Whole School Attendance
The graph below shows our school attendance since the start of the school year up to the end of last week (we are the pink line).
An amazing 330 children have had 100% attendance this week: a great start to this term!
Nursery - Stars
First of all we would like to welcome everyone back and say hello to the new families that have joined us. We can’t quite believe we are at the beginning of the Summer term already.
It has been a very busy week in Nursery, as we start the new term and welcome our new starters. A big well done to our existing Stars who have really helped the new children settle in and learn our routines. This week we have looked at the theme of ‘Space’. We have listened to the stories ‘Whatever Next’ and ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ and enjoyed singing ‘Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer’. We have made aliens and rockets and explored the space theme tuff tray.
In phonics we have looked at alliteration and we have played lots of games to help us listen to the initial sounds. We had some very interesting alliteration aliens, with names such as Mig Mog Mully Mo! In maths we have focused on shape and we have talked about the shape of everyday objects.
FS - Moon and Mercury
It has been lovely to welcome all the children back to school after Easter. To introduce our theme for this half term ‘Ticket to Ride’ we began by creating a time capsule. We used a silver foil envelope which looked extra-spacey and cool. The children measured their height with string and added hand and foot prints and a photo of themselves to the capsule.
We shared the story Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram and the children wrote a list of items which they would want to take to the moon. The children's lists were quite varied but their favourite teddies were high on all the lists.
On Thursday we had our first Space Camp. The children completed a range of challenges to receive their Space Passport!
In Maths we have looked at number patterns up to 20 and matching pictures to numerals. We also set up an estimation station for the children to estimate how many chocolates were in the tub. Surprisingly at the end of day there were still the same amount of chocolates left in the tub!
Stars:
Moon - Katelyn Major
Mercury - Louis Robinson
Y1 - Galaxy and Venus
Welcome back! We have had a super first week back with the launch of our new topic - ‘Paws, Claws and Whiskers’. We had an exciting arrival of a ‘dinosaur egg’ on Monday which prompted lots of questioning and interest. We have shared the story of ‘The Wonderous Dinosaurium’ by John Condon and wrote instructions on how to hunt for dinosaurs and wrote a fact file about our favourite dinosaur. In maths, we have looked at grouping and repeated addition, counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. In Science, we have discussed pets and how we care for them. In Geography, we have learnt about the 7 continents of the world and talked about the different animals that live there. In Art, we have used our observational skills to sketch British wildlife.
Stars of the week:
Galaxy - Teddy Deakin
Venus - Alfie Longhurst
Year 2 / 3 Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune
What an exciting start to our new topic ‘Savage Stone Age’! We pretended to be archaeologists exploring cave paintings to find information about this period in history. The children decided that the people were not so savage after all as they were excellent artists who could mix paints from natural materials as well as making their own clothes, hunting and foraging for food, lighting fires and inventing the wheel, to name a few things. The children enjoyed making their own time-lines realising just how long ago the Stone Age was and how long it lasted for! They then tried out their own cave paintings in art.
In English and guided reading, we began to explore our new book ‘Stone Age Boy’; we used our powers of prediction, retrieval, sequencing and inference as well as revising fronted adverbials (starting words). We also wrote a plan for our own diaries in the style of ‘Stone Age Boy’.
In Maths, the children have been practising telling the time and in Science they have explored forces. Sunday sees the end of Ramadan in the Muslim faith so we explored what happens during Ramadan and the festival of Eid ul Fitr in RE. Although it has been a busy week, the children have shown how grown up they have become over the holidays. Well done!
Stars of the Week:
Neptune- Abraham O’Flynn
Jupiter- Evie Brown
Saturn- Natasha Varey
Year 4 Mars and Earth
It’s been a lovely start to the Summer term this week. We have concluded our Anglo-Saxon topic work by capturing Grendel in our own traps, designed and constructed in DT. In Guided Reading and Topic, we have launched our new unit of learning, Glorious Greeks. The children have explored where Greece is in the world and learned some basic facts about this lovely Mediterranean country. In Science, we have had a sparky start to our new unit, electricity. Children have discovered how electricity is made and how to work safely with it. In Year 4, we’ve all had a fantastic time building on last year's learning about money.
Stars of the Week:
Beau Stubbs
Chloe Riley
Year 5 Asteroid and Pluto
Year 5 have come back this term ready and raring to go and we have hit the ground running! We have recapped fractions and decimals from last term ready to go on to more brain busting decimal work this term. In English, we have researched our beloved national treasure, Sir David Attenborough, ready to write his biology next week. Ask me what I know about his life!
Our highlight this week has got to be our research into tacos, one of the many street foods of Mexico. We tasted lots of different ingredients and then combined them to make new and exciting taste sensations. Many of the children tasted ingredients they had never tasted before and showed a great attitude by trying. Watch this space to find out your child's favourite combinations when we make tacos in a few weeks.
Stars of the Week:
Pluto: Elliot Kelly
Asteroid: Ethan Sowersby
Year 6 Nebular and Constellation
Even with this being the first week back, the year 6 were back with a bang, and the hardwork started from the moment they walked through the door! Welcome back! This week we have continued to learn about Ancient Egyptian society, and their belief in the Afterlife. The children researched and detailed all they could find out about the long and elaborate process. In Maths we have begun our maths revision sessions, giving the children a chance to consolidate their knowledge of the four operations. In Science we identified what makes a healthy lifestyle, and the positives and negatives of the many influences that they have on us. Things have taken a slight twist in the Dog Head class text. We are beginning to unravel the plot, and identify where each of the characters fit within the story! Very intriguing!
Stars of the Week:
Constellation: Tamzin Varley
Nebular: Jacob Siddons.
