Key stage 1 took part in a webinar last week as part of the Doncaster stories event. We heard the story of Nen and the Lonely Fisherman read by its author Ian Eagleton, and then took part in an interactive art session with the book’s illustrator, James Mayhew. Below are some of the wonderful drawings the children produced.
Class 6 celebration round up
Lots to celebrate in class 6 from the end of last week….
Deacon and Shae blew me away with their stickability in maths on Thursday and Adam was this weeks recipient of our yellow t shirt.
Keep up the great work kids x
Can you spell ‘chocolate’?
Well done to Thea, Ezra, Nathaniel, Junior, Deacon, Radu and Savannah from class 6 who all scored 100% in their phonics touchdown and spelling test on Friday. I hope you enjoyed your treat. Thanks to parents too for helping them to practise.
Out of this World!
Congratulations to Tilly, McKenzie and Arnie for being OOTW this week! You have blown us away with your progress this last few weeks and we could not be more proud of you!
Y6 Legends!
Here is a round up of some of our Learning Legends as well as our ‘Out of this World’ winners! We had a great week with lots to praise and celebrate! This included some great coaching, responding to feedback, grappling with maths, and even quizzing on Accelerated Reader.
A big shout out to Kayla who won a voucher of her choice from our Accelerated Reader competition!
Shout out!!
A huge well done to Lewis and Jake for winning our postcards yesterday and also a massive shout out to Jake for being our Out Of This World award winner! I am super proud of you Jake and it was lovely to see all of your class mates super happy for you too! Well done super stars 💫
Superstars
Well done to Ollie, Willow and Henry who were our postcard winners yesterday.
Congratulations to Beau and Grace for winning todays postcards and Bodhi for being our HOWL point winner.
We are so proud of you all
The Nursery Team
Handwriting Focus!
We looked at the handwriting statement on our writing rubric and focussed on the wording of it, ‘using horizontal lines to develop joined handwriting’. The children reflected and compared their own handwriting against this statement and we made a pledge.
We discussed where our letters should be sitting on the lines in our books, looking at ascenders and descenders and then used the interactive Letter-join videos to practice writing the letters correctly using the horizontal lines.
We then practised writing some new key words that we’ve been introduced this week from our music case study (CS3). The children were incredibly focussed throughout the task and produced the most stunning handwriting, all using those horizontal lines ready to join.
I’m proud of you all but I could also see how proud you were of yourselves and the beautiful work that you had produced. I now challenge you to produce this on every piece of learning in your books! I know you can do it! ⭐️
Mrs Faulding x
Developing our skills!
Yesterday afternoon, we took some time to really focus and harness in on some particular skills in readiness for our next assessment week.
Some children grappled with a reading comprehension task that linked to our expedition focus, really sticking their teeth in to their retrieval skills and developing their understanding of a text. You all did amazing!
Other children asked if they could develop their rapid recall of their times tables to support them with their arithmetic tests. They used TT Rockstars battling against each other, encouraging one another to do their best and to beat their scores each time. You all smashed it! I can see huge improvements in all of you!
Well done everyone!
Mrs Faulding x
Postcard Winners!
A shout out to some of our postcard winners from this week!
You’ve all had a fab start to our new half term by really challenging yourselves in your learning.
I’m really proud of you all, keep it up! You stars!
Mrs Faulding x