Category: Our Classes

This week, the children have started exploring the school gardens to see what plants they can find. They carefully drew and labelled the main parts of a plant and then collected seed pods to see what seeds they could find inside. We found sunflower, honesty and ash seeds and were surprised to discover that the local squirrels had collected many of the sunflower heads over the summer holiday. At least this is one way to look after God’s creatures!

Why not go for a walk over the next few weeks and see what seeds you could find? Maybe you could seek out some acorn, horse chestnut (conkers) or sycamore seeds. Enjoy yourselves!

This week the children have written their own “Guide To Living on Earth”, including draw a front cover; and these will be displayed in the classroom. They used expanded noun phrases with abstract nouns to describe what it’s like living here and we’ve focused on using the apostrophe for contraction correctly, as practised in last week’s spellings.

The children are loving the practical aspect of learning about electricity and built circuits with very little instruction, but by using their initiative and being safe with their partner.

The children were put into groups for swimming today. They are so fast and efficient at getting changed that we’re going to leave school later!

Thank you for sending in painting shirts which will be put to very good use.

Have a lovely weekend.

In PE we have been learning how to make shapes with our bodies and to move in different ways.

In Maths we have been learning how to find one more and one less.

The Year 2 children have settled very well into their new classroom and have been thinking about how they can show their love for one another and also care for God’s beautiful world. Four of the classroom boards are already filled with the children’s wonderful learning and they are very proud to share photos of the displays with you here.

This week in English we have been exploring the story ‘Here We Are’. In groups, we wrote descriptive phrases about the land, sea, and animals. We used the images from the book to inspire us to write similes and expanded noun phrases.

Computing:

In computing we started our programming unit, here are some photos of us getting stuck in.

This has gone very well, with the children following routines better all the time. They are really enjoying finding about the background and people featuring in “The Undefeated” and have thought of some creative language when writing their own “guide to living on planet earth”, in the style of Oliver Jeffers in “Here We Are”.

Miss Taylor, the ukelele teacher, came to class today to talk about what instrumental experience they have. She was impressed with the wide range of favourite songs they have!

It was lovely to see so many of you at meet the teacher on Thursday If you have any queries about the curriculum or school day, please do get in touch.

I hope to see some of you at the school fair. Have a lovely weekend.

Katharine Gibbons

To say it was “a hot one” this week in year 4 would be the understatement of the year. But we took it easy and completed lots of essential settling-in and assessment tasks. Thank you for sending in favourite books on Tuesday. The children have made the classroom much more “their own”, as you’ll see on Thursday, at “meet the teacher”. They are rising to the year 4 expectations very well, moving round the school responsibly and engaging in conversations about figurative language, for example, with interest.

Hopefully, Westminster Lodge will have sorted out the floor problem next week and swimming will resume on Thursday.

We are reading a powerful book, which is in the form of a poem, called “the Undefeated”. The children worked in groups to present the poem to the class, choosing their own techniques. Some photos of them should be below.

This week’s home learning has been posted. It focuses on key skills and providing opportunities for your child to get into good routines to master these.