This morning Nursery were challenged to operate the Bee Bot machines. Through carefully questioning from Year 5 the children experimented with different controls and watched to see what happened!
Nursery explained to how the Bee Bots move;
“press the buttons”
“press GO!”
“make the wheels move”
Many thanks to your 5 for your support. Year 5 what surprised you this morning? What challenged you? Why?
How could we challenge Nursery next?
On Friday, we said farewell to Mr Cook after 10 years service at our school. As was evident in assembly, we will all miss him very much (and i’m sure he’ll miss us too).
Mr Cook, in his own inimitable way, inspired and supported children and adults alike – sure, we’re gutted that he’s left, but I think we’re all better people for knowing, working with, and learning with him.
The great news is that he’s not going far away – and we wish him all the best in his new role at the Reach Free School.
Mr Cook wasn’t sure whether he’d have time to post anything on the blog (he’s at PGL this week), so asked me to say a HUGE thank you on his behalf, to everyone, for his leaving gifts.
Au Revoir, Mr Cook! (more…)
Y5 were introduced to the ‘Rounding Rap’ today. The first version is most useful, from a learning point of view…
…but, you all enjoyed this version too – good for a laugh, and for the actions!
Is this an effective way of learning, year 5? maybe we should write our own rap to help us remember other rules?
We’ve just had a quick discussion about forces. What questions do you have? What do you know? What might you need to find out?
Warning. The images below are of a very upsetting nature. They show disturbing scenes of ‘neglect and abandonment’ (Year 5’s words). Anyone offended by what they see should go immediately to a member of year 5 and demand to know what can be done to stop harrowing images like this appearing in our school. Click ‘Read More’, if you dare… (more…)
Y5 have shown a huge amount of focus this week as they prepared to read their ‘Tinga Tinga Tales’ stories to Y1. Year 5 – you have achieved a huge amount over the last 8 days. You have:
Year 1, you were superb and tried really hard to listen to the stories and answer the questions put to you by year 5. Well done you! Did you enjoy year 5 visiting your class? How did you feel about answering all their questions?
Year 5 – how do you feel now we have completed our mini-project? What challenged you the most?
Well done to everyone for keeping a PMA with their daily run. I’ll be honest, I found it really hard work at first but now i’m finding it much easier. Mr Cook and Ms Short have been telling the people at ‘Marathon Kids’ all about it and it’s fair to say that they are very impressed! They wrote about us in their newsletter, which you can view here.
What’s your experience of our daily run? Do you feel fitter? Do you think it might be helping you in the classroom too?
Year 5 had a choice of home learning this Easter holidays. The range of learning is fantastic; many of you really took your time over it and found inventive ways to to present what you learnt. We’ll be using elements over the Summer Term.
Year 5, when we shared our learning earlier today, what did you particularly enjoy?
We have had two library sessions reading Manatee Baby by Nicola Davies. What do you think so far? How do you think Manuela is feeling about what she is going to do next?
Year 5 thought about the range of emotions they experience at school and how to/how not to react to them. I can identify with most of them and loved the empathy demonstrated. Some comments, however, actually made me feel quite sad; they were more negative than I thought they would be.
I really value the honesty shown in some of these thoughts – We can all learn from them.
(We made these using the ‘Explain Everything’ app on the iPads.)
