It really is a pleasure to teach these wonderful children - they have worked so hard this week and are such a resilient, hard-working bunch of students!
We have loved our Science this week, where we learned about Weathering and Erosion and together, devised a class test to investigate which type of rock erodes the easiest.
In English this week, we have been busy writing persuasive letters and also character descriptions of the main characters in our novel.
In History we had a mystery to solve- whose ship burial ground was found at Sutton Hoo in East Anglia? Children looked at all the evidence and deduced what member of society may have owned the items. They then narrowed this down to a Super King or Bretwaelda King Raedwald.
In maths, we have been consolidating all the times tables learned so far and also learning some important elements of multiplication and division - namely the Distributive law eg 6 x 8 = 4x8 + 2x8, how to mutliply numbers by 0 and 1 and how to divide numbers by itself and 1. We are also learning about multiplying and dividing by 10. We have been able to make some generalisations about our discoveries too.
We have got into full flow with our Walk Against Hunger this week. Already, we have walked between us over 400km! On Monday, children were so jolly walking around the block, singing to Encanto!
In RE we learned that Jesus is fully God. We reflected on the prayer by St Teresa of Avila, “Christ has no body now on Earth but yours,’ and children wrote about what this means for them. We have also been learning about the key events of Holy Week and trying to understand the feelings and motives of different people, but especially those of Jesus, himself.
Let’s Celebrate!
This week, our certificate winners are as follows:
A Cooper Crab certificate goes to Franek for listening so carefully and really working on managing your distractions. You focus so well that you get a lot done!
A Bobby Bee certificate goes to Angel for always going that extra mile and giving more than expected. You always put full effort and enthusiasm into everything. What a hard- worker you are!
A Tommy Turtle certificate goes to Connor-Sean for giving everything his best effort and having a go at whatever challenge is presented. You are such a joyful learner and a kind soul.
Swimming stars were Angel, Franek, Edi, Georgia, Millie, Molly-Ann, Max and Lily-Mae.
Music stars were Betsy and Ruby-Lilly
Notices
Monday and Friday after school classes will be coming to an end on Friday 1st April. We have been so pleased with the children’s dedication and progress in these booster sessions. It has really made a difference. Thank you so much children for your extra time and to parents and staff for supporting them. We are hoping in the Summer term to offer some maths booster classes after school to children who need it.
SCHOOL TRIP NEWS - Tuesday 29th March. We are walking through St Annes square and onto the beach to examine rocks, look at buildings and find fossils! There will be no cost to this trip but we are hoping to have our lunch on the beach, so a packed lunch in a plastic bag will be needed. They will be using the plastic bag to carry their rocks back to school.
MORE SCHOOL TRIP NEWS - Friday 22nd April
I thought I would give you a heads up for this trip to Tatton Park. As it is to enhance our History learning, children will be able to dress up for the day as either Anglo-Saxons or Vikings! I will let you know more details nearer the time but thought you may like to plan costumes.
SWIMMING CONTINUES on Mondays and Thursdays - prompt at 8.30am. Many children are borrowing goggles at the swimming pool which do not fit properly and then we spend lots of the lesson adjusting and swapping them, rather than helping them to swim.
Please could you talk to your child about goggles as from next week children will not be able to borrow them.
Enjoy your weekend everyone. God Bless,
Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.