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 319 children have had 100% attendance this week: very well done!
Nursery - Stars
This week, despite the weather at the start of the week, we have been looking at signs of Spring. We have been on a Spring walk and found snowdrops, crocuses, catkins and daffodils, all on our school field. We have learnt about birds building nests and have made bird feeders to encourage the birds in our school grounds. In our creative area,we have painted flowers and created birds’ nests.
In phonics we have been working hard on spotting rhymes and in maths we have been comparing groups saying whether they have more or fewer amounts in them and searching for shapes.
Star of the Week:
Nellie Mattinson
FS - Moon and Mercury
This week the sun has finally decided to come out and stay out which has meant a lot more children have enjoyed exploring our new garden centre shop which we have created in our outdoor provision area. We have read Jasper’s Beanstalk written by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen and discussed what happened in the story. The children were really excited to plant their own beans which they literally cannot wait to see how they grow. Some of the children have planted the beans in soil and others in bags with paper towels and are keen to investigate which conditions are the best for the beans to grow. The children also designed their own beanstalks and wrote captions describing what might be at the top of the beanstalks and had some amazing ideas. In Maths we have been representing the numbers 9 and 10 in a range of different ways as well as sorting items into 9 and 10. We have also been ordering numbers to 10 and trying to understand the composition of numbers 9 and 10. In our outdoor provision area, the children did such a fantastic job preparing the potatoes they found covered in mud that they decided they wanted to eat them. We decided to cut them and make them into wedges and have them as an extra treat for a snack which Mr Osborne was definitely a fan of. The children also made flapjack and are showing how good they are following a set of instructions.
Stars of the week:
Moon: Tilly Tonks
Mercury: Esme Senior
Y1 - Galaxy and Venus
We have had another very busy week in Year 1; the children have really impressed us showing off their reading comprehension and number understanding with assessments, whilst creatively exploring the curriculum. In English, we have studied ‘Prince Cinders’ by Babette Cole, developing their vocabulary and retrieval skils and creating story retells using ambitious language. In Maths, we have explored finding 1 more and 1 less of numbers to 50, 100 and beyond, and have continued to compare a range of numbers through varying levels of challenge. Through science we have dissected flowers and fruits, exploring the parts of a plant and different seed dispersal, and in D.T. we have continued our project on ‘Moving Pictures’ exploring levers and pivot mechanisms.
Stars of the week:
Venus- Alia Mirzakhel
Galaxy- Ellis Dyson
Year 2 / 3 Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune
We’ve all had another ‘marvellous’ week in Year 2/3 and are thoroughly enjoying the highly entertaining and slightly bonkers class text ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. In English, we stepped into the shoes of the main character ‘George’ and gleefully concocted a new, unusual medicine to help brighten the mood of grouching, griping, grumpy old grandma! This hands-on, creative and practical experience of actually making the medicine has resulted in some wonderfully enthusiastic and descriptive instruction writing. Great work Year 2/3! In Maths, we have continued learning about fractions; the children have applied their understanding of numerator and denominator by identifying fractions of a shape, and have explored equivalent fractions ranging from halves to twelfths. In Science, we have continued learning about light, this week with a focus on reflectors and how to change the direction of a light beam. In PSHCE, the children discussed medicine safety linked to our class text, in which George is forbidden to touch any medicine in the house. In RE, the children have continued learning about prayer, this week focusing on the key aspects of Christian prayer.
Stars of the week:
Saturn: Sam Elwood
Jupiter: Bethany Horsman
Neptune: GH
Year 4 Mars and Earth
It’s been a very artistic week in Year 4. In art, we have developed our shading skills and then practised this skill while learning how to draw tulips and daffodils. The children enjoyed taking multiple attempts at each drawing to see how they improved each time and the progress was clear. In maths, we have launched our new unit of learning, decimals. The children loved reflecting on where we see these in everyday life. The children have started to explore tenths and hundredths and how these are equivalent to decimals. In our class book we have reached our first milestone. We’ve been enthralled as Beowulf and Grendel battled. It looks like there’s a clear hero in this story so far.
Stars of the week:
Earth - Cameron Younger & Miss Grundy - for her first whole school worship!
Mars - Aaron Hartley
Year 5 Asteroid and Pluto
Year 5 are almost finished writing the tale of Luna, the young girl with big dreams of being an astronaut. We have been using many literacy effects to write about her journey and feelings, particularly using the weather to mirror her feelings.
It has been such an egg-citing week in science this week, we have been learning about air resistance and how this can help us in everyday life. We investigated how to make the best parachute to help our eggs to reach the floor safely and in one piece. This practical work was no yolk! We are using our knowledge of friction and forces within our D&T project, designing and making marble runs. I have been promised a loop the loop, so watch this space…
Stars of the week:
Asteroid: Arthur O’Driscoll
Pluto: Aiden Workman
Year 6 Nebular and Constellation
This week in year 6 we have started our new class novel - Dog Head! The tale of a cursed boy, who without warning, transforms into the Egyptian God, Anubis! The back and forth, past and present, story lines, make this a really complex read, but one we are enjoying. In English, we have drafted, edited and included so many different grammar conventions to our journal of a pyramid builder. They are without a doubt, the most technical and complex pieces of writing so far this year. Well done. In maths we have begun, but not yet mastered, our algebra topic, investigating function machines and the rather odd inclusion of letters…. in maths!!! In topic, we have debugged and presented our computer games to the class, and received constructive criticism on how they can be improved. In science, we made blood, and understood the different cells that are contained within it. A good week, year 6!
Stars of the week:
Constellation - Ava Norrie
Nebular - Megan Anderson
