We’ve had an amazing few weeks in Year 6. We’ve been lucky enough to spend time with the wheelchair basketball team and Kate Grey!
Have an amazing Summer holiday! Be safe, we will see you all in September.
Miss Bold and Miss Sheridan 🙂
Please find the Year 2 holiday homework here:
Task 1: Key Author homework Year 2 2016
Please complete both tasks by Wednesday 7th September.
Have a wonderful summer everyone!
Please find the Year 1 holiday homework here:
Have a wonderful summer!
I am really pleased with the positivity of my class so far. Enjoy the below performance.
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.
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:
As you can see, the new Year 5s have been busy practicing this wonderful song, written by Alyssa. They have shown real determination and commitment to learning to the words off by heart. Well done girls!
One of our Year 2s came in wearing the perfect T shirt for our current project ‘Inspiration and Aspiration’ for non-uniform day today! It sparked off lots of interesting discussions about what the children could become they grow up. It was wonderful to hear children already setting goals for their future.
Here are the reading monitors from Year 3 and 4 (now Year 5 and 6!) celebrating their rewards for being such amazing reading monitors this year. They really did transform the Year 3/4 library and modelled excellent attitudes towards the books and resources in our school.
Well done everyone and good luck with your applications for your new leadership posts!
It has been great to see how settled and focused Year 4 have been straight away during transition. They have shown how balanced they are and already look focused and determined to achieve, with many children getting lots of targets achieved on their transition cards.
It has been a pleasure to teach in Year 4 so far and I can’t wait to continue our learning journey together!
Mr Kerin
