Collaborative Maths (10.5.22)🔢#️⃣

10th May 2022Simon Gerrard

What a lovely lesson of maths we had today and so many fantastic “teachers” on show! We were practicing how to find fraction of amounts. Today was trickier than yesterday because we had to follow two steps. Divide by the denominator and multiply by the numerator.

We worked together to be able to help each other get smarter! The kindness on show and willingness to help each other was amazing to see. We certainly demonstrated our HoWLs today! The little “teachers” are now making me worried for my job!

Collaborative working in MI

10th May 2022Stacey McClare

Today we continued with our history work where we researched different illnesses as mini crews. We all worked collaboratively thinking about the two rubrics we had just discussed, this made us think more about team work and listening to others. After we had gathered our information we worked together thinking about how we would present our findings to the rest of the crew. Again we thought about our rubric and how we can engage an audience. We all presented extremely well, everyone participated and everyone listened well when the other groups shared their work. Finally, we applied our knowledge to a written task, here we showed all the learning we had just done.

SATs Party Friday 13th May

10th May 2022Olivia Fox

To celebrate the hard work of our Y6’s this week, we are hosting a party on Friday. We would be grateful if children could bring a £1 contribution towards food and drinks and children can also come in non-uniform.

Thank you,

Mrs Fox and Miss McLoughlin

Expedition Learning in MI

9th May 2022Stacey McClare

Today we started to compare The Great Plague with current medicine. We took part in an active activity in mini crews where we had to read statements scattered around the room. We had to decide if the statement related to The Great Plague, modern medicine or both. We discussed our ideas in mini crews then fed back our thoughts to the crew. We used the knowledge we had already gained to support our ideas.

Crew MI 5th May

8th May 2022Emily Ibbotson

Today we had some medical training on how to become a physician from the restoration period. We learnt about the 4 humours (blood, phelgm, black bile and yellow bile) and what an apothecary would have done to cure any ailments. We used a variety of exciting ingredients (dried fox hair, fresh herbs, powdered bones and bat blood) to create our own cures to treat different diseases.

SLC success 🤩

6th May 2022Hannah McLoughlin

Our SLCs this week have been such a wonderful experience to be part of – all the children have been beaming since presenting to their parents. In crew this morning all the children that had their SLC yesterday said they felt really happy because their parents said they were proud and loved hearing about their learning 🥰 I am so proud too with how you had the confidence despite being nervous and how well you articulated yourselves. Amazing, Crew Mcloughlin!

Make sure you get a well deserved rest this weekend ready to show off your hard work for next week.

YOU CAN DO THIS ⭐️

Slavery Source Investigation (4.5.22) 🕵️🕵️‍♂️

4th May 2022Simon Gerrard

Today, LKS2 have been critiquing different historical sources from the past. The children looked at primary sources that Slave Traders used to sell and promote the sale of slaves right through to drawings of slave ships and human cargo. We also investigated a range of secondary sources, looking at artistic representations in slavery. We compared what it was like for African and Chinese slaves, discussing what was similar and different.

The insights were interesting and there was a buzz of discussions as we noticed, inferred and even wondered what was happening. This was a great lesson full of fantastic discussions about slavery through these valuable sources. This is helping us to understand Why sugar is not so sweet!

Student Led Conferences in Crew MI

3rd May 2022Stacey McClare

A massive well done to those children who took part in their SLC today. You really did showcase yourselves in the best possible light. I am so proud of how you all delivered even when you felt extremely nervous. All your hard work really did pay off! I can’t wait to listen to more tomorrow!

Y6 SATs Week w/c 9th May 2022

3rd May 2022Olivia Fox

Please see below timetable for next weeks KS2 Y6 SATs week:

If children are not attending our free breakfast club during SATs week, please can we ask that Y6 pupils are in school for 8:20am each morning to allow assessments to begin on time. Registration will be 8:25am.

Free breakfast will be held in school Monday 9th – Thursday 12th from 7:50am – 8:20am.

Assessments are as follows:

Monday 9th May – Grammar, punctuation and spelling paper

Tuesday 10th May – Reading paper

Wednesday 11th May – Arithmetic paper, Reasoning paper 1

Thursday 12th May – Reasoning paper 2