Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
-
Updates from Year 6 Teachers
Fri 27 Nov 2020It has been so lovely to have 6T back this week. We have continued our work on 'Little Freak' in English and explored the different feelings and emotions the character experiences. We have begun our work on fractions and the children have been learning how to convert between mixed and improper fractions. They are doing brilliantly.
Miss Hubert & Mr Tivey
-
Update from Year 3 Teachers
Fri 27 Nov 2020Year three had a really exciting morning on Thursday. They managed to connect with two classes at the infant school through ZOOM. Year three had written their own version of the Diwalli story “Rama and Sita” and a few children were selected to read their stories to the infants. It was a really great opportunity to connect at these sensitive times. Can’t wait for the next one!
Mrs Wright and Miss Mercer
-
6T Update
Fri 20 Nov 2020This week, a large part of 6T have been learning from home and online. They have been accessing Microsoft Teams meetings with Mr Tivey four times a day, looking at many different areas of the curriculum. The children have been really engaged and have produced some fantastic work in English and Maths, especially in difficult circumstances. Mr Tivey is proud of the way the children have conducted themselves throughout the week. They have worked extremely hard. Hopefully this will continue into the early part of next week before they arrive back in school on Wednesday.
-
6H Update
Fri 20 Nov 2020We had a great start to anti-bullying week with a wonderful assembly all about Ned and how important it is to keep going even when we find things difficult. In class, it has been a little strange without 6T but everyone has continued to work hard. We have been working on how we can improve our descriptive writing in English and BODMAS in maths. During our reading and topic sessions, we have been looking at what life was like for a Victorian child and the many horrible jobs they had to do. Needless to say, I think they prefer modern life! In science, we have been exploring electrical circuits and created our own, experimenting with different components and how we can make bulbs brighter.
Miss Hubert
-
5W Update
Fri 20 Nov 2020Over the last week, 5W have been exploring what happens to a crater when a ball is dropped into flour from different heights. There have been some unexpected results which we have plotted onto line graphs using a spreadsheet in Purple Mash. We have started to design jewellery in the style of the ancient civilizations from the Indus Valley. In English, we have been thinking about how to express the emotions of a character.
Miss Woolley & Mrs Cave
-
5M Update
Thu 19 Nov 2020In 5M, we continued to write our spooky stories and have now begun Alma, a tale about a girl, who found a shop window with a doll that resembles her. Curiosity and temptation overwhelm her with dramatic consequences. We are learning about using adjectives and imagery to successfully draw in a reader. In ICT, we drew a line graph, using computer software from the results of an experiment we successfully conducted last Friday afternoon. The Indus Valley topic has been explored further with us learning about when in history this civilisation existed and investigating their jewellery, considering how to shade and use tone in our work.
-
Update from Year 3 Teachers
Thu 19 Nov 2020Our new Maths topic, which we have started this week, is Multiplication and Division. The children are enjoying learning about equal groups and repeated addition. In our topic lesson this week, we have started learning about Japan. In English, we have continued learning about stories from other cultures. We have been learning about using commas and have extended this into writing direct speech and using the commas in context.
Miss Mercer & Mrs Wright
-
Microsoft Teams Help
Wed 18 Nov 2020As part of home learning, we are asking children to take part in Microsoft Teams meetings with their teachers. Here, you will find links to a series of videos, explaining how to download, log on and log on as a guest to Microsoft Teams.
Downloading Microsoft Teams
Teams- https://www.loom.com/share/37ca39bfcee143efb97dda47f5de7530
Logging onto Microsoft Teams
https://www.loom.com/share/dac6dc103b224a0eb57faddd95629ed9
Logging onto Microsoft Teams as a guest
https://www.loom.com/share/e56c7a6cb20044c1b1c0ea146bf2ddd0
You can also find these links directly on the website by going to Children>Home Learning> Microsoft Teams Help
-
Update from Year 6 Teachers
Fri 13 Nov 2020Year 6 have enjoyed learning about and remembering those who gave their lives during the world wars and to those who continue to show bravery for our country. We have done this in our English unit and by observing a 2 minute silence on Armistice Day. Year 6 have also enjoyed PE this week, where they have had an outside provider teaching tri- golf to the children. Year 6 have worked extremely hard in everything they have done this week and we are proud of their continued effort.
Mr Tivey 6T & Miss Hubert 6H
-
5M Update
Fri 13 Nov 2020This week in 5M, we have started the topic of the Indus Valley and have discovered where in the world it was located. We have begun to read a text from as similar time period that was set in Mesopotamia called Gilgamesh. He was the prince of a city and was rather arrogant and unkind. With his true friend we learned how he went to fight the monster Humbaba. The children have also looked at jewellery from the Indus Valley and have used shading appropriately. In English, the children having been using their imaginations to plan and begin to write a spooky story and we can’t wait to finish them next week.
Mrs Marshall 5M