Welcome back! We would
like to wish you all a very Happy New Year and a very big thank you for all the
lovely gifts received from yourselves. We were very spoilt. The
children have come back to nursery full of life and excitement which is
lovely. Our ‘Show and Tell’ sessions give everyone the opportunity to
share their Christmas and talk about their favourite presents. This term
we also are welcoming a number of new members to both our morning and afternoon
nursery.
Reception
The children returned to school happy and settled on Tuesday to
learn how children in France celebrate the start of the new year with ‘ the
celebration of the three Kings’. We found out how they eat a special cake
called a gallette in which is hidden a nativity figure, called a feve. The
person who gets the feve in their piece of gallette is then the ‘king for
the day’ and everyone else has to help them. All the classes shared their own
gallette, with a sultana hidden inside to represent the feve, and the four
kings had fun organising their friends to help them. We have also thought about
our own Christmas holidays and favourite presents and talked about New Year
resolutions.
All the Reception staff would like to take this opportunity
to thank all the families for the many gifts received and we wish you all a
happy and prosperous New Year.
Year 2
Happy New Year to you all!
Well it’s lovely to see you all back at school, safe and sound, as
though you never been away! The children have told us that you all had a
lovely Christmas and it sounds like Father Christmas was very busy!
Here is what the children have said they enjoyed this week. Isla said ‘I have enjoyed Science. We are learning about Plants and
Animals and I have started to research about all the things I want to
learn. I now know that I want to learn all about rodents because I have
two hamsters at home and would like to learn more about their families.’
Dan said ‘I loved working with Isla on our Jack and the Beanstalk
storyboard because I like drawing the pictures of the story in sequence and
helping Isla with tricky and exciting words. Tomorrow we are filming ourselves
telling the story board on IPADS…I can’t wait!’
Looking forward to seeing you all next week!
Take Care
The Year 2 Team
Year 4
4E
It has been lovely to see the children come back to school
with so much enthusiasm. The children in 4E have made a good start to the
Spring Term and have begun a new book in English. They are now reading ‘The
Demon Headmaster’ and are really enjoying acting out and retelling the story.
We have also started a new Science Topic called ‘Keeping Warm’ and have taken
part in an experiment using the materials in our outside environment. We are
looking forward to learning more about temperatures and taking part in more
experiments!
4CA
It has been a busy week in 4CA. In Maths the children have been
looking at capacity and estimating the amount of liquid in a container. They
also have learnt to read timetables and most of the class are now able to read
a C2C train timetable! We have started our new book in English ‘The Demon
Headmaster’ and the children have made storyboards for the first chapter. Our
topic in Science has started well with the children testing the temperature of
objects in the playground and in the class. In Pe the children have started a
dance unit.
Year 5
5J
It was lovely to see everyone back after the holidays.
Although we have only been back for a few days, we have been very busy.
We have written letters to our link school in France, telling them
about our Christmas presents. When they write back, we will be able to
compare what sort of presents they receive with ours.
Our topic this term is Space. Today we made an orrey to show
how the Earth and Moon move.
Our class text for the term is ‘The BFG’ – we have been using our
comprehension skills to draw accurate pictures of the BFG’s journey with
Sophie.
Homework for the next month is to complete a moon diary so we can
track the way the moon looks over the next few weeks.
Year 6
Year six have been busy dragon hunting this week as a dragon was
sighted at Darlinghurst and left various bits of evidence whilst it was here!.
Should you have any details about the sighting please contact Year Six
immediately as we are gathering evidence for our team of dragon hunters.
