The Chronicle

It has been fantastic to have our Junior 6 children back in school this week!

We have spent the week getting used to our regular school routine and re-kindling relationships, whilst continuing our theme of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in English. Our handwriting practice even took on the Romeo and Juliet theme!

Maths has seen Junior 6 take their first leap into algebra, with some of the children developing the skills to develop and translate algebraic equations. Einstein would be proud! The week culminated in exploration of a famous scientific mind and black holes!

Junior 5 have returned to school full of excitement and ready to learn! We launched the week in a scientific way, as it‘s British Science Week, and all the J5s have been inspired to discuss, plan, draw and share a range of fabulous inventions.

In addition, we have been working hard to create suspense in our writing this week, and the J5s have been working hard to use a range of literary techniques to build suspense and to captivate the reader.

In Geography, we have been looking at news headlines around the world, and then used our mapping skills to find the countries featured.  We subsequently labelled these carefully onto our world maps. We will be mapping these on a weekly basis. 

Year 4 have had a wonderful week back in school. It was like we were never away; the children are back into our routines and it has been amazing to see how much they have grown!

It has been British Science Week, so the children have been learning about two very famous scientists who were responsible for discovering oxygen. We have also discussed what it takes to be an innovator of new ideas and inventions in our ever-changing world.

The children are creating their very own inventions this weekend to share with us at school next week- we think they will come up with some marvellous ideas to help with some everyday problems. 

This week, Junior 3 have been busy this week studying the amazing work by 19th Century Paleontologist, Mary Anning. Everyone was lured in by her mysterious ‘curiosities’ (pronounced in your best Dorset accent) and enjoyed learning about her astonishing discoveries, such as the incredible Ichtyosaurus fossil.

Each child has been continuing their learning of non-fiction writing, developing their ability to write in paragraphs and to use connectives, to add some extra detail. After some excellent practice, the children then worked together to produce wonderful 3D non-chronological reports, to display their findings all about the amazing innovator, from the sleepy coastal town of Lyme Regis.

Well done Junior 3, for settling back into school with such a brilliant and enthusiastic attitude towards your learning. It has been simply wonderful, to have you all back in the classroom.

Junior 2 have returned to school with renewed vigour and have loved seeing each other and catching up with all their news! We are currently loving the book Journey, by Aaron Becker which is a wordless picture book; absolutely brilliant for inspiring writing. Our topic of 'Castles’ continues with excitement in History, where this week, the children have explored ‘defence and attack’; from the crenellations to the magnificent trebuchet, firing hot stones and rocks on the fortresses around Britain.

In Science our continuation of our Plants topic ensured the children knew which parts of plants they are eating when onions, tomatoes, potatoes and broccoli are on their plates. A busy week of catch ups and plenty of new skills!

All of the J1 team have been so delighted to see the children return to school with such happy faces and enthusiasm. Home learning has definitely not affected their love for learning!

This week has been dedicated to a very important person in everyone’s life – their mummy! With Mother’s Day arriving on Sunday, everyone has been thinking about their mummy all week. The children have been busy writing acrostic poems and making beautiful cards. We have also decorated heart biscuits and put them in a special basket for each mummy.

For this week’s extended writing, we thought carefully about what our mummy looks like and used adjectives to describe them. We also used the words ‘and’ or ‘because’, to connect our sentences when we wrote about why we love our mummy. Our week of thoughtfulness also extended to our RE lessons when everybody thought about how they could make the world a little better, by considering which acts of kindness everyone could try during Lent.

We would like to wish a very Happy Mother’s Day to every precious mummy in our lives.

Returning to school on Monday, the children were full of excitement at being together at long last and it was wonderful to see laughter and smiles all around!

It has been a busy week as we pretended to be baby bear from Whatever Next, zooming into space and having a picnic on the moon. Linking to this, our space role play area has launched many missions and moon landings courtesy of our resident astronauts.

As it has been British Science Week, we have also been busy investigating and exploring this field and enjoyed conducting a diffusion experiment using Skittles.

With Mother’s Day this weekend we have been discussing how much we love our mummies and sharing the kind things they do – what lucky children we are!