Let’s take a look at the learning this week … 

Nursery this week has been doing some exceptional learning in their little wandle foundation phonics phase! The children have demonstrated excellent retention and recall skills, when confidently identifying the correct phonemes for each image; such as ‘sh for shells’. Mr Harracksingh has also been really impressed with Nurseries oral blending, they are listening to the phonemes in words and becoming masters at blending them and putting them together to say the correct word.      

Children in Reception this week have been exploring fictional and nonfiction books during our literacy sessions. The children have been taking part in small competitions in their kagan 4s to guess if the information from the book we looked at was fictional or nonfiction. Alfie said “It is fictional because Pigs cannot build houses and wolves cannot talk, this information is not factual”. 

In Year 1 this week, the children have learned to tell the time to an hour and half an hour. The children used analogue clocks to represent time and quiz their partners on it. The children were so confident when explaining that the short hand represents hours and the long hand represents minutes. The children have been learning about the Jewish celebration of Shabbat. They can articulate what Shabbat is, why and how it’s celebrated. Very well done to everyone! 

Year 2 have really enjoyed their reading sessions this week. They are very confident at using Ipads to access their books and are loving the fluency books. Miss Emslie and Year 2 have had a big focus on spelling! They have been using a range of spelling strategies and children seem to enjoy them especially when choosing alternative graphemes. 

And In Year 3, the children had a really great discussion in their History about the mummification process. The children were enthralled by these discussions, particularly about the process of the brain being removed through their nose! The class are looking forward to their trip to the library this afternoon as they have all expressed their want to find books about Ancient Egypt!

The Year 4 children have been working hard practising for their sharing assembly, they’ve learnt their fabulous songs and dance moves and were so excited to share this with the school and their families. In maths, the children have been developing their shape knowledge and have begun identifying different angles; obtuse, acute and right angle. They even had a go at using protractors for the first time! 

In year 5 this week, the children have been working hard on solving decimals in maths. It was great seeing the children working with Mr White in a focused group. There were some very challenging, reasoning questions that needed some lateral thinking and teamwork; Mr White always allows the children the space to collaborate and share ideas regarding this and that’s why they were so successful with their learning. 

In year 6 this week - it’s been fairly quiet as a lot of the children have been visiting their new secondary schools. However, this has not stopped some great learning such as exploring electricity in Science and exploring the physical features of the USA and comparing them to the UK in Geography. It was nice to see the children excited about one of the tasks designs being called ‘connect four’. Olivia said it helped her understand how to form her ideas.