Class 4 had a great time making the firework pictures. We then came up with some fantastic adjectives to describe fireworks and learnt about some safety rules around fireworks.
Celebrating Bonfire night
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A book look with a difference . . .
Miss Tunney and I have had the most lovely day! We wanted to see and hear about all the amazing learning going on across our campus, so rather than sit in our office flicking through work, we invited the owners of the exercise books to share their work instead.
We have had children in our early years reciting We’re Going on a Bear Hunt with actions, students in key stage one sharing some fantastic knowledge about castles and how their expert visitor helped them towards answering their guiding question, lower key stage two being so enthusiastic about their core text, The Lion and the Unicorn and finally year five and six explaining how clear and specific critique has helped them to improve their work into versions they are incredibly proud of.
To all of those children who shared their learning with us, thank you. It was a real privilege to hear about your learning so far this year. You all spoke confidently and showed real enthusiasm for your expeditions and the beautiful work you are producing.
Mrs Parsons and Miss Tunney xx
World Mental Health Day
Year 1 talked about their feelings, worries and excitements; We discussed different ways to show kindness, compassion and support.
We are the WINNERS!
We would like to announce that Norton Infant won the football competition making us very happy and proud. What a wonderful team work and resilience you have shown. Well done to Stanley who scored the hat-trick goal!
Parent Workshop on Phonics
It was fantastic to see so many parents at the workshops on phonics yesterday. We hope you found the session informative and a useful insight into how we teach children to read in school.
All parents of children in Reception and Year 1 have been sent an email today containing the information shared at the workshop. The powerpoint presentation gives more information about what phonics is, how we teach phonics lessons in school and the Year 1 phonics screening check. It also shares helpful tips to support parents in reading with theirĀ child at home.Ā
The presentationĀ containsĀ this linkĀ https://parents.fft.org.uk/Ā to theĀ FFT Success for All Parent Portal.Ā Here you will find further helpful information, videos demonstrating how to pronounce all phonemes and be able to access the Shared Reader e-library of books that children use in their phonics lessons every day.Ā The school’s passcode to enter the portal is vyd5iy.Ā
We also included in the email some helpful handouts that support answering someĀ frequently asked questions by parents. We hope you will find theĀ sound cards, alphabet strip and list of alliterative and formationĀ phrases useful at home.
If you have any other questions or queries, please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s teacher.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Kendrew-Jones
Celebration of reading
The children in class 4 love books and read regularly at home. As a reward, they enjoyed their treat:hot chocolate, biscuits and some extra golden time. Well done everybody.
Beautiful work in Class 4
This week the children have been working super hard on their writing about the features of the castles. Look at their beautiful work:
This week learning in Class 4
We have had another exciting week finding out about castles. We have been very lucky to meet our expert visitor, Mr Lamb, who told us about the life around castles. We have also enjoyed our reading crew and sorting and counting numbers in Maths.
Hook week in Class 4
We have had a very exciting week and loved sharing a story called āTell me a dragonā. The children came up with some great describing words and used them in their independent writing. A dragon visited our classroom and left some footprintsā¦Later in the week we became artists and created pictures of dragonās eyes.
Building relationships in Crew
We have had a lovely start to the new academic year in Class 4 having lots of fun, playing games, getting to know our friends and building relationships with them.
