Good afternoon,
We have poetry, mathematics, careers, care for our world, science and two little lambs called Sniffy and Snowflake that I must tell you all about this week! Starting with a humongous thank you to our lovely friends school wide who came in during Careers day! We saw beekeepers, photography, textiles, engineers and specialists from BAE! Children saw swimming instructors, safety officers, specialist blind teacher, gardeners and farmers! A fairly diverse set I think you all agree. All visitors were friendly, interactive and wonderful. However, we did get to spend some special time with a professional Gardner (Mr Pattern) where we tended to the beds at the front of school and farming royalty Mr and Mrs Eccles! Where we saw a calf and lambs. It was a magical experience for all the children involved and I know we would like to express our gratitude with a heartfelt thank you! This week our writing was fueled by dinosaurs! We labelled key features of a dinosaurs, used adjectives in our sentences to develop upon simple labelling, creating a fact file of our favourite dinosaur/s electronically and then made a poem inspired by ‘Dinosaur Roar! By Henrietta Stickland and Paul Stickland. Children used their great phonics knowledge to write their prompt and then we preformed it to our year 5 and 6 friends. Stay tuned as I will try and upload the video onto Seesaw or the school website. Children in our science and R.E have explored how we can care for God’s world and do little things that we all can do to make a difference. Such as turn taps off when brushing teeth, do not be wasteful with paper, turn lights and devices off when we are using them and walk to places when we can. Little things we can all do that helps our world be the incredible place we all know it to be. Children have been planting not just in the school beds, but outside in the Land of Imagination and in the classroom. Caring for plants and our beautiful world. We even made some observations about seeds and made comparative links using our observational skills. In our UTW we explore city and countryside environments and used our knowledge and understanding of the world to think what would go where and importantly why. For our mathematics children created number lines and ordered sets of number from smallest to biggest and back again. With missing sets, jumbled orders and entirely blank ones! Some children were even presented with a range of numbers and a number line, trying to place them accurately on a blank number line using their understanding of number to think where they would accurately go. Incredible stuff for incredible people. Thank you as always for a wonderful week! I hope you all have a lovely weekend together and see you all Monday!
With love,
Mr McGill
