Entries by Margaret Joyce

Summer 1 Week 3

Year 5 have worked incredibly hard this week. In maths, they have continued to work on fractions by adding and subtracting them and converting the answer from improper fractions to mixed numbers. In English we have thought about how to show the emotion of a character without telling their audience how they feel. We have […]

Year 6 – 30/04/21

Year 6 have worked incredibly hard this week. In Maths, they took a set of test papers (1x arithmetic plus 2x reasoning papers) and showed great stamina and focus in these. In English, they have explored writing tools that evoke fear in the reader; next week, they will plan, draft and edit their own tale […]

Week 3

In Maths, we have continued to solve problem involving multiplication. The children made arrays using counters, cereal and drawing them.   We have been reading the story Click, Clack Moo Cows Can Type. The children planned and wrote their own stories based on this book. On Thursday, we had a cricket lesson, the children thoroughly […]

Friday, 30th April 2021

Year 4 has been very busy this week with lots of opportunities to participate in sport activities. On Tuesday, we enjoyed our first session with Mr Mills, learning core skills in tennis. The children did very well and could complete rallies up to 39 hits by end of our lesson! On Thursday, we participated in […]

Year 2 Blog 30/04/2021

We don’t like cricket…. oh no.. We LOVE it! The children have been learning about batting and fielding in their P.E. lessons this week. There was wonderful team-work on display in our Rounders games and a number of home-runs! Everyone really enjoyed their Cricket taster session this week. We loved it and we can’t wait […]

Summer 1: Week 3

This week we finished writing our animal documentaries and next week we will be recording them on the i-pads, before starting our narratives. We have also made clay tiles of pandas and tigers – I look forward to seeing the children paint them next week. In maths we have found fractions of amounts and learnt […]

Summer 1 Week 2

It has been a busy week in Year 5. The highlight was our visit from the Ark Farm. The children loved getting up close with the animals and feeding them. We were also lucky enough to be visited by Howard and Kit Williams from Cattlegate farm to learn more about arable farming. In English, we […]

Summer 1: Week 2

We had a busy start to the week, continuing to find fractions of amounts in Maths and researching endangered animals in English. As part of our English topic we have adopted a giant panda through the worldwide wildlife fund (WWF) and will write our own animal documentaries and narratives, featuring an endangered animal, over the […]

Friday, 23rd April 2021

                        The children this week had an amazing opportunity to learn about farm animals and about ways to care for them. The Ark Farm’s visit on Tuesday allowed them to have a closer look at animals such as a donkey, a pig, some lambs, […]