children could share family pictures with us as we are thinking about all the wonderful things families do together. These can be either given in or uploaded onto tapestry.
Important Dates
Half term – Monday 19th – Friday 23rd February.
Parent Consultations – Tuesday 27th and Thursday 29th February. Booking via arbor.
World Book Day – Thursday 7th March – Come to school dressed up as your favourite book character.
There will be no reading morning on Friday 8th March as we we will be going to the Mothers Day Assembly – parents welcome.
Friday 22nd March – PTA Break the rules day
Friday 22nd March – EYFS Cake sale after school
School finishes at 1:30PM on Thursday 28th March.
Summer term begins on Monday 15th April.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Taylor
Number day in Year 3
We marked Number Day with a series of engaging activities, including number investigations, times table games, and challenging number games that tested addition and subtraction skills.
NSPCC Number Day in Year 6
We are enjoying learning algebra at the moment, but the children were insistent that there are more dynamic things to share as part of NSPCC Number Day.
Ironically, in support of the NSPCC, we have been squashing children by making human pyramids: Our maths challenge is to calculate how much mass each person in the pyramid is supporting? Can this amount be expressed as an equation?
Nursery – 02.02.24
Over the last couple of weeks in RE we have learnt that there was a man named Simeon who lived a very long time ago in Jerusalem. He was a righteous man and he was told that he would see the Messiah. Mary and Joseph came to the Temple with Jesus, Simeon took Jesus into his arms and said a very special prayer.
We acted this out in class
In maths this week we continued to look at number 3. Mr Wolf could only eat 3 things so we found things in the classroom we thought he would like.
On Friday we took part in the NSPCC Number day.
We did a number 3 hunt out in the playground, made triangles using lolly sticks and had some number and shape activities at the writing table.
RE
In RE over the next couple of weeks we will be thinking about our families and all the wonderful things families do together. It would be lovely if the children could bring in a photo of their family doing something together e.g. family wedding, birthday, days out. Photos can be given in to share or uploaded onto tapestry.
Important Dates
Half Term – Monday 19th – Friday 23rd February.
Parent Consultation – Tuesday 27th and Thursday 29th February.
World Book Day – Thursday 7th March – Come to school dressed up as your favourite book character.
There will be no reading morning on Friday 8th March as we will be going to the Mothers Day Assembly – parents welcome.
Friday 22nd March – PTA Break the rules day
Friday 22nd March – EYFS Cake Sale after school
School finishes at 1:30PM on Thursday 28th March 2024.
Summer term begins on Monday 15th April 2024.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Taylor
Year 2 read the bible
Our RE topic over the last four weeks has been all about Books. We have enjoyed reading stories from the bible in both the Old and New Testaments and created beautiful posters about our favourite bible story. Take a look at the slide presentation to see just how proud we are of our posters.
We also enjoyed learning about the baptism of Jesus and acted out the story, once we had created a storymap. After all of this Talk for Learning, we then retold the story of Jesus’s baptism in our own words. We have really enjoyed this topic because we love reading books!
