Today we were ‘Lego Engineers’. We designed and created our own Lego models. Our teachers have been really impressed with our teamwork skills such as sharing, discussing and compromising, We have had so much fun during our school STEM week!!!!
In Year 5 the children have been using their knowledge of the Mayans to write reports in English.
The children have used their research and a range of layout devices such as headings, subheadings, bullet points, images and captions to compose some very informative reports.
The children are also going to use their non-chronological reports to help them to script and record their own podcasts all about the Mayans!
Stay tuned….
This week, Y6 are using the short clip ‘Alma’ as a stimulus for their writing.
We started off by creating a blurb for the clip, as though it was a written book. The children looked at the blurbs from their Accelerated Reader books and from lots of other books to help them identify the features of blurbs before writing their own.
They’ve really tried to build up suspense and encourage others to read the tale.
What do you think?
This half term, Year 6 are learning all about ‘The Changing Role of Women’. This week we have learned all about the suffragette movement. The children identified reasons for and against the suffragette movement and examined photographic sources then moved on to watching a re-enactment of one of Emmeline Pankhurst’s famous speeches from 1912 which inspired them to write their own persuasive speech, in role, as though they were a suffragette and a member of the WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union). Some children wanted to read theirs aloud to the rest of the class.
Have a look at some of their fantastic writing!
Well done to our latest batch of Half Millionaires and Word Millionaires! More fantastic achievements and they really show our children’s love of reading.
Congratulations to Erin and Mia in Year 6 who are our latest Word Millionaires.
Mia is really enjoying reading the Wizard of Once series by Cressida Cowell. Mia says they’re very good books, they’re not too simple and she says they challenge her as a reader which she enjoys.
Erin is a huge fan of David Walliams’ books and she picked Robodog as her Millionaire prize. Erin says they’re not too difficult to read, she can read them so quickly because she enjoys them so much and she says they’re very funny.
This week in Reception, we have been learning about the coronation of King Charles III. We took part in activities covering many areas of the curriculum.
In History, we learned facts about King Charles and found out what a coronation was. We watched the coronation of the King’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
In Literacy, we wrote facts about King Charles.
In Geography, we learned about the commonwealth and looked at the commonwealth countries on a map.
In Art and DT, we made decorations for our classroom and designed flags to represent all of the commonwealth countries. We even had a go at drawing King Charles!
In ICT, we used Google Earth to look at Great Britain and the commonwealth countries. We were very excited to see our school!
In English, we read through our fabulous sentences from the day before and picked our favourite sentence. We discussed why we had chosen this sentence and gave reasons to justify our choice- for example, ‘I used a good adverb/ this is a powerful adjective/ I used a preposition’.
We worked with a partner to practise reading loudly, clearly and with expression. When we felt confident, we put our sentences together to form a group poem!
Well done to all of our Reader’s of the Month for March.
The children have impressed their teachers with their excellent effort in Reading and have made amazing progress and improvements.
A special mention to….
Stephen in Y3 who has improved his AR scores and now has an average of 93% in his quizzes.
Imogen from Y5 who has impressed her teacher with her wonderful attitude to reading by choosing challenging texts and pushing herself.
Lydia in Y2 for her perserverance in reading, she has made fantastic progress and her speedy reading has improved greatly this month!
Congratulations to this term’s Half Millionaires and we have another Word Millionaire! What an achievement! Well done to Harry in Year 5.
The children are all aiming for the Word Millionaire award now and are excited to read lots over the Easter break too.
Check out some of our new books for our libraries. After the children identified that they would like more comics and graphic novels, more have been purchased for the children to enjoy.
Why not ask one of our librarians to help you find some?
