Well done to all our children who have started using TT rock stars regularly to practise times tables! Here are our top 10 for each year group and those who have made the most progress in the last 2 weeks.

Keep up the daily practise everyone- it is scientifically proven that practising a little and often will ensure you master those times tables as soon as possible until they are automatically recalled from memory.

Another great few weeks in year 4. We have enjoyed some dress down days, a Christmas panto and have spent this morning doing an inter house quiz and cross country! It has been great to see some of the children's hidden talents!

In English, the children have published their leaflets persuading people to visit Oaken Grove park. In the new year, some of the best leaflets will be sent to RBWM and these will be displayed in the park. Keep an eye out to see our fabulous work!

We completed maths assessments this week which have shown that our children have made such huge progress already this year. We are seeing a great improvement in children's times tables knowledge. This is something that we are going to continue working on over the next few weeks. Keep using TTRS!

DT has been very hands on over the last few weeks. The children have been involved in making their own steady hand games using their knowledge of circuits from our science lessons last half term.

Mrs Barbosa Y4 Team Leader

Another full on few weeks in Year 5! It is that time of the term where all of their learning is coming together and the children are building up knowledge in all areas of the curriculum.

In writing, Y5 have been inspired by Adisa the Verbaliser and his poetry workshop. They have now published their poems on Seesaw using iPads and I really hope you enjoy reading your child's poem. Can you guess which task they loathe doing? Some children have had the opportunity to showcase their poems in our Poetry Slam this afternoon. It was brilliant to see their hard work.

In maths, we have completed all 3 assessments and I have been proud of how Y5 children have undertaken them. There was a lot of papers to complete, but they did them all sensibly and maturely. Well done! The assessments also show just how much progress the children have made which is always pleasing to see.

In DT, we have been continuing to make our lever and pulley systems which has kept the children very busy and engaged. They have used their knowledge of forces to help with the making of their prototype.

We are very much looking forward to a busy lead up to Christmas and all the fun we are going to be having.
Keep up the great work, Y5! Not long to go now.

Miss Edwards, Y5 Team Leader

After recovering from Rhos, we have got back into the swing of the curriculum with some festive fun beginning along the way. This week we had a chance to watch the Aladdin pantomime and soon we will be watching the Year 3's perform their Christmas play.

In English, we have fast forwarded to the year 2052 and have been writing our own biographies. These have highlighted some of the children's aspirations as well as some rather humorous challenges they encountered along the way. We are now moving onto our persuasive writing unit!

In maths, we have been learning to multiply and divide fractions which has brought us to the end of our fraction unit. The children have done really well to keep up with the various methods needed to work out a range of questions using the four operations.

In Geography, we have been exploring the UK. In particular, we have been looking at famous landmarks and the most well known human and physical features in each country. In DT, they have observed the methods needed to make a healthy, seasonal soup and next week we will be putting their cooking skills to the test.

We look forward to rounding off these units and bringing more festive fun to our school day and learning.

Miss Morales, Y6 Team Leader

Netball squad update

Over the past couple weeks, our Netball team have continued their fixtures against other schools in the Borough.

On Wednesday 9th November, Furze Platt hosted Courthouse school. This was a great game after a slow start, Furze Platt settled into a good, steady rhythm. It was great to see everyone rising to the challenge and showing encouragement to others. A special mention to Will C who led the cheerleading throughout the whole game. Unfortunately, because of the slow start we were playing catch up during the game. This was a Courthouse win 13-5. On Thursday 10th November, Furze Platt were again hosts but this time to St Edmund Campion who came to play us. This was an extremely competitive game with both teams working hard to get the win.After a tense final quarter, the game finished with a 3-3 draw.

After a week away on their residential trip, the squad were ready to face Cookham Dean on Wednesday 23rd November, this was another very competitive game. With great shooting from Alice G & Rosie H, we won the game 4-3.A special mention to Tijana who kindly agreed to play for Cookham Dean as they were one player short. She also had a great game, thank you again Tijana!

Our final game this year was an away fixture at Holy Trinity school on Wednesday 30th November, this was an extremely challenging game. We didn’t win this fixture but I would like to say that all of the Furze Platt players can be so proud of themselves for the restraint they showed and their determination to continue to play in the true spirit of sport.They played as a team and tried their hardest right to the final whistle.

WELL DONE TEAM!

Mrs Winter