19th October

Nursery

More fun has been had in the nursery this week.  The children have been
singing along to Yellow Submarine and Thomas even  found a yellow
submarine in one of our books.  We played with coloured rice which
created many opportunities for discussion.  Our interactive whiteboard
is now up and running and next week we shall be listening to some rhymes
and stories on our big screen.  Let's hope the weather is better and
then we can go on our little visit to the allotment area to see the
chickens and rabbits.

Reception

 

Year 1

1K: In maths we have been learning about estimating and  measuring and
which appropriate measures to use for measuring certain objects. We had
lots of fun!. In science we have been learning all about living and
non-living things.............we were very good at this!!!! We have been
writing descriptive Golden sentences in English.

Mrs Kimberley and all the children in 1K

 

Hello everybody,

We are always so busy in our class that the week just whizzes by. This
week we have been measuring using non-standard measures. We also had a
go at comparing using standard measures. We found out about objects that
were bigger or smaller than a metre or a ruler. It was lots of fun. Here
are some of the things that children have particularly enjoyed this
week.
Amantha enjoyed being in her team which is Frogs and making a jigsaw
puzzle together without speaking.
Leo enjoyed making elf masks and making the parts move and liked it when
Mercedes helped him.
Ailbhe has really liked measuring Mrs Farrer with the connecting camels.
Macy enjoyed her maths test and actually came second out of the whole
class.
Evie has liked investigating open and closed questions in our Philosophy
lesson.
Thank you children for your contributions.
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Bernard

Year 2

Hello again everyone,
Hope you have all had an exciting week!  We have had lots of fun in Year
2 with our learning and have been pretending to be Katie Morag as we try
and think carefully about her appearance and behaviour.  In Maths we had
been using the skill of subtracting to develop our mental maths skills.
We have some very clever mathematicians in Year 2 who can work two two
digit number subtractions in their head...wow!

Here is what Hope has said she enjoyed this week; 'I like learning
spelling because it's fun and it helps me become a good speller.  I like
practising at home because I want to get them all right!'

Simonas said 'I enjoyed Geography because we learn about different
countries and thinking carefully about islands and mainland's'

Have a lovely weekend and stay safe.
The Year 2 Team

Year 3

This has been productive week in 3S. We have been continuing to draft our re-write of the the Three Billy Goats Gruff story which will be our assessed piece of writing for this half term. We are currently editing and improving our own version of this traditional tale ready to write up in our assessment books early next week.

In maths we have been looking at different strategies to find the difference between numbers and although this has been tricky at times we have made some great progress.

We continue to find out more about the Romans including their lifestyles and about the gladiators, we have also been finishing off our design project to create our own Roman mosaics. All in all a busy week, but still enjoying and having fun whilst learning.

Have a great weekend from

Mr Sykes & all of 3S

Year 4

Where has the week gone! In 4CA we have been working on more
instructional writing and designing fancy dress costumes. We have been
working on a number of addition sums in maths. For our topic on The
Egyptians we looked at rituals for death and the afterlife. The children
were fantastic at remembering all the gods that were involved and what
things went into the different canopic jars. Science was our
continuation of habitats. The children visited the year 6 dens that they
had made on the field as this had a link with Stig of the dump

Year 5

Year 5 looked rather different on Wednesday; the desks were in rows, the girls were wearing dresses and pinafores, the boys were wearing shorts and the teachers were wearing stern expressions!  Yes, it was Victorian School Day.

The morning started with drill in the playground, led by Mr Bird (wearing a gown and mortar board).  After a variety of exercises had been completed we moved back to the classroom. Strange as it may seem, most of the class had signed up for the privilege of wearing the dunce’s hat!  It was not long before the first candidate visited the corner – a result of chatting in class; other misbehaviour resulted in writing lines. The class had fun writing on slates with chalk while avoiding the wrath of their Victorian teacher!

During the afternoon, the boys did ‘woodwork’, starting to create their moving toys using cams while, on the other side of the class, the girls tried their hand at needlework.  They all did very well with everyone leaving with the same number of fingers that they came with!

We all thoroughly enjoyed the experience (teachers included) which has given the pupils a wealth of ideas to include in their writing later in the week.

Thank you to parents and pupils for entering this event wholeheartedly

 

Mrs Johnston

Year 6

Year six have been busy den building and building fires with the Essex
wildlife Trust this week. We dug up the school field and toasted
marshmallows at the end of the exciting day. Well done everybody!Now for
some exciting writing.
Year 6