As part of showing our support for a positive Internet, we took part in activities in school to explore our ideas of what a better Internet might look like and we urge all of our parents, friends and supporters to create, connect and share positive messages and use of technology.

Together we can make a positive difference

Together we realise that we can make #SID2018 the biggest campaign yet and make a real difference to the digital lives of children right across the UK.

In school after our whole school assembly, we watched the SID TV video for 7-11 year olds and discussed the themes mentioned in the film about friendship and how online actions make us feel.

On a jigsaw template, we filled in a pledge to do something positive online. It could be a picture of the kind things the children would do online or a pledge to take a positive action to make the internet a better place. The jigsaws show how our actions fit in with the actions of those around us, to create a better internet.

Find out more and get involved!

www.saferinternetday.org.uk #SID2018

For this week, we had a German student Tobias in our classroom working alongside the children.  He has been a great asset to the class and loved listening to the children read and chat about their reading books with him.  On Monday, we were treated to a piano concert by some of the children in the class.  It was lovely to see how well their piano skills have developed and their confidence in performing in front of an audience growing too!

Well done to Asher, Giovanna, Luka, Maria, Max and Toni.

On Tuesday, the children continued to look at a scene of a play script from Harry Potter and how to summarise what they had learnt from it.  They looked at sentence structure and did role play.  On Friday, the children wrote their own narratives using the script as a writing stimulus and some wonderful writing pieces were written.

On Wednesday, in RE the children learnt more about the Exodus story and watched parts of the Prince of Egypt film.  With knowledge of what happened, they continued to write up the Exodus story and retell when God spoke to Moses through ‘The Burning Bush.’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acting out a scene from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

 

On Friday, the children continued their art work with Ms Burgess using their willow designs from last week.

I have only mentioned a few of the learning experiences that the children have had this week.  I’m sure that the children will have told you much more!

The homework has been set and as usual, there is homework club on Monday if your child needs it.

Have a lovely weekend.

 

Mrs McNamara

Click here to download the power point I used in Maths testing your knowledge of measurement.    Converting QUIZ

 

 

Our Wonderful Pianists

Although we have had snow, frost and rain over the last few weeks,  the children have approached their work with eagerness and focus!  Well done.

Using the snow as a stimulus, the children were set a task.  At the beginning of the week, after our day off school, I asked  the class to think about whether putting a coat on a snowman would make the snowman melt more slowly or more quickly.  Most children were all very sure that the snowman would melt more quickly with his coat on.  Coats are lovely and warm, and usually heat melts the snow.  Most of the class thought the same thing.  We created a snowman alongside another created by the children in Year 3.  Year 3 dressed their snowman whilst we left our snowman as he was.   After leaving the snowmen for a day, we could see that coats are good insulators and will keep us nice and warm when it is cold outside, but if  a coat is put on a snowman, the coat will stop the warmer air getting at the snowman.  So having a coat would actually keep the snowman colder for longer, and so he would be slower to melt! Try it for yourself if the snow appears again over the holidays!

The children have produced wonderful presentations on Christmas customs and we listened to some of them.  I am planning to allocate more time for the rest of the class to present theirs at the start of the new term.  The pantomime of Cinderella  last Friday was enjoyed and loved by all (Oh yes it was!) – thank you to those of you who came and assisted us.

Have a wonderful Christmas and every blessing for the New Year.

Thank you again for the generous gifts that you have given to myself, Miss Varga, Mrs Moccia and Mrs Vieyra.

See you On Thursday 4th January!

 

Mrs McNamara

 

 

Building our snowman

 

Also, we watched the Guitar Concert on Monday and saw how the children who play the guitar have developed their talents over this term.