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Term 6

Key information:

PE days for  Term 6 will be- Indoor PE on a Monday and outdoor PE on a Wednesday with Bristol Sport.

This term we are looking forward to finishing Skellig and answering our question ‘Why do we care?’

We can’t wait to create our own winged angels using photography in art.  Keep popping back to find out how this units ends. 

Carnival Day

These photos speak a thousand words! What a day! 

Dance Practise

We busted our moves, got hot and sweaty but had such fun preparing our dance for carnival day. 

Visit from Paralympic athlete

The athlete was impressed with the level of fitness in our class.  

Trip to We The Curious

Wow what a day! We loved becoming scientists and exploring many key scientific questions in a hands on way. We loved our session with Sam, learning all about The Sun, Earth and Moon and especially enjoyed visiting the planetarium. 

MAKE SOME NOISE

We had a great session with ‘Rock Steady’ today and had fun creating our own band. 

PE

This term the professionals are in again but this time we are learning how to improve our cricket skills!

How do we get night and day?

We loved researching this and then explaining our findings in anyway we wanted.  Some of us made books, others composed songs, designed board games or posters and some of us created dramas. 

Term 5

Key Information:

PE will remain on Tuesdays and Thursdays for this term. 

Reflections

’I loved writing the biography on Mary Seacole!’  Owen

‘I love Skellig because it’s full of mystery.’ Millie

’My mum loved my act of kindness as I cleaned the whole house and made her a cup of tea in bed.’  Erin

Computing

We can select, use and combine a variety of software to create designs.  We hope you like our Tessellations. 

Editing

Using microphones to help us edit our work was a real success.  We could easily hear our mistakes and found sentences we could improve.  Mrs Williams is so proud of our biographies on Mary Seachole. 

WOW

We’d like to thank all of the carers who came to visit us today and tell us how and why they care for others.  We have come away feeling really inspired to make a difference.  Some of us are already planning how we can help the homeless of Bristol and are going to bring spare items from home into school so Trish can take them to our street friends. 

We also enjoyed planning our own act of kindness for someone we love to show them we care.  We can’t wait to carry out our mission and present our acts on a page for our class book all about caring.  

Term 4 

Key information:

This term the children will have indoor PE  on a Tuesday  and outdoor PE  on a Thursday.

Wow, what an end to our studies. Testing our very own questions was so much fun.  Balloons, hockey sticks, balls, cars water, clay - what ever we could get away with we did!  Mrs Williams didn’t mind as long as our questions could be tested fairly and were related to force. I’m pleased to say we are a class of scientists. 

Talking Saftey Online 

Today we discussed the difference between Internet friends and in-person friends. We questioned whether we actually ever really know if they are male or female, old or young.  We know never ever to give out any private information and always use common sense. 

World Book Day 2019

We started the day off with ‘Booky Breakfast’. Many of the teachers shared their favourite book whilst we munched on a croissant.

In class, our text of the day was slowly revealed, bit by bit. We made predictions about what the text was about and who the author might be. Some our predictions were right, some were not. Our text was ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. This amazing story was read chapter by chapter. Although there wasn’t enough time to read the whole text, we were inspired to try and find a copy of our own and discover what eventually happens to Michael. We then went on to do some Japanese inspired art work and design our own desert island, just like the one that Michael landed on in the story.

In the afternoon, we braved what the weather wanted to throw at us and built shelters as if we had been marooned on a desert island….just like Michael. We even got to taste some marshmallows as a reward for working together and building our shelters. 

WOW day

What a day! We spent the day exploring the forces that act upon us.  We loved every minute: making slime, throwing eggs out of windows, building towers, running around without shoes on, tug of war and so much more.  Think you can now call us force experts. 

Viking art

We enjoyed bringing shields and longboats to life using collage.  We did get a little messy but enjoyed recycling Christmas leftover wrappers and paper to create our masterpieces. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR

VIKING WOW

WOW! What a way to start 2019..... we went back in time to the Viking Period. Oaf Tarkinagson came to visit us bringing lots of artefacts, armour, games and knowledge from the 8th Century.  We have had so much fun and have learnt so much! Check out our photos below. 

Term 2

The Princess’ Blankets.

We are very excited to explore our Power of Reading text this term - The Princess’ Blankets.  On our journey we will be exploring how the arts can enhance storytelling.  We will create performances with drama techniques, produce music and get artistic with paint.  Investigating properties of materials will also feature on our journey and we will be testing a range of materials that might help keep the poor princess warm. As well as this, we are hoping to make our own class blanket in time for Christmas! 

Reflections

"I loved the art day and re-creating the forest blanket!" Owen.

"I loved how calm and relaxing it was when we weaved." Lauren.

"Eventhough I was nervous, I loved how creative we could be for our performance." Amelia.

"I loved the performance as I've never had such a big part before." Cain. 

Art Day

What a day! We loved looking at textures, tones and shades today to re create the forest blanket. After practising each skill, we combined each one to produce our masterpieces. 

Anti-Bullying Week

This week, as a school, we have been focussing on anti-bullying. We have thought about what bullying is, how it makes people feel and how it can be prevented.

We have also had a visit from a touring performance group. We watched a performance all about bullying and its effects entitled- A Bully’s Paradise. We learned lots of information through an interactive show and at the end we were able to determine: what bullying is; the different types of bullying and what to do if we see it happen.

Term 1

Prove it!

Our challenge was to create a campaign video that persuades the public how to protect the Amazon Rainforest. We hope you enjoy them!

Science

To help us learn all about life cycles, we made our own stories taking inspiration from The Hungry Catterpillar. We then shared our mini books with the new Reception classes.  They loved them! 

Science

We loved pulling apart a flower to identify all the parts to help us learn about pollination and fertilisation. 

Science

We are observing things over time. We predicted what our secret garden might look like next term.  We enjoyed sketching what it looked like today.

PE

We are very lucky to have specialist gymnastic coaches to help us improve our leaps, turns, flips and balance.  Watch out Team GB, we will see you in the next Olympics!

WOW!

For our WOW day we were lucky enough to have ‘Jungle Jonathan’ come in to school with his collection of exotic rainforest animals. We encountered a tarantula, a scorpion, stick insects, a gecko and even a snake! We learnt about the effects that deforestation is having on these animals' homes. We are looking forward to finding out about what we can do to help prevent this from happening.

Purple Learning!

As a class, we have been reviewing what being a ‘Purple Learner’ is all about this week. Today, we looked at collaborative learning and unpicked what it feels like, what it sounds like and what it looks like working in a group on a collaborative task.

Our mission, for our collaborative task, was to produce a document or presentation on how to survive a night in the Amazon rainforest. We were introduced to the task by reading the first chapter of the text ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell, which creates tension by describing the moments before a plane crashes in the rainforest. We shared lots of ideas, thought about what we would need to survive and by talking together, we worked collaboratively on the task.