Year 2 have red noses, or was that Rudolph?

 

Year 2 wish you a very Happy and Healthy Christmas.

They loved singing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!

Year 2 have been writing a non fiction report over the last few weeks.  They have been basing their writing on hibernation and found out lots of wonderful facts which helped them in their work.  Do you know what some animals do when they hibernate? Ask a year 2 child and they will tell you!

In science the children have been thinking about being healthy and what a healthy plate of food looks like.  They even designed Santa a healthy plate of food.  Do you think he eats his sprouts?

Year 3 Newsletter

 Year 3 Newletter

As the autumn term comes to an end (albeit it sooner than expected) and we prepare for Christmas, the year 3 team hope you all have a well deserved break. We are so proud of you all for the hard work you have put into your learning and cannot wait to see you again in the new year. Please enjoy these pictures of our wonderful year 3's enjoying their learning this year.

Merry Christmas and happy new year to all!

Nursery Newsletter

How fabulous were the children during our Nativity!?  We all think they did an amazing job considering they are mostly all only 3 years old.  It is a huge ask for children this young to sit still on stage with a mass of parents watching them and to remember the lines to all the songs they need to sing.  They also looked fantastic in their costumes.  If you have ordered any photographs, these will be handed out to you in the new year.  Thank you to all the parents who came and supported the nursery children for our Nativity.

We have been mostly practicing our Nativity songs over the past couple of weeks, but we have been also been reading lots of lovely Christmas books.  The children particularly loved 'There's and Elf in Your Book, by Tom Fletcher (especially the cheeky parts!!).  

We have also been opening an online advent calendar.  As we will not be in school again until the new year the link to the advent calendar is:

http://boowakwala.uptoten.com/kids/boowakwala-events-christmas-advent.html 

The children have been loving seeing what is hidden in each stocking!  Why don't you go through them all with your child.

From all the Nursery staff, we wish you all a very Merry, and safe, Christmas and a happy New Year.

Year 4 newsletter

 In the final few weeks of this term, Year 4 were busy discussing whether we should give money to homeless people on the street, creating different pitches by blowing over the tops of bottles and finishing Paddington.  Remember, you can listen to Paddington being read aloud online. 

We also learnt a lot about perimeter and measure in maths last week and now feel super confident in finding the perimeter of squares, oblongs and lots of other shapes.  Did you know there are so many different ways to work these out?! 

This week, we would have been getting in the Christmas spirit here at school and hope we can do the same whilst keeping ourselves safe at home! Whilst you’re at home working out Christmas anagrams, maths riddles and watching Christmas movies - your teachers are busy setting up the new displays for Spring term.  Watch this space for an Antarctic adventure! 

Merry Christmas Year 4 - we look forward to welcoming you back in January! X 

Year 1 Newsletter

Wow what a term!

We have had such a busy first term in Year 1 and the children have all worked so hard throughout. We ended this year and term on a high with so much excitement to finish off our current forest topic.

In Design and Technology after much anticipation we made our smoothies! We had so much fun following the recipe and combining the ingredients to finally testing our products. We even designed packaging for them too!

We also ended our forest topic by having a well deserved treat in the forest! Mrs Rawding our Forest expert showed us how to have a safe fire in the forest. We even got to toast marshmallows and learnt about what a fire needs to be able to thrive and what we need to do to respect the fire. We then ended the treat by having a lovely warming cup of hot chocolate around the log circle.

We cannot forge to mention the children's absolutely outstanding Nativity performances! Didn't they just blow you away?! We were so impressed with the professionalism of the children and how hard they worked to give you their best ever performance. We were so glad that the children were able to perform for you after all of their hard work in rehearsals.

Well done to the children for working so hard this term. We really hope you are all able to have a happy and healthy Christmas break with your families.

Merry Christmas!

Mrs Watson-Clarke and Mrs Smith

Year 6 Newsletter

We are so proud of year 6 and how they have worked so hard right up until the end of term. Some highlights of the last fortnight have definitely been our non-chronological reports on mythical desert creatures.  Who could have imagined that the North American Griffin was such a violent raptor?  However, I guess that is little surprise since it is half-griffin, half-lion... In maths, we particularly loved proving that parallegrams have the same area as rectangles.  We have completed our light topic in science by investigating the variables that affect shadow length and also by observing the effects of refraction. Without a shadow of a doubt though, the most interesting lesson was considering the Sainsburys's 2014 advert as a suitable historical source for learning about the Christmas truce of 1914.  We were shocked to learn that there was very little historical evidence (from newspapers, diaries and letters) that the football match occurred. 

Reception Newsletter

This week, the Reception children sang their hearts out for their Nativity performance! They have been working really hard to prepare for the show and have even been singing the songs to themselves during choosing time and lining up in the lunch queue! Thank you all for coming to watch our performance and for supporting us with costumes and learning lines. If you would like to buy a photo from the show, please contact Mrs Witney.

We have also been telling alternative stories about Stickman, where the children chose different settings for Stickman to get lost and come across trouble. 

"Stickman, oh Stickman, beware of the... whale!"

The children worked together on a story on the carpet, deciding that Stickman might come across a grumpy whale who could not be cheered up, even with a bit of tickling! In the end, the children decided that the whale needed a cuddle before helping him find his way home to his family submarine!

 

Year 5 Newsletter

 Gosh! What a busy final week year 5 have had. 

In writing this week, the children completed their independent write on whether zoos should stay open or close. The children were extremely successful in arguing fairly for both sides, despite having quite strong personal opinions.

In Art, the children experimented with water colour to create a mood. They then transferred these skills to their topic artwork, where they drew an evacuee and then painted it to convey a mood e.g. anger, sadness, anxiety. We all really enjoyed developing our art skills and the outcomes were fantastic!

Finally, in music, the children were able to watch back their performances of a word war 2 compositions that they created. Whilst watching, they were able to reflect on their performances and become critical thinkers. 

Year 4 newsletter

 This week Year 4 have started their new writing unit, a discussion text about homelessness.  We were posed with the question, ‘Should we give money to homeless people on the street?’  We came up with arguments for and against this question and had a mini debate using our opinions.  There was a split in the class.  Could you discuss this at home? 

We also did an investigation in science last week.  We were investigating whether pitch was effected by the volume of air / water in the bottles.  We made predictions and the class voted exactly 15/15 each way! Then we conducted a fair test to determine the outcome and concluded that the bottle with the most air / leats water in produced the lowest pitch sound.  

Year 5 Newsletter

 Year 5 have been very busy this week creating their final Anderson Shelter designs. The children used their imaginations to make their basic shelter model look as realistic as possible. In our English lessons this week, the children were introduced to our balanced argument topic, ‘is animal testing morally right’. We ended the week with a debate, using sentence stems to structure our ideas. In our PSHE lesson, we looked at different scenarios and rated ‘how big is our problem?’ This helped the children to consider the difference between every day problems that might arise and really serious situations and how a different strategy may be needed to deal with the situation.