Celebrating Success! 🥇🎉👏🏆

29th June 2023Sophie Elmer

This week in LKS2 we had lots of successes to celebrate in our LKS2 Community Meeting! We had three pupils who all achieved Learning Legend this week for being super mathematicians and blowing us all away with their recent arithmetic test scores!

We also celebrated all of those pupils who have been reading at home the most in each Crew, it was AMAZING to see so many pupils in Crew Thompson that had read 5 times in a week! I wonder if some others might be able to do this next week and if we can have more pupils to celebrate?! 📚

In addition to those pupils who read at home regularly we also chose a ‘Star Reader’ from each crew! This week the reasons were for, making great progress in reading fluency, participating lots during reading sessions and for excellent comprehension skills during assessment week. These pupils also got to have a special breakfast with Mrs Atherton today! I wonder who our ‘Star Readers’ will be next week?

Finally, we celebrated some extra special achievements. These boys have been working incredibly hard out of school! One for participating in a football tournament and the other for writing his own story linked to our Expeditionary learning! Fab work boys! Well done! 👏

Design an alien 👽

29th June 2023Nicola Robson

In our book The Man on the Moon Bob thinks there’s no such thing as aliens, but we know different! Here is what we think they might look like! I can’t wait to read your character descriptions!

Old clothes – final product

29th June 2023Ruth Shields

On Monday, the children will be recorded reading their poems for the final product. Some have requested that they do a voiceover but some would like to be in the video dressed as a miner.

For these children we have suggested they bring an old white or dark plain T-shirt or shirt (even if it’s from an older sibling/parent) that you wouldn’t mind us putting a few rips in and rubbing coal over it. We’d like to give the video an authentic look. They could also wear a dark coloured waistcoat and a flat cap if they can get access to them.
Children would need to bring these into school on Monday morning.

We’re looking forward to sharing the final product when it’s complete.
Thank you

Swimming – Year 5

29th June 2023Ruth Shields

Just a reminder that tomorrow and next Friday, children will need to bring shorts and T-shirt in addition to their normal swimming stuff. The shorts and T-shirt will be getting wet so it’s essential they have dry clothes.

I would suggest wearing the shorts and T-shirt over their swimming costumes and bringing their Pe kit in their bags to change into after swimming.
Thank you

What is a flood? 💧

29th June 2023Kate Thompson

Today in our expedition lesson, we discussed what a flood is and explained why floods happen. A flood is a type of extreme weather. Flooding happens when there is heavy rainfall in a short amount of time. We identified the human and physical factors that cause floods such as deforestation, using concrete to build and steep slopes. We created a poster that informed us on what a flood is and the different causes of flooding. 🌧 💧

Poetry

29th June 2023Ruth Shields

Today, Crew Shields have been practicing reading their poems aloud in preparation for them being recorded on a Monday. We have each other critique and explained the importance of speaking in a clear voice, at a reasonable pace and adding some expression in. We’ll have more time to practice to each other and in front of the class so when Monday comes, we’ll be ready to smash it.