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To culminate our fractions topic, the last lesson allowed children to sink their teeth into SATs style questions whilst others consolidated their previous learning of fraction sequences. After some clear, helpful modelling on the whiteboard with some constructive critique, most were ready to hit the ground running!
E-Safety Day 2022
This week in PE, cartwheels have been the focus of our gymnastics program. Starting from scratch in many cases, the children examined how experts completed the cartwheel, step-by-step, before attempting the movement by themselves. Those who felt comfortable were challenged even further my including a hurdle step prior to their cartwheel, increasing the speed and power of their movement. Top effort by all!
This term LKS2 across the trust are coming together to record a charity single, promoting our message of caring for the planet. As part of this, each school has been tasked to write a verse of the song. NJS will be opening the song with verse 1 and today we started the process of putting everything together.
Today Y3 were joined by Geoff to help us write the lyrics for our section of the product through a songwriting workshop. We analysed music, wrote letters to the Earth expressing our feelings about climate change and then turned these thoughts and feelings into lyrics. The children shared some amazing ideas and came together to create a great verse to the song.
We can’t wait to be able to record the song, and sing our lyrics.
This week in our maths lessons have moved on to explore division. We have been sharing into equal groups and looking at different ways to represent calculations using counters.
Flexible Friday featured a spot of inter-crew Pictionary to end what has been an extremely busy and productive week in 6CC!
This week 5EG asked to have a show and tell during our Crew time. It was fab to see children wanting to show and explain to the class what they have done, or something important to them. Speaking in front of the whole class can be quite nerve-wracking but these guys did it with no fear at all!
What an amazing day of CPD during our recent staff training INSET – we covered all things English, Expedition and of course, my love and passion, Mathematics. For the latter, now we are working as one leadership team across both the Infants and Juniors, we focused our work around lesson design and the key ingredients of a maths lesson. Here, working collaboratively and using classroom protocols, we unpicked the purpose of each ingredient and outlined practical examples of what that looked like in practice. In the end, we created a lesson rubric that all staff could draw upon when designing their maths lesson and ultimately impact positively on the progress of our children.
In Maths, fractions have been our focus for the majority of Spring term so far. This week, the children have been deepening their understanding of finding a common multiple to help them compare, order, add and subtract fractions.
Intent on mastering fractions, half of the class mentored their peers in finding the common multiple so they could order fractions. Excited by the thought of using their own ‘teacher equipment’, they embraced the opportunity to support and challenge their classmates. Top notch, 6CC! 👍🏼😁
For the past two weeks, Year 6 have been learning all things fractions related in maths. It is great to see the pupils getting to grips with this tricky area of mathematics. Today the children worked in pairs ordering fractions with different denominators but as you can see, we forgot to use paper! We’re not sure the cleaners will be too happy!
This morning 3HJ were joined by visitors from Royal Opera House. The progress made by the children in the short time since starting ballet lessons has been phenomenal with huge amounts of determination and focus. We performed our Alice in Wonderland routine perfectly to an excited audience of year 4 children. All our special visitors commented on how well behave and polite our children were and loved that they were actively supporting each other. So so proud of you all.
