Entries by Margaret Joyce

Reception Spring Term Week 10

In RE this week, Reception have been focussing on Luke’s account of Palm Sunday; when Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem on a donkey.  The children demonstrated their understanding of the story through role play, writing their own versions of the story, painting pictures, making palm trees and building their own gates of Jerusalem with small construction. […]

Year 6 Home Learning – 22/03/19

This week’s home learning (due Tuesday 26th March) is as follows: English spag.com KS2 SATs Grammar Test (E) Reading Comprehension on sheet: ‘Devastating bushfire races across Port Hope’ Daily reading, with parent signature once a week. Maths Times tables Questions to be completed in the yellow Home Learning book: ·        CGP Year 6 book pp. 34-35 […]

Zentangle

Year 4 has had another busy week. The children have learnt how to use ‘Book Creator’ to record their ideas, speech and photos. They have used that knowledge to create beautiful documents explaining their understanding of the Stations of the Cross. In Science, the children have conducted practical investigations about gases. Their favourite was to […]

Week 10

This week we have been  learning about the story of the Entry in to Jerusalem. We acted out the story and enjoyed watching  ourselves on the video clip. We looked at the different Gospel writers and recognised that Luke’s story did not include palms.  We read Luke’s story and we retold the story in our own […]

Year 2 Blog Week 23

It has been a very busy week in Year 2! In Religion, we have been learning about the Stations of the Cross. The children focused on describing some of the stations and their stories.  We have glazed our clay pots and we are looking forward to seeing the results of the firing next week!  We […]

Spring 2 Week 3

Our week began with a visit to Church, where we prayed The Stations of the Cross. The children were very respectful and wrote some wonderful reflections in their RE books in class. We are praying The Stations in class together too – please see the photograph below of our RE board. We were also visited […]

Week 8

We’ve had a very exciting week in year 5. The highlight had to be our trip to the Houses of Parliament on Thursday. It was an amazing experience to visit the galleries of both the House of Lords and the House of Commons to watch the debates and questions. The excitement of the children showed […]

Year 6 – 15/03/19

This year for British Science Week, the theme was ‘Journeys’. In Year 6, we focused on the distressing fact that all plastic inevitably journeys to the ocean. Here are some of the shocking facts that we learned: The ocean has a plastic mass that is 6 times the size of the UK; 100% of turtles […]