Year 6 Residential Success

By Mrs c Hern10th July 2016

Thank you to all of the Year 6 children who took part in the Caldecotte Xperience residential. I was lucky enough to spend the day with the children on Friday. This was the perfect opportunity to get to know the children and see how they manage new challenges. I have to say I was amazed by the growth mindset of the children.
A number of children, who could not swim, jumped into the lake and were coached by their peers on how to stay calm and get out of the water safely. The expression on their faces when they had achieved their goals was a sight that I will cherish. These inspirational children stole my heart!
After only a week of transition, these individuals are truly ready to continue their journeys into Year 6 and become strong and powerful learners.

I’m looking forward to the year ahead!

Mrs Hern
Head of Upper Key Stage 2

First Golden Tea in Lower Key Stage 2!

By S Marriott10th July 2016

Miss Courtney and Miss Marriott held the first Golden Tea in Year 3 and Year 4!

It was a pleasure to share an ice-cream with a select number of children that have been role models this first week.

Each class teacher chose 2 children that had consistently shown well above expected behaviour at all times! These were the children that always follow instructions and alway make the right choices.

Thank you 🙂

I wonder who will be chosen next week…?

From Miss Marriott and Miss Courtney

Head of Year 3 and Head of Year 4

A message from Year 3!

By S Marriott10th July 2016

It has been absolutely amazing watching how settled Year 3 are! The children should be so proud of how they have managed the change so far! All children are confidently coming in independently every morning and it has been lovely to see the encouragement from parents for the children to do this!
It is a pleasure to watch them work in Year 3 and I can’t wait to see how this develops over the next few weeks!

From Miss Marriott

Head of Year

Determined Start

8th July 2016

Wow! What can we say? Miss White’s class have had a super start in Year 1! Both Miss White and Miss Tate have been very impressed with the children’s Determination to Open,Grow and Believe with everyone in their new class!

In Literacy we have been focusing on ‘What makes a Brooklands learner’ The children have had lots of fun learning the actions to their text map and have even started to write the text map into their books.

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Miss Tate love’s a good sing song and has been teaching the children songs about capital letter’s, finger spaces and full stops. The children have even learnt a new song in maths all about number bonds! Perhaps you could practise these at home?

Today we started our project Inspiration and Aspiration and have begun by collecting knowledge about inspirational people who help us… next week we will be looking at inspirational writers,sportsman,mathmaticians and scientists!

 

Thank you to all the parents who came to Transition tea. It was great to meet you all and begin to connect as a community. We hope you have enjoyed the first week of Transiton as much as we did!

 

Miss Tate & Miss White

 

 

Keep Learning: Year 3D

By D Gray8th July 2016

This week year 3D have shown some amazing settling in skills. I’ve been so impressed with the way that they have transitioned up into KS2 with such maturity.

We’ve been using our 5 for change to help support us. One of the 5 is to keep learning and we’ve certainly been doing a lot of that. In particular, we’ve been investigate magnets and the way they interact with materials and other magnets. The children came up with some fantastic questions and some very scientific explanations!

 

New Year 2’s!!

By l hearn8th July 2016

Thank you to those of you who came to Transition Teas. It was lovely to meet you all and hope that you found these useful.

The new Year 2’s have settled really well into their new classes. We have shown ‘calm’ already by understanding learning zone 4 and 5. We have been building lots of new relationships and are learning how to be a Year 2 learner.

This week we have been inspired by Roald Dahl stories and poems. We even tried writing our own! In maths we have been showing our teachers our place value knowledge and what apparatus we used in Year 1 to add.

There is no home learning this week although we would like you to read with your children at least 4 times a week and please ask them about their first week in Year 2!

 

Please ensure that PE kits and reading books are in school all week.

Year 6 Board game project

By Miss C Townrow8th July 2016

Our new year 6’s who have stayed at Brooklands Farm this week, have been busy creating a team through their board game project.

 

In teams they have:

  • researched games
  • planned and designed their own game including – type of game, style, price, audience and number of players.
  • made their games
  • peer evaluated their games and suggested improvements.
  • produced and advert for their games.

Inspired by Roald Dahl

By admin8th July 2016

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

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