NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

<p>A huge well done to Shyheim in Year 5, whose French work was chosen to be published in the magazine Write Away! This magazine celebrates primary children&#8217;s writing in foreign languages. Shyheim wrote about his home, after learning the necessary vocabulary and grammar in his weekly Key Stage 2 French lesson. Shyheim&#8217;s work was chosen [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had a fantastic afternoon taking part in another Now Press Play experience. In today’s experience we were a worker in Victorian England. Conditions and pay for workers we so unfair that we decided to go on strike!</p>

<p>Today we took part in a measurement carousel in class. We used our own rulers to think about measuring objects in our classroom. We also began thinking about the difference between, mm, cm and m. We worked on holding our rulers carefully so we could read our measurements accurately.</p>

<p>Today we got involved in an exciting science workshop with Technology Tom! We explored magnetism to fit in with our current topic. Tom demonstrated a few different experiments to us that showed just how powerful magnets are! These demonstrations included; a magnet fishing game, a compass demonstration and a demonstration which showed how magnets attract [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To introduce our new RE topic, Listening and Sharing (Eucharist), the children worked in groups to perform the story of ‘Stone Soup.’ We discussed the themes of the story and the advantages of listening and sharing.</p>

<p>This week we have been looking at properties of 3D shapes and doubling and halving. We had lots of fun on Friday working with concrete and pictorial resources to revise these concepts and learn some new ones!</p>

<p>Today we were treated to a fantastic performance from KS1 Orchestra and the KS2 Composition Club. Both groups have only been running since the end of September and have worked extremely hard learning new skills such as playing the ukulele or glockenspiel, playing together as an orchestra and learning all about writing and composing music. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For our second music afternoon we have been finding out about the film composer Danny Elfman. We listened to ‘Ice Dance’ from Edward Scissorhands and ‘What’s This?’ from The Nightmare Before Christmas which Elfman also sings on. We discussed how the music made us felt and listened to the music firstly without the accompanying movie [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last Friday we started making our Angel of the North replicas. We chose our own materials from a choice of bases (kitchen roll tubes, empty water bottles) and used a range of materials including tissue paper, cellophane and cardboard and various shades of paint.</p>

<p>We have changed our focal area into purple colours for advent. We have a kindness advent calendar and each child takes out a random act of kindness to try each day. We also all have a copy of the Cafod advent calendar which we are enjoying colouring in each day.</p>

<p>This morning we had lots of fun in Year 3 taking part in a Grouping and Sharing Carousel. This is to consolidate our knowledge when grouping and sharing before moving onto formal division next week. We grouped and shared lots of concrete objects such as toy dinosaurs, playing cards, counters and dominoes. We also looked [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We have been continuing with our Year 3 key performance indicators in maths this week. This week we are revising time facts from Year 2. We matched up time facts cards, played minute past the hour dominoes and o’clock dice games.</p>

<p>We had another exciting experience today with Now Press Play. We experienced life as an alien visiting planet earth. We learnt all about the different types of rock on earth. We were even able to go backwards and forwards in time to see how rocks are formed.</p>

<p>Today we enjoyed a fabulous story writing workshop. We worked with a team of writers, illustrators, directors and playwrights to create our own story. We had such a wonderful time and impressed the editor! She even published our book!</p>

<p>Today we lead and presented Mass in church today. It is our second time and we all really enjoyed the experience. We sang our hymns, ‘Abba Father,’ and ‘Give Me Joy In My Heart,’ beautifully. Every child played an active role, either by taking on a reading, bringing forward the Offertory or a revenant part [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had fun in science today looking at rocks. We looked at: charcoal, chalk, agate, quartz, lava and slate. We thought about their properties and which rock family they belong to. We had a feel of each rock and thought about if it was hard or soft, thinking about if we could snap the rock [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today we really got to know Mr Fox! We worked as a team to think of nouns, adjectives and similes to describe Mr Fox’s appearance, personality, family and interests. This will help us when planning a character description of him on Friday.</p>

<p>As part of our Music lessons this half term, we have been listening to Jazz and Blues. We listened to Louis Armstrong&#8217;s &#8216;What a Wonderful World&#8217;. We thought about the lyrics, listened to his unusual voice and the instruments used. We then went on the create our own large-scale wonderful world pictures based on what [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In Year 3, we are continuing to look at our maths key performance indicators. This week, we have been making sure we are confident with recognise place value up to 9,999. We did this by using dominoes and dice and working in groups. We each selected a domino, or rolled dice, to make the biggest [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Yesterday we learnt about the synagogue, the place of worship for people of the Jewish faith. After learning about the key features of the synagogue, today we designed our own synagogues in groups using large paper and pictures of the key features including; the Torah, Ark, Bimah, Yad, Rabbi and Tallit. We discussed what it [&hellip;]</p>