23 Novemeber

Nursery

It’s all been about ‘Celebrations’ this week in nursery.  The children have been talking about birthdays and birthday parties.  We watched a BBC Learning Zone clip about a little girl celebrating her 6th birthday.  This has given us lots of opportunities to use new language in our play as the children have loved acting out birthday parties through role play.  Our Show and Tell this week was ‘Hats’ and lots of the children came to nursery wearing a variety of hats.  Andi had her mummy’s sombrero’s hat and Thomas wore his policeman’s helmet with pride.

I have to say rice pudding was not a hit with the children this week with only a few children actually liking it.  So that will be off the menu, but at least most of them had a try.

Reception

This week we have been learning about the story of Cinderella.  Here are some examples of things we have enjoyed this week :-

Martha (RN) "I liked painting Cinderella's castle."

Joss (RB) "Ordering the Cinderella story."

Hayden (RB) "I liked watching Cinderella on the whiteboard."

Eden (RF) "I loved doing Cinderella dancing."

Amy (RW) "We made a Cinderella story map and I drew the ugly stepsisters."

Logan (RW) "I drew the prince" (referring to the story map)

 

We have also been very busy writing letters to Santa, letting him know what we would like for Christmas.  Next week we will be starting our new topic on winter.

Year 4

4E have been busy planning and writing their play scripts this week. They have planned their own character for the story. They have enjoyed doing lots of drama and role play to explore the characters of the story.

 

4E have been making their own switches for an electrical circuit and have used a variety of materials to test what materials are conductors or insulators. Miss Ellis was very impressed with the switches made and how well everyone worked as a team.

 

In topic this week the children have been learning all about Cleopatra. They used the IPADs to access the information and we had a great time discussing Cleopatra’s life and why she is so famous.

Year 5

Year 5 have had a good week. We have been thinking about our characters and settings for a short story we are going to write next week. Ask us about our fabulous ideas to see how hard we’ve been working.

In science we are looking at reversible and irreversible, ask is what we made and if you like try it at home!

We are still researching Victorian inventors and their inventions. We will look into how much we still use today, hopefully not the torture instruments!

Year 6

Well year 6 have been busy practising for their SATs with an excellent performance this week of the skills they have learnt so far.The children have shown what a true team they are and are an absolute pleasure to teach. The  year 6 play leaders  have had  positive impact on the school and the younger children love them. Well done Year 6 . Mrs B and Miss Niemann

 

16 Novemeber

Reception

International week: This week in Reception we have been learning about
Africa. Our activities have been linked to Handa's Surprise. The
children have been looking at African artefacts and listening to African
music. The children enjoyed tasting food from the story.

Thank you to those children who have completed their Elmer homework. We
had some lovely pieces of work that will be displayed in the classrooms.

Also thank you to those parents that have helped us explore Africa by
bringing in some interesting objects and pictures.


The Reception team

Year 2




Jambo!


That’s hello in Swahili… can you guess which country we have been learning about this week…..Hooray you got it right, its KENYA!
Here is what the children have said they enjoyed this week

Maxim said ‘I loved making Handa’s Basket. I had to think carefully about making 3D shapes and my Kenyan name is Halabon!’


Adomaa said ‘I enjoyed giving Handa instructions. I pretended to be a policeman to help Handa not lose her fruit. I used an IPad to film me saying my imperative verbs.’


All have a safe and happy weekend!
Year 2



Year 4

 

4E have had a busy few weeks again! We greatly enjoyed having some ‘blokes’ in our class last Thursday as part of ‘Bring a Bloke to School’ day. We hope they enjoyed it too.

 

This week has been ‘International Week’. 4E has been studying Egypt in detail. We have looked at the flag, listened to their National Anthem and made our own Egyptian dances in PE. On Thursday we all cooked and ate some Egyptian Palace Pudding. Here are some of the words the children used to describe it: Chewy, tasty, sweet, crunchy, delicious and moreish!

 

The children are really enjoying their reading too. We are still reading ‘Stig of the Dump’ as a class and the children are busy reading their own books too. Please hear your child read as often as you can at home as well as asking them some questions about the book they are reading.

 

 

09 Novemeber

Nursery

In the nursery this week, we have been joined by some lovely new children.  They have settled really well and especially enjoyed our Molly in the Trolley story about a little baby who graps all the wrong things at the supermarket.  For Show and Tell this week the children showed their fantastic art work.  Teddy’s racing car picture was a firm favourite.

Our photographs would give Britain’s Next Top Model a run for their money, with our angelic faces.

Thursday was great fun as nursery had lots of visitors.  We found out all about Daisy and Williams daddy’s kite boarding and Thomas’s uncles golf.  Once again thank to all those who came and visited us.

Reception

This week in Reception we have had great fun learning about Elmer the patchwork elephant all the children have tried really hard with their writing this week and some of the children experienced their first magic carpet ride to where elephants live. Thank you to all the male family members who came to visit yesterday, we loved having you come to visit and we hope you weren't too tired when you went home. We hope we didn't scare you too much and you will come back to visit again.

Thank you to all the children this week for returning to school in a positive manor and putting 100% effort into their learning. Next week we will be learning about Africa and continuing our learning on Elmer. Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you Monday.

The Reception Team

Year 1

This week 1K have enjoyed a variety of exciting subjects from science to PE, however the highlight of the week was definitely Bring a Bloke to School Day. The children experienced splatter painting, carpentry, making Catherine Wheels and building with Kinex [we think the dads enjoyed this too]! We all had a fantastic time. Thank you to all the `Blokes` who came in to spend time with us in 1K.

Year 4

We have had a very busy week looking at The Gunpowder Plot in English and for history. Many of the children completed super homework. In maths we have been working on our times tables and there has definitely been an improvement in all the children’s understanding.

On Thursday we welcomed a number of ‘blokes’ into the classroom who all joined in with our activities. It was a very enjoyable day.

4CA