The Courier

It is great to see that some children's pets have been as involved in home-learning as their owners have.

This week we have seen Eleanor's hamster BooBoo and Alice's cat Hector, who decided to take a rest just as she was sending in her work!!

I have enjoyed watching the videos sent to me this week and also reading your work.  This week I have include photos of:

• Reception Class Albert being a scary wolf, Isabella's wolf picture, and Evelyn using her wolf hands for clapping. 
• 2W Alex T's response to listening to the 2nd episode of Jack and the Beanstalk.
• 3S Ellie use of the draw tool to illustrate recorder fingering.
• 3S Alex use of dragging to label woodwind instruments.

As part of our ‘Once Upon a Time’ topic we have been learning about the three little pigs. The children were asked to create a painting, picture or collage of the pig’s houses for their work in Expressive Art and Design. I’m delighted with the effort that the class went to – take a look at some of the marvellous outcomes.

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Nobody in Reception – although we did discover that he really isn’t a very nice character.

The children thought of adjectives to describe the wolf and recognised that he doesn’t show any qualities of being a good citizen unlike the children of Crescent School.

Our outdoor learning was forced inside due to the wet weather this week. That wasn’t going to get in the way of our model making. The class were asked to build a model of a house that included a roof, an opening or doorway and any other features they wanted to include. Reception set to work demonstrating their great constructive skills and ideas.

This week has involved some practical investigations in maths learning about measuring length and height in metres and centimetres, weight in grams and capacity in millilitres and litres.

The children particularly enjoyed being wizards and creating their own potions, combining and measuring different liquids from home.  There have been some lovely examples of children making the most of learning out of school with Fred visiting some remains of a motte and bailey castle to support our current history topic and Zac having a virtual tour of his Grandad’s church to enhance his learning about churches in RE. Roisin has produced an incredible family tree as part of our introduction to relationships in PSHE.

Another great week seeing wonderful work produced by all.

The children have been working hard on their striking and fielding skills. Mrs McCollin and I have been so impressed with the level of skills that we have seen on the videos.

We have some budding Ben Stokes across the school but here are some photos of the particularly keen year 2s.

This week in Design Technology Class 2W pupils have been learning how to prepare for cooking and basic techniques of cutting, whisking and spreading safely to make their own healthy snacks. The pictures and videos that came in made me very hungry!

Great job class 2W.

Not only has Bella been keen to complete her tasks on Seesaw this week, she has also been making visual resources to help her with her maths and has been motivated to practise the written methods we use in year 3 so she feels more confident - a fantastic example of what a 'Good Learner' should be!

Class 3S have continued their motivation and drive to tackle a new method this week and again, I have been impressed by their effort and presentation and their commitment to improving their times tables. Ellie has set herself a target to practise every night before bed, so that's amazing!

3S have been considering their views about the story of Creation from the Bible and then identifying their favourite parts of God's creation through photos, models, drawings and even a beautifully written song, sung by our very own Grace M!

Class 3S and 4M have all had a go at drawing illuminated letters this week in art. Class 4M are looking at art history in their art lessons and Class 3S are studying the Anglo Saxons in history.

Some super examples here.

We have left The Romans behind and we have started our new topic, The Anglo-Saxons.

Here are a selection of the fabulous front covers which 3S produced. We will go on to study settlements, village life, religion, clothes, leisure, Sutton Hoo and Alfred the Great.

Before Easter Class 3S were studying 'Endangered Animals' in geography. This culminated in an independent project on an animal of choice. Pupils had to find out facts including how many are left, why are these animals endangered and what can we do to help?

Annalise chose to go beyond expectations in terms of effort with this project as she enjoyed it so much. She has produced a wonderfully informative poster on the Giant Panda.

We will display it at school when we are back together.

Class 4M have been in their gardens taking close ups of invertebrates and then uploading them onto their computers and labelling the body parts. Super work Class 4M.

Class 5F have continued with their nature theme in art this week and have progressed onto designing their own wallpapers or borders. Here are some great examples.

Some great work to share from Year 5 English, there has been map making from describing words and fabulous descriptive poetry of a stormy sea, both taking inspiration form Michael Morpurgo's Kensuke's Kingdom.

You can see Hattie and Emme's maps in the photo and Michael's poem is below:

A Stormy Sea by Michael

Our new history topic this half term is 20th Century Leisure and Entertainment. This week 5F interviewed family members about their favourite movies from before 2000. The children had to think carefully about the questions they would ask to give them the most useful information, Joshua even channelled his inner 'Michael Parkinson' and interviewed his Nan over FaceTime.

They have produced some lovely work and expanded their movie knowledge at the same time - maybe there's a few that you would like to add to your lockdown viewing schedule! 

Year 6 have been promoting the sports they love this week by producing eye catching and informative posters to encourage you to take up a new sport.

Marco has been learning the guitar and he sent me a video sharing him playing his song.  It was lovely to see the progress Marco has made.

Keep up the good work.