In Year 3 this week we did circle time on transitioning. We discussed if children had any worries or concerns about going into their new class in September.
Year 3 PHSE – Class Transition
Year 6 ICT
In computing this week Year 6 created a grid for light bolt to move around on and then sequence a set of commands to programme him to light up the blue tile.
Fairy Gardens
Year 1 found a magical, tiny door in our classrom. We thought about how the door got there and the children decided as a class that a little fairy had left it there for us. We decided to make fairy gardens for the fairies. We have had a busy week designing and creating our very own fairy gardens. Reception and Year 1 joined together to design and make them. We worked really well together!
Take a look at our fairy gardens!
Build a bridge…
This week Year 2 have turned themselves into engineers – just like Isambard Kingdom Brunel. We have been exploring the famous bridges and tunnels that he has built and discussing what it means to be an engineer. We decided to become engineers ourselves and design and build bridges. We decided upon a very strange material… spaghetti and marshmallows! We knew the bridges had to be strong so we had lots of fun experimenting with different shapes and sizes of spaghetti.
Year 5 ICT
In computing this week Year 5 created a grid for light bolt to move around on and then sequence a set of commands to programme him to light up the blue tile.
Year 4 ICT
In computing this week Year 4 created a grid for light bolt to move around on and then sequence a set of commands to programme him to light up the blue tile.
Talking Tips
This week parents and children took part in the continued Talking Tips program.
Parents worked well building their children’s confidence, language, eye contact and interaction.
The families took part in a range of activities that encouraged and promoted conversation, vocabulary and above all fun!
If you would like more information on parent and child courses please see Miss Akers or contact Bloomsbury Family Centre.
Stay and Play
This week was the last St Clement’s Stay and Play until September. The children again had a wonderful time exploring, singing, sharing and learning new things.
Please come along and support our community stay and play sessions, which will start again in the Autumn term. Keep a look out in the St Clement’s Newsletter for more information.
Miss Akers
Egg-stra maths
Year 5 had an egg-citing time in maths this week.
All week we have been learning about volume, we begun the week by making cubes and cuboids out of cubes and calculating the volume of our shapes. By the end of the week we were eggs-tremely confident in how to calculate the volume of a cuboid by multiplying three measurements together.
On Thursday we were given an eggs-tremely difficult maths problem.
Mrs Hall gave us an egg, some scales, two beakers, some water, a ruler, a protractor and a piece of string.
We had to calculate the volume of the egg. Some of us tried to measure the surface with the string as we thought it was the same as calculating the area of a cuboid. Yet, that did not work.
We thought we could weigh the egg but that did not work.
Egg-ventually (and with a lot of help and support from Mrs Hall) we solved the problem. Mrs Hall showed us to put the small beaker inside the big beaker and filled it with water. We realised that if we dropped the egg (carefully) into the water it would displace some of the water. The water displaced would be the volume the egg took up.
It was definitely an egg-citing lesson!
Year 2 PHSE – Safety Rules
Displayed and discussed the safely rules and school safely rules. The children had to tell me what each rule is for and how it helps with safety.
