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Learning Round-up

Maple class have settled back in to school life amazingly. This week we started our new topic in talk for writing looking at an information text ‘from the encyclopedia of nasty creatures’, in history we started our new topic of Ancient Greece looking artifacts, in PE we have started to learn some new hockey skills. Amazing start to the new half term!

Silver Birch - Welcome back year 3! We’ve had an absolutely brilliant beginning to the new term. One of the highlights from this week was our new P.E topic - Hockey. Whilst many of the children were nervous to try this sport, everybody gave it a brilliant go and it was amazing to see the skill development during the lesson. Everybody was so focused during this lesson and really enjoyed learning these new skills. We have also enjoyed settling back into routines and have begun our non-fiction, report writing topic for Talk for Writing.

Pine class have settled back in well and thrown themselves into our new learning with enthusiasm. In History we are learning about the Byzantine Empire which followed the Romans. In maths we have been superb at our decimals and dividing by 10. This term we are looking at astronomy in Science and Talk for Reading, plus our Writing model text is about aliens. We are excited to immerse ourselves in space this term! In art we also loved looking at a painting and recording our responses through some abstract poetry which we performed to the class, see the results below!

Elder class have settled back in well and thrown themselves into our new learning with enthusiasm. This term we are looking at astronomy in Science and Talk for Reading, plus our Writing model text is about aliens. We are excited to immerse ourselves in space this term! In art we also loved looking at a painting and recording our responses through some abstract poetry which we performed to the class, see the results below!

What a great first week back that we have had. Willow have been working hard on our upcoming choir performance and have been singing beautifully this week. We have also been enjoying our new Talk 4 Writing topic on how to survive in an extreme environment. The children have considered what they would need to take with them to a deserted island and what dangers could await them

What an amazing start to the new term! Sequoia class have already done some fantastic work in all their lessons as we explore our new units. In Talk for Reading we investigated some clues that led us to our new model text: The Road Not Taken. In our writing lessons we have had some tips from Bear Grylls to help us create our own survival guides.

Oak class have settled back into school brilliantly this week. They have shown great enthusiasm within their learning in all subjects especially History and our new Talk for Writing unit looking at balanced arguments. Children were pleased to hear that they would be continuing their learning on WW2 this term. In addition to this, Year 6 had a special workshop delivered by Solve It focused on alcohol and drug use.

Acer have settled back into the term amazingly. In history, Acer have analysed sources about the government initiatives during World War 2. They considered how people on the home front would have reacted and how people may feel if the posters were released now. Acer have taken part in a workshop exploring drug and alcohol use and the impact this has.

Attendance

Whole School 94%

Silver Birch 93%

Maple 91%

Pine 95%

Elder 94%

Willow 94%

Sequoia 95%

Acer 92%

Oak 97%

Dates for your diary

• World Book Day 2nd March
• Primary Cup -14th march
• SSF Y5 - 14th March 2023
• ECO day 16th March 2023
• Parent drop-in catch ups 27th & 28th March - 4-5pm
• Primary Music Festival 29th April 2023
• Class photos 21st April 2023
• SATS - week commencing 8th May
• Parents Evenings 22nd & 23rd May
• Y3 Hazard Alley 6th June 2023
• Sports Day 3rd July (provisional weather permitting)
• Y6 Residential 10th July
• Annual reports 11th July
• Transition week 11th July

Developing experts visits- personal development

Science Museum 7th March 2023

Hampton Court Palace 15th March 2023

Victoria & Albert Museum 29th March 2023

Healthy Eating Award

We are working towards out Healthy Schools Award. Please take a look at our draft Healthy Food and Physical Activity policies. Please remember to send your child in with water in their water bottle and a healthy packed lunch. Don't forget to consider the fresh cooked balanced meals from Caterlink.

Reminder - snacks at playtime must be healthy e.g. fruit, low sugar/salt bars. This should not be crisps. Water bottles need to contain water and not squash OR fizzy drinks.

Allergy awareness - we are a nut-free school. Please ensure Nutella sandwiches and Celebrations and other sweets containing nuts are not brought into school.

House Points

Figures for the last two weeks of term

King 205

Parks 160

Gandhi 220

Pankhurst 234

Reading

Your child should have come in with their Accelerated Reader book and reading journal. Please remember to record when your child is reading at home. A target of 3 times a week or more is great.

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