The Courier

Whilst growing in confidence in telling the time to the nearest five minutes this week, we came across Roman numerals and the children were curious about how they were structured. So, we discussed what the letters represented, learned how to read and write Roman numerals and then made our own clocks to help us recognise the representations in our textbooks.

Class 3SS have been learning new skills in using a dictionary to find definitions of new words as well as discovering what word class they belong to. Alongside that we challenged our alphabet knowledge in ordering a sequence of words. They children engaged well with learning this life skill.

Every Thursday, I work with Year 3 in their English lesson. I often work with small groups and it is such a privilege to see them progress over the weeks.

This week, Mrs Symons was teaching about conjunctions, my group paired sentences together and used the relevant conjunctions. They did so well that they wrote their own too.

This week, the children have been focusing on how to tell the time on analogue and digital clocks, and converting the times between each. To start with, they learned all about Roman numerals and how the system works. They each made there own clock using Roman numerals. It was lots of fun.

Year 3 have been reinforcing the vocabulary that they have learnt this half-term by singing songs and doing multiple choice quizzes. Here they are using the mini iPads to test themselves on Quizizz.

Class 4C are studying earthquakes in Geography this term. Having studied the cause and effect of earthquakes, they have moved on to how people in places such as Japan and California cope with living with the possibility of daily earthquakes. The real campaign in California is 'Drop, Cover, Hold on!'  The children tried the earthquake drill in class. Luckily it was a very small rumble - about 3.1 on the magnitude scale! 

"The Rock" Says to Drop, Cover, and Hold On - YouTube

Last week 4C visited Rugby Art Gallery & Museum and enjoyed a Roman day. In the morning the children learned about finds at Tripontium in Rugby, daily life in the Roman times, including what they wore, how you could tell someone’s status by what they wear and what they ate. In the afternoon, the children designed their own Roman sandals, and modelled them on the catwalk, and created their own mosaic tiles using beads and clay. They did a great job and learned lots!

This term in Geography, Year 5 have been learning all about coasts and the different types of erosion. The children enjoyed acting out the five stages of coastal erosion; crack, cave, arch, stack and stump. They have drawn some excellent diagrams in their books to show these processes and we have been developing our diagram drawing skills along the way. 

Class 5F have been testing the hardness of different solids today. They had to test each solid and rank them in order of hardness.  Who knew the pupils could have so much fun with butter!

Class 6W enjoyed experimenting with different sketching marks to help add expression and movement to their portraits. They also explored ways of using tone to add contrast to their drawings.

Class 6W spent several weeks learning to play Metal Merchant by Christopher Norton. Firstly, they listened to the music and studied the performance, noting how the piece’s structure worked. They then chose which instrument to play, from a choice of their own instrument, chime bars or drums. They rehearsed each part and then put the piece together.

Listen out for Sam B’s cornet improvisation in the middle.

Metal Merchant - Year 6

Class 6W have started to explore their new topic of light. They have constructed pinhole cameras and found the image was inverted which provided evidence that light travels in straight lines.

Year 6 have been using their comprehension skills and working as a team to find information. They then had to share this information to the class. There was great collaboration, sharing of ideas alongside comprehension skills.

Class 3SS craft clubbers have started getting spooky. We had great fun creating scary (or not so scary) peg bats to surprise our friends and families. Will a bat appear in your house tonight?

Nature Craft Club were getting creative with conkers this week. They had a choice of materials including a brand new box of acrylic paint pens (which obviously caused the most excitement). They made owls and hedgehogs and scary faces. 

In Art Club this week, Year 6 had fun creating these oversized cat and dog eyes. They plan to put them together with other collage materials to make some incredible, imaginary creatures.