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

In Nursery, the children have been experiencing and enjoying a variety of transition activities this week. The children visited the Reception classroom, engaging with the provision and becoming familiar with their new learning environment. The children also took part in a circle time activity on the carpet with Mr Harracksingh and Mrs Attridge, sharing what they were most excited about in starting Reception. Nursery finished the week with a fun packed water fun day, which the children took great pleasure in soaking their teachers!

Children in Reception this week during literacy, have been exploring news articles and the variety of news articles that are available to them. The children experienced reading newspapers, magazines and watching reports on BBC newsround. The children were extremely excited to learn that this month is national ice cream month, through reading a news article found online and watching a video report. The children used the knowledge gained throughout the week to write their own news article. Cairo wrote an article reporting a crime, with the headline ‘The Big Bad Wolf In Jail’!   

In Year 1, children have learned to create rhetorical questions as part of their learning journey in English. They used their knowledge of the core text, “The Lorax” to persuade and convince the Onceler that what he is doing to the forest is not ok. Malachi wrote, ‘How could you cut down the beautiful truffula trees you monster? Don’t you know that the animals need trees to have their fruit? How would you feel if you had no food to eat?’ All children were very engaged in the lesson and they had a lot to say about the topic. 

In Year 2, the children have worked hard to understand directional language in maths. In geography, the children have been writing fact files about The Gambia and the UK. The children were able to compare and contrast the locations of both countries and could talk about physical features such as the weather and climate. 

Year 3 have been busy this week! Ayomide loved telling Miss Roper all about his English work, where they have been writing a debate on whether children should be driven to school or not. Ayomide had great ideas and spoke about how having more cars on the road would add to congestion and climate change, a change maker in the making! In Maths, the children have been dividing using the bus stop method. Ella shared that she found it difficult at first but now she is out of the learning pit and feels more confident!

In Year 4, the children had a great English lesson where they looked at images of the Sri Lanka jungle and generated figurative language based on the 5 senses. Year 4 wowed us all with sentences such as ‘the pungent odour of the jungle attacked my nostrils’ and ‘the wind called my name as it danced around me’. They are excited to put their sentences into their final outcome of the year; a setting description. 

In year 5 they have completed their final double page spread for history this week. It’s been amazing to see the progress the children have made with these throughout the year. Most importantly, how independent they are now when creating them. Initially they were quite reliant on a model for inspiration but now every child created their own unique designed double page spread. These were also done with great detail as the children have enjoyed learning about World War 2. 

Year 6’s big day finally came and they performed their version of High School Musical to the school and parents. All the hard work from the team and the children really paid off for this amazing performance. The children really made us proud with the effort, dedication and enthusiasm they showed in order to succeed. We would also like to thank the parents for their help with costumes, props and make up.