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One of our home learning activities was to search for and classify different materials. Children found some great examples of metal, glass, wood, paper, fabric and plastic.

We’ve started a new topic this half term - Once upon a time, and our first focus story is Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

In our home learning we’ve had fun with an online version of the tale and written personal responses to the story. We have also written apology letters to the bears.

We have been revising blends, fl, fr, gl, gr and sm this week. We have matched words and pictures, completed cut and stick activities and written words that feature the blends all by our self. Mrs Pullen has been so impressed with our brilliant blending!

As part of our ‘Once upon a time’ topic we have made bear masks in Expressive Art and Design. We got creative with our home materials to produce some scary and some not so scary bears! We wonder if you can guess who’s behind the masks...

I have been so proud of Class 1E this week. This is all new but every single one of them has shown that they are not only a ‘Good Learner’ as per our school motto, but an ‘Excellent Learner’.

It is evident how hard they are working and really trying their best and as a result, the work that they have produced and the progress they are making is fantastic. I have loved seeing their videos and hearing their voice on recordings, it really does brighten my day and make me smile. The work that has come back has shown the same task being approached in many different ways showing great creativity.

Lots of lovely photos have come in, I have attached just a few but will put more in each week so the children can see what their friends have been up to.

Keep it up Class 1 – you are doing an amazing job!

Sam, Alex G and Alice didn't forget to honour St George for their home learning on Thursday, by wearing an item of red clothing. 

Alice as Hermione was also set the task of reading all the books in the house, we wonder how she got on!   

Class 3 have been learning this week how to be a responsible ' Digital Citizen' when spending time on the internet.

As part of our e-safety objectives, and with us using more websites for home learning, the children completed tasks to ensure they were aware of how to stay safe and even created their own 'Digital Citizen Superheroes' to remind them of the advice.

I have been very impressed with how our class has maintained their standards in presentation whilst completing tasks at home. The quality of work during our maths lessons has been excellent and I'm very proud of all of them!

Zara from Class 3S had a busy Easter completing the challenges that Mr Thackway set in assembly.  As well as baking; planting and reading Zara drew these lovely pictures.  

Good work Zara.

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Class 4M got busy during the holiday doing all manner of wonderful things. I have heard tales of cooking new recipes, walking in the woods, playing swingball and learning new instruments. 

• Aryan practised his construction skills and built a wonderful range of models using LEGO.
• Eva enjoyed doing some art work and produced this lovely painting of a whale.
• Faris cooked one of my favourite snacks, Churros! Don't they look delicious? (look at the chocolate sauce!)
• Rosina went for a walk with her family to this beautiful bluebell wood.

Class 4M have really thrown themselves into their Home Learning this week. They are getting on very well with Seesaw and have already produced some smashing work.

We read Billionaire Boy over the holidays and the children this week created a timetable for a fun school of their own, just like our main character, Joe, at St. Cuthbert's. There were some brilliant results.

• Eva chose 'Adventure School' where you can do such things as Cave Clambering and Zipwire Zipping.
• James created a 'Car School' where you receive lessons in Luxury Logo design and acting like Jeremy Clarkson.
• Katherine designed a 'Cooking School' where beginners can make sushi and learn how to wear a chef's hat.
• Grace created 'Sausage Dog School' where pupils can learn the art of barking to the beat and squirrel chasing.

All the children have really embraced the lessons and the activities. Keep it up, 4M!

Josh and Isla Class 5F have been experimenting this week making salt and sugar solutions, predicting what will happen to them when they are left in a bright sunny spot and then recorded their results.

I have had some wonderful work sent to me this week.  Here are some examples. 

Keep up the good work, I look forward to sharing more next week:

• Aria and Isabella in Reception have drawn brilliant pictures of Little Red Riding Hood to go with the song "I love red" after their music lesson today.

• A lovely photo of Emily listening to her Music lesson through headphones.

• From 3S Ellie and Zahra's pictures show how they have named the brass instruments and recorder notes.

