It was great to welcome so many families into school on Thursday for the first of our open classrooms. Learning has been focussed on reflecting to enable pupils to understand what they are learning and why. Using clear success criteria the pupils are reflecting on what has made their learning successful and what they need to do to take their learning further.
This week we welcomed Rabbi Aaron into school to share details about he and other members of the Jewish community celebrated Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year. He shared songs on his guitar, taught us actions and words and played the Shofar. The shofar is a rams horn which is blown to make a loud sound.
We look forward to welcoming more members of our Jewish and other faith communities into school over the year.
Happy Rosh Hashanah to all members of the Jewish Community.
To tie in with our topic, years three and four visited Kew Gardens this week to get as close to a rainforest as we’re likely to get without leaving the country! we felt how the air changed as we moved from the outdoors into the humid environment of the Palm House. We compared air and soil temperature, and measured the humidity and light. Some of us even met a Water Dragon!
We also had time to do a tree-top walk (where we got an excellent view of some parakeets that have made Kew their home) and some of us experienced the hypnotic thrum of ‘The Hive’.
What a fantastic day of learning.
Year 4 will be using a variety of different ways to investigate place value this week. We’ll be using this website.
Let me know what you think. Is it useful? Did it help you? How?
I stumbled upon these amazing photos on the BBC website, and had to share with you; they stopped me in my tracks and lots of questions popped into my head. What questions pop into your head when you look at these images?
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Amazing competition photos – CBBC Newsround
This year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition attracted over 45,000 entries from professionals and amateurs across 95 countries. The exhibition goes on display on 19 October at the Natural History Museum in London.
Year 3 are already taking on learning challenges in Literacy.
Today, we ordered sentences linked to our new topic, Rainforests. As a team, we had to work out the different word types, match appropriate vocabulary, create our own word actions and add our own sentence ideas.
Come and ask us about our favourite sentence ideas!
Today in assembly we arranged letters to discover the attribute word is reflect.
Everyone in school has been challenged to think how we can describe and explain reflect. Using pictures the children are starting to PAUSE and think of other words and phrases associated. How would you describe reflection? Have a discussion at home and add your ideas to the blog.
Learners in Year 1 have been exploring the wonderful new resources that have been delivered over the holidays.Yesterday we unpacked the suitcases of items we had brought with us from Reception class. Since then we have been writing, counting, taking part in performances, going on picnics, building towers, measuring, playing musical instruments and much more as well. It is wonderful to see the learning getting off to a flying start!
Today it was a privilege to spend time in classes and join in the learning. The highlights included :
If you have any personal or professional skills that are linked to our topics please come and speak to us. We always welcome talks, workshops and sharing of artefacts. This term we are learning about World Wars, The Rainforest and Plants.
Welcome back to school. Today in assembly, I shared a beautiful book with the children of a collection of untranslatable words from around the world. What a wonderful word by Nicola Edwards and Luisa Uribe
Gokotta – Swedish – to wake up early in the morning so you can go outside to hear the first birds singing
Poronkusema – Finnish – the distance a reindeer can walk before needing the toilet
Nakama – Japanese – friends who are like family
I then explained to the children that there is a special word for us here at school this term. The problem was they were only given one of the letters in assembly. Over the course of the day different classes have been given a different extra letter. Can you work out the word?
