Nelson Mandela Learning!

By D Gray21st July 2016

This week, we were looking at the life and work of Nelson Mandela.

I’ve been very impressed with all the learning that has taken place and here are a few gems I have selected.

 

Here is some work from Nathan, who worked incredibly hard to review and improve his work!

First Draft

Second Draft

Final Draft

A poem written and typed by Oscar:

The incredible, awesome Nelson Mandela

 

You were born in 1918.

You died in 2013.

You went to prison in 1962 and came out in 1989.

Nelson wasn’t your original name, it was given to you by your teacher.

You fought for the Aparteid to stop.

You became the world’s famous prisoner!

You were the world’s first ever black South African president.

You began to help with people’s problems!

Thank you Nelson Mandela

 

By

Oscar

Year 5 and 4 trip to the Kingston Library!

By admin21st July 2016

Year five and four had an amazing morning yesterday when we all walked to the Kingston Library. Everyone had a fantastic time discovering all about the summer reading challenge, exploring all the different types of books, reading their favourite and picking out books from our year group author (Michael Morpurgo – year four and Anthony Horowitz – year five).

 

All the children were totally engaged, model students and all of them were desperate to go back and take out their favourite book. They all loved the trip and we hope they take up the summer reading challenge at their local library this summer!

Mr Kerin and Miss Snowdon.

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Being Determined in Year 1- Countess Way

By Mrs l Jenkins20th July 2016

Year 1 has had a really good week even in the heat!

We have been talking about our learning zones and about how to behave in our talking trio groups.

A lot of the children know that green is ‘good’ and mistakes are ‘good’ (for more information look up ‘Growth Mindsets’ )

We have been engrossed in our phonic sessions and they LOVE the phonic games online.

The main ones are:

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jolly+phonics+youtube&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

We recapped phase 2 and 3 and will be teaching phase 5.

We have also sent you some homework for the holidays about our key author ‘Julia Donaldson’

Any questions or if you need any more information come and ask the year 1 team 😀

Also, let’s Welcome Mrs.Hover back from her maternity leave! We are so glad you are back 😀

Strong and Powerful Classrooms

By Mrs c Hern20th July 2016

Today, Upper Juniors have been busy designing their own classrooms. We believe that it is important that all of the children take ownership over their classrooms and work in partnership with each other and the teachers.

Some fantastic suggestions were put forward by the children and they have already started to act upon these ideas. The children understand that their environment can constantly change and be adapted to the type of learning that they are experiencing. I am excited to see how their environments progress over the course of the year.

Miss Sheridan stars in a video blog for Accelerated Reader!

By admin20th July 2016

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Accelerated Reader is a tool that we invested in back in September. It assesses children’s reading skills and signposts them to read appropriately challenging books – difficult enough to keep them engaged but not so difficult that they become frustrated. We call this their ‘Zone of Proximal Development’ (ZPD). The concept of the ZPD was originally developed by Vygotsky who believed that the role of education is to give children experiences that are within their zones of proximal development, thereby encouraging and advancing their individual learning. At Brooklands Farm, a lot of our teaching practice is underpinned by Vygotsky’s theories so we were delighted when we discovered Accelerated Reader! View Miss Sheridan’s blog to find out more:

 

Click here to view Miss Sheridan’s video blog!

Police visit!

By l hearn20th July 2016

Today we had an exciting surprise visit from the police! They let us try on their uniforms and go inside the police car! They even put the sirens on and let us ‘beep’ the horn!

“I felt excited.”

“Wow! Now I want to be a police man!”

“Police cars are really cool. My favourite part was when people got put in (tried on) handcuffs!”

This was a really exciting experience and we will talk more about the police in our ‘Inspiration and Aspiration’ project!