During Roald Dahl Week Year 5 have read one of Roald Dahl’s famous books ‘The Witches’. The children really enjoyed the story and all the work which we covered based on the book. During the week the were given the opportunity be reporters and created a news report on the disappearance of the children in the story. Children also created a guide on ‘How to recognise a witch’, artwork where they were transformed themselves into witches in the story and solved maths problems related to a range of Roald Dahl stories.
The children in Nursery have had a fantastic first week. They have all enjoyed getting to know their classroom, teachers and each other.
The children have been making the most of the sunshine outside by playing in the water, building dens and playing with the hoops and tyres.
Inside the role play area has been a big hit and ‘Our Wonderful Work’ display is already full of some fantastic art work. The sand and play dough areas have been popular too.
We are looking forward to another busy week next week.
Reception have had a fantastic first full week at St Clements! They have all settled in really well and are getting familiar with our rules and routines and exploring our fantastic new environment! The children have really enjoyed learning inside and outside, making new friends and singing new songs. We have also had lot’s of fun learning about Roald Dahl and the Enormous crocodile. All of the children created their own crocodile masks.
During PSHE , the children looked at the characters from their Dot Com journals. They began to identify what they liked about each character and how the characters showed kindness to others. Wizard the dog, Slam’s dad, who is a firefighter and PC P. Bonnet, who is a police officer, were some of the children’s favourites. Looking at these characters helped the children to discuss who helps them and the training some people have to go through to do their job. The children agreed PSHE is part of their training in managing their feelings and making positive choices.
Next week, we will be looking at what makes us special.
On the 14th September in PHSE, the children discussed when, where and who makes them feel safe. They were asked to complete an activity on safe and unsafe situations.
During this week we have looking at what will help us to be successful in Year 3. We discussed all the positive personal qualities such as respectfulness, kindness, understanding, sharing and working together.
We had an assembly by Miss Shryane about when we help others we become at peace with ourselves.
After the assembly we talked lots about the meaning of Peace and what it means to us as individuals, a class, as a St Clement’s family, a family at home, a community in Nechells and as a world wide community. We then created a display using the symbol of peace, the dove. We learnt that for peace to be spread it needs to start from with in us, so that was the theme of our display ‘Peace begins with me’. If I smile at someone, they will smile back, if I am kind to my friend, they will be kind back. When I show calmness, calmness will be reflected back.
What can you do today to let peace begin with you?
Have a look at our pictures and talk to Year 3 about what Peace means to them.
It’s been a great start to the new school year! The children have come back to school enthusiastic and ready to learn. A big thank you to the parents for reminding your children to bring their book bags to school everyday, it’s great to hear that so many of you are reading your books everyday. A quick reminder that in Year 2, we have P.E on Tuesday and Wednesday so make sure you have your P.E kit in school on these days.
This week in our topic lessons, we have started to learn all about the Great Fire of London in 1666. The children have found out all about how the fire started in a small bakery shop and soon spread all through the streets of London. We have made some fantastic art work using lots of different and unusual materials to show the flaming fires in the streets.
Isaiah’s tissue paper flames.Marble painting.Bubble wrap stamping.Charcoal sky.Sponge flames.
Year 6 have been looking at the fruits of the spirit, we have been learning about self-control. We defined self-control as when you stop yourself doing something that would be wrong or hurtful. We wrote scenarios about when we have showed good self-control, we presented these to the class.
We discussed that it was not always easy to use self-control in some situations. To show self-control you can pray, count to 10, mediate, walk away or take a deep breathe. This might stop you doing something you will later on regret.
We worked hard to write some poems about self-control. We used dictionaries to check our spelling and a thesaurus to use precise vocabulary. We enjoyed presenting them to the class and even to Mr Ricketts. Below are some examples of poems, find our display to see more of our work.
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