Welcome to 5a. The children have settled in really well this week. Please enjoy their Brooklands poetry.
Mr Stott 🙂
In year 2 we have been inspired by Roal Dahl this week as we move from being Determined to Calm. We are proud of the way we have transitioned this week and are very excited about what we are going to achieve together in Year 2! This week we have been reading and exploring some of Roald Dahl amazing books and revolting rhymes. It has been amazing to see lots of the children reading this week! This weekend the homework challenge is to see if you can read any Roald Dahl which can even be found online.
Keep learning Year 2
Mr Morrison and Miss Holloway
This week all the classes on Countess way were taking part in a reading competition to see how many minutes they could read to contribute to a regional challenge which was to see if the region could read up to a million minutes. The competition allowed classes to publish minutes onto a live leader board and track progress across the 7-day challenge. This was a fantastic scheme and the region actually managed a total of nearly 5 and a half million minutes which is an incredible amount!
Firstly I have to say that we have really enjoyed this reading challenge and as a teacher I am competitive by nature and I also saw this as an opportunity to challenge 2D class. in the class there are 5 or 6 who find it hard to be motivated by reading but who are very competitive like myself. One Million Minutes really appealed to them with one child’s mum telling me that one night he read 207 minutes and he never reads normally! The class have been reading incredibly hard and we have centered all of our lessons over the past week around reading with various reading challenges, quiet reading, guided reading and book review type activities. At Brooklands we have a five for reading ethos and everything we teach is reading based from literacy, reading and project and where possible our maths too! We were also competing with Year 3/4 class who pushed us hard and we could hear cheering every time they overtook us on the leaderboard. This really was a brilliant scheme and one that we would consider more frequently in the future! The prize was just the extra incentive we needed! We are so thrilled to have won and because we are a new school and some of our reading pods are growing as we do as a school, they are needing filling and the children of lower KS2, as they will be from Monday, who worked hard on this challenge will get the chance to make their mark on the school for many years to come because of their hard work!
Very well done Year 2 I am a very proud teacher!
Mr Morrison
A very talented young girl in 4b has written a song all about reading and how important it is to read! Joined by some of her friends in the class, they sang the song in Lower Key Stage 2’s celebration assembly this week. We are all very proud of her and the girls for singing this song and wanted to share this with you all!
Congratulations to our first children to be recognised for demonstrating our Brooklands British values in an exemplary way. Normally there will be one ‘King’ and one ‘Queen’ but we just couldn’t choose between these two kings!
Miss McDonald is busy making very fancy sashes fit for royalty. They will be ready for next week’s King and Queen to wear with pride!
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Homophones and other words that are often confused. You may be able to spell some of these words easily so the challenge is to think about the words that your spellings may be confused with. E.g. aloud (saying something out loud) whereas the word it may be confused with is allowed (permitted).
proceed
principal
prophet
stationary
steal
weary
who’s
descent
complement
advice
As year 5 draws to an end create a poster to reflect on your time in year 5 or what you are looking forward to in year 6.
Things to consider:
Year 5
- What have you enjoyed doing in year 5?
- What are your greatest achievements?
- How have you been an individual?
Year 6
- What are you looking forward to in year 6?
- How do you think you will be strong and powerful?
- What do you think your new teacher should know about you?
This week Countess Way has joined a national challenge which is challenging school regions across the country to take up a ‘One Million Minutes’ challenge. This challenge is trying to encourage a collective of one million minutes of reading from all children taking part. After day 1 Mr Gray’s Year 3/4 are on top but Year 2D are on the hunt in 5th place!
The challenge is very simple. We have one week for our class to read as many minutes as possible!
All reading counts – whether at home, on their own, with an adult or in school.
All you need to do is:
- Encourage your children to read every day for the one week challenge
- Ask them to collate their totals at the end of each day (they can use their special bookmarks)
- We’ll then add them up and record the class total every day on the central website
Bring on the challenge Mr Gray and year 3/4! 2D are reading hard!
Today we have begun to create and communicate our learning about dinosaurs, famous fossil hunters such as Mary Anning and we have used our text of Katie and the Dinosaurs. We are looking forward to showcasing this knowledge to others in a Museum we have created!
Way back in March we organised a charity event for staff, in aid of Cancer Research. One of our parents, Roopa Chudasama, kindly organised for some members of the Clinique team at Debenhams to come and pamper us for an evening! It was a lovely opportunity for us to spend some time relaxing, as there’s normally no time for that in a busy place like a school! But more importantly, we were able to raise money for a charity very close to my heart. Many of our lives have been touched by cancer and we would like to thank Roopa and the Clinique team for helping us raise money for such a worthwhile cause.
Thank you to the families who joined in with our sports activities after school today! We had a great time challenging each other to see who could do the most keepy-uppies, or who could keep a rally going the longest. The number to beat for tennis ball bounces on a racket was 98! What a record, Anghad!
We have only raised a small amount so far, but hopefully this is the start of a much bigger amount which we can donate to such a worthwhile charity.
Watch this space for more photos of our fundraising activities which will take place this week and next. We look forward to seeing how much we can raise in total!
