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Reception Weekly Blog WB 25/4/2022
Date: 29th Apr 2022 @ 8:49am
This week in Reception we have started to do lots of great learning about our new topic Get Outdoors!
We have been reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk - and planting beanstalks of our own - and writing our own books using speech bubbles to tell the story.
The children have been getting VERY excited about Eid and we have talked about the traditions they have when they celebrate at home. They enjoyed making cards and sharing their hopes for the festivities.
In Maths we have been extending our learning to numbers up to 20 by looking at them on Ten Frames and seeing that they are one full frame and some more. Could you help your child by looking for numbers up to 20 in the environment and sharing them with your child so that they can recognise them easily?
Date: 28th Apr 2022 @ 12:42pm
This week we started our new topic about volcanoes. Despite being upset that our learning about Ancient Egypt had come to an end we were EXPLODING with excitement about our new topic. We started the week by making a volcano. We then wrote instructions for someone else to follow if they wanted to do the same. We labelled a volcano and learnt what was involved in the process of a volcanic eruption. We can't wait to see what else we will find out.
Date: 26th Apr 2022 @ 3:04pm
This week, in class 14, we have been reading a story titled- The colour of home. Our writing journey is all about a retell. The children used drama to bring the story to life and used freeze frames.
In Maths, we have been revising all area of Maths and have been ensuring that we know our times tables. We have been using Sumdog to develop our fluency and confidence.
Date: 8th Apr 2022 @ 8:13am
The children have loved our topic this term. They have learnt all about 'Space'.
During Literacy the children have looked at pobble pictures which generate lots of talk for writing.
The children then use Inprint to read space words and describe the pobble pictures.
They then write about the pictures using their phonic knowledge.
The children then do their own drawings related to the picture - solar systems, galazy, space, space travel etc.
During topic learning the children have looked at lots of different aspects related to space - space travel to different planets, who goes to space? why do they go to space?
The children have thoroughly enjoyed the topic and made an assembly all about it.
Please ask them about it.
Date: 7th Apr 2022 @ 5:03pm
This week, Year 5 has been writing Ramadan Poems. At the beginning of the week, we read a poem and as a group we performed it. In order to make our poems sound more interesting to listen to, we made sure to use our facial expressions, gestures and remembered to change the tone of our voices.
We then explored the features of a poem and learnt that a good poem should include things such as rhyme, interesting adjectives, powerful verbs, alliteration, onomatopoeia and even a simile or two.
We then went onto plan and write our own poems about Ramadan, which we will be using later on to make Eid cards. Well done Year 5!
Date: 7th Apr 2022 @ 12:44pm
Class 8 have done so much great learning that we couldn't decide what to show! We decided to show our brilliant big writes and our amazing art work.
Our big writes were adventure stories based on Charlie Stinky Socks. We added new parts to the adventure in our handmade journals.
In art we were using a printing technique. We made a design based on our Egyptian learning and then created a print. We have enjoyed our learning so much!
Fantastic newspaper reports by Y5
Date: 7th Apr 2022 @ 10:28am
Year 5 have been working extremely hard to create newspaper reports all about Storm Dudley and Storm Eunice. They researched effects of the storms and spoke to real life witnesses in regards to the damage caused by the horrfic storms. This really enjoyed this element of Literacy.
Date: 7th Apr 2022 @ 8:57am
Class 6 have loved getting to use th i-pads in school. They have definitely grown in confidence and skill since September. The children generated some amazing apps of their own on Keynote all to do with SPACE! They also enjoyed using pages to create their very own e-books.
Date: 1st Apr 2022 @ 4:34pm
This week in Year 5, we have been writing non-chronological reports. We did a feature search and built up a range of rich vocabulary that we later used in the reports. We developed our report writing skills and did some editing to improve our writing.
Some children even produced some fantastic artwork, creating shimmering rivers using a collage and different shades of blue. They looked amazing!
Date: 1st Apr 2022 @ 4:26pm
This week in class 3 we have been looking at Money as part of our maths learning...
The children have had so much exploring a range of different coins, as well as making different amounts, using their knowledge of their 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
Date: 1st Apr 2022 @ 7:48am
The children were full of the joys of Spring watching the daffodils and crocus sprout in the Spring sun.
The children observed and talked about the flowers.
They then created observational drawings, paintings and collage of the daffodils.
We have been talking about the typical weather and that one day it was glorious sunshine and warm and the next day we had rain, sleet and snow. At least the children get to see the full range of weather conditions.
Reception Weekly Blog WB 28.03.22
Date: 31st Mar 2022 @ 4:30pm
On Monday the children had a big shock when they came in and discovered that something had made a mess in our home corners and left footprints. We all became detectives and wondered about who it could have been. The children had some fantastic guesses such as the Gruffalo and Nibbles. The children then found a tiger hiding on the corridor. We read the story 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' and the children made invitations and shopping lists ready for the tea party on Friday!
As part of our afternoon learning the children drew their own tigers using wax crayons and then used paint to add the background. They also made a house using the junk modelling area similar to the house seen in the book. We looked at items in the house from the past and how some items look different in our houses today such as the kettle and the toilet.
Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Mummy's Gold
Date: 30th Mar 2022 @ 8:16am
Over the past two weeks we have been learning all about Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Mummy's Gold. The children started their learning by creating a setting box using different materials. The children really enjoyed working as a team to create their own desert box.
