What a fun day Year 4 had yesterday! Year 4 were very lucky to have Chris Davies from Scratch in, to re-tell stories about Jesus' four miracles. The children had to work in groups to re-tell the stories using collage. Much fun was had by all!
Last week, Year 4 had a fantastic time at Hillier Gardens! Year 4 learned a great deal about habitats and the environment linked to our topic 'What's it worth Planet Earth?' The children also learned some new skills including weaving.
Well done Year 4!
We learnt about the book 'The Princess and the White Bear King' and the Arctic. Look at our great displays in Year 2!Maths Masterclass had its first meeting this afternoon and showed that they can get points for the most complex ways of making a particular number. There were extra points for using decimal numbers, fractions and brackets!
(However, they found out that Points Don't Make Prizes... perhaps next time!)
They also demonstrated their ability to identify, draw, name and describe the properties of a range of common quadrilaterals - can you?
And they were left with a Masterclass Challenge:
Are you up to the challenge?
4MM have been having fun with fractions. They were finding fractions of numbers using groups of sweets as their 'whole'. If they found all the fractions accurately, or could explain why they couldn't, they were able to keep one of the sweets.
What motivation! Fantastic Fractions 4MM!
Some of the school governors spent today seeing our school in action. In the picture from left to right are Jackie Kerwood, Peter Clapham, William Handley-Garland and Richard Wilson.
Judy Short also came but had to go before we took the picture. They went to lots of lessons and learned all about the catch-up programme and had a jolly good lunch. The Governors learned about the 'helping H' (ask your child about it)!!! They were singing sensations at the school singing assembly!!! Lewis and Rishab showed them how the e-City learning portal works. You'll hear more about this exciting project soon!
by Amie and Conor, Year 5
UPDATE: We have paid in over £700 today to the appeal. Thank you so much for your support and concern. We will let you know a final figure in the next newsletter and here on the blog soon.
On Tuesday 19 January, we are having a non-uniform day to raise money for the Disasters Emergency Committee’s Haiti Earthquake Appeal.
Today, we have spoken to the children about the terrible disaster in Haiti.
We would like to raise as much money as possible to help.
We normally ask for at least £1 for non-uniform days, but if you can afford more, please send in what you can.
We will also have a collection in the office for visitors.
(Advice from Children's BBC if you are upset by the news...)
The Totally Travel Team has been learning the Green Cross Code off by heart, in the same way that everyone has been learning stories off by heart in their classes.
After the next Committee Afternoon, we will be teaching the code back in our own classes so that everyone knows it off by heart too - with actions!
We made a quick video to share how far we got!
We also used the Tales of the Road website to try out some games and activities we will be recommending to our classes...
You can watch one of the TV ads here and try the activities yourself by visiting the site:
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