Beautiful story writing in Crew Jackson

21st January 2022Jillian Jackson

Over the last two days we have done some beautiful story writing in Crew Jackson. The children were challenged to write the next part of our class text ‘My name is River’. The children worked really hard to include exciting verb choices, fronted adverbials, descriptive language, similes, personification as well as the tricky task of speech punctuated correctly! They loved reading their stories to a friend and gave excellent feedback about what they were proud of in their work linked to the fishbone features.

Dancing our way into science

20th January 2022Jayne Rodgers

Class 6 have been studying food chains as part of the science case study in our ‘What will I do today impact the world tomorrow’ expedition. We ordered a 4 part food chain and could identify which of the chain’s links were producers or consumers. We completed an anchor chart to consolidate our learning and the children wondered where the producers got their food. We discussed photosynthesis and danced and clapped the syllables to help us remember the very advanced scientific word. Why not ask your child to show you the dance and explain what photosynthesis means, or explain a food chain? I know they would love to share their learning with you.

Phase assembly winners from class 6

20th January 2022Jayne Rodgers

A huge well done to all our certificate winners this week.

Work hard awards – Junior and Shae. Be kind awards – Haran and Elena. Get smart award – Tyler. HoWL point award – Savannah. Reading champion award – Ezra. Bronze reading certificates – Hunter, Imogen and Savannah.

Crew Rodgers were also very proud to win this week’s attendance award for 100% attendance last week so Paddington will be resident in our class.

Great job kiddos. Keep it up.

Snappy Maths time telling

20th January 2022Jayne Rodgers

Class 6 used the iPads today to access the Snappy Maths site which has loads of fabulous worksheets and interactive tablet friendly maths games for children to use to support their in-class learning. I have copied the link below. We set a timer and read as many o’clock and half past times as we could. Deacon smashed his quiz getting a score of 29 out of 29 in 10 minutes. Amazing!

http://www.snappymaths.com/

Y5 Geography

20th January 2022Tom Ambler

In geography this week we have been learning about physical and human geography in South America. This week we have focused on Bolivia and researched the human features of Bolivia and the impact they have on the country. I have been very impressed with our collaboration skills this week and the information we have learnt all about Bolivia. Well done Crew Ambler.

Beating the online trolls in community crew

19th January 2022Jayne Rodgers

As part of our community crew sessions for the past two weeks, we have been discussing how easy it is for people online to pretend to be someone they are not, and how important it is not to share any information on the internet. We watched a cartoon highlighting the perils and today the children made a poster to remind them of this. Take a look at these scary troll faces!

Well done crew!

Making Music 🎶🥁🎸🪘

19th January 2022Rebecca Kendrew-Jones

Today we had an exciting visit from musician Geoff Hewitt. He talked to the children about how music is made, played his guitar and then demonstrated how we can make our own guitars, drums or shakers. The children loved listening to Geoff play and did a fantastic job creating their own instruments. Then, best of all, we all enjoyed using our instruments to make our own music – it was very loud! Well done Nursery Crew!

Tick tock, draw hands on a clock!

19th January 2022Jayne Rodgers

Fantastic skills in measuring time today in class 6. We began by telling the time to o’clock and half past, then looked at the position of the hour hand in a half past time. The children showed what they had learned by accurately drawing the hands on clocks to show these times. We then grappled with the ‘I Wonder’ challenge where we had to calculate the time to the previous hour. Many of us found this a little tricky but we know in class 6 that finding things difficult means we are learning and we persevered until we completed our task. Reeva and Hunter did especially well and won our Learning Legend postcards for their work.

I am so proud of you all!