Once they had created their setting box, the children thought of similies to describe the different parts of the desert. They then used this learning to write a setting description.
This then supported their learning for this week. The children acted out the story and then wrote a alternative retell. They had to think of a new ending for our story and everyone was very creative!
Date: 29th Mar 2022 @ 10:36pm
In English we have been reading the book Sir Charlie Stinky Socks, The Mummy's Gold, which links well with our topic on Ancient Egyptians. The children have loved making a setting box based on the story setting and describing it using adjectives, similes and metaphors. The children are retelling the story this week but are adding their own ideas for an alternative retell. They will make their own journal like the one in the story and write their own adventure.
Date: 26th Mar 2022 @ 10:36am
This week in Year 5, we have been writing newspaper reports about the disruption that storm Dudley and storm Eunice has caused. The children were fantastic reporters and interviewed a range of witnesses such as a local primary teacher (Mr Bottomley) who had a trampoline roll into his driveway, a children from Glodwick who witnessed the broken minaret on the Greengate Mosque and a concerned resident (Miss Zamir’s Brother) who had tiles blown off his garage roof.
We have spent two weeks on developing our report writing skills, building a bank formal language, using direct and indirect speech and learning about rhetorical questions. The reports were a pleasure to read.
Well done Year 5!
Date: 25th Mar 2022 @ 1:07pm
This week, in class 14, we have completed our writing journey all about Biographies. The children have researched famous refugees and have chosen a specific person to write about. They have created a class anthology of Biographies.
In Maths, we have been revising all area of Maths and have been ensuring that we know our times tables- on TT Rock Stars.
Ask you child, how many are they getting correct, out of 25?
Reception Weekly Blog WB 21/3/2022
Date: 25th Mar 2022 @ 12:06pm
This week in Reception we have continued our learning on our topic Amazing Animals. This week we visited the jungle by reading and enjoying the Julia Donaldson book Monkey Puzzle. We did some fantastic drama where we made our bodies into the different animals and created factfiles which gave clues about the different animals before revealing what they were!
We have learned about different habitats and matched animals to where they live. We have also painted animals and learned to make sensible colour choices when we create pieces of art.
In Maths we have been consolidating this term's learning by playing games with bean bags and hopscotch to check that our knowledge of numbers up to ten is secure.
Next week we will be having a special furry stripey visitor in Reception!
LB2 learning - week ending - 25.3.22
Date: 24th Mar 2022 @ 3:54pm
The children have continued with their maths learning all about 'Weight'.
They recapped the previous weeks learning, holding and feeling the weight of different objects and saying which was the heaviest and which the lightest.
They then weighed the objects on the balance scales saying which was the heaviest and which was the lightest.
Date: 23rd Mar 2022 @ 5:03pm
At swimming this week the children learnt Reach and Rescue skills. They learnt about the dangers of swimming in open water and jumping in cold water. They took turns to be a casualty, to save someone and to help someone. They shouted 'Don't panic - I will save you - catch this and kick your legs.' They were fantastic and took it serioulsy whilst enjoying the challenge. Hopefully they will never need to use these skills but if they should I am confident they could save a life.
Date: 23rd Mar 2022 @ 5:02pm
This week we have been writing some fantastic setting descriptions about Toby and the great fire of London, using expanded noun phrases and conjunctions! We have also been editing our learning and making it even better! The great fire of London links to our topic learning as we have been learning all about it.
In Maths, we started looking at fractions focusing on finding halves and quarters with shapes and different amounts.
In ICT, we have been using beebots which we have loved. We have been learning how to make them move in different directions and this week we wrote a program which we will be using next week!
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Date: 22nd Mar 2022 @ 2:45pm
This week we have been learning all about
biographies in English and composing rock music during our Music lesson.
Date: 18th Mar 2022 @ 5:25pm
In Year 5 we have been learning about the dangers of drugs and this week we have been learning the affects that alcohol has on our bodies. The children began with developing their understanding of acohol. In discussion, we looked at the short long term and long term effects alcohol has on our bodies. It was great to see that the children took the discussions very seriously and were very mature with their responses. Well done Year 5.
Date: 18th Mar 2022 @ 2:35pm
We have been extremely creative in our English lessons this week. We have been mini authors and have all written our own stories for Wendel to read for his bed time story.
We used our creativity as we invented our own character robot for Wendel last week and then have thought about the adventure they would go on together. We then used our imaginations and drafted our own stories, edited them and chose how to present our polished piece. Some of us used our iPad skills and used different apps like KeyNote, Pages or Notes and some of us chose to create our own zig zag books or story sheets.
The teachers as so proud of all the amazing ideas your children have thought about this week! Well Done Class 6! 
Date: 18th Mar 2022 @ 12:25pm
Over the last couple of weeks, Year 6 have been looking at creating an information web page all about refugees. We looked at the features of a non-chronological report as well as carrying out our own research on quality web pages. You will be able to look at our work on our class pages.
Thank You,
Class 13 and Class 14.
Date: 18th Mar 2022 @ 7:17am
This week we have been writing and researching information about Rainforests and orangutans.
The children had to share their information with each other and write their facts using extended sentences.
In Maths we have beeing working on Multiplication and in Science we have been learning all about the digestive system.
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