Week 10: 17th November

This week we started our writing focus on a wonderful book: Traction Man!  The children have embraced all the activities that we have been doing in class: hot seating, whole class discussion, examining scenes from the story etc..

On Monday, many of the children brought their favourite toys into school and talked about the adventures that they have shared with them.   We are going to write a recount from the point of view of  Traction Man next week so we have been looking at changing the present tense of verbs into the past tense.

In RE we have been looking at the Annunciation Story through art and the children spent time painting their scenes in water colour and oil pastels.  The children produced some meaningful pictures.

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Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McNamara

 

 

 

 

 

Week 10

All different. All Equal

 

This week in Year 5, we have taken part in anti bullying week. On Monday, we began by celebrating our differences. The children created mini books that their classmates filled with positive messages. Watching the children read these was a real joy and I wish I could have captured all of their facial expressions on camera. They were truly filled with happiness and felt incredibly valued. Not only did they enjoy the aspect of receiving the compliments, they discussed how much they enjoyed building each other up being the reason someone smiles.

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On Tuesday, we took part in a class discussion about the times when people aren’t kind and at what point it becomes bullying. We explored ways of dealing with it and how we can support each other.

On Wednesday, they children used their knowledge of the Lectio Divina to listen to, mediate, pray and reflect on a piece of Scripture about not judging others. They considered how they would apply it to their everyday life to support the anti bullying message.

On Thursday, we turned our attention to cyber bullying. We looked at the impact of it and created posters that showed how we can help ourselves or others who are experiencing it.

Overall, the children showed great maturity and sensitivity to the issues we discussed.

 

Traction Man is Here!

Alongside the rest of the school, we have been looking at the book ‘Traction Man’ by Mini Grey. We have focussed on retelling the story through drama and story maps. We also empathised with our main character by holding a press conference for this fearless hero!

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Have a great weekend

 

Mrs Lines

 

 

Home Learning

English:

Comprehension

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Spelling: Credible, edible, horrible, legible,possible, resistible, responsible, reversible, sensible, terrible and visible.

Maths:

Book 4 – ‘Using times tables’ pg 22 and ‘Factor Pairs’ pg 24

There has been a little confusion about what maths work to cover! Last time, I referenced incorrect page numbers. Some children completed the task based on the page, and others based on the title. I will list below the titles and pages that need to be covered. Children can complete the activities they did not do last week.

Book 5-

‘Multiples’ pg 18.

‘Factors and Primes’ pg 19 and 20

‘Multiplying by 10, 100  and 1000’ pg 21 and 22.

Week 10 Blog

This week the children enjoyed listening to and engaging within lots of activities based around the book, Traction Man by Mini Grey.  They retold the story in story parts and imagined what it would be like to be Traction Man. In maths the have continued to explore numbers to ten using a tens frame using counters and making additions. For Anti Bullying week they created a jigsaw and wrote about their different likes. This helped them to understand that everyone is different but each piece creates our class, school and community.IMG_8867 IMG_8868 IMG_8869 IMG_8870 IMG_8864 IMG_8863 IMG_8862 IMG_8861 IMG_8860 IMG_8859 IMG_8858 IMG_8857 IMG_8857 IMG_8856 IMG_8855 IMG_8852 IMG_8850 IMG_8853 IMG_8862 IMG_8866

Year 6 – 17/11/17

Schools around the country have this week been taking part in Anti-Bullying week. The focus has been that each of us is different, yet we are all equal. We have been reflecting on our class book, Wonder, in which the main character is treated differently because of facial defects he was born with. We also looked at the lyrics to the song Beautiful, by Christina Aguilera, discussed the complexities of cyber bullying, and meditated on a passage from Scripture in which we are told not to judge others when we ourselves have plenty of imperfections.

Each class in the school has been studying the book ‘Traction Man’ and in Year 6 we have been exploring the humour within the story. On Monday, the children role-played the various missions that Traction Man accomplishes in the story, and on Wednesday, we held a press conference for Traction Man and questioned him about his heroic deeds!

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In Science this week, we learnt about the circulatory system and acted out the journey of the red blood cell as it is pumped around the body.

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We continued our PE gymnastics unit, focusing this week on floor movements. They worked hard to improve their forward and backward rolls so that they could stand them up at the end.

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This week’s home learning is here.

Miss Donatantonio

Supporting the work of St Vincent de Paul

On Friday donations of  food collected last half term were given to the St Vincent de Paul Society, SVP, to distribute to the needy of Hertfordshire. Mrs Surry and our Year 6 pupils packed  and loaded the food!

