Any help you could give your child with recognising the sounds and practising the spellings would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks for your continued support and to all those who practised last week’s spellings. It really does make a massive difference for the children to see that the work they do in school is considered just as important at home.
A very special visitor was put in the hot-seat today in year 1 when Mr Nick Fletcher, our local member of parliament came to Green Top to answer questions about plastic pollution and climate change. The children certainly didn’t let him off lightly! Here are class 6’s awesome ‘I wonders’….
Miss Rodgers – Why is single use plastic still being produced when we know the effect it is having on our world? (It’s production is being reduced but we need to stop buying so much and chose alternative packaging too.)
Deacon – When will we stop making petrol and diesel cars? (Production in this country will end in 2030, although some cars imported from other countries will still be used in Britain.)
Junior – In Scarborough there is a ‘re-cycling’ fish where people can collect waste plastic from the beaches and put it in the fish for re-cycling. Could we have something like this in Thorne? (Mr Fletcher suggested we contact our town council to ask.)
Kalab – Why can’t there be a recycling centre just for plastic? (Mr Fletcher suggested we take the lids off plastic bottles so they would crush more easily to reduce their size and gave us some handy tips on how to make our plastic waste cleaner by not putting anything in our re-cycling bins that had touched food, or rinsing before re-cycling.)
Hunter – Is there a different, safer alternative to plastic? (Scientists are working on bio-degradable materials to replace plastic, but we can help by choosing snacks without packaging such as fresh fruit.)
Harrison – How could you make it easier to re-use our plastic bottles? (By choosing a hard plastic water bottle or by encouraging our school to go single-use plastic free as he has just suggested they do in the Palace of Westminster.)
I was so proud of the intelligent questions you asked and of the discussion we had afterwards about Mr Fletchers suggestions. It s awesome to see just how much you have learned about protecting our beautiful planet.
Thank you so much for taking the time to visit us Mr Fletcher.
Well deserved learning legend postcards today for Rhys and Anais for smashing effort in their work and this weeks yellow t shirt winner Florence, who has blown me away this week with her Can-do Colin attitude. Sorry Florence, I can’t find your photo. I will post one next week.
Big shout out to our learning legends today. Nathaniel won for being a kind and helpful crew member and Ellis for the awesome effort he is putting into his work.
Our phase assembly winners today in class 6 were…
From Crew Rodgers – Work Hard – Eva, Be Kind – Rhys, Get Smart, Adam and HoWL points – Adam. A special mention to Adam who, despite being at home with the dreaded chicken pox, has posted photographs of his homework on classroom every day to earn enough HoWL points to win this week’s certificate and Get Smart award.
From Crew O’Neill – Work Hard – Florence and Get Smart – Radu.
Nathaniel was our reading champion and Deacon, Junior and Tyler gained their Bronze reading certificates.
A huge shout out to Imogen also who proudly showed off her Irish Dancing medals from a comp she entered last weekend.
It was a pleasure to give these postcards today to 2 of our children who have showed how following our HoWLs brings success. Radu scored 10 out of 10 in our monthly spelling check, and Florence has worked so hard in her measuring maths lesson.
A huge thank you to Freya from our Learning Council for coming into class 6 this afternoon to read the children a story before they went home. Your reading was wonderful Freya and the children enjoyed it very much.
Look at the proud face on Thea as she won our learning legend postcard today for demonstrating just how much she has learned about animal groups, food chains and habitats. She was able to share her new-found knowledge with our crew and spoke knowledgeably about the effect humans have on the environment and how this impacts on the lives of the animals she has studied. So proud of you angel! X
Any help you could give your child with recognising the sounds and practising the spellings would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks for your continued support and to all those who practised last week’s spellings. It really does make a massive difference for the children to see that the work they do in school is considered just as important at home.
