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England Class Summer 2
Fri 26 May 2023This half term has flown by! As always, a fantastic half term for England class.
In Literacy, we have written our own innovated journey story, based on the text Handa’s Surprise. The story follows a young girl named Handa who is wondering which fruit her friend, Akeyo, will like best as she walks to the next village with her fruit basket. Unbeknownst to Handa, some cheeky animals pinch the fruit out of her basket! Leaving Akeyo and Handa a funny surprise at the end of the story. We had great fun taste testing different fruit and using own green grocers role play area alongside our literacy lessons.
In maths, we have enjoyed exploring 2D and 3D shapes by building pictures with 2D shapes and investigating the properties of 3D shapes. More recently we have learnt how to double numbers 1-5 and halve numbers within 10, the children are becoming fluent in quickly recalling these facts.
One of the most exciting parts of our half term was the trip to Bring Yer Wellies! The children had an action packed day planting their own herbs, racing cork boats in a stream and den building. Of course the most talked about part of the day was …. the coach ride!
In our afternoons we have explored the life cycles of different animals and insects, we have produced our own spinners showing the life cycle of a frog and created our own posters to showcase what we have learnt.
In art, we have focused on the artist of Georgia O’Keeffe and her painting of Above the Clouds I. We studied the various shapes of clouds by observing them in the sky and recording what we saw. Then experimented with printing using various tools which then lead us to our final piece of using collage to create our cloud picture. Which I am sure will have pride of place on the fridge!
In RE, our enquiry question was What makes a place holy? By looking at different places of worship in different world religions we have explored what special and holy places look like around the world. The children bought in their own holy books, clothes and objects they use in prayer or in their own place of worship.
The Coronation provided us with an excellent opportunity to compare Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation to King Charles III’s. We compared life in the past to present day, used pictures and videos to help us compare and created our own class timeline. The coronation party day and after school family picnic was a huge success, it was lovely seeing our school family coming together to celebrate the occasion.
We hope you all have a restful May half term break and look forward to welcoming the children back for our Summer 2 term.
Miss Stephens and Mrs Rimmer
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Canada Class Summer News
Thu 25 May 2023Canada class have had busy and exciting half term in school.
In English, the children wrote fantastic warning stories, which focused on the story setting. Everyone used brilliant examples of personification to help bring their setting to life! The children have then looked at how to persuade and have written their own persuasive advert for their own invention.
In maths, everyone has worked really hard to understand decimals. We have been rounding decimals this week, which everyone has persevered with. The children have also used their prior knowledge of fractions to help them convert fractions to decimals.
In science, the children have been understanding how scientists classify animals and why this is important. In pairs, they have created their own branching database to show how you can classify different animals by asking specific questions.
In history, the children have been exploring how the Romans invaded Britain. They have looked at what life was like in Britain for the Celts before the Romans arrived. From this they have explored how the Romans have influenced our lives today and what legacy they have left behind. They found out that the Romans built roads, baths and introduced early forms of writing in Britain.
In RE, the children have been looking at churches and wondering if all churches are the same. The children have been asking lots of inquisitive questions to help them find out more. The children have also visited the Jamea mosque in Preston. This was a fantastic experience for everyone in Canada class and they found out lots of interesting facts.
I hope you all have a great half term rest. We look forward to seeing you all back in school ready for our final half term as year 4.
Mrs Bradley, Mrs Parr, Mrs Walker, Mrs D’Arcy and Mrs Lou.
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India
Thu 25 May 2023Well, what an amazing year India class have had in year 3! The children have had a great last week in school, enjoying a fun swim in our swimming lesson on Monday, transition day on Wednesday, running races on Thursday and then our last day today! The children have all been on the recognition board for many things: giving 100% effort, active learning, teamwork, perfect punctuation and lots more.
The children worked super hard with their English unit this term, creating suspense stories and writing detailed instructions. In maths, the children have been learning fractions and angles. This was a tricky unit, but with perseverance the children really enjoyed learning lots of new knowledge.
In geography, the children enjoyed learning about the Lake District, answering questions such as why do people go to the Lake District and what effect do tourist have on the Lake District?
In science, the children learnt about rocks, the different types, how they are formed and how fossils are made.
It has been an absolute privilege to teach every single child in India class and we are super proud of all of them. I hope you all have a lovely summer holidays and I look forward to seeing you all in September!
Miss O’Keefe
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Year 5 Summer 1
Mon 22 May 2023Summer 1 has been a brilliant term for year 5!
In English, the children wrote fantastic defeating the monster stories. They had brilliant use of the action toolkit and description.
In maths, we have been looking at movement and angles. We will be continuing angles after half term but the children have shown lots of perseverance with these units.
In history, we have enjoyed learning about human and civil rights. We learnt about a few notable figures like Emmeline Pankhurst and Malala Yousafzai.
We spent some time celebrating the king's coronation and completing work related, including royal portraits and invites, designing thrones using modern technology and discussing what we would do if we were king! As part of the big help out, we visited our local nursery and read some of our favourite books to them.
The children had an informative visit to Jamea Mosque where they learnt about the 5 pillars of Islam and took part in 4 workshops, writing their names in Arabic, tasting foods, trying on thobes and completing the ablution needed for praying.
We are all looking forward to our final term and working hard to be ready for Year 6!
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Canada Class Spring 2
Fri 31 Mar 2023What a wonderful half-term we have had in Canada class. The children have written some amazing stories and have tried so hard to use all of the grammar skills that they have been taught.
We have been learning about fractions in maths and the children have wowed me. Fractions can be a very tricky concept but they have been so resilient and so many brought work in that they had been doing at home too!
