Today we came dressed in yellow and blue for Better World Day 2022. We chose yellow and blue as our theme in support of Ukraine.
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Quiztastic Revision!
Our Friday in 6CC began with a bang as the class split themselves into teams to take on a Kahoot! quiz: revision edition. Each team battled it out to become the quiz master, utilising their knowledge and understanding of shape.
Magnificent mentoring!
As we prepare for SATs, the children have stepped up their efforts to mentor and listen to the feedback of their peers, particularly in Maths. As you can see below, our arithmetic pairs have been working exceptionally hard to revise previous learning and refine their maths skills. Might I add that their mentors have been doing a pretty fine job too!
Above: When learning about scale factors, the children worked hard to increase a picture of Mario or Luigi by a scale factor of two!
NOW HIRING: SATs SPAG QUESTION DESIGNERS!
SPAG revision took more of a creative focus last week as the children worked in pairs to design their own SPAG test: 8 questions with a focus of eight SPAG areas. When finished, the pairs then swapped tests with another pair and worked through their questions to see if they could achieve full marks!
Math-Magicians!
4TE have been getting very active and busy with their maths this week! We have been doing some more work on fractions and I can say that with each passing fraction, we are getting better and better!
🎶🎵🎤 Young Voices 2022 🎶🎵🎤
What a fabulous time we all had at the long anticipated Young Voices concert in Sheffield Arena last week. Each and every child was an absolute credit to our school and all sang with such passion. The dances moves weren’t too bad either! 😎 Massive thanks to all the staff who accompanied us too!
Fielding fun!
To further supplement their development in becoming skilful rounders players, Year 6 practiced their fielding skills today focusing mainly on throwing, catching and tactical play. Starting with some fun games to stress the importance of rapid throwing and catching to beat running players, the children quickly moved onto improving their long range throwing and catching.
Practising these skills in isolation is important but nothing compares to putting these skills under pressure in small game situation. Safe to say, the practice beforehand made the small games even more competitive. Now, Year 6 will look to improve their skills with a bat! Well done all!
Happy, Healthy Me
The summer term has got off to an exciting start with year 5’s immersion into their new expedition: Happy, Healthy Me. Over the course of this week, the children have been getting active (setting new 1 mile PBs and investigating their heart-rate recovery time after exercise), in addition to blind-tasting a range of healthy and unhealthy products and creating some fantastic plague doctor artwork (the focus of our first case study). What a fantastic start to our final expedition!
And We’re Off!
After what I hope was a fantastic Easter, it is absolutely brilliant to see everyone coming back this week and we have hit the ground running! Here in Year 4, we have been immersing ourselves into our new expedition, ‘Why Is Sugar Not So Sweet?’ where we shall be exploring its historic roots, and flavourful present. We have been creating timelines, our own sugary products, and conducting a blind taste test! Over the rest of this final summer term, we have got so many great experiences planned, and I can’t wait to share all of these and all of our learning in the weeks to come!
Back with a bang (of a bat)!
Post-Easter Catchup
After a well needed Easter break,6CC have hit the ground running, returning to school with an abundance of focus, resilience and a desire to soak up as much valuable learning as they can before their upcoming SATs assessments.
Maths
In Maths, the children have explored 2D and 3D shape, coordinates , translation, symmetry and reflection. Working with new partners as of the beginning of the week, the crew of 6CC has knuckled down and impressively supported each other in every area of learning. Well done guys!
Rounders!
Wednesday afternoon saw the children enjoy the chance to let off some steam with some healthy competition: our inter class rounders tournament not only refreshed the children’s memory of the rules of the game but also saw sportsmanship, respect and great team work. Awesome start to the new PE topic, Year 6!
And our new expedition is ……..
🥚🐇 Happy Easter! 🐇🥚
And just like that, another term has finished! It seems like we have only just come back from Christmas! But time flies when you’re having fun and I think that was certainly the case throughout NJS this term and in 4TE too. Our expedition, ‘What A Wonderful World’ was such an informative, relavent and enjoyable topic and gave the children fantastic experiences. To demonstrate this, over the term we filled our displays and corridor outside of the class. The children put great effort into making our environment an engaging place to be and it would be a shame for such effort not to be shared, as shown below! To celebrate the end of this expedition and this term, we had a superb last couple days…
To celebrate the end of this term, 4TE had a very busy last day. First, along side 5RS, we embarked on an Easter Egg Hunt around school. 76 eggs were tucked away for the two classes to work together to forage for. They successfully found all of the eggs and were given an egg each for their detecting skills. Then, we decorated some cookies and biscuits which we had baked yesterday, and following this created more delicious goods in the form of chocolate-covered cornflake buns! Then, later in the day, we once again joined together with 5RS to participate in some board games which had been created by the children of 5RS. We had a great time playing some brilliantly creative games which led us nicely onto the end of the day and also the end of this term. The children deserved such a fun day to commemorate all of their hard work from this term. So to conclude, I hope you all have a lovely Easter and are able to get outside in the sun too. Have a great break and see you soon!
