Maths – fluency and facts
We are working really hard to increase our fluency and recall of maths facts. This week, we have been focusing on bonds of 10 and we are getting really good! It was our homework task, a daily morning job and we have shown 10 using multiple representations (part whole models, bar models, pictures and calculations). The Year 2s have also been working on bonds of 20.
Help at home by asking your child if they can tell you bonds of 10 or 20.
Super Science
Year 5/6 have been studying how we change and develop over our lifetime – physical or emotional changes. They have also been learning about events that happen at different points in our lives, such as starting school and learning to drive. We have been busy learning our vocabulary for this unit, which includes:
adolescence
adolescent
arthritis
gestation period
life expectancy
puberty
teenager
Ask your child if they can remember what these words mean. Can you play some games at home to help your child remember them. I highly recommend a game of Pictionary – can anyone guess what you’re drawing?!
Living and Learning
I recognise the importance of personal hygiene including handwashing.
This is our living and learning statement for this week and year 5/6 S have been exploring the importance of handwashing. They investigated different bacteria and how they affect our bodies, in negative and positive ways. They discussed how important hygiene is, particularly at the moment with Covid affecting our lives. They identified ‘hotspots’ in the classroom – these are high touch areas that need to be cleaned regularly to avoid the transmission of germs.
Science: At what age can you…?
Children enjoyed discussing and sorting statements on a timeline.
We had some great questions:
What’s a paper round?
Is a moped what Mr Roundtree comes to work on?
Does a senior rail card let people drive trains?
Captain Tom Challenge …done!
A huge well done to all our Y3/4E children who absolutely smaxhed our Captain Tom challenge.
In the class, our children set themselves the challenge of 100 basketball baskets for each team.
It took us quite a while but the children were committed and dedicated to the cause. All of our children achieved highly and either completed the 100 baskets individually or as a team.
Here are some pictures …
Living and Learning: Making Healthy Choices
This week, our school living and learning statement is…
I recognise the importance of personal hygiene including handwashing
Since returning to school, Years 5 and 6 are taking extra care and time to wash our hands regularly. On a daily basis, we aim to wash our hands every time we exit and enter the classroom – this ensures that we don’t transfer germs across different environments.
We know that personal hygiene is important for ourselves, and those around us, too.
New School Charity
Following our manic day on Friday completing the Captain Tom 100 challenge, the Junior Leadership Team have selected our new school charity. All the classes selected a charity of their choice and the JLT members brought the ideas to the meeting. The children all voted and our new charity is….
The National Autistic Society.
If you would like to know more about the charity, please follow this link.
Thank you to everyone that donated to school for the 100 challenge. We had some incredibly generous donations. We managed to raise £185.09 and this will be donated straight away to the charity. Well done and thank you everyone for your hard work!
1KN Captain Tom Moore 100 Challenge
We’ve been raising money to support our new school charity, National Autistic Society.
For 1KN’s Captain Tom 100 Challenge, we were challenging ourselves to complete 100 minutes of skipping throughout the day. Every child contributed to help us reach our target and all the children demonstrated superb resilience.
A massive thank you to everyone that donated money.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
We had a special delivery in Nursery this week; children were very excited to find out what was inside the little cardboard box.
Inside, we found 5 tiny, spiky caterpillars! We’ve been checking on them everyday, and just like ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, they’re very hungry and are getting bigger and bigger each day.
During group time, we learned about the life cycle of a butterfly and counted pieces of fruit that The Very Hungry Caterpillar ate. In the Fiddly Fingers area, children strengthened their finger muscles by ‘munching’ holes into leaves.
Following on from our obstacle course last week, children have continued this interest, by creating their own using the wooden blocks and planks.
We’ve also noticed children have been role playing ‘police’ and ‘doctors’ since we returned to Nursery so we’ve introduced a new Emergency Services role play area in the Sunshine Room.
Next week, as well as monitoring the growth of our caterpillars, we’ll find out about bees and hopefully enjoy sampling some different types of honey at snack time.
3,4NV Class News
Well done!
Today, we successfully completed 100 minutes of WUSU – not all in one go! What an achievement! We all felt really proud to complete the Captain Tom challenge.
In addition to this, we have been carefully editing our writing to check that we are including the Must Dos.
Well done – a successful day!