Year 6 have had a great time in gymnastics today swinging around on some of the apparatus!
Here are our photos:
Thank you to all of the parents that made it to the curriculum tea this week. It was great to see you all there and share the children’s cooking with you. I know the children loved being able to share their baking with you, even if some did take the nicest decorated cakes from you.
This week we have been busy exploring our senses. We have taken a closer look at our own eyes and tried to draw them in detail, matched a variety of smells to their picture cards, measured our hands, felt a range of materials and explored our taste buds!
Many thanks to all of our parents that came to share how we learn at Brooklands Farm. It’s wonderful to know how involved you all are in your child’s learning and I feel privileged to be working with you in partnership to achieve this goal. The children had a great time catering for you all and we hope you enjoyed the sandwiches and cakes!
Thank you to all the parents who attended our 6b curriculum tea or joined a different class for the curriculum teas this week. It was great to share our knowledge with you and to continue to build a partnership between the school, children and parents.
Please make sure you look through the curriculum tea pack and the other resources available to you on the website and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in contact.
We look forward to reading your comments on our posts soon!
Year 6 had an inspirational and exciting trip where they went to visit ‘Station X’, now a museum, at the famous Bletchley Park (home of the World War Two Code Breakers).
The children had a tour of the museum and were able to see ‘The Bombe’, the machine which contributed to deciphering German codes sent by the Enigma machine, in full action as well as seeing all the other parts of the museum.
Children also had the amazing opportunity of having specialists from Bletchley Park talk to them about toys and the development and change of toys through World War Two, the development and change of communication, where we even got to communicate, using radio signals, to Russia, Austria and Spain! Finally, the children learnt how to be agents and learnt how to crack different types of codes. The children were exceptionally fortunate to have a go at sending and deciphering codes on the famous German code making machine ‘The Engima’.
We had a brilliant day! Here are some of our photos:
4a have spent some time in the last two weeks in amazing learning zones but also learning together to grow their understanding. The more growth we can achieve together will move us toward achieving our goals.
In Year 2 we are learning about the heroic historical figure, Grace Darling, who rescued survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838. In order to understand how modern water safety has improved, we had a visitor from RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution). We learnt all about the lifeboats and the special clothing that these voluntary lifesavers have to wear. We even got to try on some life jackets ourselves!
To celebrate excellently presented, acutely written and inspirational imaginative homework and enjoyment of reading in 6b, we are launching the weekly homework and reading award.
Children will be able to win awards, prizes or opportunities for the completing homework to an excellent standard.
Each week one or two children’s homework will be picked to win the homework award. This piece of homework will be photographed and shown on the website for all to see. Once the children have won 10 homework awards, they will be rewarded with a special lunch, prize or opportunity of some sort!
For the reading award, once a child has read and changed one of the school’s reading scheme books (which has been read out loud to an adult), the children will receive a reading award. Once they have read 10 books, the children will receive a special lunch, prize or opportunity.
Here are the first 3 week homework awards:
Frederik’s Philip Pullman timeline of his life
Cameron’s news paper report on Alan Turing
Joe’s Inspirational role mode poster.
Keep viewing the website to find out who’s homework is next!
Congratulations to: Jack, Breanna, Asher, Wojtus and Philippe who have all been awarded their Open Grow Believe pins this week. Thank you to their families who came to celebrate their achievements, we look forward to welcoming you back when the children have earned their Determined pins!
