Year 4 – A Roman Experience

By f gilders14th October 2016

Year 4 have had a busy week this week as we begin our new project – The Romans! It was great to see everyone dressed up and in character for our Roman Ignite.

We created Roman helmets and laurel wreaths which we bought with the Roman money we created. We also made some extremely tasty Roman pizza with feta cheese, honey and oil on top – yum! We had some grape juice which we crushed with our hands (which got a little messy). In the afternoon, we visited a Roman Forum to buy our goods and we were drilled outside by General Kerinus as Roman soldiers!

In Literacy, we continued with our Invent character descriptions. We are almost ready for our Hot Task next week and are looking forward to seeing the improvements in our writing following the last teaching sequence!

Now we have all become more confident with addition and subtraction, we are ready to move on to multiplication and division. Can you think of any way you might use multiplication over the weekend?

Our homework this week includes spellings and a diary entry or recount of the ignite day.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Bliss, Miss Cooper, Miss Courtney, Mr Kerin & Miss Gilders

 

 

Year 5 Titanic Ignite Day

By S Forbes14th October 2016

Year 5 have had a brilliant day igniting their Titanic Project. Each class were able to explore items that were actually on the Titanic! The children were also really excited to be able to try on a life jacket from the actual Titanic film! Alongside this, the children were fantastic at debating who was really to blame for the sinking of the Titanic. They used drama, multimedia and posters to present their argument. Well done Year 5 for all your hard work. We are really looking forward to continuing our project next week! Have a great weekend!

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Year 1 detectives solve a mystery!

By 9th October 2016

On Friday when we returned from lunch Miss Draper’s chair had disappeared! All that was left were a few dusty hand and foot prints. We set about trying to solve the mystery and luckily for us some detectives came in to help us. They shared with us what they look at to solve mysteries. We learnt that we would need to look at hair and eye colour, height, hand and foot prints. To help us, we also made some magnifying glasses so we could look at clues up close. During the afternoon, the detectives sent through some additional clues. We now had a list of four possible people responsible. Looking carefully, we were able to identify a couple of the eyes and hair styles. By the end of the day we had discovered where Miss Draper’s chair had disappeared too!

Perhaps you can share your findings with your parents!

Year 4 Ignite

By 7th October 2016
The Year 4 Roman ignite days at Countess Way are next week!
Teachers have had lots of fun planning the Ignite days today and are very excited about sharing the day with the children.
We have decided to make some Roman style pizzas – please check the ingredients list and let us know if your child CANNOT eat or touch any of these due to allergies.
Remember to dress up as a Roman or wear some Roman accessories for the day too!
Miss Bliss and Mr Kerin’s classes are Tuesday and Miss Gilders and Miss Cooper’s classes are Wednesday.
Please arrive at Countess Way for 8.20am. Please pick up from Countess way at 3.15pm.
If your child attends breakfast club, they can have this at Countess Way. If they attend after school club, they will be walked back to fen Street for 3.30 with a group of teachers.
Have a nice weekend and we will see you next week.

Birthday food!

By 7th October 2016

Just a quick reminder that if your child has a birthday and would like to bring any food in to share with the class, please can it be brought in with the original packaging, which clearly states the ingredients. Also, due to allergies in the school, please do not bring anything in that contains nuts.

 

Thank you

A mystery in Year 1

By c pinder7th October 2016

Today Year 1 had a surprise visit as part of their ignite for their ‘All About Me’ project. When the children came back from their lunch, they noticed that all of the teacher chairs had gone missing! We asked PC Ellmer and PC Dabnor to come in and talk to us about how they solve problems at a police station and used that to help us do some detective work! Throughout the afternoon, we found random clues which lead us to eventually solving our mystery of the missing chairs – Can your child remember who had borrowed our chairs and why?

 

Well done Year 1 for a fantastic day full of high learning zones!

Here are 1b showing off or engaging in their learning.

History at Countess Way

By admin7th October 2016

It was a very proud day at Countess Way on Thursday the 6th of October as four teams came to play in a football tournament organised by Mr Spence.  It was history in the making for more than one reason as for the first time the grass field at Countess Way was being used for a sporting event. Secondly it was the first time that Countess Way had ever had a team in a competition. Although the results didn’t go the way of the home side, it was a momentous occasion and even more so in the last match. It was the big ‘derby’ when the clash of Countess Way v Fen Street came together.

We are incredibly proud of the year 3 and 4 children who played with an open mindset to something new, who grew their understanding of what it means to play in a team together and they had to have plenty of belief in themselves and their team-mates to believe they could achieve!

Below is a photo of the history makers and the two Brooklands teams!

Well done!

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Building site trips

By 30th September 2016

This week, a selection of children from Year 1 to Year 6 have visited a Willmott Dixon building site to learn about safety and make links with their ‘Worlds Largest Lesson’ whole school project.

Willmott Dixon were the building company who built Countess way so it was nice for the children to meet them again and chat about how their school was built.

Whilst on the trip, the children learnt about the importance of safety and the dangers of being on a building site when you haven’t had permission to be there – this is exceptionally important for us at the moment, with there being so many building sites around our two school sites.

The trip also linked to the children’s learning in school –

Year 1 and 2 looked at plans of the building site and thought about where the best locations would be for plants and veg gardens.

Year 3 and 4 talked about the importance of creating a detailed design before actually going ahead and building. They also talked about the need for the work to be redrafted and checked to ensure it had been carried out to a high standard.

Year 5 and 6 looked at plans of the site and the local area and thought about the safest walking and cycling routes around the area.

We would like to thank Willmott Dixon for the effort they put in to making our trips very successful and we look forward to re visiting the site in a few months to see how it has changed over time.

Willmott Dixon said they were very impressed with the fantastic questions that the children asked whilst they were visiting the site. They even offered one of our Year 4’s a job in the future!!!