We would love to share with you what has been happening in school this week. Please read below to find out what each year group has been learning .....
Reception
This week we have been learning about our amazing bodies! We have drawn around each other, labelled our body parts and discussed why they are important! We have also been learning all about our senses and using them in activities throughout the classrooms. We have also been set the challenge to build a new castle for the king and have created some wonderful structures!
Year 1:
This week we have been looking at our new class text, 'Beegu'. We’ve looked at new vocabulary and how Beegu felt when he was alone. In RE, we have been writing class prayers about the things God has created.
Year 2:
This week Year 2 have been working super hard with their learning, especially in their Maths and English, as the term gets into full swing! We have spent time reflecting on Queen Elizabeth II and everything she has done for us during her reign. We have had a few new starters in our year group, and the children have shown immense support, compassion and love as we welcome them into our St Modwens family. We have looked at the story of Jonah and the whale, and spent time discussing how it is important to listen to God. In Art, we started studying the work of Maria Sybilla Merian, ready to build up to our final piece of artwork at the end of term. Our science learning also began, and we are looking at what it means to be healthy and choosing a balanced diet!
Year 3:
This week we have been working hard in Maths on our place value topic, the children have learnt to partition numbers and use numbers up to 1000. In English, we have started a fantastic new book called 'Hike'; a story about a son and father who enjoy an adventure hiking up a mountain. The interesting thing about this book is there are no words, so we have to write our own! We are also very excited to start new topics in Spanish, Geography and Science this week. We are learning greetings in Spanish, all about India in Geography and Animals Including Humans in Science.
Year 4:
Earthquake in the Early Morning by Mary Pope Osborne is the text we are focusing on in English. This week we have been working on ensuring that we are correctly punctuating all of our writing. We have been using adventures, adjectives and emotive language as we build up to our diary hot write next week. Our place value knowledge is continuing to grow as we have been partitioning numbers up to 10,000. We have reflected on the wonderful work CAFOD do and created posters to showcase this. We used Oreos to represent the movement of tectonic plates in Geography.
Year 5:
In English this week we have continued with our class text 'Holes', we have been learning about and writing relatives clauses. We have written a letter as one of the characters from the book and applied our knowledge of relative clauses to make our sentences more descriptive.
In Maths, we have been working on place value and numbers up to 1,000,000. We have been adding numbers to a number line and rounding numbers to 10, 100 and 1000.
In RE, we have compared Creation Stories from Genesis 1 and 2 and discussed why there are differences and similarities. We have also learnt that we have been made in the image and likeness of God.
In Geography, we have been investigating the population of Mexico and learnt the differing population density of certain areas and why this might occur. In PE, we have to perform both non-locomotor and locomotor movements together in dance. In Science, we have created an information sheet about our Scientist for this half-term, Professor Sarah Gilbert, and her role in creating a vaccine for Covid-19.
Year 6:
This week in Maths we have been learning to round and order numbers. We've also looked at negative numbers. In English, we have looked at how commas can be used in sentences to clarify meaning. In PE, we continued with hockey and practised some team games. In RE, we have looked at some important people from the Old Testament and thought more about what 'ancestry' means. In Reading, we have continued with 'Brightstorm'. We have started our new topic in Science: Animals including Humans. We have also started our new Music topic and have been playing glockenspiels. In Art, we have looked at Yayoi Kusama and, in Geography, we have started to look at the 'Seven Man-Made Wonders of the World'.
