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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
On behalf of the year 1 team we would like to warmly welcome the children, parents and carers into Year 1 😀
We have been so proud of how the children have settled last week! They have certainly started to be ‘Determined’ already!
Thank you to the families who came to the transition breakfast/teas. It was lovely to get to know you further and learn about your home values.
We are looking forward to the new week ahead, with lots of targets being met on the ‘Transition Target Cards’ and starting our ‘lanyard learning’
Thanks again for your continued support!
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
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
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
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.
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
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!
Is it fluff or hair? No it’s iron filings!
Magnets don’t need to touch to show force!
Welcome to 5a. The children have settled in really well this week. Please enjoy their Brooklands poetry.
Mr Stott 🙂
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.