• Faris in 4M photo shows him singing along with the song.

• Evie in 4M said, " I liked the activity a lot, the song was very different in the verse from the chorus. I like vikings and went to the Jorvik centre in York where my cousin lives." 

• Alyssa 5F said,  "My favourite thing in the lesson was probably listening to the animated tale. I also really enjoyed listening to the storm music. It really made me think I was in a storm! The dynamics and those high notes on top really made the composition come to life.  Learning the song was fun too, I really liked the tune and chromatic at the beginning."

• Freya 6Y said, " I enjoyed listening to the song “Rock The Ship” it was a really, really excellent song, I liked the style of the song and the rhythm of song and how it rhymes really well! I was mesmerised by the music by Benjamin Britten. How did he get it to sound so much like a storm? I also really liked the video of the story, how could anyone leave a young child and an old man to die in a beaten boat??? This was an excellent lesson thank you so much!"

• Tumi 6Y said, "I really enjoyed learning the song. I even used some pots and pans with the down, down, down bit. I've heard about The Tempest but I never really knew what happens in the story. When I watched the first episode of the story I really enjoyed it and I can't wait to see what happens next." 

• Isaac 5F said, "I liked the quiz after The Tempest 'Rock The Boat' and listening and singing along to 'Rock The Boat' as well. I think that Benjamin Britten likes a fast tempo because I heard a couple of his songs and most of them had a fast tempo and on the symphony, 'Playful Pizzicato' it was like there was an echo on everything.  In Playful Pizzicato, I could mostly hear strings and percussion and Benjamin Britten included things like symbols which started with rubbing together to a quiet bang and then a forte bang to express a raging storm. I think the dynamics of this piece started with piano (expressing a quiet start to a storm), then as the storm built the music built to more of a crescendo tempo (getting louder), then to a Forte (representing a loud raging storm). I then listened to the Mendelssohn piece and noticed some differences between Mendelssohn and Benjamin Britten, Britten likes to end loud and fierce and Mendelssohn likes to end quiet and peaceful but other things I think are the same like the echo. Thanks.

• Marco in 6W said, "I really enjoyed the lesson especially joining in with my guitar and doing the quiz at the end, thank you." 

Class 1E - Roisin, Sam, Sophia and Alex are learning about space with Mrs Emery in English and made space rockets with Mrs Byrne in art this week.

Class 2W - Sam O used his index fingers and thumbs to create a view finder and went around his garden pretending to take photos. He drew a super drawing of his favourite one.  I love the photo of Roisin drawing her chicken for her Art work.

Class 3S - Yash and Poppy must have taken lots of time to create these wonderful Anglo Saxon brooches in art this week. They are making cross curricular links between history and art.

Class 4M - Abigail has produced this wonderful cave painting out in her garden using chalk to draw her chosen animal and signed it with her handprint.

Class 5F - Amy and Eden have been drawing things they found in their gardens. Amy chose four different things to sketch and applied lots of super detail and colour, while Eden spent some of her time watching tutorials on YouTube to learn how to paint tulips with water colours. 

We love seeing pictures of pupils watching Mr Thackway's Assemblies and have shared two from this week:

• Sisters Lilah and Hermione watching and we noted in their summer uniform
• Maisie joining in with the Clap for Carers 

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Kai and Shayla produced these beautiful acrostic poems over the Easter Holidays.  

Well done both, they are beautiful.

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We love hearing about what are Reception 2020 Class have been learning:

• Max decided he wants to learn about dinosaurs, like Edward (it was meant to be the theme this term). He created a silhouette and, with a bit of help, the moving Triceratops.

I enjoyed the video too Max - well done!

Mrs Robinson and Amy have been relaxing during lockdown doing some lovely Art.  We can see where Amy gets her talent from. Mrs Robinson your drawing is amazing!

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Byson created a hand picture to convey a positive message during lockdown.

We think its lovely.