The children showed fantastic partner-working, initiative and perseverance this week as they were presented with boxes of components and wires and asked to “make a circuit”. The delight when they made the lightbulb come on, or the buzzer vibrate was genuine and wonderful to see.

They role-played what Panther and Cheetah could say to each other and really got into character.

Next Wednesday we will walk to the cathedral. We’ll be back in time for school lunches, so no packed lunch will be needed. Let’s hope the weather is as glorious as it’s been this week! Regardless of what it is like, I think we’ll have a very interesting and inspirational time learning about the saint which gave our home city its name.

As part of our learning about “The Midnight Panther”, some children made this wonderful collage of Panther trying to be as regal as Lion.

I hope you all have a wonderful, relaxing weekend.

We are all enjoying being the oldest children in the infants and rising to the challenge of being wonderful role models to the younger children.

Inspired by a story all about Greta Thunberg, we have been thinking about what we can do to be great stewards of creation. We came up with some wonderful energy saving ideas to help to save the planet and our promises grew a beautiful tree to decorate our classroom.

If you would like to watch Greta and the Giants, you will find it below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGccpeALlgM

Year Two enjoy a visit to the library

Over the holiday, we wrote and posted some amazing postcards that have been used as part of our learning in geography and we also kept up with our reading by doing the library reading challenge. All of this shows that we are really ready for the amazing learning we can look forward to now that we are in Year 2.

It’s the end of our first full week and the children are settling in to their new classroom and their new role as Year Six.

It was good to meet with many parents at the ‘Meet the teacher’ morning. If you weren’t able to make it, I am always pleased to meet with parents after school (excepting Tuesdays). You can find a copy of my presentation on the Google Classroom – but I am a visual person, so my prompts may not make complete sense without my narration!

The children have worked together, this week, to learn about our class saint, St Paul. One of the outcomes of this has been a new sign for our classroom door.

Although we have only been back at school for ten days, the children are rising to the challenge of their new topics across the curriculum.

Thank you for the hats for swimming! And for all your support in sending your children to school with what they need every day. The class is responding really well to the new routines in their new year and settling down to calm, reflective work while showing great independence.

We’ve started the new topics in science, history and art and visited the library for the first time. We’ve made great inroads into place value, using resources to represent numbers to their thousands and also to remember the significance of the all-important place value holder.

We’ve introduced some friendly competition in the class, as the children chose names for their tables. They chose the theme of “gemstones” and debated amongst themselves, on their tables, which name they would like for their table. The classroom door is now beautifully decorated with images associated with St Alban, the year 4 class saint. (Any illustrations which could not fit on the door are in a book to be displayed in the classroom.)

Mrs Newman delivered her first ukelele session and the children can already strum some notes in time.

It was lovely to see so many of you at “meet the teacher”. I’ve put a link to the slides on Google Classroom.

This week’s spellings and Maths activities will be on Google Classroom. Please let me know if you have any queries. Have a great weekend!

Welcome to my new Year 1 class. It has been a very positive start to the year and the children have enjoyed catching up with each other and making new friends.

This week in Design and Technology, we enhanced our cooking skills by making delicious savoury tarts with seasonal vegetables. We carefully diced and chopped the vegetables, showcasing our cooking skills.

In PE, we concluded our final lesson by enjoying a variety of ball games.

What a wonderful end to another amazing school year! Thank you for your ongoing support and generous gifts. Have a fantastic summer!