Well done to our new Brooklands boy, who has earned his Open, Grow, Believe gold pin!
You have clearly shown that you know how to open your heart, ears, eyes and mind: grow your learning, talents, skills and relationships: and believe in yourself and others!
Thank you for his parents for coming and joining us to celebrate his achievement.
We are very proud of you in 6b! Well done!
We had an excellent Online Safety session with the people from the Safety Centre yesterday!
The children talked through their use of social media and internet access both at home and at school and discussed the pros and cons of different experiences and scenarios that either they themselves or other people have faced.
We learnt that children’s brains are still developing therefore they need to protect themselves with the images, games and other materials they are seeing. We also learnt that children need to switch off their electronic games an hour before their bedtimes to ensure a quality night’s sleep! This shocked the children!
We also discussed our privacy settings on our social media, phones, the internet and games. The passwords we have were referred to as a toothbrush; it is personal to you and you wouldn’t share it with anyone!
Finally, the children learnt how to protect themselves from cyber bullying. The learnt that by keeping texts, emails and any other written content they have is an evidence trail which might be useful. We also learnt that any messages sent by any phones, emails, game consoles or social media leave a digital footprint. The children now know the saying ‘zip it, block it, flag it’ which will ensure they can keep themselves safe online.
The children have developed some next steps which they can follow up at home to make themselves safe. These are:
Children need to check their security settings on their social media or any other electronic equipment they use and make sure they are set to private which only your friends can see. Parents, please check your children’s security settings on social media if you are allowing them to be on there.
Please visit www.thinkuknow.co.uk with your child for information, games and more about the CEOP advice button- which can be used to report abuse online.
Here are some of 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.
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:
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:
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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A big congratulations to our year 6 star reader for completing the ‘Mythical Maze Summer Reading Challenge’ which was set by the library for the Summer Holidays.
She managed to read a total of 6 books in under 2 weeks!
WOW! Well done!
What a fantastic few days 6b have had back at our school!
We showed our Summer Holiday learning projects! The children really showed a fantastic understand of Philip Pullman and the journey of his life.
We then ‘ignited’ our ‘This is your Life’ Project where the children will be creating imovies using the ipads showing the journey of Philip Pullman’s life!
The children were taught the skills of drawing Polar bears….
…how to create a ‘This is your life’ movie using imovie by inserting sounds, pictures, visuals and voice overs…
…and have been learning about the structure and content of biographies ready to write their own biographies…
They will be using these skills to create a ‘This is your life’ movie on Philip Pullman!
We can’t wait to see the end result on Friday!
5 & 6 girls football – 4th
