Year 2, School Councillor, Ka’Leyah, helped children to create Poppy Hat Competition ideas. The children worked during lunchtime to design their hats. Good luck to all who entered.
HARD AT WORK!
The School Council worked hard to have biscuits ready for our cake sale. Well done to all involved!
Macmillan Cake Sale
The School Council, held a cake sale on Friday 30th September, to help raise money for Macmillan Cancer Trust Charity. We would like to thank everyone who, donated tasty treats, bought a cake and attended the coffee morning.
Thank You
School Council
Let’s go fly a kite!
We have had a very busy week in Year 2 learning all about how to make a kite!
We have been investigating what properties a really good kite needs to have to help it fly. We thought it needed to be light so that it could fly easily, strong so that it didn’t break on a windy day and flexible so that it could move beautifully in the wind. Then we thought about what materials we could use that included these properties. We decided that we would make the sail out of paper, the line out of string and the spars out of lolly pop sticks. The tail could be made out of wool and the handle could be made out of strong wood.
Let’s hope we have some windy days to test out our kite!
Week beginning 26th September
It’s been another busy week in Nursery!
The children have been lucky enough to have some new toys to play with. The garage and the dolls house have been popular.
On Monday the children discovered that the play dough had gone sticky so Mrs Ali helped them to make some more. The found out lots about mixing, textures and temperature.
Some of the children are becoming very independent. We have all learned a clever way to put on our coats and these boys remembered to put on wellies when splashing in the water!
I wonder what next week will bring?
Belonging
This half term Y3 are focusing on the key question ‘Would celebrating Diwali at home and in the community bring a sense of belonging to a Hindu child?‘ As a class we have discussed our own ideas and views about what belonging is and this week have continued our learning with finding out what is the story behind Diwali.
After hearing all about Rama, Sita, Hanuman and Ravana’s adventures, Green class worked with a partner to create a story map.Then they used the map to help them keep track of the key events and characters whilst using their puppets to perform and share their understanding of the story.
Ask Green class to tell you the story.
Year 6 PSHE
This week, in PSHE, we looked at the service provided by ‘999’. We were able to identify what the services is made up of, discuss why it is valuable and share our ideas on why the service should be respected.
We discussed the meaning of a ‘hoax call’ and the impact this could have on others. As a group, we were able to create mind maps to show what we knew at the start of the lesson and what we knew at the end.
We now know in an emergency we phone ‘999’ and if we want to speak to the police for advice, or to report a crime we call ‘101’.
Next week, we will begin to look at the importance of tolerance and respect within a community.
Miss Akers
Year 5 PSHE
This week, in PSHE, we discussed the difference between crime, unacceptable behaviour and anti-social behaviour. We were able to talk in groups, sort different situations into the three categories and identify the difference between legal and illegal behaviour.
We now know that a crime is when a law has been broken, anti-social behaviour is acting in a manor that causes harassment, alarm or distress to others and unacceptable behaviour is when we do something that is not nice, or not allowed.
Next week, we will begin to look at the meaning of community.
Miss Akers
Autobiography
This week year 6 have been thinking about their history and what makes them unique. This weeks theme in writing has been autobiography, we have looked at the features and have read some. We talked about what has happened in our past and they presented their autobiography orally to a small group. Today they will be writing their autobiography, keep your eyes peeled for some examples of their writing coming soon!
Year 4 class trip to the synagogue
Year 4 visited Singers Hill Synagogue as part of our exciting work in Judaism. During our visit we were able to look around the beautiful synagogue to learn more about Jewish history and traditions. When we entered the synagogue we identified Jewish symbols and artifact and learnt more about how they are used in the Jewish faith. We wore kippahs, which are traditionally worn by Jewish boys during prayer. We were able to see inside the ark and look at the special Torah scrolls.
