March 2017

 

It has been a busy half term which is getting busier due to making up the time lost for the snow days.

English

This half term we have been looking at myths and legends, we have described heroes and mythical creatures and looked at using our senses to describe settings. Last week we then wrote our own stories. We then had a go at peer assessing each other’s writing and giving WOW and NOW comments.

Maths

Our main focus this half term has been fractions and decimals. We have learnt how to multiply fractions, find fractions of amounts and convert decimals to fractions.

Music

In music we are learning how to play the recorder, it is early days but the children played a good tune last week, so looking forward to London’s burning next half term.

Design and Technology

Our objective was to make a moving toy using cams movement. Last Friday we had a whole day making the models, it was easier to make them in one day rather than keep stop starting. The children were excellently behaved and had a wonderful day.

December 2017

Well it has been a very busy past couple of weeks.



Science
We have been completing our science unit on properties and changes of materials. This unit has been about carrying out experiments. Our first experiment was to find the best insulating material for a lunch box. We tested tin foil, paper towels and cloths, our results showed that tin foil was the best insulator.

Next we checked if materials were soluble or insoluble and followed that seeing if temperature made a difference to how quick something dissolved.

Finally we investigated how to separate different materials, we mixed flour and raisins, sand and water, paperclips and rice and salt and water. We used sieving, filtration, magnetism and evaporation
to separate the materials.

Christmas crafts

We have been busy making crafts for the Christmas fair, thank you to everyone that came along and supported the school.

Learning Cafe

Thank you to everyone who supported our learning cafe, it was lovely to see you all. It was great to see such fantastic teamwork going on,supporting each other with our stars.

Finally thank you all for your support this term, we have had a fantastic term, with lots of hard work going on.

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

17th November 2017

We have had a couple of exciting events this week. Firstly, we had a visit from a tarmac lorry. They talked to us about safety when walking or cycling near a lorry and particularly about blind spots on lorries. We even got to have a look inside the truck and beep the horn.

Friday was Children In Need, we got to wear our pajamas for the day and raise money for a good cause.

Congratulations to Mia for winning the KS2 colouring competition.

10th November 2017

Firstly, apologies for the late blog.


Maths

We continued with multiplication and division this week and focused on the grid method for multiplication. The children have used this method before, but we moved on to using four digit by one or two digits. The children did excellently at this and showed good progress over the week.





















 English 

We have continued with dramatic conventions this week, looking particularly at different styles of news broadcasts. We have looked at phrases that are used in news broadcast and wrote our own news broadcast. After that, we compared different types of news reports, looking at Newsround, sports reports and the BBC World news.

Science

Continuing our topic of Earth and Space, we have looked at why we have day and night both in the UK and across the world. Then we looked at the different time zones across the world and solved problems using this information.





















Computing

Having researched the average number of daylight hours in a month in the UK, we have produced line graphs, from this we are able to analyse the data.

Art

Our Tudor portrait gallery is now on display outside the classroom.

Writing

This week we have started booster writing to help us improve. We began by looking at Expanded Noun phrases and then watched an extract of a video showing the launch of a new book called Tom Trueheart. We then wrote a description of the forest that was shown on the video.


Thank you to everyone that came to parent's evening, it was lovely to meet to all.

3rd November 2017

Welcome back to the new term. We have all made a fantastic start.

This weeks blog has been written by Ella, Lucia and Annabel.

English:

In English we have been learning about dramatic conventions (techniques which are used in radio and TV dramas). We have begun by looking at the difference between a radio and a TV drama. We have listened to a Radio 4 comedy show called Just A Minute hosted by Nicolas Parson.  We have been writing our own scripts based on this show. We choose a topic and have to write a one minute script without using repetition, deviation and hesitation.

Maths:

In maths we have started a unit on multiplication and division. During this week we have looked at prime numbers, factor pairs, common factor, square numbers and cube numbers. What a busy week! To end the week we have been  multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 including multiplying decimals.

Science:

In science this week we have started learning about  Earth and Space. We had a debate about if the Earth was flat or spherical. We then went out to learn about the planets, the order, the size, who is was discovered by and other interesting facts.

Computing:

This half term we are learning how to make line graphs in excel, we will be researching data linked to Earth and Space and producing graphs.

Art:

Our Henry VIII portraits are now finished. Here are a selection of them. They are going to be displayed in our Tudor Portrait Gallery outside our classroom.

Reminder that it is parents evening on Thursday, I look forward to meeting you all then.

13/10/17

This weeks Blog is written by Lucia and Ella


Maths
In Maths this week we have been leaning about rounding to check our answers, then we solved some word problems and decided which calculation to use.


History
We have started learning about the Spanish Armada, we began by drawing a timeline of the events, then using atlas' we marked out the route that they sailed across. We found out that they started in Lisbon and then ended up back in Spain.

PE
In PE we performed our Tudor dances and we were filmed. We performed them to Greensleeves.

English
In English this week we have been learning about instructions. We have played card games and evaluated the instructions, we then went on to create our own games and wrote instructions on how to play them. We then had a chance to play each other' games.

Art
In art we continued painting our Tudor portraits, look out next week for some finished pieces.


Reminders
Wednesday 18th is our school trip to Strangers Hall, children will need to wear school uniform and bring a packed lunch.

Friday is a non pupil day.

6/10/17

Another busy week.

Firstly thank you to all those who supported us at our Harvest Festival celebration, it was lovely to see you all.

This weeks blog has been written by Charlie and Mia

Maths
This week in maths we have been doing the column method, both addition and subtraction. We have had Flugtag (German event where people fly their homemade, human powered, flying machines) as the theme.we have been adding and subtracting numbers from 1000 to one million.


English
This week in English we've been writing our own cinquain poems ( they have 5 lines, a syllable pattern and do not rhyme). We based them around autumn and Tudors. We also looked  at instructions and the key facts about them. We also played some card games and then assessed them to see which instructions were the best.

Art
In art we have started our Henry VIII paintings on canvas and making skin colours, it is very tricky.

French
In french this week we did Rigolo and looked at numbers to ten and instruments, it was fun and we all enjoyed it.

Spelling
In spelling we have been looking at the spelling pattern -able and the silent 't' sound. We have been doing different activities.

Dance
In Tudor dance we have been putting all our moves together and getting them in time to Greensleeves, which has not been easy. We are now going to film our dances.

Other News....

Lucia won work of the week for here Autumn Cinquain.

Thank you to everyone who supported our cake sale.