Newsletter 23

18th March 2022

Attendance

Beatrix Potter - 96%

Allan Ahlberg - 98%

Greta Thunberg - 100%

Roald Dahl - 99%

Alan Turing - 96%

JK Rowling - 97%

Marcus Rashford - 95%

Captain Sir Tom Moore - 94%

Peninsula East Primary Academy - 97%

Well done to Greta Thunberg class for having 100% attendance this week, that is absolutely fantastic! Additionally, well done to JK Rowling class for having 97% in Key stage 2. I am really impressed with whole school attendance this week as it has been the highest overall attendance that we have had so far this year!

Stars of the Week

Beatrix Potter Class - Reggie & Isabelle J

Allan Ahlberg Class - Evie & Ollie

Greta Thunberg Class - Tilly & Richard

Roald Dahl Class - Ellis & Ivy

Marcus Rashford Class - Darcy & Owen

J K Rowling Class - Ethan & Thomas

Captain Sir Tom Moore Class - Charlie & Jesse

Alan Turing Class - All of year 6!

Citizen of the Week

Beatrix Potter Class - Harper - Reign

Allan Ahlberg Class - Gracie B

Greta Thunberg Class - Vinnie

Roald Dahl Class - Aaron

Marcus Rashford Class - Ruby

J K Rowling Class - Summer

Captain Sir Tom Moore Class - Oscar

Alan Turing Class - Nidhi

Reader of the Week

Beatrix Potter Class - Tristan

Allan Ahlberg Class - Jaynee

Greta Thunberg Class - Ivy

Roald Dahl Class - Tommy

Marcus Rashford Class - Callum

J K Rowling Class - Koby

Captain Sir Tom Moore Class - Harry

Alan Turing Class - Mason

WOW Writer Awards

Congratulations to these children for fantastic writing this week...

Beatrix Potter Class - Alexis

Allan Ahlberg Class - Jackson

Greta Thunberg Class - Lillie

Roald Dahl Class - Luisa

Marcus Rashford Class - Izabella

J K Rowling Class - Charlie

Captain Sir Tom Moore Class - The whole class for their fantastic effort in writing this week!

Alan Turing Class - Harry

Our Wonderful Inquiry Work

Pepa Tots

This term our central idea has been; “Products go through a process before they are consumed”. Based around that idea the children looked at The Little Hen story and made bread to taste and created a fence for our farm animals.

They also looked at the famous artist “Giuseppe Arcimboldo" and created imaginative portrait heads made out of fruits and vegetables.

Captain Sir Thomas Class

In Year 5 we have been exploring how organisations are created to respond to a need. Through this, we have been looking at Earth and Space and the ongoing missions to Mars. We have used our core text ‘Curiosity: the story of the Mars Rover’ to help us understand how an organisation like NASA has been created to help us investigate the universe around us. We have spent this week writing a setting description of Mars’ surface from the perspective of Curiosity, the Mars Rover. We have also been part of an online workshop on Mars Day, which helped the children to further understand our inquiry. As part of our transdisciplinary learning, we have also been creating a Google Sheet to demonstrate the statistics of the Space Race in the 20th Century.

SCHOOL INFORMATION

Light Workshop

On Monday 14th March, Year 2 visited the local church to attend a workshop all about Light led by Jeremy from the Guildhall Museum. We found out lots of information about light and explored how light was made in the past. We looked at candles, lanterns, the magic box and many more. We even saw what policemen in the past used as a light source. After that, we created our own stained glass windows, modelled on what we could see at the church.