It’s beginning to look a lot
like Christmas. Nursery have been very busy. We have put our Christmas
tree up and it has some lovely fir cone decorations made by the children, some
of which can been seen outside our nursery. We also watched a lovely BBC
Learning zone clip all about a fir tree.
The freezing weather meant we
could have a good investigation with ice. This generated lots of lovely
language. Belle said ‘It looks like shiny glass’ and Ivy said, ‘It’s very
cold my hands are freezing.’
Year 4
We have had a very busy week. The children have been working on
newspaper reports in English. For maths we have worked on doubles and halves
and we have seen a great improvement in their understanding. We finished our
Science topic on circuits by making a parallel and a series circuit using two
bulbs.
However the best day of the week was Thursday when we had an
Egyptian day. Mark ran the whole day. We had a quiz, looked at a number of
artefacts, played an Egyptian board game and in the afternoon we acted out the
whole mummification ceremony. The children will be real Egyptologists now.
4CA
The children have had the chance
to experience an Egyptian Day on Thursday of this week. It was a brilliant day
and all of the children and staff really enjoyed it. Some of the day’s
activities included playing an Egyptian game, exploring some exciting artefacts
and watching mummification! Mark the Egyptologist also told us a traditional
tale which originated from Ancient Egyptian times; ask your child what it was.
5W have had a great week. We
visited the Victorian Christmas at Priory House and learnt how many traditions
came about. We learnt how to make bon bons and decorations out of oranges and
cloves, which are making our classroom smell lovely.
We have made story maps and are
re-telling great stories, ask us about them and see what fantastic story
tellers we are.
Year 6
Year 6 have had a great week
being adventurous with their writing! We have been making story maps and
planning exciting storylines, before writing up our final versions. The quality
of the writing has been fantastic, so we hope this high standard continues.
Everyone is very excited about
our upcoming event- the Year 6 Cake Sale, being held in our classrooms, on the
morning of Friday 14th December. As a year group, we have started to
plan and prepare, by making enticing advertisements to put up around the
school. We hope to see you there!
We are all starting to feel
Christmassy and decorations have gone up in the classrooms. We are also
beginning to practise our Christmas carols, ready for the Carol Concert on
Wednesday 19th December.
