The Chronicle

This week Junior 6 have had another industrious week.  In PE we have seen a competitive side to our pupils. Mr Vaughan organised a PE session and everyone participated, including teachers!  A bleep test highlighted our fitness as well as our endurance and stamina - Mr Cottrill kept up very well but even he had to eventually stand down and make way for the children!

Music has seen us continue to practise for our collaboration with Princethorpe. We are so excited about this musical journey and look forward to sharing this with you all soon.

RE has been a thoughtful journey as we have explored the life of Pope Francis. The children were tasked creating a mini biography encompassing his journey through the ministry. The children have researched the facts superbly and presented their work in a very sincere way.

Geography has involved looking at the key features of a desert biome. It has been very interesting to watch how the children have improved their research skills.

In English, Junior 6 were asked to write about an object that's special to them using a given structure. They have looked at 'The History of the World in 100 objects' project done by the British Museum and Radio 4.  They then created 'The History of J6 in 48 objects'! The children did really well with sharing their special objects and writing their poems and then sharing their podcasts.  

Rosie has based her piece on the poem called 'The Russian Doll' by Rachel Rooney. The children had to use the given structure to write about their own different personality traits.

Another fabulous week of hard work!

Lots of children in Junior 5 have been creating videos for the various roles of responsibility that they have the opportunity of applying for.  Others have been writing speeches and thinking about the other important roles of Stewards and Prefects that they can also be awarded with when they are in Junior 6. Good luck to them all!

Everyone has written detailed and lively stories entitled 'The Box' and created some fabulous pieces - many including examples of figurative language, ambitious vocabulary and other stylistic devices. It has been fabulous to see pupils becoming more skilful and confident writers, even under timed, exam conditions, well done to Junior 5! 

Children have been learning about the gestation periods of mammals, in their science lessons with Mrs Roberts this week, and produced some excellent pieces of research.

Max had an exciting time with the arrival of two, long awaited, fluffy ferrets called Pica and Dire. To say Max is happy is an understatement! Before they arrived, Max explored Kenilworth Castle with his mum and dog, Beau.

Anabel has been awakening her creative side and has dusted off the family sewing machine. She has made herself a very useful desk tidy. I wonder what she’ll make next?

The bushes have been rustling just outside Henry’s window as a family of robins has taken up residence. (Watch the video here)

In maths, the children were learning about volume and capacity and had a practical lesson where they could make Lego cuboids, measure the dimensions and then calculate the volume. This was a huge hit for our J5 mathematicians, who just loved bringing this creativity into their maths lessons as you can see here

Mrs Hill had this to say about Helayna this week: ‘She is an absolute gem. The way she conducts herself in such a sensible way and how she helps the pupils with their laptops is exemplary.  She a sensitive word with another child today to remind him about the two-metre rule and about sanitising his hands. I am impressed!  She even found a fault with one of the computers to avoid a technician coming up!’ Thank you, Mrs Hill; fantastic feedback about a fantastic young lady!

Junior 4 pupils have been working hard on describing a scene setting this week. Rhomun, Marley, George and Dillon shared their work as good examples for others.

J4 have been learning about life as a young Norman knight in training and have been making their own shields in preparation! Despite the hardship of life for a knight in training, most of the children stated that they’d have loved to have had the opportunity to train as a knight!

Every Thursday or Friday Lily in J4M helps to deliver food parcels to an elderly couple in Brandon. She has nearly memorised their regular shopping items.  When the shopping has been completed, Lily delivers to their house and stays for a little chat.  Later in the evening Lily returns to deliver their fish and chips.  Well done Lily, this is a lovely act of kindness.

As we make our way through an extremely busy half term, Junior 3 have continued to really push themselves to learn as much as they can. We have become ever more creative in using our home environment as a powerful learning tool, exploring reflective surfaces, chasing rainbows, finding all sorts of mathematical shapes and lines and even repurposing brooms to become Spartan helmets! In PSHECE this week we have been finding out about ‘discrimination’ and people who have stood up against it. We designed our own symbols to celebrate diversity and stand against discrimination.

This week's highlights in J3V have been:

Sharing all our wonderful ideas for a fairer and more equal world in PSHECE. Charlie’s weekly weather forecasts and metrological updates and hearing of Jay’s plans for space travel. Seeing pictures of Ralph’s new horse. Olivia’s fabulous spartan helmet, which made her look truly fearsome. Lexi’s wonderful volcano story and Isabella’s sensational cornet playing here.

This week's highlights in J3S have been:

Thinking about equality and celebrating each other’s differences. Chloe shared her lovely trip to the Cotswolds, Amalia continued to make us jealous of the wonderful Isle of Wight and Jakob introduced us to his new budgie! J3S have worked hard to complete their mythical stories and had fun making Ancient Greek pasteli (honey cakes!) in history. 

Mathletes for J3 are: Elena and Amalia

Junior 2 have had another busy week thinking about 'temperature' in maths which has felt rather poignant with the changeable weather this week. Pupils have been learning about thermometers and how to read them accurately. 

In RE, we considered the Parable of the Talents and how we use our own God-given gifts and how not to waste them. 

In Art, the challenge was set to draw a portrait of the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo by Mrs Hardwick.

We continue our revisit to some of the Science topics - this week 'Habitats' and children enjoyed the online quizzes from the comfort of their own homes. Geography took us on a visit to Australasia/Oceania and a look at the countries on that continent. We look forward to seeing some of our friends next week and are excited about that. All in all, a busy and very productive week.

The Junior 2 Mathlete of the Week is Adreena

As you can see we have been busy this week learning about Jesus’ disciples and what their names are. After finding out about them we made a ‘Disciple Wheel’ to help us learn them all.

We have also been learning about birds and fish in science; what features they have and how they are different to other mammals and creatures. Dayia drew a lovely picture of her favourite bird, an owl.

This week we have been looking at superheroes in English and describing what they are like. We created our own superheroes and a villain to go with them for our work next week. Lexi-Jean even dressed up to show what her superhero and villain would be like!

Jude has recorded his own weather forecast which you can watch here.

Our Mathlete of the Week is Dayia - well done!

It has been another fun-filled and busy week in Reception for both the school and the home learners. With the arrival of more summery weather, we have enjoyed reading the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which has proved to be a firm favourite with the children. Linking into the story, the children researched the lifecyle of a butterfly and produced some super caterpillar artwork.

When learning about measures in maths, the children realised the importance of standard measure and recorded measurements such as the height of family members (using measures such as books or a tape measure) and lengths of different pieces of string using a ruler. We remembered that when using a ruler, we need to record in centimeteres and start at the correct end!

More fun was had when discussing and identifying what syllables are and how many can be spotted in various words. Think about your name, how many syllables does it have?

After a final calculation of awards, Ted in J2, Lucas and David in J3 have all been awarded a full Da Vinci Certificate for their efforts in English.

Well done to everyone who received awards for their work this year.