Angles, Comics and Kites

Whether it's repeated addition or reproduction, we are all about multiplying this week.

Happy New Year!

Well we have been working hard!

Not only have we been ensuring that our play, Aladdin Trouble, is top notch, we have been working hard in English to finish writing our suspense pieces (using action and description) based on Kensuke's Kingdom. I have been so impressed by the language and vocabulary that has come through this unit and is clear in your writing - well done! We are now writing poetry that uses imagery (metaphors) and will be writing our own using Microsoft Excel (you'll have to wait and see why!) to write our own poem based on Brain Moses' 'If I were a shape...'

We had a visit from Mrs Hirst, the Year 7 Transition lead and Science Teacher at Lynne Grove, and some Year 7 and 8 pupils who lead a Science workshop this morning. She was so amazed at the  children's knowledge, predictions and explanations and could tell that we are great scientists already! We were all blown away by the three experiments she showed us and the children were a credit to the school.

In Maths, we have been decimal-focused and will be starting a new unit of Geometry next week. We realised that decimals were not as scary as we thought as we can add and subtract them and multiply and divide them by powers of 10 in the same way we would whole numbers.

As World Cup fever has started, we were lucky enough to play in a class 'Inflatable Football World Cup' tournament. It was a great experience for all and you can read our very own sports journalist's report of the whole tournament below! Well done Mark - I think there's a career ahead of you here! Thank you all for your fabulous posters designed as homework to give lots of information about the World Cup countries - you've done some great research and presented it nicely.

We are also coming to the end of our Play Leader Training with Coach Mark. The children have been developing skills to enable them to lead games with children in a fair, inclusive and fun way. Keep up the great work!

Keep up the Super Reading and determination to do your best!

Miss Everett

Well another term is over and what a busy time we've had these last few weeks!

Today we delivered our Easter cards to local residents and I was very pleased to hear that the office had recieved a call from someone who was so delighted to have received a card from us and had said that it had made her day! (Look guys- indirect/reported speech!) Well done!

I think the highlight has to be our trip to West Stow last week. The children were so amazed to see all the Anglo-Saxon artefacts in the museum as well as the recreated houses that the Anglo-Saxons would have lived in. They started the week with lots of questions about the Anglo-Saxons and they now know most of the answers thanks to this rich resource! We even had time at the end of the day to follow the Beowulf and Grendel trail around the grounds to find beautiful hand-carved statues and figures relating to the Beowulf story. Keep an eye out in the Photo Gallery for pictures from our trip.

We were pleased to welcome Mr Bartram (a parent) to school on Monday who came and spoke to us about what it is like to work for a newspaper. We found out lots about what it is like to work for the Great Yarmouth Mercury and were also inspired by the fact that journalists can write about anything that interests them! I'll definitely be looking out for all you future sports reporters, fashion column writers and book or film reviewers!

This visit was inspired by our current English topic of newspaper writing based around the picture book 'Tuesday' by David Wiesner. The children have thoroughly enjoyed 'reading' the book to find all the clues that can help us to interview witnesses and write a factual report about what exactly happened that Tuesday night... Watch this space!

In Gymnastics, we have been learning to (or improving) our cartwheels, as well as putting a sequence of moves together. The children have made great improvements in this and have four more sessions with Mr Carr to look forward to after Easter.

In Maths, we have been filling our minds with all things fractions-realted: from finding equivalent fractions, adding them, subtracting them, turning improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice-versa, we still have more to do! 

Thank you for embracing the new Homework challenges and for those of you who have ensured you have handed in your work on time. I hope it has been benficial to parents to see what we have been up to as well as helping the children to consolidate what we have been doing in school. I have set a few spag.com challenges for the children to complete over Easter, so please give these a go!

Most imporantly, I hope you all have a wonderful Easter and make sure you get lots of rest so that you can come back more bright-eyed and bushy-tailed than the Easter bunny, ready for the Summer term!

Miss Everett

This week’s blog was co-written by Jake, Callum and Mark with Miss Everett.

Throughout the week, we have been very busy writing in different genres about different countries. We visited Australia, Tanzania, Argentina, Italy, Canada and China and needed passports to travel around the world! We really enjoyed tasting Australian fruit (pineapple, passion fruit, lychees, mango and papaya), watching Vesuvius erupt in Year 4's classroom, watching the beautiful Northern Lights in Canada and experiencing the Chinese New Year Festival, as well as learning about mouth-watering, scrumptious barbeques in Argentina and loved the 'Jumping Dance' in Tanzania. 

On Wednesday, we saw volcanoes erupt, mesmerising lava lamps, friction in action, floating paperclips and skewered bags of water that weren't leaking! We all explained how our experiments worked clearly and enjoyed seeing experiments from around the school too! Unfortunately there could only be 3 winners, so well done to Maisy, Jake and Evie who were awarded rosettes for their fantastic efforts. I must say, I was impressed by everyone!

Today we sung our hearts out in the House Shout competition. We loved taking part and watching each other sing and dance as a great way to end the half-term. 

All in all, we had a fantastic week and are looking forward to coming back after half-term for other exciting learning opportunities. The secret word is PyeongChang. I’d like to thank all the children for their hard work this half-term and for winning the attendance award for the second half-term in a row! Don’t forget we are swimming on the first Monday back (19th Feb) and keep reading! 

Have a relaxing half-term!