What we have been learning this week...
Nursery:
This week, the nursery have started their new topic ‘Set Sail to Africa’. We have shared our own life experiences of the countries we have visited and have looked for them on maps and globes before looking at Africa.
Our story is 'Handa's Surprise', so we have been learning about African animals and have made an African sunset with animal silhouettes in art.
In Maths, the children have been introduced to balance scales, and they have been making comparisons between objects relating to their weight. The children have also revisited the language of size, length and capacity when looking at different objects in the nursery.
Reception
This week, we have launched our new topic, 'Set sail to Australia'. We have enjoyed learning all about the Great Barrier Reef. We discovered all the different animals that live there, as well as the meaning behind the name. In Maths, we have started to look at sharing between 2 groups. It was a tricky concept, but we did really well!
Year 1:
This week, Year 1 have been very busy completing their summer assessments in Maths and Reading. The children have applied all the skills and knowledge they have learnt. Miss Archer and Mrs Chadfield are very impressed! We have also been trying really hard in phonics, ready for the Phonics Screening Check next week. Don't forget to keep practising over the weekend!
Year 2:
This week, in Year 2, our highlight has to be our trip to Tamworth Castle. We have had so much fun learning about the Castle Household and Squires. The children were excellently behaved and thoroughly enjoyed laying a table for a Mediaeval Banquet, dressing up as children from the past and arranging Knights' armour for battle. We have also worked exceptionally hard on our assessments this week and Ms Hatton and Mrs Palmer are beyond proud of the children's efforts.
Year 3:
We have been looking at how authors create excitement and suspense through their choices of vocabulary and sentence structure. In Maths, we have been studying money - adding and subtracting pounds and pence. Next week we will be learning to read the time. Please practise this skill at home. In Science, we investigated shadows and whether items were opaque, translucent or transparent. We also celebrated our pupils who successfully made their First Holy Communion through our school mass, and we even had a party to celebrate.
Year 4:
Welcome back to the last half-term of Year 4! The children have completed some of their Maths assessments this week, and will be completing reading and grammar assessments next week. We have started our next unit in English, where we will be writing a persuasive letter to Mrs Sherratt to allow us to have a class pet! We enjoyed a football tournament during PE in preparation for our sports week next week. During Science, we have explored deforestation, and we have looked at seasons in Spanish. We have started our Pentecost unit and written diary entries.
Year 5:
In English, we have been building our story plots and designing our magical objects, ready to write our hot task story. In Maths, we have been practising adding and subtracting decimals and using a range of methods to do this. In RE, we have learnt about the Holy Spirit and what the Bible and Jesus teach us about the Holy Spirit. In Science, we have explored the gestation periods and lifespans of mammals. In Art, we have completed our final piece for our printing topic inspired by Claude Monet. In Geography, we learnt about lines of latitude and longitude and how to work out coordinates.
Year 6:
This week we have started to practise our end-of-Year 6 production. In English, we have started our new book: 'Kate Wolfe Takes the Case'.
In Reading, we are starting a new book called The Wonder Garden. In Maths, we have started a topic about planning and running a theme park. In Science, we have started to learn about inheritance. In RE, we have started to learn about Pentecost.
