The Chronicle

In their last term of French at Crackley Hall, J6 are working towards performing a role-play at the shop of their choice. This week, they looked at how to say “some” in French to ensure they get exactly what they want to buy: a whole chicken or just some chicken? They also now know that “une boite” is a homonym, as it means both “a tin”, “a can” and “a box!”

The children are all really looking forward to acting out their encounters at their chosen shop.

It was an exciting week for our Crackley Year 5's in their Games lessons, as all our pupils were involved in a Cross-Country tournament against Crescent School. The sun shone and the rain kept away, as all our eager competitors ran the one-mile course. 

It was wonderful to see all trying their best and Crackley emerged victorious. George M and Sid were neck and neck throughout the race, showing their great stamina, and then George pipped Sid in the last few metres. George M came first, Sid second and Leonardo third! Elle led from the start and ran a fabulous race, and won with flying colours, with Issey coming third!

Congratulations to all six of these pupils and to all for taking part.

Our science topic of 'Living things and their habitats' is keeping Year 4 very busy! We have been exploring a variety of ways to identify, sort, group and classify living things. We have learned how animals are split into 'vertebrates' and 'invertebrates' and we are beginning to consider the differences between living things within these classifications.

We have been using and creating classification keys to group, identify and name living things from the local habitat and beyond. We had great fun on an invertebrate hunt and were amazed at how many animals we have in our school! 

Building on our theme of ‘Daedalus and Icarus’, Junior 3 have been finding out how to stay safe in the sun in our Science lessons. We now have a few good tips for Icarus and anyone else lucky enough to spot a few rays of sunshine. We put our knowledge of writing different types of sentences to good use and created sun safety posters with questions, commands, exclamations and statements in them.

We have also become experts at adding and subtracting fractions and have even begun to simplify our answers.

Finally, our collaborative art project has been finished off this week and we ‘took to the skies’ on our new wings. Remember, boys and girls, ‘until you spread your wings, you have no idea how far you can fly.’ 

Junior 2 have been so busy this week, as have their fruit and vegetables we planted for Science! The carrots and beans are expanding, the sunflower seeds germinating nicely; plus we have a rogue mushroom! In English, we have been learning how to write a news report! We even had Mahnoor in Pakistan joining in, as a roving reporter, from across the miles. Happy Eid to her and her family!

The children have been finding out about ‘curious’ journalists -  how and why they want to get news to the masses. The Fire of London will be our theme and the pupils will imagine they are talking to the Londoners fleeing the chaos. Should make for some interesting reading.

In Maths we are loving the tricky ‘Time’ topic – analogue is always challenging.

RE has seen us making mini churches as we learn about the focus for spiritual community. The pupils loved designing their churches and assembling them into 3D images.

This week has been a very noisy one in Junior1! However, we really haven’t minded as we have been learning about the concept of onomatopoeia in our English lessons! The children all had so much fun saying the different ‘noisy’ words and thinking of their own. There really has been a ‘whoosh’ of excitement in the classrooms.

In Maths we have continued to learn about halves and quarters, extending our knowledge to splitting numbers rather than shapes.

Our Geography lessons have been a tasty affair with the children learning all about traditional English food. It certainly made us all very hungry as everyone’s tummy rumbled around the room!

Our History topic is beginning to draw to an end and this week the focus was on the bicycle. The children were so interested to learn that the early bicycles had no pedals, as they eagerly completed their timelines.

Reception have been exercising their green fingers this week as we planted seeds in our Understanding the World lessons. Complete with compost, plant pots, cress and salad leaf seeds, we headed outside for some gardening fun. Hopefully our plants won’t take too long to grow and we can then taste them!

Thinking about what conditions plants need to grow, we discovered that light, water, warmth and soil are all needed, so we are keeping a close eye on our seedlings.

We have also been busy practising our tricky words in phonics and have been wowing Mrs Green and Mrs Convey with our brilliant maths too!