The Chronicle

It has been fantastic to welcome Junior 6 back to school this week and to see them playing in the sunshine and enjoying the new gazebo and artificial turf on their playground. 

In the classroom, we have begun some exciting topics on World War II and Biomes around the world and have started to read our core text, The Lion and the Unicorn which is set in England during World War II.  We have focused on the importance of using background knowledge about a subject to help us deepen our understanding of the text that we are reading. 

What a super start to the Trinity Term! 

Junior 5 are so excited to be back in school and returning to sports. This term girls will continue to play netball, as well as rounders and athletics. The boys will be fine-tuning skills in football and cricket ready for their fixtures. Athletics will also be part of the sports program, ready for Sports Day later in the term.

During this week, Junior 5 have been back training in the glorious sunshine acclimatising themselves to playing again. The girls worked on their netball and they clearly enjoyed playing matches and demonstrated exceptional passing and teamwork skills.

Junior 4 have settled back into school with enjoyment and purpose this week. The children started by polishing up on their presentational skills! Over the Easter break many of the children have been working hard researching topics and preparing a presentation to deliver to their peers. It has been wonderful to see such confidence, enthusiasm and talent!

The children in Junior 4W explored the stereotype of the ‘Vikings’ and played a trading game to find out why they invaded Britain and the impact they had. Drama activities focused on the Viking Gods and visualising their spiritual worlds.

Meanwhile, Junior 4B have started to explore the topic of India. This week we have focused on the six different climate regions. The children knew lots of information about India, but they also had many questions that they might like to explore in their own time. Mrs Clarke helped enthuse the children further by introducing the children to Mehndi Henna patterns in Art. This activity was thoroughly enjoyed and the children worked precisely and carefully with so much concentration and thought.

What a great start to the term, Junior 4!

This week, Junior 3 have travelled to Ancient Greece, learning the myth of Daedalus and Icarus. After reading through the story and learning how to punctuate speech, we rehearsed and performed enthusiastic class actions for each page.

In Maths, the children improved their understanding of fractions, represented as decimals; they all created some lovely ‘Book of Tenths’, demonstrating various ways to represent each fraction.

It has been wonderful to have everyone back in school, seeing the children engage with their learning and play together (on their fun new equipment!) in the spring sunshine.

We welcomed the children back to an exciting and eventful half-term in Junior 2 this week.   

On Wednesday, as part of Science, the children were introduced to ‘planting’ fruit and vegetables by Edd from the Grounds Team at Princethorpe. We were grateful for his input and knowledge and the children had a wonderful time.

The theme of ‘Fire’ is included in all our subjects this term, from ‘The Fire of Warwick,’ ‘The Great Fire of London,’ to Pentecost in RE. The children will be writing and creating fabulous work in Maths, English and DT, using ‘fire’ as their inspiration. Watch this space!

Our first week back after the Easter holiday has been busy and productive. We have begun to learn the story of Mrs Armitage On Wheels in English, which will be our focus this term. We came up with some creative actions to help perform the story, which helped us remember it in the right order.

In History we have started to look at our new topic of Transport and placed different types of vehicles onto a timeline. This linked beautifully with DT, where everyone had the chance to make a wind-powered vehicle. These were of course tested out to see whose travelled the best! We travelled to London in geography, finding out about its famous landmarks, which prompted lots of discussions of who had been where…and when we can visit again!

What a busy start to our new term Reception have had this week. In Maths we have started to explore numbers to 20 and beyond, using a variety of resources to help us understand these larger quantities. Great fun was had building towers with cubes, putting counters in 10 frames and we have even started trying to estimate amounts too!

Our topic of ‘Sowing and Growing’ has seen us investigate the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, thinking about the different food he ate and how he changed into a beautiful butterfly. We also sampled some of the fruits that the caterpillar ate and, just like him, agreed that they were quite delicious!