The children enjoyed our geography unit which was all about lines of longitude and latitude and time zones. They worked really hard and can now tell me lots about it all.
In DT they loved designing, making, and evaluating their own pencil cases and did a wonderful job.
I wish you all and your children a very happy, peaceful, and restful Easter.
It has been a privilege teaching Canada class these last 10 months.
Mrs Lambert and Canada class team.
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China Class Spring Term
Thu 30 Mar 2023We've had a very busy half term in China Class and the children have worked incredibly hard.
In English, we have been focusing on grammar and punctuation. The children have learnt about using semi-colons, colons, the perfect form of verbs and adverbs to express time, place, possibility and cause.
Using their grammar and punctuation knowledge, the children have written amazing stories, character descriptions and setting descriptions.In maths, the children worked very hard when learning about algebra, area and perimeter, volume and geometry.
In DT, we designed and made automatas. This involved using various tools: saws, drills, hammers and glue guns. The children showed great skill in measuring precisely, cutting out and trying different cams. Finally, the children decorated their automatas to fit in with their design. Many parents were able to join us for this stage, which was fantastic.
In RE, we have been thinking about the questions, ‘who was Jesus?’ and ‘who is Jesus?’. We have read parts of the bible; considered the names Jesus is known as, such as Messiah and the Light of the world; and discussed if Jesus is different things to different people.
Well done China Class for a great half term.
Have a lovely Easter break.
Miss Waring, Miss Carroll and Miss Rawsthorne.
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England Class - Spring 2 Newsletter
Thu 30 Mar 2023Wow! It feels like we have blinked and the half term is over! What a lovely half term we have had in England class.
In English, the children wrote their own bee fact files, comprised of their own bee facts that they learnt in school or for home learning. This week, the children have finished their innovated story for our story of The Sleepy Bumblebee. They chose their own place Mr Bumblebee could try to sleep but unfortunately Mr Bumblebee kept being disturbed from his slumber!
In maths, we have begun to explore the composition of numbers to 10 and we will continue this into next term. The children have been using comparative language to describe when measuring different lengths, heights and capacities. We found it particularly funny when measuring eachother using objects around the classroom.
In RE, we have read many Bible stories from the New Testament, exploring how Jesus told these stories to teach us about God and how to live our lives. We have also learnt about the most important time in the Church year, Easter.
In our topic afternoons, the children designed, made and evaluated their own bookmarks using hessian, wool and a sewing needle. We are beyond impressed with all the children, the care and determination they showed to complete their book marks to such a high standard has been amazing to see. We also explored the natural world, observed and drew what we could see while in the forest area. We have practised taking turns, being able to wait for what we want and to keep trying when things are tricky.
Well done England Class!
Have a lovely Easter break,
Miss Stephens and Mrs Rimmer
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Spain Class News - Spring 2
Wed 29 Mar 2023We've had a very busy half term in Spain Class!
In English, we have been looking at wishing stories and have learnt 'The Magic Porridge Pot' off by heart. We then innovated in to create new stories as well as writing completely new wishing stories. The children have worked really hard with their writing this half term. They have been working hard on trying to get their full stops and capital letters in the correct places.
In maths, we've been looking at numbers to 40 and have begun to look at solving word problems. The children have been using tens and ones to show which number is greater and to help them put three numbers in order.
In RE, we've been looking at the Easter story and have had lots of good discussions about spring and how we can see things that seemed dead come alive again. We've discussed how this reminds us of Jesus, who was dead but came back to life. We made some really lovely Easter gardens using natural material in the forest area at school.
In Science, our topic has been all about animals and humans. We've looked at the parts of our bodies and our senses. We've been on senses hunts and explored our senses. We've begun to look at animals and discussed how we know an animal is different to an object. We will continue this topic after Easter.
In Geography, we have really enjoyed our London topic and have particularly enjoyed looking at the London landmarks. We loved having the parents in for our London Exhibition.
What a great half term Spain Class! Well done!
Have a lovely Easter break.
Mrs Holden, Miss Walsh, Mrs McEwan, Mrs Chester and Mrs Lou
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Year 5 Spring 2
Sat 25 Mar 2023It has been a busy half term with lots of new learning!
In English, we have been learning to write suspense stories and information texts. The suspense stories we created were fantastic; we shared these with Year 2, who really enjoyed listening to our stories.
In DT, we all assembled torches. We first evaluated torches, designed our own and then created ours. We used an electric circuit, including a switch, and several junk materials to create our torch. Although this took a lot of perseverance, they turned out fantastic!
In maths, we have been focusing on decimals and fractions. Lots of children enjoyed these units and were brilliant at them too!
We have been learning about rainforests, focusing on the Amazon Rainforest, in geography. The children were really interested in learning that there are many people living in the rainforests!
In science, we have been investigating materials and their properties. We will be carrying this on after half term.
We had the opportunity to visit Manchester Airport Aerozone. We had lots of fun and learnt lots relating to jobs at the airport. Some of the activities we did were:
- learning some interesting facts about the airport
- role playing different jobs including air traffic control, cabin crew,check in assistants, aircraft Marshalls andsecurity (we used thereal baggage security machines and scanners!)
- to end our day, we explored the new terminal, asked the workers our questions and found out what flights were departing that today!Have a lovely Easter break!
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Year 2 trip to Wild Boar Park
Wed 01 Mar 2023Year 2 had a great time at Wild Boar Park. We looked at lots of different animals and watched them being fed. We got to hold guinea pigs, snakes, snails and a cockroach.
We enjoyed playing on the park after we had eaten our lunch and then we finished the day with a tractor ride to see alpacas and emus.
We had a great time and learnt lots more about animals and farms.
