It’s that time again . . . . the highlight of my week . . . tea with Mrs T. This week another eight learners came to share their learning and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate. We had a great time sharing learning and recognising that much of what makes learning successful is the same whichever class you are in.
Congratulations to Kieran, Evie, Flo, Aditi, Toby, Finn, Jayan and Harley.
This morning, members of school parliament and their teams went into classes to introduce themselves and share the Maple Cross goal – To improve our school and local environment. This is an extremely big challenge, so school parliament have decided to carry out set projects in classes and this morning they began listening to ideas of classes, as well as sharing some ideas they had thought about.
We are looking forward to hearing about the class projects in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, if you have any more ideas let your MP know or make a comment on the blog!
The highlight of my week is ‘tea with Mrs T’. Every Friday, children from each class come and share their learning over a cup of hot chocolate. It is so wonderful to hear the children discuss and explain their learning and recognise the impact it has had on them as a learner.
This week the children shared . . . . .
Congratulations to Szymon, Ellie-Mae, Hadley, Liam, Carter, Emma, Emily and Matthew.
Hi Maple Cross,
As promised, here is the song we’ve been learning in assembly. Please ask your parents permission first, as it’s on youtube.
To support our Literacy writing, Year 6 explored what it would be like to not have the sense of sight, like the main character in our text, The Silver Donkey. The children relied on their other senses to imagine what it would be like for the soldier who was in the woods and they are going to use there ideas to support their writing of the soldiers journey.
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.
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.
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?