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Thank you for your generosity

Anti-Bullying Week 2017 All Different All Equal

 

th[9]ANTI-BULLYING WEEK 2017 ‘ALL DIFFERENT, ALL EQUAL’

Monday 13th November to Friday 17th November is National Anti-Bullying Week coordinated by the Anti- Bullying Alliance. Anti-Bullying Week shines a spotlight on bullying and encourages all children, teachers and parents to take action against bullying throughout the year. The theme this year is ‘All Different, All Equal’ with the aims:

  • empower children and young people to celebrate what makes them, and others, unique
  • help children and young people understand how important it is that every child feels valued and included in school, able to be themselves, without fear of bullying
  • encourage parents and carers to work with their school and talk to their children about bullying, difference and equality
  • enable teachers and other children’s workforce professionals to celebrate what makes us ‘all different, all equal’ and celebrate difference and equality. Encouraging them to take individual and collective action to prevent bullying, creating safe environments where children can be themselves.

During this week each class will participate in lots of different activities which promote anti-bullying. However we recognise that this focus should not just be for one week and we are committed to long-term sustainable measures to prevent and deal with any form of bullying behaviour, working together with children and parents to address this important issue.

Please talk to your children about their learning this week. We are always interested to have any feedback from parents.

With thanks for all your support

Liz Heymoz

 

Reception Class Week 9

 

 

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This week, Reception have been learning about why we have Remembrance Sunday and the significance of the red poppy. In particular, we have been thinking about bravery and talking about the times that we have been brave, even though we have felt very scared.

We also had some very exciting visitors who have to be brave every single day- fire officers!

Some of the fire officers from our local station came to show us around their fire engine. They showed us how they use their life saving equipment in an emergency situation and spoke to us about how they keep themselves safe in a fire. The fire officers also stressed the importance of working together as part of a team. The children asked lots of interesting questions and listened very well to what was being said.

To finish off, we all had a go at turning on the fire hose and knocking over the cone with the water!

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Next week, we will be celebrating World Nursery Rhyme Week, focussing on one rhyme each day, and we will be joining the rest of the school in Anti Bullying Week.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend,

The Reception Team

Year 2 Blog Week 9

It has been all about balancing and rebalancing this week in Year 2. In maths, the children have been looking at rebalancing number sentences. The children identified the number in their calculation that was near a friendly number (multiple of ten) and used a beadstring to rebalance their calculation.balance

How would you rebalance the following calculations?

41 + 13 =

24 + 39 =

18 + 28 =

In P.E. we were also looking at balancing! The children explored balancing on 2, 3 and 4 parts of their bodies.

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In Science, the children were investigating materials with translucent properties. The children used torches to see if the light could pass through.

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The science learning continued outside as we planted our bulbs for spring. We decided on a pattern of circles and we used coloured sand to mark out our designs! We can’t wait to see what happens when the bulbs come up!

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Celtic Harmony and Remembrance Day

This week we visited Celtic Harmony Camp near Hertford to experience a Warrior Day!

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Upon arriving we were greeted by Owen a man from the Iron Age who led us to the camp, where we had to declare peace in order to be allowed entry! Once safely inside a round house (complete with fire) we were separated into two groups and we were given a name for our group; The Wolves and The Bears.

During the day we took part in lots of activities; including  archery, making headbands, Celtic warrior face paint, a quest in the forest to solve riddles and find clues to help us solve a problem, warrior skills and a weaving activity. We earned points (gold coin) for team work, listening and performance on each activity.

Year 3 found themselves completely immersed in this fun but educational day at the camp and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. I’m sure that you will agree that we all looked the part!

I would like to say a special thank you to Ms Coupland and Mrs Schofield for supporting us on this trip and joining in on all the activities to help the teams earn extra points!

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Home learning

This week I would like the children to write a recount about our visit to Celtic Harmony on the double sided sheet provided. This will be used as part of out topic learning and put into our topic books but it will also support our English writing next week when we begin to look closely at the book ‘Traction Man is Here’ as we will writing recounts of Traction Man’s adventures.

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The children should also practise their week 2 spelling, 4 time tables and read over the weekend please.

The children also led a beautiful Remembrance Day assembly today – I was so proud so how they all read and sang – thank you for coming to support, I’m sure you will agree that they did a great job. Well done Y3.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Pringle

 

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Year 6 – 10/11/17

Since half term in Year 6:

  • Writing inspired by the outdoors

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  • A trip to the Wyllyotts to see Hamlet

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  • Working on balances in PE

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  • The Fairtrade Group packing up the Harvest Festival donations to be delivered to the SVP Society

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  • Starting our new Science topic about the human body

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  • Doing Fitter Futures with their Reception partners

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This week, we also had our class Mass. You were a credit to yourselves and to the school in the way you participated so beautifully. I was an extremely proud teacher. Thank you to all the parents who attended the celebration; it was a fantastic turnout.

Home learning for this week – click here.

Enjoy the weekend.

Miss Donatantonio