Year 5 were extremely lucky to be able to spend the afternoon with the artist Walter Jack. The children were given the opportunity to share their creative ideas and design different structures.
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.
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!
This afternoon the children in Year 4 put on their baking hats in preparation for the curriculum teas on Monday and Tuesday. We’ve made some delicious cakes to share with you!
Over the past two weeks we have been growing our knowledge of addition and subtraction methods. This will be put into practice further next week when we look at measurements.
In Literacy, we have been learning to write a persuasive text…can you practice your persuasive skills on your parents over the weekend?
We are looking forward to inviting you all into our classes for the curriculum teas next week!
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Roberts and Mr Mortimer
Yesterday, the digital literacy leaders had their first session teaching the staff of Brooklands Farm.
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We set up the classroom into three stations and had set programs, websites and apps to discuss. The staff looked like they had a fantastic time and enjoyed sharing new ideas with each other. They especially liked the look of Padlet and augmented apps.
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We can’t wait to see some of these new ideas being used in the classroom.
The digital literacy leaders, were very confident and showed that they had a good understanding! Well done!
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Our next step is to teach a class how to code!
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The children in Foundation have been very enthusiastic with our new core book ‘Funny Bones’.
We have started our project off by creating our own skeleton pictures and “dark, dark houses”.
This week we are learning all about our core book ‘Funny Bones’. To ignite our project we were very excited to have a visit from a paramedic.
We learnt all about what a paramedic does, what you would find in an ambulance and what to do if you had a cut on your arm. We had great fun bandaging up each other!
