Entries by Margaret Joyce

Year 6 – 23/11/18

There has been a lot going on in Year 6 over the past couple of weeks! Last week was Parliament Week as well as Anti-Bullying Week. To celebrate Parliament Week, we welcomed to our classroom local Councillor Peter Knell and his wife June, who are former mayor and mayoress of Hertsmere. We also learnt about […]

Autumn 2 Week 3

Our Weslandia learning came to an end this week with the writing of our newspaper reports. The children recounted the story well in a journalist style and used new grammar aspects. I have added the challenge of using dialogue in their spellings this week to practise the punctuation required. In maths we have focused on […]

Week 11

This week was our last week on the story Westlandia. The children have written a recount on a scene from the story. Their writing is wonderful showing their great understanding of the story. In Gymnastics we made up different sequences with our partners and showed them to the class. In Maths we have been learning […]

Autumn 2 Week 2

What a busy week! Anti- bullying has been the main theme in class this week, with Reception focussing more on how to be a good friend. The children have worked very hard producing posters to tell you how this can be done.   They also made friendship bracelets from a range of materials and gave […]

Week 10

We have had a busy week! This week is Anti Bullying Week and Parliament week. We started by looking at what bullying means and what we should do if we think bullying is happening. We made some posters to show what bullying is. The children took part in a workshop on anti bullying and looked […]

Autumn 2 Week 2

We have had a wonderful day at Celtic Harmony today, where we learnt how to become a Celtic Warrior. We had a fantastic time learning how to fire an arrow and solve warrior riddles. The children were great at hunting for clues in the woodlands and proved themselves to be very fierce. We also learnt […]

UK Parliament and Anti Bullying Week

This week we have taken part in two very important national events: UK Parliament Week and Anti bullying week. For UK Parliament Week, we used the resources sent by the Parliament Education service to understand the structure of Parliament. In class, Year 5 learnt about what a referendum is and set one up for the […]

Year 2 Blog Week 9

It has been a very busy week in Year 2. The children have been focusing on the book Weslandia as part of our whole school writing project. ‘Wesley is an outcast from the civilization around him. He’s not into pizza or football or haircuts like the other boys in his school. So, when Wesley has […]

16th November

This week we have focused on our school themes of Anti-Bullying and the UK Parliament. The children completed some research for homework last weekend on Parliament and from this home learning, they have shown what they can discuss what  the UK Parliament is and what democracy means.  As a class, the children voted for two members […]