Growing In Faith and Learning
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Well done to all of the children who have taken part in the Science Fair: Delilah, Maisie S, Jacob A, Leo, Megan B, Finlay M, Ollie O, Jason, Asher ,Lizzie R, Freya, Neeve, Bethany, Alfie R, Rhea, Alfie, Isla and Felicity. There were lots of brilliant demonstrations of ‘How things work’.
The Winners were chosen by the director of the diocese - Leo’s lemons, Ollie O’s Big Bang and Freya and Lizzie’s Elephant’s toothpaste and they will go on to represent our school in the final being held at Rawlett. Alfie Macbeth was chosen as the runner up and received a special commendation . Thank you to Miss Preece for organising such a brilliant event! .
Robins (Nursery and Reception)
Robins have had a fun and busy couple of weeks. They have had lots of fun learning about the circus and it has been lovely to see them using some of the skills taught in the workshop. The children have been drawing and writing about what they would be in the circus, with Reception really applying their phonics.
In maths, they have been looking at halving and doubling, with the children sharing items in a picnic. Through RE, they looked at the creation of the Earth, with the children producing some lovely paintings, drawings and writing.
Kingfishers (Year 1 & 2)
Although the Y2 children have been busy with their ‘special work’, they have packed a lot into the last fortnight! In Maths they have been learning about telling the time; o’clock, half past and quarter past. In Athletics they have been practising their throwing skills with the javelins and have been creating superhero partner sequences (working in unison) in dance. They have looked closely at flowering plants in Science, to identify and label the different parts and have started to plant their own bulbs and seeds in the outside planters. For our Prayer unit in RE, they have been exploring the various ways we can talk to God. In English they used drama to imagine they were superheroes enrolling for ‘Superhero Academy’ and then wrote diaries about their day. They have ended their English topic with a brilliant Superhero dress up day today which was great fun and also wrote superhero poems. They learnt about a real life superhero from the past, Florence Nightingale, and made lamps.
Owls (Year 3 & 4)
Owls have been learning about the different layers of the earth and how volcanoes are formed. In maths they have been learning how to give change and have started to learn how to interpret pictograms and bar charts. They have been learning how to use Excel during their computing sessions. They have input data and used formulas to find the mean, mode and frequency. In Re, they have been learning about what happened at Pentecost and have created some pieces of art inspired by these events. In English, they have looked at the features of scripts and have begun to write their own scripts for a weather forecast.
Falcons (Year 5 & 6)
We are incredibly proud of both Year 5 and 6 children – Year 6 for completing their SATs last week and all the hard work they did in preparation both at school and at home. Year 5 you are amazing too – the support you showed to your friends in Year 6 was so lovely to see.
It’s that time of year again now – play preparation! Children will still be completing lessons in the mornings and RE, PE and Science in the afternoons but they will have to fit practicing around these. I’m sure the children will be amazing as always!
Congratulations to everyone who has received a Headteacher's Award:
Robins
Arthur Ha – a wonderful kind & caring attitude to everyone.
Lochlan – super discussion about sea creatures.
Kingfishers
Joshua – his amazing writing.
Rosy B – her kindness & politeness.
Owls
Emily – a wonderful description in English.
Lula – being focused in class & always happy to help others.
Falcons
All of year 6 for their hard work during SATs.
The attendance award this week goes to Owls for 98% attendance.
Congratulations to everyone who has received a Headteacher's Award:
Robins
Stanley – settling in so well & going to all activities.
Eva – wonderful independent writing.
Kingfishers
Lacey – getting on so well with her friends.
Grace – her wonderful reading & maths.
Owls
Jasmine – working so hard in all of her lessons.
Harvey – some excellent work in topic.
Falcons
Emily – super effort & application with maths work
Freya – being a super kind & helpful member of the class
Robins have settled back into school well after our Easter break and would like to welcome our 4 new Nursery children to our class. This half term, they are learning through the topic 'The Greatest Show', a topic the children have asked to do and where they are learning about the circus and how it has changed. They thoroughly enjoyed our Circus skills day and the children worked really hard to use all of the equipment provided. In Reception, they are working really hard to develop their writing of sentences and in Maths they are developing their addition and subtraction within 10 and 20. In Nursery, the children are working hard to become more independent in the activities they choose and we are working hard to help the children learn to write their name.
Kingfishers have launched their new English text ‘Supertato’ and the children have made their own superheroes with potatoes! They have written descriptions and planned an adventure story for their own Supertatoes. They have started a new unit in RE focussing on ‘Prayer’ and talked to God during meditation. In Maths they have been measuring length using standard and non-standards units and converting cm to metres. In PE they have started their Athletics unit, practising running and leaping skills over the hurdles. They are learning a superhero dance too. They have spent time in the computer suite playing phonics and maths games, and have completed their animals theme in science and have shared ideas about where to plant seeds and bulbs in the school grounds to observe for our topic on ‘PLANTS’. They also wrote letters to The Duke and Duchess of Sussex congratulating them on the birth of their new baby.
Owls have started their new topic called Extreme Earth. They designed and made a machine to help us clean up after a flood. In maths they have been learning about money. They learnt to make amounts in different ways and have converted between pence and pounds. In RE, they have been thinking about what we are thankful for and have recorded these which will be displayed in our prayer space this half term. In English this week, we started our new text ‘Flood’. They have written predictions and have been learning about adverbial phrases.
Yet another busy week for Falcons. Year 5 were fortunate to be invited to Belgrave Fire Station to participate in the ‘Safe and Sound’ day. This was a very enjoyable day for them learning about different aspects of safety. In English they have been writing adventure stories for a whole school writing competition. As you would expect, Year 6 have been doing lots of practise for their upcoming SATs next week, which I’m sure they will all do well in! In RE, we have completed our topic about Easter and looked at Pentecost. We will be starting our new topic next week.
Congratulations to everyone who has received a Headteacher's Award:
Robins
Lacey – a lovely kind & caring attitude at all times.
Emily – wonderful phonics work.
Kingfishers
Archie – his excellent behaviour in class & outside at break time.
Katie – her maths, phonics & writing – excellent work.
Owls
Isla – a wonderful adventure story.
Harvey – being supportive of others.
Falcons
Elsa – being kind & supporting peers with their learning.
Laila – extra effort & application to maths.
The attendance award this week goes to Kingfishers for 98% attendance.