Our Incredible Imaginations!
It is the last full term of the school year and the children are showing us every day, just how much their confidence has grown since September.
They are coming up with even more of their own ideas, having the confidence to explore them and show them, inviting others to get involved and extending their own learning whilst doing so.
This confidence can be seen in their writing and maths too, as they jump straight into challenges with amazing ‘can do’ attitudes and increasingly bring their creations to the adults, proud of their achievements.
Take a look at some of the things our Reception superstars have been up to this week…
Home-Link Challenge
The children have been closely observing the classroom caterpillars this week and they can talk about the different stages of the butterfly life cycle. Next week, our story is Look Out Ladybird! and we would like you to help your child research the life cycle of a ladybird.
Is it the same as the butterfly cycle?
What are the differences?
Are there the same number of stages/ transformations?
Also, let us know how you researched. Did you use a search engine on the internet? Did you read it in a book or magazine?
Reminders
-Monday 3 May is a Bank Holiday and school is closed. We will see you all bright and early next Tuesday! Enjoy your longer weekend together 🙂
-Please ensure bookbags are in school on Tuesdays and Fridays.
-Please send your child to school in their PE kits on Wednesdays and Fridays.
-Please ensure your child has a pair of wellies and a change of clothes in school every day.
Thank you.
Captain Tom 100 Challenge
We’re still alive!
5/6 S successfully completed our 100 challenge today! We managed to run for 100 minutes. Well done to everyone who took part and it definitely wasn’t easy. Everyone helped us to reach our target and a small team of very dedicated runners helped us make it! Even a broken foot didn’t stop one person from joining in!
Parents can look forward to a peaceful evening as all the children should be exhausted. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to walk tomorrow! A massive thank you to everyone that donated money – it’s greatly appreciated.
Here are some action shots of the day…
5/6 Certificate Celebration
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
Poppy – your attitude to your learning has improved massively and you are asking for help when you need it. Well done and keep it up.
For sport and physical activity…
William – you demonstrated great teamwork in basketball this week. You also showed good control of the ball and good shooting skills. Well done!
For living and learning…
Charlie G – you contributed well to class discussions this week and you responded well to other people’s ideas. Thank you.
Well done everyone!
Computing programmers
We’re loving our current topic: computing.
We’ve been learning about staying safe online and we’ve been taking on the role of programmers. After some ‘offline’ learning, where we recapped what algorithms are (ask you child what an algorithm is), we’ve been using Scratch Jr to practise our programming skills.
So far, we’ve programmed our Sprite (Wondering what a sprite is? Ask your child to explain this to you – they should know.) to kick a football into a net and we’ve used repetition to create an underwater animation with several sprites programmed to complete different tasks.
Ask your child how they’re finding this topic. What are they enjoying? When have they been challenged? Why is this learning relevant to them?
We’ll be getting more and more confident using some programming vocabulary over the next few weeks. Help at home by using these words with your child, or testing them, or simply asking them about what they mean…
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?