One of the HOWLs that we work towards each day is being kind. We revisited this in crew this week and talked about what makes us unique. It was great to hear everyone sharing what made them special. It was lovely to hear how the children discussed their difference but also realising that despite our difference we all have so many things that are the same. We talked about how we might not always like the same things as everyone else but that it’s ok to ask about others interests if we are not sure. It was also lovely to hear the children talk about how it doesn’t matter if we look different on the outside because it’s what’s inside that counts.
Year 5 crew enjoying XP outdoors
The Year 5 crews are absolutely loving the XP outdoors curriculum. Who needs words when the photos and videos below say it all!
Phonics sounds and spellings WB. 31.1.22
This weeks phonics focus sounds will be…
Au as in haunt, a-e as in cake, e-e as in eve, i-e as in like
Our weekly spellings are…
Your, today, jaunt, haul, mate, late, even, these, line, file.
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
Amy cracked the code!
A massive well done to Amy in Year 4 who successful cracked the code and opened the Accelerated Reader safe. She was VERY pleased with her prizes!
Don’t worry the safe will be filled again ready for Tuesday so keep on reading guys as there will be different prizes this time!
Let’s support! Small changes that make a big difference!
Ariel are asking you to support their campaign by pledging to make a change!
Washing colder is a big step towards a brighter future for our planet because did you know, the temperature of your wash makes up to 60% of your laundry’s CO2 footprint?
Can you challenge friends and family to lower the temperature next time they do their laundry? When Ariel hit 1 million pledges, they will donate £100,000 to WWF’s climate, polar and wider conservation work. Not only this, but they will also make a donation for every Ariel pods cold wash special patch that is purchased too.
Can you help us with this and pledge to make a change? Follow the link…
Digital Leaders, we need you!
What a great hangout we had this morning with Jamie Portman about the launch of Digital Leaders.
We were joined with over 1200 other children and students from across the trust to learn about this new exciting role that is being launched to certain year groups across our schools.
Remember guys, if you are interested and think that this role would be perfect for you, you can apply through this link:
https://sites.google.com/xpeast.org/digital-leader-applications/home
If you have any questions about this, pop and see Mr Taylor as he is our DL representative in school.
Good luck everyone!
Mrs Faulding, Miss Myers and Mr Oldridge
Learning the skills of Netball in Year 4!
In PE over the last couple of weeks, we have been learning and mastering the skills that are required to play Netball. We’ve focussed on the throwing and catching techniques whilst also developing our accuracy skills to throw our balls in to the net.
Next week, we hope to look at the rules of a match and then applying these skills within a match.
Well done everyone!
Mr Oldridge, Mrs Faulding and Miss Myers x
Postcard winners
A huge well done to our postcard winners this week – Eva, Ellis, Thea, Kalab and Haran. We have been investigating measuring length and height in maths, continuing our habitat and food chain studies in science and editing and re-drafting a non-chronological report on polar bears in English. I have been very impressed by the children’s spelling and phonics scores also this week. Many thanks to all those who practised with the children.
Enjoy your long weekend everyone x
Class book
Class 8 have really been enjoying their class text that links to our expedition: ‘How will what we do now impact the world tomorrow?
During reading crew we get comfortable, enjoy a little treat and get lost in the story!
I love to see children enjoying books 📚
Shout out!
A huge well done to our final learning legends of the week!
Both Mason and India blew me away with their setting descriptions of Svalbard today. They carefully magpied vocabulary from our story and filled their writing with lots of our writing features!
Well done guys!
