5/6B Certificate Celebration
Another great week goes by in 5/6B. Here are our certificate winners for this week:
For great living and learning skills…
Hannah – You always show a responsible attitude to your learning. You are the first in the classroom with your learning book open to complete a task. You are always ready and you are prepared to take a safe risk by putting your hand up. You are a fantastic role model to all pupils – keep it up!
For sport and physical activity…
Chelsea – You showed good knowledge of being tactical during our PE games this week. You are a great team player who is always looking for ways to improve and develop. Well done, Chelsea!
For great learning…
Daniel T – You are always responsible and reflective with your learning. You manage to complete all tasks required, you respond to feedback appropriately and you are always active within the classroom. Super stuff, Daniel!
1,2V Celebration certificates
We’ve had an other great week with lots of learning, being active and having fun with our friends.
As we can’t have our usual celebration assembly on a Friday at the moment, we will be posting the certificate winners on here each week for each class.
For great learning…
Lorien – for super work in English, especially reading aloud to the whole class.
For sport and physical activity…
Dylan – for amazing resilience learning how to skip.
For living and learning…
Etta – for being so thoughtful. You always look for ways to help others. Thank you!
5/6 S Certificate Celebration
Year 5/6 S have had another great week. They’ve had a busy week designing and creating cereal boxes, using relative clauses in their writing and classifying animals in Science. It’s been another tough decision this week to choose my certificate winners.
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
Paige- you are joining in so much more in lessons now and putting a lot of effort into all your learning. Well done and keep it up.
For sport and physical activity…
Alfie – you always join in PE with energy and enthusiasm and you always have a smile on your face. Well done!
For living and learning…
Jessica- you contributed so well during the lessons this week. You gave some great examples of which 8Rs you use in your learning.
Well done everyone!
Celebration Certificates 1KN
It’s been another great week in 1KN. We’ve done lots of great learning in and out of the classroom.
For great learning:
Teddy – For such a great effort with your writing this week.
For living and learning:
Jenson – You are an active learner and participate well in our lessons.
For sport and physical activity:
Roma – For great concentration and effort in Yoga this week.
5/6M Celebration
For living and learning skills… Seth, you are a responsible learner. You answer question and listen carefully to others. You take pride in all your work .
For sport and physical activity… Emily, you were a fantastic partner in our tennis game. You were supportive and showed good control with the ball.
For great learning… Michaela, your cereal box design is fantastic. The jungle theme is a great concept. Well done.
Phonics Fun and Zero Heroes!
Reception have been AMAZING in their first ‘carpet time’ learning sessions this week.
We’ve been playing listening games in phonics. We listened for sounds in the environment by going on a ‘sound walk’ outside and tried our best to hear the same sounds in rhyming words, by playing ‘Silly Soup’. Yesterday, our classroom ‘Everywhere Bear’ used toy-talk to sound out some words for us to blend.
Ask your child if they can show you one of the phonics games we have been playing this week.
In maths this week our focus number is zero. It’s really important that children understand the ‘value’ of zero. As the Numberblocks told us:
“When there’s nothing there to count and none is the amount”
The children have been super speedy at understanding that that to get to zero, we “take it all away” or there is nothing to begin with. We’ve been making some funny zero number stories together too!
The class really enjoyed our Numberblocks video this week. If you’d like to access these at home, all of the episodes are available to watch on BBC iPlayer
Please continue to send us news of your child’s interests and learning at home:
scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Living and learning – 8Rs for learning
We have been talking about the Eight Rs for learning.
Out current class novel, After The Fall (by Dan Santat), enabled us to talk about resilience and how it’s important to keep on trying and not give up, even when things are tough. Our Talk Time homework also enabled children to share when they had shown resilience.
I never give up when I’m skipping.
I showed resilience when I did the crossbar challenge. It’s hard to hit the crossbar with the football.
I showed resilience learning to ride my bike without stabilisers.
Science – habitat hunt
We have had some great science lessons and discussions this week, learning all about habitats. The children enjoyed exploring our school habitat and we found some amazing animals : birds, bees, flies, caterpillars, woodlice, centipedes, worms and butterflies.
Can you spot the robin in this photo?
Year 5 Reading
The reading Year 5 have been doing this week is linked to our Science learning about materials. We have been looking at a report about how plastic is harming our oceans and other environments. The children were working on their retrieval skills to answer questions. This involves the children skimming and scanning the text to find the answers to questions. They look for key words, phrases and sub-headings to help them.
Living and Learning
In Year 5 and 6 we have been discussing how we use the 8 Rs to help us learn. We talked about the strategies that we use the most. The children identified that a lot of them feel they show resilience in their learning and that they are always ready to learn. We then discussed which of the 8 Rs they need to use more. Some children explained that they needed to take more safe risks in school by putting their hand up more in class. Well done to those children who used personal experiences to talk about the 8 Rs.