Nursery
What a super, sensational,
special week we've had in nursery. Yes, we have been learning the
letter S. The children brought many things into nursery beginning with
S. There were snakes, Spiderman, strawberries, and stethoscopes. We
have also been having a daily story and this week it has been There’s no
such thing as Monsters. Which can be found on the CBeebies website. Our
new children have settled well which is lovely. I look forward to seeing
many of you next week in the hall for parent consultations. Then next Fri
25th our ‘Stay and Play’ sessions start for parent/carers of boys.
Reception
This week in Reception we have started our learning on
Dogger by Shirley Hughes. We have had a fun packed week, acting out the story
in our role play, sequencing the story by creating a story map and retelling
the story using the magic storytelling hat to help us. We have also been
thinking about positional language during our maths lessons and we even got to
go on a treasure hunt, following the positional language clues!! Can you guess
what we found at the end???Ask your children and see if they can remember what
we found.
Amy RW-" I liked playing with the bee bots"
Alex RW - " I liked writing and practising my
sounds, next time I need to practise my 'n' ."
Bailey RW -" I like the role play and my new class.
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Have a lovely weekend!
Year 4
4CA
This week in maths and ICT we have been looking at graphs and the
children are now experts in drawing and interpreting bar graphs and line
graphs.
The children have been rewriting the first chapter of ‘The Demon
Headmaster’ using Pye Corbett’s ideas. There were so many of the children who
used fantastic description of feelings and actions.
In Science we have measured the temperature of water using a thermometer.
Some of the water contained ice cubes or was warm.
For our school topic we looked at a school in China to see what was
similar and was was different to Darlinghurst.
Year 5
5J
It
might be cold outside this week but we have been working hard in 5J.
In
maths we have been learning how to find the area of rectangles and some
children have found the surface area of cuboids too!
We
have been including more detail in our writing by focusing on a setting based
in a cave.
For
science, we paid a visit to Westcliff High School for Boys where the sixth
formers taught us about the Sun, heat and light. We all enjoyed this
tremendously and the children were a credit to the school. Fizzing
chemicals were popular but so was how to balance two forks and a 50p piece on
the edge of a glass beaker! This might be something to try at home – the centre
of gravity is not where you might think!
In
class we have tried to apply our learning to other areas – Sam put together a
team of thinking experts to help him solve a problem with his invention that
wouldn’t sink! Megan and Loki used their knowledge of measuring angles to
use protractors to find out how far off course Mrs Johnston’s racing sprouts
were!
5J,
remember to keep filling in your moon diaries and bring them to school each
day.
