Class 5 champions!

3rd February 2022Samantha Good

WOW to some awesome children in class 5 today!

Macky has been racking up those HOWL points over the past week and has ended up with the most! He’s definitely displayed all of our HOWLs and has been taking beautiful pride in all of his learning.

Hunter and Aurora have been chosen as Crew O’Neill and Crew Good’s BE KIND champion this week. These two always keep our classroom tidy and are super kind crew members to each other. Always using their manners, being respectful too!

Elizabeth is our WORK HARD champion this week. Her attitude to learning has been excellent, she’s really making some great choices and producing some amazing writing. She is responding so well to critique and feedback and really starting to engage in her learning.

Maya has been chosen as our GET SMART champion this week as she has been on fire!!! She’s been so active every day and working hard to take pride in her work.

Keep up the hard work class 5, you’re all superstars!!!!

Digital Leaders

27th January 2022Jake Taylor

Notice for all students in Year 2 to Year 5!

Students in Year 2, 3, 4 and 5 have an amazing opportunity to become a Digital Leader within their class.

This is a fantastic opportunity for children to develop their own individual skills when it comes to the latest technology. Children who are successful will get the opportunity to visit XP East and potentially the Apple Store to have further training on how to use technology including iPads, MacBooks and some of the other great products that are used throughout school. Our Digital Leaders will then become the experts who can then pass on their knowledge to others.

Below is a link to the Digital Leaders website where you can find out further information.

https://sites.google.com/xpeast.org/digital-leader-applications/home

Applications will need to be sent to Mr Taylor by Thursday 3rd February explaining why you would make a fantastic Digital Leader. This can be done in a format of your choice including a letter, slides or even a video showcasing your IT skills.

We look forward to receiving your applications!

Phonics sounds and spelling list wb. 24.1.22

23rd January 2022Jayne Rodgers

This weeks phonics focus sounds will be…
wh as in when, ph as in phone, ew as in stew and oe as in toe

Our weekly spellings are…
here, there, when, which, alpha, graph, stew, crew, toe, goes

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.

Miss Rodgers and Miss Good x

KS1 superstars!

21st January 2022Samantha Good

We have had an amazing week in KS1. Lots to celebrate…

Lots of people have been working so hard in their learning, have shown that they are kind crew members and have been making good choices. We have had some awesome readers, getting or reader of the week as well as lots of reading certificates that have been achieved too!

Crew Rodgers and Crew Good won joint attendance this week, with 100% so get to keep Paddington and Jemima for the week! I wonder who will get Paddington or Jemima next week?

We are all so proud of the children! Thank you to everyone for continuing to work hard, get smart and be kind! Keep up the hard word, and maybe it could be YOU next week?

Staying safe online!

20th January 2022Samantha Good

Class 5 reminded ourselves how to stay safe online in crew yesterday, and made some beautiful pictures that show people being kind to others online, just like we would in person, others drew pictures to show asking our trusted adults for help if we get stuck or see something we are unsure of and some people drew the difference between right and wrong whilst using computers and being online. I am so glad we all know how to stay safe, even whilst we are online!

This week’s Y1 spellings and phonics sounds.

16th January 2022Jayne Rodgers

Good afternoon

This weeks phonics focus sounds will be…
Oy as in boy, ir as in girl, ue as in glue and in cue, aw as in paw

Our weekly spellings are…
said, you, joy, loyal, twirl, third, due, glue, straw, law

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.

Miss Rodgers and Miss Good x

TIME for maths

14th January 2022Samantha Good

We’re looking at time in Maths this week, we started with the days of the week and months of the year. Class 5 worked collaboratively to put the days and months in the correct order. To help us we have been singing lots of songs all week too. It has been great to hear everyone practising the days of the week to the Addams Family!

Out of this WORLD!

14th January 2022Samantha Good

WOW Jenson. Big well done this week for being Out Of This World for class 5. Jenson has been a superstar this week, he’s been making great choices, writing beautiful sentences about the animals we have looked at and has been displaying all of our HOWLs. Great job, Jenson, keep up the hard work!

Researchers for the morning!

13th January 2022Samantha Good

Class 5 spent the morning looking at different types of animals, we practised saying the word ‘characteristics’ and ‘amphibian’ and now we are experts! In groups the children helped each other to read the fact files for different animal groups, in order to complete a scavenger hunt sheet to find out which animal groups had certain characteristics. We found out the only Mammals give birth to live babies, which is how we know what a shark must be a fish, because it lays eggs!

In the afternoon we even wrote some beautiful sentences about what we had learnt. Now, class 5 are talking about how birds have feathers, are warm blooded and lay eggs. After practising, we can say the word Amphibian and know that if an animal is an amphibian, it was wet skin, webbed feet and also lay eggs!

On-line Learning

10th January 2022Jayne Rodgers

Expedition/English, phonics and maths slides for this week are now available on Google Classroom. There is also a link on there to our brand new expedition site where you can access the beautiful work produced by our children as well as links to useful information and further study. The site is a work in progress and will be updated regularly by year 1 and year 2 staff. In case you missed the invitation to join our Classroom I have sent the link to your child’s email address which is in the following format…

[email protected]

If you do not receive the link or have any other questions relating to this please do not hesitate to get in touch and Miss Good and I will do our best to help you.

See you on Classroom!