Class 16 – Investigating Fabulous Forces

3rd November 2022Claire Dutton

This week, Class 16 have been learning all about forces as part of our science-focused expedition looking at space. We have conducted experiments to learn more about gravity, air resistance, water resistance and friction.

Why not ask us more about our investigations and test our knowledge about how parachutes can help slow vehicles down or how streamlining an object can make it move faster in water?

Take a look at our air resistance investigation, where we made different sized parachutes to see how they affected the drop time of an object:

Y5 / Y6 Community Crew and OOTW

3rd November 2022Claire Dutton

This morning was our first opportunity to come together as a phase crew since returning to school after the half-term. It was a great to hear what everybody had been learning in class this week and to celebrate a fantastic start to the term – well done everybody, keep up the fab work!

Special shout outs for those children receiving HOWLs certificates today, and to our OOTW champions too. Who will be celebrating next week?

Crew Jackson – Collaborative maths

2nd November 2022Jillian Jackson

Wow! Today I was blown away by the hard work of all members of Crew Jackson. We showed fantastic collaborative skills in our maths lesson. I heard great mathematical discussions about methods and calculations they should use to solve a range of problems. Watching the ‘be kind’ norms of patience and encouragement when a peer was finding something difficult was wonderful to see. I loved listening to fantastic explanations of strategies for solving problems as they coached each other. Keep up the hard work Crew Jackson – you were just super stars all day! 😊

Mrs Jackson x

Y6/Class 16 catch up

5th October 2022Claire Dutton

We’ve had a great start to our week in Class 16 – lots of hard work and getting smart! We also enjoyed a lovely hangout with Mrs Jackson in our morning crew session today.

A big shout out to Oliver who has completed some beautiful home learning this week, including extending the coding activity from our family learning event to code the moon traveling around the earth as it moves around the earth. Well done, Oliver!

As this week is all about celebrating reading, we have also enjoyed a visit by one of our school learning councillors to read us a story at the end of the day. Thank you to Faith from Y5.

Today, we are busy writing up our space crisis narratives in neat … working quietly and developing our stamina for extended writing.

Place Value Revision (Y6)

29th September 2022Chris Mumby

We had a number of requests for additional homework at our Y6 network. As we have just finished our ‘place value’ unit of study, I have complied questions from previous test papers for children to complete at home. You should find a range of questions linked to place value, ordering numbers, negative numbers and rounding.

Share any photos or work to [email protected] as we like to celebrate hard work in our phase community meetings

Place-Value-revision-Y6-SEPTDownload

Thanks, Mr Mumby

Y5/6 Community Meeting & OOTW celebrations

29th September 2022Claire Dutton

Congratulations to all our HOWL point and OOTW winners – it was great to come together this morning and celebrate your achievements in our phase crew. Thank you to the parents who were able to join us to celebrate as well.

A few reminders – don’t forget to mark your HOWL points as you go; see Miss Myers if you would like to join the choir and attend Young Voices in February; and, we look forward to seeing your Ronald Dahl dress ups next week!

Family Learning in Class 16

28th September 2022Claire Dutton

A huge thank you to the parents/carers who could make our family learning session this afternoon – it was a pleasure to meet you all and to see you enjoy grappling with computer coding alongside your children. Also, a shout out to the children themselves – you all worked so hard and it was great to see so many of you sharing your expertise with others and helping others to debug any problems with their algorithms. A great afternoon!