Whole School Attendance
Next week we will be sending letters out to families where we have concerns over attendance, and where this needs to be improved over the next half term.
The graph below shows our school attendance since the start of the school year up to the end of last week (we are the pink line).
An amazing 311 children have had 100% attendance this week: very well done!
Nursery - Stars
This week we have started to look at the Christian festival of Easter. The children have enjoyed learning about the Easter story and looking at Easter traditions. We have had lots of Easter eggs to explore in the tuff tray and the children have thoroughly enjoyed filling them with coloured rice. We have practised mark making in cocoa, using our fingers to decorate eggs with lots of fiddly gems, and using food colouring and shaving foam to decorate our Easter cards!
In phonics we have continued to look at initial sounds and we have also started to orally segment and blend the sounds in words. Oral segmenting and blending are essential tools in early reading. In maths we have been developing the children’s understanding of capacity using the language full, empty and half full.
Star of the Week:
James Hardy
FS - Moon and Mercury
This week we have focussed on the story ‘The Last Tree' by Emily Haworth-Booth. We have discussed the blurb and made predictions as well as giving our own opinions about the people’s houses in the story and how they worked together to save the last tree. The children wrote about what they would do if there was only one tree left in the world and we were amazed at the imaginative thoughts they had. We celebrated the book by planting an apple and pear tree on the school field. Hopefully this will be a constant reminder of such a fantastic week as the children progress throughout the school.
On Thursday we had the chance to take learning out of the classroom for the day and into the great outdoors. It definitely added a sense of excitement and adventure for the children, who were free to explore and manipulate the environment around them using all of their senses. The snow, rain and wind didn’t impact our day, if anything it added to the excitement!
The children really worked hard on improving lots of skills including physical fitness, independence and healthy risk-taking as well as continuing to develop their gross and fine motor skills.
In teams they made dens for a teddy and decorated our Willow Arch with lots of coloured fabric and ribbons. They also had to hunt for items on the field to design a face made from a clay base and finally designed and painted their own paper lanterns.
After all the children’s hard work we finished the day with a well-deserved hot chocolate and a biscuit! We were so proud of their resilience, determination and perseverance throughout the day.
Stars of the Week
Moon – Eryn Carlton
Mercury – Jack Carmody
Y1 - Galaxy and Venus
What a busy week we have had in Year 1. We have enjoyed sharing two versions of the fairy tale 'Billy Goats Gruff': Trip Trap Trouble and The 3 Billy Goats Fluff. We compared the difference in characters, story plot and ending in both stories. We had lots of fun creating our own 'troll' and coming up with questions we would like to ask him/her. In maths, we have continued to measure, focusing on volume/capacity. We ordered, compared and investigated problems involving volume before applying these skills and creating our own 'troll potions' - yuk! In science, we have continued to investigate plants and identified a range of garden flowers and trees. In RE we looked at the Christian symbols of Easter and enjoyed tasting hot cross buns and creating our own Easter crosses. In DT, we finally got to make our moving pictures - they look great!
Stars of the week
Galaxy - Eleanor Watson
Venus - Emilie Knight
Year 2 / 3 Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune
In English this week, the children have created characters for their own version of George’s Marvellous Medicine. They have written the beginning of the story, setting the scene in great detail to help the reader create a vivid picture in their mind. In Maths, the Year 2 children have learnt about vertices and symmetry of shapes. The Year 3 children have learnt all about the different types of angles, as well as how to draw accurately in centimetres and millimetres. In Art, the children have drawn in the style of Quentin Blake and used the key elements of his drawings to illustrate their own characters. In Science, we have continued learning about the human body; this week focusing on muscles. The children thoroughly enjoyed making a model of a hand, to show how the skeleton and muscles work together to move.
Stars of the week
Neptune- Alex Beaumont
Saturn- Harvey Halliwell
Jupiter- Frankie Clowrey
Year 4 Mars and Earth
We’ve had another busy week in Year 4. In our English, we have been writing an account of the fine dining and celebration in the great mead-hall of Heorot. We’ve also been creating our own Kennings poetry, these are Anglo Saxon riddles and have been great fun to write.
In RE we have been focusing on the Easter story over recent weeks, culminating with Easter Sunday this week and why it is so important to Christians today.
In our history we have been delving back in time to look at what became a key year in British history, 1066, looking at the local battle of Stamford Bridge and the Battle of Hastings. This Norman conquest is close to Anglo Saxon times. We have also enjoyed drawing our own choice of scene from the Bayeux tapestry.
Stars of the week:
Earth - Scarlett Scott
Mars - Theo Hutchinson
Year 5 Asteroid and Pluto
This week we have written our stories about our future lives. I must say the thought and planning that has gone into these pieces has really paid off, they are amazing! In Maths, we have continued to explore decimals, finding their equivalent fractions and learning how to change decimals to fractions and back again. In Science, we have continued to investigate forces, using Newton meters to measure the force needed to move objects. We have discovered how levers and pulleys are used to lessen the effort needed to move heavy objects, we even had a go at making our own pulley systems. We have also completed our marble runs, the creativity and innovation shown has been fantastic to see.
Stars:
Asteroid: Harley Stansfield
Pluto: Archie Hill
Year 6 Nebular and Constellation
This week in year 6, the children have continued to work incredibly hard in all of the lessons that were thrown at them! In English, we perfected the art of mummification; detailing to even the smallest of detail, what the process includes and the grammar conventions that are expected to be used in each of the different paragraphs. We have recapped our knowledge of all things fractions - adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. In guided reading, we have continued with our twin tales of how Jack Cadogan becomes Anubis! In Science, we continued our journey around the circulatory system, this time stopping off at the lungs. At last, the construction of our Egyptian temples is complete (some took as long as the real thing!). The desired features were present and correct and perfect for worshipping our Gods from.
Stars of the week:
Nebular - Stanley Bugg
Constellation - Isabel Stansfield
