We have been busy honing our estimation and measuring skills in Maths this week – measuring activities have been set on Mathletics to support this learning.
After finding a bee and observing them in the school gardens, we have decided to plan non chronological reports about Honey Bees in our English lessons. We are enjoying finding out about these amazing insects – please see the home learning task.
We have drawn these beautiful insects in Art.
We have also been keen gardeners this week, tending to the vegetable patches, watering our plants and sowing spring onions.
The big message for this week is Healthy eating for Everyone!!
Our sports leaders: Alfie, Kian, Sophie and Vihaan, have been very busy this week assisting all classes with their hydration points in their classes. They have been preparing each morning water that has contained many different ingredients: strawberry, lemon, lime and mint. Today, they carried out a whole school survey on the most popular flavoured water and the result was ‘strawberry’. Alfie announced this good news to the whole school this morning in assembly. From this survey, the sports captains will be preparing strawberry flavoured water for Sports Day on Wednesday 28th June. On top of that, they have visited each class and assisted with cutting up their fruit for the class to sample and also assisted the class teachers during their PE lessons where the focus has been on Sports Day. [This insert has been written by Sophie]
Well done to each of them for their time, enthusiasm and hard work!
In English the children completed their healthy eating explanation text on the areas of: fibre, stay hydrated and five-a day.
We have continued with the production and have made more props! The children have painted beautiful jungle flowers which will be added to our scenery. The children are learning their parts (spoken and vocal parts). A gentle reminder: can all costumes be in school by Monday 19th June as we would like the children to practise the scenes in them from Monday.
In Maths the children have looked at expressions and equations and were fantastic in solving these and in RE we have continued our work on parables.
Home Learning:
As part of the Healthy Eating Week focus, we are inviting the children to take part in the Aldi Competition answering the question:
How can we inspire people to enjoy healthy, sustainable food?
The children have been asked to design a lorry to inspire people to enjoy healthy, sustainable food. They have been given a template to use. Please can this sheet be handed back into school by: Tuesday 20th June. Thank you.
2. Please encourage your child to learn their lines for the play.
Click here to listen to some of the songs we are singing. Songs
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This week was Healthy Eating Week. Each day, we tasted different flavoured water to encourage us to drink more and stay hydrated. The children made posters to tell others about the importance of drinking. The most popular flavour water in Year 3 was mint and the overall school favourite was strawberry. On Monday, for Design and Technology, the children made their healthy sandwiches. It was great to see children adapting their plans to use wholemeal or brown bread and adding extra salads to make their sandwiches healthy. They then evaluated their sandwiches, thinking about what went well and what they would change next time. Thank you to all the children who sent in different fruits and to the Year 6 children who helped to cut all of the fruit. The children enjoyed trying new fruits! The next food group we learnt about was protein and how we can vary the protein we eat. We also learnt about fibre and why it is important and identified food that contain fibre. Then we learnt about foods waste, the children have taken home a survey about food waste, please complete this and send it back.
In Maths, the children have been learning about tenths and how we record tenths as a decimal. The children were given the challenge of making a stick man, a tenth of me. The discussion between partners were great and they worked well to make a stickman of the correct height. Then the children lined up 10 stickmen to see if it was the same height as me and they were!
In English, the children have been using the skills they have learnt over the past few weeks to write adventure stories. I have enjoyed reading each one! They have captured the element of excitement in their stories and all of the stories make you want you to read on. They have included fronted adverbials, conjunctions, prepositions, similes and metaphors.
On Wednesday, Year 3 lead the class mass to celebrate their FIrst Holy Communion. The children sang and responded beautiful and their behaviour was excellent. Well done to the readers and the children who did the offertory procession. It was lovely to see some many of you there.
In English lessons, Year 6 have been writing narratives about The King of Winter from a picture stimulus. We were impressed with the quality of the descriptions and dialogue. These have been added to their writing portfolios.
On Thursday Year 6 took part in the Blessed Sacrament Procession alongside the rest of the school. They walked with their Reception partners, showing them how to be peaceful and reverent. They were excellent role models.
On Tuesday, the children had their first tennis lesson of the term. They took part in some very challenging activities passing the ball to their partner and developed their catching skills.
Our class production of The Jungle Book has been a focus for this week. The class have each practised their parts in the script and have learnt some of the songs. Well done! Every child has been given a letter home about their costumes. Can we ask that all costumes be in school by Friday 16th June. Thank you. Next week, we will be focussing on acting out the production on stage. On Wednesday the class was busy producing props to decorate the stage. The many leaves made will be added to over the coming weeks as we look to transform the hall into a jungle!!
