Hello! It’s been another busy and productive week in Year 6! In literacy, we drafted, peer marked and published our own paragraphs, incorporating all of the grammar, punctuation and vocabulary elements that we’d learned over the course of this term so far. In maths we jumped into a calculation revision unit with some great work …
Monthly archives: April 2021
Week Beginning – 26th April
This week the children celebrated International Dance Day (Thursday 29th). The children were taught a dance routine (virtually) by Bushey Meads’ Dance teacher, Ms Noyan. The routine was performed to the song ‘Lovely Day’. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZwCjo7SieXoOmQ1c10-mGL04_I5bRRqf/view?usp=sharing Also this week, during art, the class began to work on their final designs for the mosaics they will be …
Friday 30th April
Hello on this sunny showery May Eve. What another week of great joy and fun we have had. Nothing says Springtime is on us and the lambs are bleating in the fields, the blossom on the trees, than multiplication and division problems solved through the use of bar models. We have investigated deep number theory, …
Week of 26th April 2021
This week we produced and finalised a project for Earth Day that we celebrated last week. We were intrigued to find out how turtles and other sea creatures mistake plastic bags for jellyfish and they can be very harmful to them. We read the book ‘A place for plastic ‘and we created beautiful under the …
30/04/21
This week in Year 1 we have been learning about Europe. We have done lots of fun activities around this. In English we have focused on the story of Hansel and Gretel. We wrote our own alternative endings for the story, made group mind maps for adjectives to describe the candy house and created adverts …
Week Beginning 26th April 2021
This week has been another busy week in Reception, we are enjoying our ‘Spring and Growing’ topic. This week we have planted our own cress seeds, made bug hotels, planted some plants, played the code-i-pillar app on the ipads and made some paper plate bugs. In literacy we have been focusing on non-fiction texts, looking …
Summer 1 Week 2
Hello Year 4, We have been so busy this week! I want to say well done Year 4 for your top effort while learning long division and writing explanation texts. It takes time and dedication and you have shown both. Next week, we will continue learning about long division and becoming more confident with how …
Friday 23rd April
Hello! Another week of glorious weather under our belts and it’s been a hive of learning in Year 6! In literacy we revised some of our grammar, punctuation and spelling skills, looking closely at the word classes pronouns, proper nouns, determiners, prepositions and conjunctions. In maths we completed a range of work on number, including …
Week Beginning – 19th April
What a lovely week we’ve had! The sun has shone everyday allowing the whole school, year 3 included, to get down onto the field at lunch time. In keeping with this fine Spring weather, this week in Science, the class were exploring the different parts of flowers. They quickly understood there is a lot more …
Friday 23rd April
Look out magazine publishers, Year 5 are coming for you! This week we have been using our persuasive writing skills to write letters to publishers to try and convince them that what children really need are more comics, not more ocean filling plastic toys with a magazine attached. There have been some incendiary missives penned, …
