The Courier

Class 1E - Roisin and her younger brother Finn (who is joining Crescent School in September 2020) had a go at making a wind chime using keys. They painted the keys and then threaded the strings.  How creative and colourful!

Class 2W Alex G and Alex T are enjoying sharing their home learning.  Both have been sharing their music lessons with their siblings Lucas (Alex G) and Izzy (Alex T).  Great work boys,what fab big brothers you are.

Alex G also got his Mum and brother Lucas involved in his Olympics PE lesson this week.  They are all lined up and ready to go!

We are reading 'We’re going on a Bear Hunt'  together in French and this week the children made lollipop puppets of the characters and they can now name the characters in French!

This week Reception have been looking at the story of Red Riding Hood. The character of the wolf was the focus of our work in Expressive Art and Design. The children were asked to make a picture, mask or puppet of the wolf. All sorts of wonderful wolf creations were produced and I know lots of fine motor skills have been practised. Take a look at our not so scary Big Bad Wolves.

Last week Mr Webb sent a video message to the Reception Class of 2020 and challenged the children to send in images of themselves engaged in sharing books with family members.

We have had lots of lovely photos sent in:

• Alice happily sharing her love of books with her brother Max

• Edward (joining Year 3 in Sept)is reading the Measly Middle Ages to Max

• Feranmi sharing his love of reading with his younger brother

• Katie read The Jolly Postman with her daddy 

• Sophia has been catching up with one of her favourites - Room on the Broom

• Uma enjoying book time at home this week

I am very impressed with all your reading this week, keep up the good work.

Feranmi is pictured on a ‘spring scavenger hunt’ looking for bugs, birds and different types of flowers and also making cut out emoticon faces. 

This looks great fun Feranmi.

There have been two highlights for me this week.

The first is how children are adapting to being at home and being creative in the way they approach their learning. In the photos attached, we see Max and Herbie creating their own number lines to practise counting in 2’s and 5’s, Sophie using scrabble pieces to practise spelling words that end in a letter ‘y’ and Zac creating a wonderful Motte and Bailey castle on Minecraft with a full guided tour demonstrating his learning as part of our work in history.

The second element that has blown me away is how much progress every single child has made in English. Starting the year writing maybe one sentence, this weeks’ creative writing about a bumblebee that needed help, shows whole stories, excellent spelling and application of phonics, capital letters, a range of punctuation, small and beautifully formed handwriting and significantly increased independence. I hope Class 1E are as proud of themselves as I am of them.

Class 1E children have been making motte and bailey castles over the last two art lessons. They were all brilliant and here are just a few. Some used cardboard, others lego, some chose recycled plastic and two boys even made amazing cakes.

Well done everyone.

Edward who will be joining Year 3 in September has been practising his cricket very regularly! He can’t wait to get involved with all the sporting opportunities. 

Great work Edward, Mr Phillips (Head of PE) is very impressed.

Last week, Class 3S celebrated the achievement of Captain Tom Moore and thought about how doing something that seems small can actually have a big impact. I hope you enjoy their pictures and Poppy's poem.

Class 3S have been using Story Mountains to plan and structure their story writing this week. They have been writing adventure stories about crossing the road safely.

Captain Tom and Frank Mills

On the 6 of April 2020, Thomas Moore, also known as Captain Tom, wanted to raise money for the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic to show his appreciation for all the care he received from the NHS. He hoped to raise £10 per lap and do a total of 100 laps around his back garden to raise a total of £1,000 before his 100th birthday on the 30 April. His effort became so popular that he ended up raising over £32,000,000!

Captain Tom also inspired many others to start their own fund raising. One of them was a six-year-old boy named Frank Mills, who has difficulty walking. He initially wanted to raise £99 to honour Captain Tom’s age, but so many people loved his trememdous effort that Frank was able to raise more than £280,000!

I do not have a lot of money, but I still wanted to do my part in helping them raise it. I donated £25 to Captain Tom’s charity and another £25 to Frank Mill’s charity.

Captain Tom was 99 years old and Frank Mills was only six when they decided to start doing something for our wonderful NHS workers. Their examples teach us that we all can make a difference no matter how old we are or what difficulties we may have. They needed walking frames to walk and may have seemed weak to some people, but that did not scare them from making an effort.

We also must not let our weakness stop us from trying to do good things.

We can also help in lots of other ways. My grandmother, who is 83 years old, lives with us. When my mum was self-isolating in her bedroom, I made sure my grandmother was not feeling very lonely. Then when I was very poorly for almost a month, I had to be very strict to stay far away from her.

Now that I am all better, I am trying to give her lots of hugs and spending time with her to make sure she is not too worried about Covid-19.

Annalise had a go at creating a rainbow on a block of ice and used salt to crystallise the ice.

Beautiful colours Annalise!

Mrs Monteith has been transported to her virtual classroom on Seesaw this week. There are a few familiar objects, and some of the children's work on the walls. It's not exactly like our real classroom, but there are a few similarities! I'm sure we'll all have some good fun with this classroom over the coming days.

Class 4M also did a character description of Raj, the newsagent, who appears in several of David Walliams' books, and as we moved on to looking at Mr Stink, they thought about what his back story could be, and why he ended up living as a tramp.

They've all worked very hard this week and it's great to share some of their work.

Mrs Monteith
Class 4M Form Teacher

This week, 4M have continued their study of the David Walliams' fiction. They were asked to design a new invention to solve an everyday problem, just like Mr Spud in Billionaire Boy, who invented the revolutionary new toilet paper, 'Bumfresh.'

The children rose to the challenge and here are the results. I think you'll agree, these certainly would make life a bit easier!

They've all worked very hard this week and it's great to share some of their work.

Class 5F children collected natural materials from their gardens and made creative pieces of art this week. Some were flat while others were 3D but all were eye-catching and fun. 

As part of their work on modal verbs, the children have written advice for us all during this lock-down period.  Amy and Asha are sharing their good examples.

Class 6Y and 6W have been producing powerpoint presentations, leaflets or posters this week in science to teach younger children how to stay fit and healthy. Here are three of our super posters.

Class 6Y and Class 6W have been continuing with their self-books in their art lessons this week. They are creating them as keepsakes to remind them of the wonderful times they've had at Crescent School.

This week we have been looking at using adverbials and modal verbs in a story about how to deal with bullies inspired by Betsy Byar's 18th Emergency.

The work I am sharing is from Euan and Henry.

We had the Inter House Geography Final on Tuesday 5 May. We all worked together with the Teams format and it made for an exciting competition. The final scores were as follows:

• St David's 32
• St George's 31
• St Andrew's 26

It was a hard-fought final with amazing geographical knowledge on display from all of the finalists. In fact, very few points were dropped and it wasn't until the final round that the winners emerged. A brilliant performance from all concerned and thanks to everyone for their patience as we mastered the technology.

The finalists were as follows;

St David's House:

St George's House:

St Andrew's House:

Well done to everyone involved and to all of Year 6 who worked so hard preparing for the final quiz. Only the top four in each house qualified for the final but lots of pupils scored really well in the qualifying round with an average quiz score of 76%.

Our Champions for 2020 are St David's.

Congratulations to them.