We had our whole school assemblies on Tuesday this week and it was a pleasure to welcome a special visitor, Ndubuisi Uchea to help us officially launch our Jupiter Futures Initiative.  Ndu told us about his life from when he was young with dreams and aspirations, working through different plans until Co-Founding his own company - Word on the Curb (an award winning ‘360 audience engagement agency’).  We were all inspired to hear about Ndu’s journey and were encouraged to be curious, to learn from our mistakes and to help others along the way.  Over the coming weeks we will continue to explore the themes of what we heard and encourage the children to consider their plans and dreams and we look forward to having more visitors to talk to the children over time. 

This week in Reception

This week in Reception we have been writing simple captions and sentences to retell the story ‘Jack and the beanstalk’. The children have tried hard to hold the sentence in their head and then write it down. We have been using the ‘rekenrek’ in Maths to show ‘5 and some more’. You could play this game at home by saying a number to 10 and the children counting ‘the quick way’ i.e. 8; 5, 6, 7, 8. 

The children have really enjoyed sharing their baby photos, thank you for sending these across on Tapestry. If you haven’t been able to yet, please feel free to do so as we will continue to share them as they come in. Please continue to support your child with their reading at home; they are making good progress and we want to see this continue into the final half term. 

This week in Year 1

This week in Year One we have been learning about directional language, practicing completing turns, moving forward and backwards left and right. In english we have made changes to the storm whale story in preparation for writing our own version next week. During forest school this week we were really lucky to have Miss Vincet join us and show us how to use different tools. In computing we continued to practice using google docs editing the font and colour of the text we are writing. We are getting faster at logging in every week. 

This week in Year 2

This week in Year Two, we have been continuing our fractions work and the children have really impressed us with their work on finding ¼ and ¾ of amounts! In English, they have used comic strips to plan their ‘Supertato’ inspired stories with their very own vegetable heroes and villains - why not ask them to tell you their story at home? The children continued to show great curiosity and enthusiasm in forest school when playing “squirrels” to hide and find acorns. Please bring in any toilet roll tubes or similar for next week’s forest school project - making telescopes or binoculars. 

This week in Year 3

This week in Year Three we have been learning about time in Maths, revisiting o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. Then moving on to telling time in 5 minute increments ie 10 past 2, 20 to 6. In Literacy we have continued to generate noun phrases, similes and powerful adjectives to aid us in writing our own invented portal story next week. In Science we created a shadow puppet to explore the effects of a light source on an opaque object creating a shadow.

This week in Year 4

This week in Year Four we have been innovating our writing using the children’s ideas in preparation for our shared writing. We have looked at the underlying structure of our model text and discussed what we can change and what we need to keep the same. In Maths, we have been comparing and ordering decimals and reinforcing our knowledge of decimals in our Early Bird Maths in preparation for our next topic which is money.

In Science, we concluded the results of our egg-periment which was fun and gross in equal measure! Well done on another positive week of learning year four!

This week in Year 5

This week in Year Five, despite only having 4 days in school, has been another busy one. We have been continuing to develop our understanding of angles in Maths, using protractors to measure and draw them. In English we began writing our own innovated texts based on ‘This Morning I met a Whale’ with some very impressive outcomes so far. We have been working on self portraits using mixed media in Art - we will be completing them next week - they are looking great!

This week in Year 6

This week in Year 6 has been incredibly productive as we reached our final milestone before SATs. We are so proud of how hard the children have worked; their dedication hasn't wavered, even with a schedule of double Maths lessons this week! In our final push, we tackled ratio word problems before diving into the world of Algebra. The children have done brilliantly with two-step function machines and have even begun forming their own algebraic expressions such as “2y + 4”.

We hope all the children have a very well-deserved rest this weekend. They are ready, and we can’t wait to see them all at school from 8:00 am next week for our special SATs Breakfast!

Good luck, Year 6 - you’ve got this!