Class News

How have the ancient Greeks influenced the world?

Today, we researched how the Ancient Greeks have influenced the world. We looked at sport, democracy, theatre, architecture and more! Watch this space for more pictures of our work.

Science: sound

This week, we carried out a practical investigation to answer our learning objective: Is there a pattern between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produce it?

First, we used our prior knowledge of sound sources, volumes and pitch to make a prediction:

‘The longer the instrument, the lower the pitch.’

‘The shorter the instrument, the higher the pitch’.

Then, we struck and plucked and range of musical instruments to test out our predictions. We realised that we were right. When we struck the chime bar, we noticed that the shorter the chime bar, the higher the pitch. This happened when we tried out other pieces of equipment like windchimes, tuning forks and elastic.

Ask your child what some of our key science vocabulary means: pitch, volume, medium, sound source.

Living and Learning : NSPCC PANTS rule

We have been talking about pants again! Children love talking about pants and find them funny but we use it in school to deliver a serious safeguarding message. The NSPCC have created some fab resources for us, and you, to use when teaching our children how to keep themselves safe. Ask your child about the PANTS rule and sing along to the catchy song!

Virtual after school clubs

Children in Need

A Big Thank You!

The children came to school in non-uniform and we asked for voluntary contribution to support this cause. We’ve been completely blown away by your generosity as you’ve raised £566.35. Well done and a massive thank you.

Self-isolating at home?

This week, we will begin our December Christmas themed fun in Nursery! We’re going to start by reading the popular children’s book ‘Stickman‘.  Here are a few activities that you might like to join in with at home.

• Listen to the story being read by the illustrator, Axel Scheleffler, by following the link above. You may also like to watch the ‘Stickman’ animation that’s available on BBC iplayer.
• Have a look in your garden (if you can), can you find any twigs that look like Stickman? If you have some googly eyes, you could stick them on.
• If you’re feeling creative, you could create a picture using twigs and leaves from your garden. Can you make Stickman a Family Tree?
• In maths, we’re going to compare lengths of pieces of tinsel. You could do this with sticks that you find or tinsel if you have some. Which is longest? Shortest? Are any pieces the same length?
• We’ll begin learning some Christmas songs, including ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’ and ‘Jingle Bells’. Enjoy singing them at home and have a go at finding some items that you could use as instruments. What could you use that sounds like bells? 
• During group time, we’re going to draw some baubles and tinsel on our Christmas tree outlines. Cut out a Christmas tree shape and use some coloured pencils to add on decorations. Can you you add a star on top?

Have fun! We’re looking forward to seeing you at Nursery again soon.

3,4O: Certificates

We had another super week and it was made extra special by welcoming back the children who’ve helped to keep us all safe by self-isolating recently.

Here are this week’s certificate winners.

For great learning…

Lacey & Amelie- You both made amazing progress with your arithmetic this week – well done!

For living and learning…

Maddison – you really understand emotions in yourself and others.

For sport and physical activity…

Tilly – great determination in PE – you always try your hardest. Well done!

For Times Table Rockstars…

Louis- you’ve massively increased your TTR usage this week – keep it up! Welcome to the TTR band!

Amazing Homework

This week, Year 5/6 S really impressed me with their homework. Lots of them emailed in with loads of creative ideas to do with anti-bullying. This followed on from our anti-bullying Living and Learning sessions. Some children created quizzes, posters and even cartoon strips. I’m really impressed with how much effort the children are putting into their homework, even though they can’t bring their homework books into school. I thoroughly enjoy receiving all the homework emails each week, so keep them coming. Thank you

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Christmas dates

It’s nearly that time of year again, it always comes around so quickly! Obviously this year, our Christmas celebrations are going to be a little bit different. However, that doesn’t mean to say that we’re not going to have fun!

Here are some important dates and information about the next few weeks.

Christmas songs  – Whilst it’s not going to be possible to host a Christmas performance that you can watch in school, we’re going to do our best to create one that you can enjoy watching at home!  For this, we’d like ALL children to have a Christmas themed/coloured top in school by Friday 4 December.  You do not need to buy anything new – a cheerful or festive top that they can be comfortable in all day (playing out and eating lunch in too) will be fine.  Please put your child’s NAME in the top and put it in a small bag in their group box this week.  It will remain in Nursery until the end of the following week.

Christmas lunch  –  Christmas lunch is on Thursday 17 December.  If you’d like your child to join in and haven’t already told us, please let us know and we’ll add your child onto the list. Payment (£2.20) can be made online. Please call the office if you are unsure of how to do this.

Christmas party –  Our Nursery Christmas party will be on Monday 14 December in the afternoon. If your child already attends Nursery on that day, you can send them to Nursery in cheerful or festive clothing.  Children will still be playing in Nursery provision and outside in the morning, so please make sure clothing is warm and comfortable.

For children that attend Nursery on Monday, collection will be at the same time as usual. Please adhere to your child’s pick-up time. There will be more children in Nursery that day and we need to ensure that we stagger parent/carer collection times to allow for social distancing space.

If your child doesn’t attend Nursery on Monday, they are welcome to join us for the party. Children will need to have had lunch before they arrive and be wearing their ‘party’ clothes. We will greet you at the Nursery gate as we usually would in the morning.

Red group –  Please arrive promptly at 12.20pm and collect at 2.20pm.

Blue group – Please arrive promptly at 12.30pm and collect at 2.35pm.

Yellow group –  Please arrive promptly at 12.30pm and collect at 2.35pm.

Party treats – Children will have lunch as usual on Monday but during the party, we will provide them with a treat and drink. We’d like to ask for £1 contribution towards these treats and will place a donation jar outside Nursery soon.  Thank you in advance for your contributions.

Christmas crafts – It wouldn’t be Christmas in Nursery if we couldn’t take part in all of our favourite Christmas crafts! Sadly, we can’t invite you to our usual ‘Christmas Stay and Decorate’ mornings, but don’t worry, children will still get to take part in some fun activities. We will quarantine all Christmas crafts and will send them home in the final week.

If you have any questions, please get in touch or speak to us next week.

Certificates – 3/4E

In 3/4E this week, there have been many moments for great learning and achieving highly.

Our Sports certificate went to Arthur for good dribbling, passing and sportsmanship in hockey.

The Great Learning certificate was awarded to Luca for trying hard with his arithmetic and showing progress in his test scores on Friday.

Tommy received a certificate for being ready to learn and showing responsibility for his learning all wekk – well done for all the effort!

Finally, out TimesTables Rockstars certificate went to Sam. Well done for extra effort – no doubt this will pay off in your maths.