Anti-Bullying Week

This week has been anti-bullying week and we have acknowledged it by wearing odd socks, holding anti-bullying crew sessions and thinking about ‘one kind word’.

Crew Knowles loved coming up with their kind words and thinking about how they might brighten someone else’s day.

Children in Need – dress up day!

Next week we will be celebrating Children in Need on Thursday 18th November!

Thursday will be a dress up day where we are inviting children to wear something spotty and bright coloured! Any donations on the dress up day for Children in Need will be gratefully received.

Our school council are also holding a couple of competitions which will be running next week.

  1. Drawing of Pudsey competition
  2. Design a Children in Need T-shirt

Maths Week Continued!

The Learning Council members really enjoyed visiting the Year 5/6 classrooms yesterday to watch maths in actions! They captured lots of lovely learning happening which you can check out below!

Also, a big thank you to all those that have taken part in our ‘guess the sweets’ activity! We will be visiting EYFS on Friday to take their guesses and then will reveal the winner next week! The Learning Council can’t wait!

Perspective Drawing

Today we introduced our art case study by looking at perspective and how to create 3D shapes from different perspectives.

We started the lesson by grappling with the skill trying to write our names using 3D letters. We then started to perfect the skill using the accurate technique,

Great job everyone!

ALL Block

I am really enjoying our ALL Block sessions this week! Each group have been so focused and really engaged with the different activities to practise their fluency, retrieval and inference. I have particularly enjoyed the teacher guided group where we had a completed assessment paper which the children had to mark and decide whether each answer was right or wrong. There was lots of good discussions and debate around each of the answers which was great to witness!

History Detectives!

In history today, the class had to use their inference and detective skills to be able to order a timeline of trains in chronological order. They also had to match the dates and some information about each of the trains without out any teaching beforehand!

I was extremely impressed without how everyone used their prior knowledge and make links in their learning to be able to order the evolution of trains!

A wonderful start to Maths Week!

We’ve had a great start to Maths Week with lots of the Y5/6 children guessing how many sweets are in the tub, lots of great, engaging maths lessons, and lots of lovely maths stories shared in crew!

The LC have loved going in to the Y3/4 maths lessons to see maths in action and they are looking forward to going in to Y5/6 maths lessons tomorrow!

Here is a sneak peak of all the wonderful maths that Y3/4 have been up to today!

Delicious Chocolate Frogs!

Thank you to Brendan (and mum!) and his friends who spent time making everyone in Year 6 their own chocolate frog linking to our recent learning on Harry Potter!

They were super thoughtful, delicious and very much appreciated!

Here are some photos of them working hard to make them!

Wellbeing Crew

Year 6 enjoyed a lovely wellbeing crew this morning where we looked at different feelings and how we might recognise those feelings on others and in ourselves. We then discussed who we might share our feelings with whether they were good or bad! We made paper chains with the names of all our trusted people who we would feel safe talking to to remind us that there is always someone to listen to us!

The Industrial Revolution

During our expedition session today, we had a silent discussions answering lots of different questions about the Industrial Revolution. I was really impressed with how to the children followed the protocols for a silent discussions and I was super impressed with their knowledge and recall when answering the questions!