Year 4 newsletter

Last week,  it really was the 'Greatest Show' full of 'A Million Dreams' when Year 4 performed their production alongside Year 3.  Full of perseverance and resilience, the children (or should we say Shackleton, Pythoagoras, Archimedes, Romeo, Juliet...) acted like true professionals when they performed five shows in a row including the dress rehearsal!   Thank you so much to all the parents for helping with props and providing costumes.  A massive thank you too for Miss Freeman for her awesome choreography and for arranging the songs. 

With all the rehearsing and performing, it was amazing that there was any time left for learning but we managed to squeeze in a few lessons in between.  The most memorable part was learning about properties of air.  We could have watched the raisins rising and falling in lemonade for hours!

Exploring our world

This afternoon, children in Reception used Google Earth to explore different parts of our world. We spoke about the different colours on the Earth's surface and what each one represented, discovering that the coldest and hottest places were likely to be less green. After some excited discussion about what the Earth looked like, the children were keen to find out where different places were. From Windhill21, to Cape Verde, Barbados to the Arctic, children were amazed at what they saw!

During their own choosing time, a number of children decided to carry on exploring with an adult on Google Earth, and some children chose to label the different countries on our class globes. Sam studied the globe carefully, asking questions about areas that sparked interest. Logan spent his entire afternoon labelling parts of the globe, like "North Pole" and "America" and enjoyed looking at the different colours of each area of land. 

If you would like to explore our world at home, 

take a look at Google Earth and see where it takes you!

Year 3 Newletter

Year 3 have been continuing their English learning journey by developing their understanding of explanation texts ready to write their own. The children will be writing about the life cycle of a creature that they have created. We look forward to reading their imaginative ideas!

In maths the children have been continuing to learn about fractions including comparing and ordering fractions. Next week we will be exploring equivalence further!

On top of this the children have done a total of 5 performance including their dress rehearsal to the school of 'A million dreams'. We are so proud of their patience and enthusiasm towards the show. We think their dancing and singing has been outstanding! We hope you were able to come and see a show and enjoyed it as much as we did!

Year 6 Investigating Refraction

Year 6 continued their Science unit of ‘Light’ this week with a collection of investigations exploring refraction. The children found out how objects appeared to move and look distorted in different liquids.  Our super scientists  concluded that the density of the liquid had an effect on the speed at which light travelled through it and thus affecting the ways we see things.

Additionally this week we have been overwhelmed by the talent showcased at the Global Goals evening. We were super proud of our year 6 speech writers, Max E and Ella M who represented the year group fabulously. They spoke articulately showing intelligence and passion in their persuasive speeches about the Parthenon Marbles. Equally, our global goal keepers opened the evening highlighting some impressive changes already made to some thought provoking issues. Finally, a huge shout out to our Performance Poetry group who blew our socks off with their entertaining recitals of ‘Matilda’ and ‘Gran, Can you Rap?’ Congratulations to all - we could not have been prouder.

Reception High frequency words

The children in Reception have been learning how to read and spell a number of high frequency and 'red' ('tricky') words. By request, we have put a list of the words that are considered high frequency:

the

a

all

come

to

we

so

said

are

he

no

of

my

was

you

me

they

she

is

I

be

Have a go at spotting these tricky words in your reading books! 

Can you use any of them in a written sentence?

Year 2 Newsletter

Year 2 have had a very ‘chocolatey’ few weeks. The children have been busily preparing for their chocolate showcase on Thursday 4th April. They have been working in groups and we are so impressed by the skills they have drawn upon to work well in teams. A real highlight has been that each team has made their very own chocolate bar (using fair trade chocolate, of course). Next week we will be making the wrappers and the  chocolate bars will be complete!

What did you think of the smoothie?

After making the smoothies, Year one reflected on their choice of flavours.

Some said theirs was too lumpy, some said it was too thick and some said it was just right!