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Next week, we will be taking part in a week full of activities linking to Kindness. This is part of the NSPCC fundraising and awareness week.
We will be taking part in lots of fun activities during Crew each day and there will be lots of opportunities for children to complete Kindness Challenges at home too.
Next Friday, to raise money for the NSPCC, we will be holding a Non-Uniform Day for donations of £1.
We have started reading our new text in year 2 today, which is called ‘Let the children march’. It is a beautiful text which explains how desegregation started in 1963 because of the influence of Martin Luther King Jnr. In collaborative groups, they all read sections of the text and then answered questions based on what they had read. I was really impressed with them today and how understanding and mature they have been about the subjects we have been discussing.
The children then wrote some sentences using some of the ambitious vocabulary that we had learnt from the text, such as; revolution, discrimination, activists, racism and equality. This is a picture of some of the children who had beautiful presentation today and I was very excited for George to be the second person to choose a sparkly pencil because of his gorgeous pre- cursive handwriting! Well done class 8…you impress me more and more every day!
Mrs Shaw x x x
Today is National Poetry Day and we celebrated in Class 6 by reading one of my favourite rhymes by Roald Dahl.
His take on the old fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood, is hilarious and the children absolutely loved it. They particularly enjoyed trying to guess the rhyming words.
We have so enjoyed celebrating reading this week.
These are treasures that I keep,
I hold them close when I sleep,
A Nintendo switch, a very clever little watch,
An xbox, a personalised money box,
Pictures of me dancing, lots of colourful paintings,
These are treasures that I found,
I keep them safe, I keep them sound.
In crew this morning, year 2 read a poem about our most prized possessions. It was called ‘My treasures’and was written by Kate Wakeling. The children drew pictures of their own prized possessions and then we collaboratively wrote our own poem, with rhyming words. The children really enjoyed writing it and I am impressed at their use of phonics to support finding rhyming couplets.
Well done class 8, Mrs Shaw x
As part of National Poetry Day, we had a fantastic afternoon when the author and illustrator Phil Sheppard visited us! We heard some really funny stories that he’d written as well as some funny poems and rhymes! There was definitely lots of laughs! We even practised some illustration skills as he taught us how to draw a shark!
This year’s National Poetry Day theme is refuge so we spent our crew session looking at what refuge means as well as at different examples of poetry. We then had a go at creating our own acrostic poems to reflect on what refuge means to us!
We also enjoyed listening to this little funny poem we found!
Well done to the children who won today’s attendance and school lunch prize draw today! Our attendance winners won a book in connection with Reading Week and our school lunch winners won a sweet treat!
Well done to Y6 for showing excellent sportsmanship this afternoon, showing encouragement to each other and playing some fantastic rugby. Well done Y6 and thank you for a brilliant afternoon!
Over the last two weeks we have developed our use of the chalk pastels and produced some more wonderful expedition linked artwork. I am so impressed with our brilliant snake pictures! x
