This week, in line with our expedition, “What a Wonderful World” and Guiding Question “How Can We Protect Our Beautiful Planet”, 4TE have been researching the effect of global warming on the ice in the arctic with an experiment a bit closer to home! We placed a fixed number of ice cubes in different locations around school to see how the temperature of the different locations would affect the melting of the ice. As you can see, the results were shocking!
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Multi-Sports Mayhem!
This week, we have been getting very active once again! We have been getting busy with a variety of PE games! As you can see, we were working very hard for our teams,
Division using a number line
This week saw 3HJ grappling with division. We used number lines to help solve a range of worded problems involving the children jumping in groups of 10. They worked collaboratively, supporting each other and I was astonished how quickly 3HJ grasped this new and tricky concept. Amazing work from everyone!
Welcome to the percentage shop!
The first morning back and the year 6 crews have been busy at work calculating Mr Hewitt’s new prices for his bargain basement. Using their knowledge of finding percentages of amounts, the children overcame a range of (discounts) obstacles. Well done to the crews as well for their peer support and mentoring that preceded the discount finding fun!
Show and Tell!
To bookmark the end of this extremely enjoyable first half of the spring term, 4TE held a show and tell at the start of Friday. It was so lovely to see all the brilliant items so many of the children decided to bring in and to hear the stories and sentiments behind these. It was a pleasure to experience and I am extremely proud of the children not only having the confidence to stand up before the class, but to also feel comfortable to bring in such precious and cherished items and to share these with everyone.
On a final note, I hope everyone has an absolutely lovely half term break and I look forward to seeing you all again soon!
Recorders at the ready!
Sadly, today was the last of our recorder lessons. 3HJ have thoroughly enjoyed learning how to follow standard notation, play in unison and maintain their own part in a group. We were very lucky to have this opportunity and can’t wait to keep practising the skills we have learnt.
Deforestation Debates
This week, we transported year 5 into the depths of the Amazon Rainforest to take part in an important debate to determine whether more land should be bought from a local indigenous community to be used for industry. Many other parties that are affected by deforestation in the rainforest also decided to attend the meeting as they wished to have their voices heard.
Using this learning hook, our children worked collaboratively in small groups to write an argument for or against deforestation from the perspective of one of these groups, which resulted in some outstanding persuasive writing! Fantastic work 5RS!
They think it’s all over…
This week we have been becoming football superstars! We had a great time practising our skills and having a few games… Maybe we have some future stars in our midst…
Crazy cartwheels!
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!
Songwriters of the year
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.