Have a lovely weekend.
See you at the Potters Bar Carnival on Sunday!
Mrs McNamara and Mrs Lines.
Home Learning:
Learn their lines for the play.
Click here to listen to some of the songs we are singing. Songs pdf
It is Healthy Eating Week next week. The Sports Leaders will be assisting over the week with lunchtime activity games and preparing the food trays for each class alongside the class teachers. Can your child bring in a fruit or vegetable by Wednesday 14th June that they have not eaten before or have just tried and enjoyed and would like to share this with the rest of the class. Thank you!
Research the five focus areas: 1. Focus on fibre 2. Eat at least 5 portions a day. 3. Vary your protein. 4. Stay Hydrated. 5. Reduce Food Waste.
Our writing focus for next week is on explanation textsso this research will aid them in their writing.
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Welcome back, I hope you all had a wonderful half term. We have been busy in Year 2 planting vegetables, learning about the different parts of flowers and what seeds do. We have also learnt about germination and are observing the germination of mustard seeds, cress and runner beans in class. We are really looking forward to our class trip next week, where we will be visiting the Knebworth House walled garden and taking part in a plant workshop.
In P.E. we have been busy preparing for sports day and are learning how to field and bowl in cricket – aiming at the wicket (swat the fly).
In Religion we have learnt about parables. We have listened to the Good Samaritan, The Prodigal Son and The Mustard Seed and thought about what the stories were telling us.
On Thursday we took part in the Blessed Sacrament Procession and were prayerful at all times.
Remember our class trip is on Tuesday and the children will need to wear the P.E. kit and have a hat and packed lunch. Football and Tennis club will also start next week.
Home Learning
Science – Next week is Healthy Eating Week, please find an exotic fruit or a vegetable or one that you have never eaten before andbring it into class onMonday and or Wednesday.
Spelling – tch – please copy these into your handwriting book.
In English this week, we have created newspaper reports based on our PGL trip. We imagined that we found a mysterious item on the beach and explained how it was found.
In RE we talked about our Christian beliefs and looked closely at three of them to decide what actions in our daily lives shows how we live these beliefs. The children designed handprints of the three beliefs and the actions.
The highlight of this week for us as a class was the May Procession, Our Feast Day Mass and the Oakmere Mini Marathon. In the procession this morning Kate and Ben led the whole school beautifully to the peace garden and crowned Our Lady Queen of the May. The readers for the May Procession were Arthur, Ti, Leon, Oskar, Monica and Kian. Thank you to Eric who served, Johanna and Caroline who read at the Mass this afternoon and Violet who did the powerpoint.
Congratulations to those children also who participated in Oakmere’s Mini Marathon. Well done to Max, VJ, Tymon, Sophie, Violet and Monica.
We hope you all enjoy a wonderful half term break and look forward to seeing all the children for our final half term of the academic year.
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Click above to see the Flags of the World. Choose one or two to create for us to use for our Pentecost Celebration!
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We hope you enjoyed seeing the many photos that were taken during the activities the children got up to. On Thursday the children experienced the Giant Swing, Fencing, Abseiling and Archery.
The Giant Swing was the ultimate test of nerve and joint decision-making. Two children at a time were harnessed into the swing, while other members of the group hauled them up to 10 metres into the air! The children I would say now are ready for the Tug of War competition! The abseiling tower was a backward descent from the top of a 12 metre tower, suspended by a rope certainly gave some of our children an adrenalin rush! This activity encourages individual courage and determination but it’s also a great way to bring young people together as they support and encourage each other.
Archery took place on an outdoor ranges and each group were encouraged safety awareness from the outset as they were taught the basics. The activity required accuracy, control, concentration and a steady hand and all of the class ensured that they gave that on their go.
Fencing involved good eye-to-hand coordination, fast footwork, lightning reflexes and even quicker decision-making. Dressed in all the safety gear, the children learnt the basics of challenging many opponents in the session and they enjoyed chanting touche which acknowledged a hit!
On Thursday evening, the children took part in an interactive Cluedo session around the site visiting all the suspects before finding out who was the culprit. Once a unanimous decision was made, the culprit was revealed and received a bucket of water!
On Friday, after either archery or a problem solving activity, we took our packed lunches and went on a coastal walk. We had lunch by the sea and the children had some free time to explore the beach before we all headed back to our coach driver who was ready to take us home.
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We have drawn these beautiful insects in Art.
