Class 6 worked in teams today to make paper chain tentacles for an octopus. They had to ensure that they made their tentacles the same length so they had to decide on the number of links in each chain and keep adding more until they matched
I was so proud of how they persevered with their task, even when they found it tricky.
They certainly followed our class motto – keep on trying, never give up, you’ll get there in the end.
Great job guys. I can’t wait to see them on display!
We had a fabulous first day back today as we began our immersion into our new expedition, ‘How will what I do today impact the world tomorrow?’ by thinking about the animals that live in our oceans. The children created these amazing sparkly sea creatures to begin to decorate our classroom and corridors. Great job guys.
In January, key stage 1 will be making sculptures using recycled materials. If over Christmas you have any ring pulls from cans, beer bottle tops, plastic bottles, plastic bottle tops or any shiny quality street wrappers then please can you save them and bring them in to us when we return to school. It would be much appreciated!
Thank you,
Mrs Shaw and the key stage 1 crew x
Our trip to Vue cinema has been a huge success this morning. The children have not stopped smiling and really enjoyed The Muppets Christmas Carol. So glad that we were able to arrange this and give them this lovely festive experience!
The children in class 6 have blown us away over the past couple of weeks with their fabulous reading assessments. They have completed end of term quizzes, common exception word and suffix word lists and phonics checks galore to help me assess their progress and I couldn’t be more proud of how they have done. As I am forever telling the children, to read early and well is one of the most important skills they can develop and they certainly seem to have taken this advice to heart.
Awesome job!
Key stage 1 had a fantastic celebration of their learning today in a very cold playground for their families and friends. We talked very knowledgeably about the small changes made by people that can make a huge difference to the lives of lots of people and recited some fantastic poems we had written as part of our English cycle. We finished this fantastic event with a march around our school grounds to raise awareness of the dangers to our world of litter pollution.
As always, a huge debt of thanks goes to our wonderful parents and careers for their help and support, without which events such as these would be impossible.
A fantastic event!
Thank you so much to all of the parents and carers who braved the freezing cold weather this morning. The children and our ks1 team really did appreciate it. They thoroughly enjoyed it and I am so proud of how brave they were to stand in front of you all and speak about their learning.
I think you will agree that their poems were fantastic!!!
Hopefully in the morning at 9am, the weather permitting, year 1 and 2 children will perform their celebration of learning to you outside on the playground. Unfortunately due to covid restrictions and guidance from the Dfe we won’t be able to have you all in the hall at the same time.
After you have dropped the children off at their classrooms at 8.45, we will walk you all around to the gazebo on the ks2 playground where you can stand and socially distance. Please wear a mask if you are able.
We are hoping to then take the children on a walk around the school with any placards that they have brought in from home.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Mrs Shaw and the key stage 1 team
Let’s get creative! Have a go at creating a placard to make a difference on our march.
Remember.. PICK UP LITTER, USE THE BINS!!
Entries to be in no later than Thursday morning to be used in our march to show our community the positive changes we can make to reduce litter, clean up our streets and use the bins! Here is our first beautiful entry, created by the talented Aurora from class 5!
BIG SHOUT OUT to Liam this week for being our OUT OF THIS WORLD champion.
Liam has been displaying all of our HOWLs and has blown me away with his rhyming words this week in our poetry lessons. He is always making good choices and is a kind and helpful crew member. Thanks Liam, keep up the hard work.
I’d also like to shoutout the rest of class 5 for helping me produce some amazing poems, we created a beautiful acrostic poem all about ROSA PARKS, a rhyming couplet poem about Rosa as well as one about picking up your litter and a shape poem about pollution in the ocean. We have worked very well collaboratively, as a whole class crew!
#crewgood #crewGT
