During art lessons we have been looking at the works of the Victorian artist William Morris. We particularly liked the way he used repeating patterns. In the coming weeks we hope to take our designs  and produce   clay relief tiles.

This week, we were lucky to have our parents join us in our classroom for Year 1’s maths workshop. We were able to show our parents the clever learning we do at school. We have continued our learning about measure and were able to measure in a range of ways.

How tall is Mia’s mummy?

During PSHE this week Year 6 continued to talk about safety. Children discussed with their peers the different types of risks which they are aware of and suggested ways to avoid these risks.

During this week in PSHE Year 5 looked at Peer pressure. We discussed what peer pressure was and the different types of peer pressure that exists. Later in the lesson, children used the ‘conscious alley’ technique to explore the negative and positive advice which their peers might share in response to a scenario. All children were very sensible with the suggestions and took part really well. By the end of the lesson children were able to identify may positive ways to deal with peer pressure.

This week in PSHE Year 4 looked at people that we feel we can trust and talk to. Children created a ‘Helping Hand’ where they listed 5 people that they feel that they could share their thoughts or worries with. We explored the qualities that all of these people had in common. Later, we discussed different positive ways to deal with our worries.

During PSHE this week children looked at the different emotions which we have as individuals and the ways in which we can show our emotions through actions. Chn created their own role-plays to demonstrate the emotions which they would feel and thought carefully about the actions which would match these emotions.

This week has been maths week at St. Clement’s.

We took part in a workshop by Professor Brainwave who worked with us to do lots of problem solving with shapes.

Year 2 have also been focusing on measuring length and weight.

We have learned how to use meters (m) and centimeters (cm) to measure length. We used tape measures to measure how tall we are and check who was the tallest and smallest!

Then we used scales to measure out the correct weights of dog food. We had to measure them using grams (g) and kilograms (kg). We had lots of opportunities do use our problem solving skills to make sure there would be enough dog food to last all week. Lastly we then compared the weights of different dogs, spotting which was the heaviest and which was the lightest.

Today ,Friday 11th November, Year 5 presented a Remembrance Assembly.

The children really wanted to mark the end of their topic work on WWII by showing respect and thanks to all the soldiers who fought in WWI, WWII, and other conflicts that have happened around the world. The children explained that Armistice Day was the day that the guns stopped firing during WWI and that Remembrance Sunday is always the first Sunday after the 11th November.

We created  art work inspired by the poppies of Flanders Field and displayed it during our assembly. We then explained why a poppy is worn and what each part represents.