Week Beginning 19.06.17

What a sporty week it has been this week! We started the week with a challenging work-out with our visiting athlete Marrissa King. Well done to everyone who took part; trying their hardest and raising funds.

We continued our sporty theme with our school sports day on Tuesday. Everybody seemed to enjoy the afternoon, as we persevered and pushed ourselves to the maximum  for personal bests and points for our team. Well done to everyone and a special well done to our winning house: Seacole. 

Literacy 

In literacy this week we have been looking at persuasion. We have been looking at the language and techniques used in advertising to convince us to buy products. We really enjoyed starring in our own commercials and using our language skills to sell some really boring products. Moving forward with our persuasion theme, we have started to look at the structure and layout of letters as we progress towards writing constructive, effective letters of complaint. 

Maths 

In maths we have been interpreting tables. Also, we have have been thinking of questions to investigate, designing data collection tables, collecting data and choosing the clearest way to present our findings. 

Geography

The Amazon rain forest was our destination this lesson, as we researched some  of the indigenous tribes of the mighty forest. We looked at the Tupi, Korub, Kayapo and the Panara tribes; focusing on how they use the forest to survive and and was makes each ones culture so individual. 

 

Week Beginning 12.06.17

Literacy 

This week in literacy we have been doing lots of reading. Practising our skills hunting for information, deducing and inferring and summarising a range of texts. 

Maths

Maths has been all about data this week. We looked at wide range of objects thinking how we could group and categorise them. 

We decided it was much easier learning about picotgrams when smarties were involved! We used them to generate a large data set then learnt how to create a pictogram. Then, we used our skills of analysis to interpret different pictograms. 

Science 

We continued  looking at nutrition by thinking further about healthy foods. We compared food groups and created nutrient pyramids. 

It's a busy week next week with lots to remember. Please can all children have their P.E kits in school on Monday ready for our visit from a real Olympic gymnast and cirque de soleil performer. We will all have some time with her  doing sporting activities, before an assembly with  Marissa King. 

P.E kits will be sent home on Monday, so that children can arrive in their kit, with their team coloured t-shirt all ready for sports day on Tuesday. All parents and carers are welcome to attend in the afternoon for the big event. 

Don't forget to book your place for the annual school BBQ. Letters were sent out Thursday. Please return your slip by Wednesday 21st June so we can get your tickets out to you. 

Week beginning 5.06.17

What a busy week! First of all, thank-you to all of those that came to the parents evening this Thursday. It was lovely to share some of the great achievements and progress that your children have attained and developed throughout the year.

Literacy 

In literacy this week have committed an entire story to memory using actions and story maps. We then attempted to develop the story further when writing it down; using some of the technical writing skills that we have learnt this year. We added in adjectives and adverbs; we used fronted adverbials; inserted lines of description with similes; expanded the noun phrases using 'with', experimented with the position of conjunctions and used a wide range of punctuation for effect. 

Maths 

This week we have had a big push on learning our multiplication tables. We have completed missing number problems using the inverse, played games, and tested each other; all to meet our target of knowing our 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8 times tables by the end of summer term. 

Science 

Have started a new topic 'Animals Including Humans' and have started to look at the nutrition and how important a healthy meal really is. We we amazed to discover that we actually are what we eat!

DT

Our new DT topic linked in nicely with science this week, as we are designing a hot healthy snack. We are going to make our own version of a Spanish omelette. Of course no chef could research properly without having a taste test first, so we tried some traditional Spanish fare such as; Spanish omelette, sun dried tomatoes, Manchego cheese, chizoro and olives. The Spanish omelette was definitely a winner but some of were not so sure about the sun dried tomatoes and olives! We all decide that we think we found some new favourite foods. 

Finally, I will leave you with a few photos from our reading cafe afternoon. The Seahorse class had such a lovely time and we hope you all did too.