Robot writing
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been building up our writing skills and we have now written a descriptive piece of writing about a robot. We began by discussing different types of vocabulary – which ones would be the most effective in descriptive work. We thought about using this vocabulary to create expanded noun phrases. This is where we use a determiner, such as the, an adjective and a noun. The children created some brilliant ENPs. We discussed different ways of starting sentences. Could we use fronted adverbials? Could we include any relative clauses?
The children have brought all their skills together to produce some amazing pieces of writing. There were some robots with jobs, such as looking after your pets when you go away. There were other robots that were evil and rather scary. Ask your child about their writing. What features did they include?
Super Scratch Spirographs!
This week, Year 5 and 6 have been using repetition to create some really cool patterns on Scratch. We’ve been working hard on debugging algorithms and logical reasoning.
Here are some of our examples!
Creative Coding in Year 3/4
Wow – what a start to our new Computing topic! We have been totally blown away by how AMAZING our Year 3/4 Computing programmers have been.
We’ve introduced Scratch Jr app which allows children to using code to program a character (Sprite) on a variety of backgrounds.
Today, we made an aquarium scene and programmed three sprites to move in sequence using repetition.
Here are some pictures from today’s lesson.
Captain Tom 100 Challenge
3,4O are very excited to announce what challenge we will be completing on Friday 30th April to raise money for our school charity. On that day, we will be completing an individual fitness ‘100’ challenge; this could be 100 skips, 100 press ups, 100 star jumps – maybe even 100 burpees! We’d really appreciate a donation of 100p (£1) to keep us motivated.
Thanks in advance.
Captain Tom 100 Challenge
On Friday 30th April all the children in school will be completing a challenge to raise money for our school charity. Each class voted for the challenge they wanted to complete. We are hoping that parents will donate £1.00 in order to support us in this challenge
1/2V are going to run 100 laps of the KS1 playground
1KN are going to complete 100 minutes of skipping throughout the day
2C are going to do a 100m obstacle course race
Thank you for your support.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
This week, we have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
We have written food diaries; retold the story; created caterpillars using dough and paper; made number stories; and even begun to watch our own caterpillars grow.
In the beautiful sunshine, we enjoyed our first PE lesson on the school field. It was great to hear everyone cheering each other on and showing lots of resilience in both the egg and spoon race and sack race.
We have also enjoyed using our imagination and creating our own science experiments outside.
Home Link
The hungry caterpillar eats lots of different foods in the story. Discuss what food you enjoy eating at home. Are they healthy, unhealthy or maybe a bit of both?
Welcome back!
What a fabulous first week back! We loved seeing your holiday photographs and finding out about your adventures to parks, playgrounds and Piglets Adventure Farm.
This week, we have certainly made the most of the beautiful, sunny weather. In our outside area, we noticed lots of catkins had fallen off the tree. Children loved gathering them together and mixing them with sticks, petals and leaves. We had lots of different recipes and creations to try, ranging from vegetable soup to chocolate cake and ice-cream. Yum yum!
We also listened to lots of stories with our friends, created our own music, had a picnic and played football.
Our obstacle course was very popular; you’ll see lots of engaged and happy faces in the photographs.
Physical Development is one of the Prime areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage so we’re always looking for different ways to allow children to challenge themselves and develop their balancing, climbing and movement skills. There was lots of team work, with children waiting for their turn and encouraging each other as they moved around the course. It was lovely to hear some children proudly shout, “Look at me!” as they managed to balance on one leg independently or walk over the wobble board without falling off.
As we were outside so much, lots of children spotted different flowers that had grown in the garden. We looked at the different coloured tulips and tried to guess the colour of the petals what were yet to open from their buds. As well as flowers, there was a lot of interest in all of the bugs that seemed to be out and about this week! Miss Backhouse found a green caterpillar, Mrs Long found a beetle and Mrs Beesley spotted lots of insects flying around on Thursday.
Over the next few weeks, we will learn all about different minibeasts, starting with one of our favourite stories, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We’re sure you’ll be familiar with this one, but if you don’t have a copy to read, here’s a link to listen at home.
Reminders
- Please ensure that your child’s water bottle has their name on.
- If your child has a packed lunch, please make sure that you follow our ‘Guide to Healthy Packed Lunches‘ and save chocolate bars and sweets for home.
Sunny days
Your child will need a NAMED sun hat in school everyday. On sunny days, sun cream should be applied before children come to Nursery. If your child’s sun cream requires it to be re-applied after lunch, please put a NAMED bottle of sun cream in their group’s water bottle basket on the days that you would like it to be re-applied.
Finally, congratulations to Miss Whitaker, who got married during the holidays. Mrs Crompton enjoyed telling children all about her wedding day and even brought in her dress and flowers for us to see!
3,4 NV class news
Well done for a fabulous week back! You have worked really hard.
This afternoon, we have enjoyed learning how to operate Scratch Junior. We are learning how to get our sprites moving and even talking to each other. Over the course of the half term , we will continue to design, write and debug our own games and challenges.
Next Friday (30th April), we will be working as class to celebrate and raise money for the Captain Tom 100 challenge. As a class, we have voted to participate in 100 minutes of WUSU! Please help us raise money – a suggested donation would be 100p. We can’t wait to get dancing!
Enjoy the sunshine.
5/6 Certificate Celebration
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
William W – for great learning in computing. You worked hard to create your algorithm and even manged to debug your program when it didn’t work. Well done!
For sport and physical activity…
Dasha – you participated in rounders really well this week and your throwing has really improved and is more accurate now. Well done!
For living and learning…
Connor – you always remember to use your manners whatever you are doing. Well done and thank you.
Well done everyone!
Captain Tom 100 Challenge
Welcome back to Summer Term – we’ve had a cracking week! The weather is sunny and warm, and it’s making us feel inspired to leap into action.
We’re going to get started on some fundraising next week. Friday 30th April sees a campaign organised by the Captain Tom Foundation. This date marks a year from when Sir Captain Tom began the 100 laps around his garden. To mark this occasion, people are being encouraged to complete a challenge based on the number 100. We are definitely up for this challenge! Every class will be discussing and choosing their challenge.
In Year 3/4, we took a vote on many good ideas, and the vote with the most votes was …to shoot 100 basketball baskets in 100 minutes.
But that sounds easy? Oh no! We’re setting ourselves this challenge to do in pairs, or individually, over 100 minutes throughout the day.
We will be asking for voluntary donations to support the children in their challenges. This money will be ready to be donated to our new charity as soon as it’s selected.
Thank you in advance of your support and wish us luck with our challenges