David Attenborough

Year 6 have had a busy start back to Module 4!  We are really focusing on challenging ourselves in the run up to our SATs and all of the children have shown brilliant motivation and determination in the classroom.  We have started a new class text, Skellig and have been working hard to analyse key characters and use our own ideas to write the next chapter.  In Maths we are working hard to practise our arithmetic and reasoning skills.

We really enjoyed the careers fair fair; during the morning, we took a personality quiz which gave us suggestions of potential careers we would be good at which we then researched in more depth and created presentations about.  As well as visiting the career stalls, we also had a visiting author (Karen Greaves-Neal) come and speak to us about her books and we completed a fun workshop to help work on our descriptive writing.

Banksy

Year 2 have been working super hard over the first two weeks back to school. We have had lots of fun reading our new novel 'Jim and the Beanstalk'. We have completed some amazing writing pieces, such as character and setting description and re-telling the ending of the story. Next week we will be writing a narrative about the story!

In our art lessons this module we will learning about sculpture and making our very own clay fruit or vegetables. This week we learnt about a new artist and then practiced on play dough using clay techniques to help us when we make our final piece. 

Maidstone Museum Trip

What a great time that we had at Maidstone museum this week, the children had a fantastic time learning all about the Egyptians during our workshop. They were even allowed to explore and hold real life artefacts that were over 3000 years old!  Once we finished the workshop we explored the museum and learnt a range of different facts.  Our most fascinating experience was looking at a real life mummy that the museum has in their Egyptian section. 

Thank you to all the parents who came and supported us during the trip. 

New Life Skills project with Barclays, through Family Action and SENDIAS 

Please see the below flyer on the ‘Ways of Making’ project for young people 16-19 years who aren’t in employment, education, or training. 

Please sign up using the link/QR code on the e-flyer attached or contact learning@cementfields.org for more information. Please see update from Dan from Cementfields about the activities being offered: ‘Ways of Making is entering its second term after beginning in mid-January earlier this year. With creative workshops led by artist Savinder Bual, a group of creative young people have been meeting on a Wednesday each week to explore new and playful ways of making. This has included making pop-up books, creating wire sculptures, drawing, and experimenting with balance. Last term, youth-focussed organisation Future Foundry also led the first Guest Facilitator session on the programme, which explored the young people’s interests and helped them to think through practical next steps for beginning their creative careers. There will be two more Guest Facilitator workshops throughout the course of the programme, with 15 sessions left in total until the programme ends in June.’

Medway Parent Carer Forum AGM

• Supporting care for children with asthma
  Asthma is the most common long-term medical condition in children in the UK, with around one in 11 children and young people living with asthma. To help improve care in Kent and Medway for children and young people with asthma the NHS is asking parents and carers about their experience of:

• annual asthma reviews

• asthma action plans and

• support to improve inhaler use.

So, if your child has asthma or a recurrent wheeze have your say by filling in the survey.

You can also help improve asthma care by asking parents of children and young people with asthma to complete the survey and sharing posts on social media that you see.