Last week in nursery the children became creative as they turned their classroom into a Carnival to celebrate colour! We have had an amazing week welcoming our new children , watching them grow new friendships and settle into Greentop life. Here are some of the fab areas our children have been working in .
This week we have been learning the long vowel digraphs ai, ee and oa (as in rain, keep and road)
We have also learned the trigraph ‘igh’ (as in light)
digraph = 2 letters making one sound
trigraph = 3 letters making one sound
We have been reading and writing words and sentences containing these sounds.
There are lots of free online resources available to support this learning.
Phonics Play phase 3 games – https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase3Menu.htm
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This week in nursery the children have started to celebrate their learning experiences with each other. Such beautiful conversations about our wonderful world
Year 6 are loving G Block – their art, French and arithmetic skills are improving on a weekly basis!
Look at these maths super stars who smashed their maths challenges today! They were applying their converting measurement skills to reasoning and problem solving and they were all ace! I am so proud of their resilient attitude!
The class was split in half to look at an image of the market town in Pompeii and imagine what they could see, hear, smell, touch and feel and how they could then describe these using more powerful adjectives. We created two very impressive words banks which the children openly shared and used for their writing opportunity!
The children were so engrossed in their learning in theme that they loved fact finding about new volcanoes on the Chromebooks! Here they are in action.
To help class 9 improve their writing even more this week I gave them a challeng to identify and find features within our step 9 rubric. They had to work with a partner to find all examples in the WAGOLL text and answer some independent questions as their exit ticket. They all did a brilliant job!
Y5/6 have launched their E Safety Competition to design a set of rules that will help everyone to stay safe online. A prize will be awarded to the design that is the most creative and informs everyone how to stay safe. Are you up to the challenge?
Well done Class 8 for producing some amazing posters showing all your learning in theme this week on the importance of safety when riding your bike. Look out for the posters displayed in the Key Stage 1 corridor and around school.
Keep up the hard work Class 8!
Mrs Jackson
