Our final week before half-term where we have managed to squeeze in lots of learning and achievements. Please see below:
English: We completed our sentence-stacking lessons based on our playscript, The Plague Village of Eyam. We focused on using dialogue to show our feelings, the use of brackets to show the stage direction and the use of ellipses.
Maths: We consolidated our understanding of days, weeks, months and years. We also plugged the gaps in our knowledge through finding 10 more or less of a given number and finding 1000 more or less of a given number. We have also been practising Soundcheck and getting our timetables ready for our Multiplication Check after half-term!
Geography: We continued our topic of London and the South East by focusing on the city of Canterbury. We learnt about tourism and how people visit Canterbury for the cathedral. On a map, we labelled key places to visit.
History: We continued our learning of the Stuarts by focusing on the role Oliver Cromwell played after Charles I's execution and the end of the Civil War. As a class, we discussed reasons why he was a hero and a tyrant.
Art: The past few weeks we have focused on mosaics. We looked at the Hagia Sofia and the different mosaics found there (in particular Justinian and Theodora). We then drew our own faces and cut out different coloured squares to create a mosaic of our faces!
RE: This week we have continued our enquiry into how Buddhists lead a good life. We focused first on Right Mindfulness and considered how we can be sensitive to other children's needs in class and how we can support them. We then looked at Right Effort and considered what roles we can take on at home, school and our local neighbourhood to help others and reduce suffering.
Dance: We enjoyed another boogie with Miss Whyborn and continued learning our Lava Chicken dance! (Not sure how much the adults in the room enjoy us singing it on repeat though!)
Swimming: We enjoyed our last lesson in the pool! Lovely to see children in the smaller pool becoming more confident by putting their faces in the water alongside floating forwards and on their backs! It was also lovely to see the children in the bigger pool continue using their floats to help them with breathing underwater when swimming and practising their kicking.
Handwriting: Practising our number operations and writing lines of synonyms for addition and subtraction.
Spellings: Contractions.
Guided Reading: Retrieval questions based on rainforests.
Gap Analysis: Reading - describing characters' actions.
Some of us have also enjoyed taking part in Lego Therapy with Miss Chapman on Monday afternoon!
We are so incredibly proud of our Golden Pupil this week. Much like the reasons why she was our Star of the Week last week, this pupil is becoming more confident and sociable with other children and is becoming more established with her routines. She now loves chanting the times tables with us and helping Miss Edgeley present awards. It warms our hearts seeing this child happy in school!
We are so incredibly proud of our Star of the Half-Term and now the latest owner of Miss Edgeley's prestigious fidget spinner. This pupil goes above and beyond to help others in class and is a joy to teach. He is incredibly supportive and is an active participant in all lessons!
We are so proud of this pupil for achieving the double whammy of earning the most knowledge points and taking the most quizzes on ReadTheory.
Well done to the Yellow Sunflowers for being this week's winning Dojo Team!
Finally, Miss Chapman, Miss Read and I wish you all a lovely break, and we are proud of the children's hard work this half-term. Please continue to read and practice your timetables, and we look forward to welcoming the children back on Monday 2nd June for our final half-term together!