Class 1

“I liked playing with the Lego and building towers”.

“Playing with my friends in the writing area”.

“I loved playing with the cars. We drove them up to the new house and down the tunnels”.

“I liked being a train in our dance lesson”.

“I loved playing stuck in the mud when Beth was in for PE”.

“I liked playing with the dinosaurs in our new house”.

“Doing our maths investigations afternoon”.

“Doing the playdough worms”.

Class 2 

Creating the world during digital art.

Learning to times by two and divide by two in year two maths.

Going to the gymnastics competition.

Golden time and reading reward playtime.

Learning songs in music.

Thinking about the cheerful giver who was poor but gave more than the rich people.

Lunchtime, talking to my friends when we eat our dinner.

Playing football outside and making up games at playtime.

Class 3  This week in Class 3 we have enjoyed making a double page spread about what we learnt in Science. 

We have enjoyed all music – people have done recorder, some people piano, guitar and flute. 

We enjoyed carrying on a story about a white rabbit in English. 

We enjoyed learning what guitar, flute, recorder, drums and clarinet are in French.

In guided reading we liked reading Charlotte’s Web.

Class 4

We have enjoyed creating bookmarks, to share our reading book recommendations with our friends.

We have enjoyed writing stories about the Troll who came to town, we used a story starter to help with our ideas.

We have enjoyed our first SATs booster session, we worked on our Maths and SPaG, which helped us lots. 

I have enjoyed singing with Mr King, we are getting better at learning our songs.

We have enjoyed Lacrosse with Mr Barnes; it is quite challenging because you have to talk each other about tactics, and it requires a lot of technique.

Class 1 from the children 

“I enjoyed singing our songs in our music lesson”. 

“I’ve had fun playing in the drawing area with my friends”. 

“I like reading with my teachers”.

“I love playing outside”.

“I love playing in the mud kitchen outside, we made lots of pancakes for our friends”.
 
Class 2 from the children...

I like golden time, reading, doing reading quizzes, the story in English 'Winter's Child', drama in English, story time, painting our towers, playing with my friends, playtime, lunchtime, R.E., computing when we make tables and charts, learning tri-golf with Bethan, doing gymnastics with Rachel and maths.  I am excited to be going rock climbing! We are all excited to go rock climbing.
 
Class 3 from the children 

This week we have had our last woods session and we had a wonderful time.  We built dens and explored all the features of the wood. 

We have had fun in Geography learning about tectonic plates.  We had to scan a QR code and add countries and plates to a world map. 

We enjoyed lacrosse because we had a chance to play matches. 

Maths was good because we are learning how to do multiplication.
 
Class 4 from the children

We have enjoyed finding out how 'seasons' are created in our Earth and Space topic. 

I have enjoyed singing in a duet in music this week.

I have enjoyed learning ‘Matilda’ songs for the Music and Drama Festival.

In French, we have enjoyed learning about the weather and practising our best French accents.

We have been finding out about how rivers are used and looked at the positive and negative effects on habitats, plants and the environment. 

In Design and Technology, we have enjoyed completing our bridge constructions and evaluating them.

Class 1 we have been continuing to learn about the polar regions. We have been talking about different habitats and who lives there.

To celebrate Children's Mental Health Week we have been reading 'The Colour Monster', talking about all sorts of different feelings and using our emotional register.

Our story for the week was 'Goldilocks and the Three Crocodiles'. We talked about similarities and differences to the original story. We then voted for our favourite - Goldilocks and the Three Crocodiles won top spot.

In phonics, we are now learning to read longer words - we are doing a fantastic job! And in maths we have been working hard to compare groups of objects, using 'more than', 'fewer than' and 'equal to'.

Well done, Class One!

Class 2  The Year 1 children relished rock climbing last week and the Year 2’s are super excited for their turn next Friday.  Class 2 have focused and independently applied their learning this week as they completed their reading, SPAG and maths assessments.  Next week we will be focusing on our phonics assessments. 

We have LOVED joining in with the BBC 'Moodboosters' videos as part of Children’s Mental Health Week, as well as doing our daily emotional register where we share how we're feeling and often why we feel a particular way, it's become more of a news sharing time where we have learned a little more about our lives outside of school. 

For Safer Internet day we talked about the different APPs and websites we use then represented this on our own digital footprint. 

Our 'Tri-golf' PE lesson was outdoors as we have become much more accurate in hitting the ball to a target. 

Pupils are working hard both at home and school on their learning and we're proud of the responsibility they are taking for their own learning.   

Great perseverance has been shown by our 6 Year 1 gymnasts in attending their weekly before school gym practice, good luck to all the gymnasts next Friday!

Class 3  This week, the children have worked really hard during assessment week and given it their all.

