Newsletter 

Julia Donaldson

This module's transdisciplinary theme is How we organise ourselves, focusing on science and the human body.  The children have started to analyse and explore the theme by first finding out what exercise is and how it affects our bodies.  The children already discussed, identified different types and explored what exercise is and how it makes us feel, how it affects some of our major organs and why exercise helps to keep us healthy.  We have based some of our writing on the analysis of these observations.  

Helen Sharman

Helen Sharman class has learnt about how the Nasa began shortly after the second world war.

Helen Sharman has been busy improving their writing skills by using fronted adverbials and casual conjunctions in descriptions about travelling into space.

In maths the children have been learning about equivalent fractions to decimals. They have been learning ways to recall these equivalences.

This module, Helen Sharman class, have been learning about Netball. They have looked at different ways of passing and developing how to defend their net effectively.

In science, the children have been learning about space. They have made models of the phases of the moon. They are using their learning of the Space race and rockets to create a bottle rocket which they will launch at the end of this module.

Lewis Hamilton 

On Thursday, year 4 were lucky enough to have a very special visit from popular children's author Sam Gayton. Sam has written many books such as Lilliput, The Snow Merchant and Hercufleas.  He has also written lots of reading scheme books for Oxford Reading Tree and Oxford Owl's Hero Academy.  Medway Libraries put on lots of author workshops and as we are not within walking distance to a local library, they brought Sam to us.  We would like to say a huge thank you to Medway Libraries and Sam for allowing our children to have this author experience in school.  They had a fantastic morning and they are now feeling very inspired!

Busters Book Club

Congratulations to Helen Sharman class this week for having the most readers in their class. It is fantastic to see such great commitment to their daily reading. Keep it up!

Star Readers of the week:

Julia Donaldson Class -  Nora

Steve Irwin Class - Vencel

Marcus Rashford Class - Archie

Walt Disney Class - Brayden

Lewis Hamilton Class - Jenson

Helen Sharman Class - Jorge

Benjamin Zephaniah Class - Maks

Maths Morning - Reception & KS1

This morning, Oliver Jeffers class enjoyed having some of their parents in to support our Maths learning.  They demonstrated their knowledge of length and height whilst they measured different parts of the body.  Children drew around their own and their parent's hands, seeing if their hand would fit inside their parents (and laughing at how big some of their parents' hands seemed when they were drawn around!)  They also measured their feet in cubes, drew around their bodies and saw how many big or little bricks they measured as well as measuring their height using string and using it to compare their height with their friends.  It was lovely to have our parents in and the children really enjoyed sharing their learning!

Steve Irwin class looked at measuring in centimetres and metres and were comparing length and height in today's lesson using vocabulary such as "taller" and "shorter".

Young Leaders

Some year 5 children have been completing a young leaders course with an external member of staff.  During this course they were taught how to successfully host some games for the younger children, this has been a great opportunity as they took agency over which games they wanted to host as well as being able to take control.  So far throughout the year they have shown great communication skills as they will communicate back to staff if something went wrong or if they need more equipment. All children part of the young leaders have now completed a course and successfully passed.  We as a school are really pleased to see the year 5 children take ownership during their games. 

Mother Language Day

On Tuesday 21st February 2023 it was International Mother language day.  The day we celebrate other European Languages, the children learnt about the importance of the day and how many languages are spoken worldwide.  Once they all had a discussion about languages they were then provided with a task to write in another language.  During the day other adults would hear children saying hello in a different language.  

No-Smoking Site 

Please can we remind you that the school grounds are a no- smoking site. 

This includes cigarettes, e-cigarettes and vapes. 

Please support us in making and encouraging good habits with our pupils.