Monthly Archives: May 2018

Trip, Year 6

Year 6 Mosque Trip

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On Monday 21st May Year 6 visited the local Mosque in Aston. The children have been studying Islam this term and wanted to broaden their knowledge.

The Imam was very ,very  pleased with the children’s knowledge of Islam and the children responded well to questions being asked of them.

PHSE, Year 6

Jigsaw – Year 6

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Being safe with technology
Keeping myself safe online quiz.
Children completed the quiz by calling out the questions and asking the children to work in pairs to record their answers. Once they completed, I allowed the children in pairs to join with other pairs to compare answers. Gave the children correct answers.
Used this as a recap to ensure the children really do have the right messages about how to keep themselves safe online.
PHSE, Year 5

Jigsaw – Year 5

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Relationships and technology
Shared ‘The jigsaw charter’ with the children to reinforce how we work together.
Calm me
At the beginning of every jigsaw lesson we help our minds calm down so that we are ready to learn.
Gave each child a copy of the ‘personal record sheet’ form and allowed them to fill in as much email as they can about themselves. Then I told the children that I am going to collect them all in and scan and photocopy them. Then, as pard if the drive awareness of the school and it’s children, I will put them on the school website and distribute copies to every house in the neighborhood. I asked you he children if they were happy with that? What concerns would they have? Listed reasons for concern on the board.
Then I pointed out two asterisks and the words ‘required field’ in small print. Did anyone notice this? What does it mean? How much information did you actually have to give to complete the form as required?
I collected the sheets in and assured the children that I will shred them and they will not be seen by anyone.
I explained to the children that personal information they put on the internet is available for anyone and everyone to see. As with the form they have just completed, we need to think carefully about what information we want to share with other people.
Family Projects, Nursery

Nursery Family Project

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A huge thank you to all the parents, carers and family members who have helped the nursery children with their family projects.

The project was to make a model of an alien, inspired by our reading of Aliens in Underpants.

We have really enjoyed looking at everyone’s models and we are very impressed with how fantastic they look.  Well done to everyone who took part.

 

PHSE, Year 1

Jigsaw – Year 1

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Relationships- people who might help us
Shared ‘The jigsaw charter’ with the children to reinforce how we work together.
Calm me
At the beginning of every jigsaw lesson we help our minds calm down so that we are ready to learn.
In talking partners children had two mins to think about two people who have helped them at school in the last week.
Working in groups children had sets of the people cards and they turned one card over at a time and agreed on who that person is and then discussed whether that person can help in school or not. Sorted the cards into people who might help us in school and people who might help us outside school.
We used the scenario cards e.g. you have fallen over in the playground and hurt your knee, asked two children to act out this scenario one being the child and the other being the teacher on duty.
PHSE, Year 2

Jigsaw – Year 2

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Relationships – trust and appreciation
Shared ‘The jigsaw charter’ with the children to reinforce how we work together.
Calm me
At the beginning of every jigsaw lesson we help our minds calm down so that we are ready to learn.
What does it mean to trust someone? Talked about the things that help trust grow, e.g honesty, always being there, keeping good secrets, being a good listener, standing up for you, etc.  Asked the children for their ideas. Had a balloon ready and with each new suggestion I added a puff of air to the balloon. Explained to the children that trust builds over time; just as the balloon is growing bigger, so does trust.
Read the story ‘Don’t tell lies!’
I explained that by telling the truth helps people trust us. We discussed how telling lies and not being truthful can damage trust. I held the balloon up and explained that telling lies pops someone’s trust in you just like popping a balloon.
Year 3

Tales of Fear

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During week 5 of this half term,  Year 3 have been busy working to write their own Tales of Fear. Ideas have been readily flowing with fears ranging from spiders to crabs to bears. After planning, Year 3 orally shared their story with a friend who offered support by making sure the story followed the five parts of a tale of fear.

  1. Opening paragraph – the main character is afraid of something and is worried about it.
  2. Build up paragraph – the main character starts to do something
  3. Problem paragraph – What the main character fears actually comes true!
  4. Resolution paragraph – the main character overcomes the fear
  5. Ending paragraph – the main character has conquered the fear and looks to the future

After writing, Year 3 spent time making their changes to punctuation, grammar and also spelling. Then it was time to think like an author by publishing their stories.

Pop into Year 3 and have a read 🙂

Year 5

Year 5 wedding celebrations

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Year 5 joined in the whole school celebration of Prince Harry’s and Meghan’s wedding on Saturday. We made bicuits fit for a royal wedding reception and decorated them with flags, crowns and good luck messages.

We also had challenges to complete on our home tables. Our first challenge was to design and make a wedding dress for our Meghan doll. Our second challenge was to design and build a bridge strong enough to carry our wedding car across the River Thames.

With only newspaper, lollipop sticks and sellotape, it was tricky but we did it.