We have also taken part in Safer Internet Day on Tuesday, where we talked about how we would like the Internet to be a safer place as well as celebrating the wonderful things we can use it for.

We have investigated shadows in Science and noticed patterns.

We had a great time making models of plate tectonics in Geography using foam and cream crackers to show how the plates move. 

Class 4 have had a fantastic week; they have worked really hard. Everyone demonstrated amazing focus and positive attitudes during assessments. Great work year 5/6!

We took part in a water workshop this week to investigate, what we use water for, how much we use, saving water and where our water comes from and goes (natural and human water cycles).  At the end of the session the children made a “water saving promise” to save water at home and school.

The children thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Eden Rock, we have some talented climbers. Everyone showed perseverance and resilience! 

Have a lovey weekend Class 4.

Class 1 have been continuing to learn about Antarctica and the Arctic. Our book of the week was ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers, we enjoyed making ‘Lost’ posters to help our own penguin find his way home. We have been practising our sculpting skills, experimenting with clay – using our hands to make different shapes and using the clay tools. In maths, we have been partitioning 5 and are getting really confident at this. In our dance session this week, we were moving like different kinds of robots – we are getting very good at moving to the music. Well done everyone!

Class 2 

Year 1 and 2 have confidently entered their new calculation maths units this week, with growing independence and confidence.  They have enthusiastically designed and built towers using boxes in DT demonstrating strong collaboration skills when working partnership.   We have written instructions for washing our hands which has reminded us about rubbing in the soap for twenty seconds.  In computing we were gathering and presenting data for favourite sports in a range of tables and charts.  We are becoming weather experts as we record our daily temperature and weather, whilst still hoping the snow returns so we can try out our snowman instructions.  In PSHE we sensibly learned about the NSPCC 'PANTS rules'.  During Science we learned why we have day and night, using a ball, torch and person to help represent this, the class were fantastic at answering online knowledge quiz questions too.  Our class two gymnasts are nearly ready for their competition, demonstrating great commitment and perseverance as they attend their weekly morning practice. We have been focusing on community this week and have worked hard as a class to try to support one another in different ways, with our work, choices, actions, words or when we're just not feeling 100%.  Well done class two, we're a great team!

Class 3 have had a busy week.  They have been learning about light and are investigating shadows.  We have been focused in maths and everyone is showing great perseverance.  Our volcanic dance is developing in PE, in preparation for U Dance.  We have been building upon our art project by using materials in the woods and enjoying the sunshine.

Class 4 have been thinking about taking risks and peer pressure in PSHE this week. Everyone demonstrated a very mature attitude during our discussion. 

In our Rivers topic, we have been learning about erosion and deposition. The children went on to perform these movements in PE, working co-operatively together. 

In music, we have been practising our new songs, everyone made a fantastic effort when singing solo. We have some amazing voices in year 5/6. Well done class 4! 

Well done to our Gymnasts who participated in the County Gymnastics Championships yesterday – securing a 1^st & 2^nd place for the U11’s. 

Class 1 Children's comments…

“I liked dancing like a dinosaur, I stomped around”.

“I loved building a river in the sand”.

“We’ve been learning about polar bears, they can smell a seal from 20 miles away”.

“I liked pretending to be toys in our dance lesson”.

“I’ve had fun being at school”.

“Playing with my friends, we made a big tunnel slide for the cars”.

“We made a band and played some songs – we were very loud!”.

Class 2  best bits from this week have been doing spelling tests again, going on the field for a frosty playtimes, English writing our snowman instructions, the money work in year 2 maths,  learning tri-golf, doing accelerated reader tests, golden time, learning how to make different joins in DT with cardboard for our tower work and the Friday comprehension and arithmetic maths!

Class 3 Children's comments…

Year 4 have enjoyed doing 12, 11 and 7 in times tables in Maths.

Year 3 have enjoyed doing 3 times tables in maths.

On Friday, we enjoyed going to the woods because we got to explore and cook.

We have enjoyed looking at diary entries.

Guided reading was fun.  We read, we answered questions, we did poems, read books and we did SPAG. 

We made recipes for the woods.

Class 4 Children's comments…

We have really enjoyed planning a newspaper report about 'The Windmill Farmer' we have learnt how to write headlines and make our writing dramatic and interesting for the reader.

In PE, I have enjoyed learning new skills in Lacrosse sessions with Mr Barnes (PE coach).

In PE, we have enjoyed making up our own sequenced dance routine in small groups. We linked our moves to river music because we are learning about rivers in geography. We enjoyed performing in front of an audience. 

It was really interesting learning about day and night in Science, we found out about time differences in other countries across the world, the sun doesn't really move and the earth spins on its axis.

We really enjoyed Mr King teaching us a new song for the Music and Drama Festival.