The Chronicle

Junior 6 have been having some riotous fun during their Thursday PSHECE lessons over the last two weeks. Their '30 Minutes of Madness' started last week with 'Bed hair' and a scavenger hunt. Some of the children have very creative ways of finding and representing different items! The 'something the smells bad' certainly triggered the imagination!

This week, the children celebrated World Book Day in their '30 Minutes of Madness' and earned House Points for some incredibly knowledgeable answers to questions about books and some very quick sourcing of book types and character names! There were some brilliant characters represented by the J6 cohort, led by Mrs Vaughan and Mrs Horan as Thing 1 and Thing 2!

J5L - As our final week of home-schooling comes to an end, we celebrate all of the hard work our J5s have done, all of the fun times and best of all we look forward to seeing each other in the flesh on Monday. This week, not only have we dressed up as book characters (check out our pics), but we have looked at a variety of books, matching the blurbs to the book covers to try to inspire our children to read them! We attended David Walliams' assembly on Tuesday, too, which was brilliant. We think this has been a great way to end this part of our journey.

J5R - We’ve really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day in J5 this week by dressing up as a book character. Over the week we have been looking at the various techniques that Author’s use to describe characters, and we have focussed on the “show not tell” technique. As an extension to this, Mrs Roberts’ English group then turned their cameras on and had to show an emotion with their facial expression, and we all had to guess it. Today, J5 had to match blurbs to book covers, read a book in an unusual place, and find as many words as they could from “World Book Day.” It’s been a super week!

'If you are going to get anywhere in life, you need to read a lot of books.' Roald Dahl. 

Year 4 have had a splendiferous World Book Day. It was great fun sharing our costumes and guessing what characters we all were. Throughout the week, we have enjoyed various World Book Day activities including watching a special assembly by David Walliams. 

This image brilliantly demonstrates the importance of reading and we are very excited to return to school next week to find out what you have been reading and to encourage your love of books even more. 

Well Junior 3, as Roald Dahl might say ‘what a whizzpopper of a week!’

In our final week of remote learning, you have gone all out to make it the most spectacular yet. Fully embracing our new science topic of ‘Rocks and Soils’, you have been literally devouring non-fiction texts and finding out so much about different types of rocks and fascinating fossils. You have made replica fossils, learned about the erosion of coastal areas and really channelled your inner palaeontologist! We have even had a fossil worthy of being a museum exhibit, shared in our live form time by Darcey.

All of this ‘rocking and rolling’ has been finished off with a wonderful ‘World Book Day’, full of laughter, sharing stories and fun games. We could not be more proud of you for all the enthusiasm you have shown, and we are filled with excitement to see you all next week. Junior 3 – YOU ROCK !!

Last week saw ‘Biography Week’ in Junior 2. The children set to work interviewing friends and family members to find out as much as they could about their lives, and we uncovered some really interesting information. Who knew there was a royal ‘shoe designer’, a member of the Police Force (before becoming a teacher!) and a Grandma who worked in the electronics industry? Fascinating stuff.

The early spring sunshine heralded the arrival of the ‘Plants’ topic in Science and the pupils watched seeds germinating before beginning to grow their own 'cress' heads….watch this space. Ms Holmes is a week or two ahead with hers so see if yours can catch hers up!

World Book Day saw the children investigating their own collections in a Scavenger Hunt and they also found out about how authors get their ideas for writing.

As our home learning comes to an end, Junior 1 have once again surpassed our expectations with their commitment to learning and the way in which they have fully engaged with their school work.

After creating superheroes last week, this saw them coming to life in a cartoon strip, complete with conversation. They were challenged to look at clues in suitcases full of clothes to determine where each one was destined to go in Geography and an opportunity was given to dress up in appropriate winter and summer clothes too.

In Science we looked at birds, what they are and what features they have that are different to other creatures. This linked in nicely with some DT work – making a paper rocking bird.

We can’t wait to be back in school next week and see all our friends!

With World Book Day having taken place this week, Reception enjoyed reading ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ and thinking about alien and space-related themes.

Making alien ‘oobleck’ slime was definitely a highlight of this week’s Understanding the World lessons. It behaved very strangely indeed, acting like a liquid when poured but like a solid when tapped.

We also learnt some fantastic facts about our solar system and designed a pair of underpants for those cheeky aliens! Using our talents has been the focus of our RE lessons, whilst ordering the numbers 9 and 10 has seen us counting up and down like astronauts blasting off and landing, in Maths. We have worked so hard at home, but are excited to be back at school next week!