Learning In Action

Junior 6

This week, our Junior 6 children have finally had the opportunity to escape school and travel to the Peak District for an outdoor activities adventure. The excitement has been building for some time, with many concerns over whether the trip would be able to go ahead. However, at 5.45 on Monday morning, the children boarded the coach for two days of adventure! Activities included canoeing, archery, bush craft, crate stacking, zip wires and stream scrambling. Some very tired but exhilarated children then came back to school on Wednesday to continue their activities with a morning of Forest Schooling! 

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Junior 5

J5 were very excited to be part of a book exchange this week. They all eagerly brought in books that they’d previously read and a £1 to exchange for new books. We have many avid readers in J5 and this was a huge success. As part of their Geography curriculum, J5 also went outdoors to partake in an exciting orienteering activity, with J5L having their first orienteering session, led by Mrs Thomas, which they thoroughly enjoyed. The J5 staff have really enjoyed teaching all of the year 5 pupils this year. They have all worked hard, made great progress, been fun to be with, and we wish them further success and happiness in J6! Good luck to the amazing Miss Draper (Alexis) too, as she goes off to University!

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Junior 4

As part of the J4’s topic on Vikings, the children have designed themselves a piece of Viking style jewellery. First, they studied images of Viking jewellery and runes and subsequently designed their own small piece of jewellery in their sketchbooks. Next they used cuttlefish to carve a mould for their jewellery. They tested their mould with a piece of clay to see what the pewter cast might look like and then modified their design, if needed. This Monday they will be going to the woods with Mrs Clark to smelt pewter over the fire and pour the molten metal into their moulds. Continuing with the Viking theme, in music J4 became Viking singing warriors as they travelled in long boats across the mighty seas before battling with gusto to the finish line!  There have been many things to celebrate and remember this year and Mrs Wildey, Mrs Burley, Mrs Jackson-Mayne, Mrs Kaur and Mrs Hill are all so very proud how the pupils have embraced the change and focused on the many, many positives.

 

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Junior 3

In our final full week of this academic year, Junior 3 have been busy completing some outstanding writing. We have edited and polished up our final letters to logging companies, persuading them the importance of taking immediate action to stop the destruction of the rainforest. We have also written about our own exciting adventure in the Amazon after making a virtual trip though this astonishing landscape. On Tuesday afternoon, we joined a live-streamed art class by the famous author and illustrator, Liz Pichon, where we learned to draw some of the fabulous characters from her latest novel ‘Shoe Wars’. It has certainly been an exciting final week and we are so proud of every pupils’ achievements, attitudes and, most of all, their ambitions for the future. Well done Junior 3 – you are superstars.

 

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Junior 2

Well, it seems like only five minutes since Junior 2 began their year, and what a year it has been! The favourite part of everyone’s week is when they are writing, using pictures they have drawn, to help them. An incredibly creative bunch of children, we have loved all the books and stories we have read, including The Railway Children, Dogstar, The Boy at the Back of the Class, The Ice Palace and Oliver Twist, to name but a few. I think all the children would class Tilly and the Time Machine by Ade Edmondson as their favourite!. As we come to the end of Junior 2, the children have written a piece about a favourite holiday island, and here we see them today, working so hard to try and perfect their work. Such a positive little bunch, who we know will do so well in Junior 3. The veggie garden has thrived this year, mainly due to lots of rain and the first crops were harvested and eaten last night. How exciting! Ms Holmes and Mrs Bhogal have had a wonderful year with J2 and we wish them every success as they move up to J3. Happy holidays everyone, see you in September.

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Junior 1

Junior 1 have made it to the end of the school year and what an incredible time it has been! As well as growing taller, they have also grown in their approach to learning and life; successfully moving from the Foundation Stage into the National Curriculum. There have been so many highlights of the year, including the books we have read  - such as Mrs Armitage On Wheels, discovering new facts about plants and animals in science, learning about toys, homes and transport in history and finding out about the four countries within the UK in our Geography lessons. This week the children have all finished their Maths topics for the year and we were able to consolidate and check their understanding by completing an overview of everything we have covered. This review of learning also took place in our phonics lessons, where everyone consolidated their understanding of phases 2, 3 4 and 5, phew! Finally, there was great excitement in our Music lessons when Mrs Olden showed the children the recording of Joseph And His Technicolour Dreamcoat where everyone had the chance to see themselves singing in the chorus. It really was such a lovely end to the school year. Mrs Glen-Roots, Mrs Hardwick, Mr Kefalas and Mrs Verma are all so proud of what the children have achieved this year and we know they are all more than ready to continue their journey in Junior 2. 

 

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Reception

It is hard to believe that we are now at the end of term and the summer holidays are beckoning. However, Reception, as ever, have worked hard and played hard as we investigated positional language through the story We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – not only in the classroom, but outside in Forest School too. Much fun was had at our disco where we boogied to favourites such as Club Tropicana, Let it Go and Rasputin. In fact, Mrs Convey and Mrs Green marvelled at our eclectic taste! Our final French lesson of the year allowed us to demonstrate our super accents and in RE we wrote lovely prayers of thanks. What a fantastic year we have had!  

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