F1 Nursery Update ⭐

The children have now learned our story map 'Old Mac's Farm' all the way to the end of the story and sound great when they are all together, using their voices effectively for the sounds of the weather and the animals. We have also focused on talking about the properties of different shapes, using different shaped 'fields' and sorting where to place the farm animals.
The children have had a great week in the outdoors, channelling their ideas to make a scarecrow called 'Farmer Mac' and then they wanted to pretend they had a farm shop.
⭐ Our Shining Stars this week in the morning class are Amora and Macy. Amora has excelled in remembering key facts about different shapes in the Maths farm acticities. This week, Macy has really enjoyed using and exploring different materials including, felt tip pens, crayons, watercolour paints, flour, rice, pva glue and wool.
Thank you to Macy's Mum for coming in for a 'Stay and Play' session who enjoyed seeing her daughter happy and engaged in lots of different activities including the scarecrow making. It was also Macy's Birthday, which was nice to see that they got time to spend together that day at School.
It was also Ollie-Lee's Birthday this week so we have had a Birthday Bonanza!
⭐Our Shining Stars in the afternoon class this week are Toby and Izabella. Toby and Izabella have both had a very productive week, both children enthusiastically joining in with the story map with huge confidence. Izabella has been really interested in learning about scarecrows after the making and displaying of a scarecrow in our outdoor area. She was intrigued to find out about them and their purpose, seeing different images of them in fields. Toby is enjoying to practise his pencil grip whilst drawing different animals.
Well done everyone, Mrs Edwardson 👩👍

Year 5 News

Well we've enjoyed our week of being transition class and sitting on the benches in assembly.  Well done Year 5 for showing everyone how to walk around school in the correct way.  I wonder if we've done enough to win it for next week too.

 

We had some very enthusiastic mathematicians taking part in our TTRS competition.  Jamaine, Frankie and Krzysztof enjoyed the disco with their friends and the other winners.  Well done to everyone who practiced and who has worked hard to improve their speed and accuracy.  Just because the competition is over, doesn't mean that time on TTRS should stop!  We'd love for all of our children to become rockstars and answer multiplication and division questions in under 3 seconds.

 

We're whizzing through our maths unit on perimeter and area and will soon be moving on to another multiplication and division unit.  These will all need children to be spot on with their times tables so keep on practicing on TTRS.  This week's homework is to calculate the perimeter of some shapes.  Four children have completed their homework already - well done!

 

We had a whopping 14 children who got full marks on their spelling test this week.  The next set of spellings have silent letters too.  It's difficult as there is no rule to follow - you just have to know!  There are games on Spelling Shed as usual but you can also follow this link to find some more games with a greater range of words - https://www.spellzone.com/unit22/page2.cfm. 

 

We've taken a break from our science work on space to look at forces, in particular gravity.  We had fun this week measuring gravity using force meters.  Next week, we'll be back to learning a bit more about the Earth, sun and moon.  Earlier in the term, children bought home a moon diary and were asked to record how the moon changes over time.  I hope lots of the children have been doing this.  If not, there is still time as we have over a week before I'd like the children to bring their sheets back to school.  I wonder if anyone has spotted a pattern?