Date 6/12/13

Bloggers are Will and  Ollie   Photographers Charlie and zaid

Literacy: we have been learning about speech marks in our writing and we got an extract from George's Marvellous Medicine.  We have also been thinking about persuasive techniques.

Maths: In maths we have been learning about data handling.  We made a line graph about running a bath.

Sports person of the week: Josh  for excellent sportsmanship.

Birthdays: there was no birthdays this week

Word of the week: immobilize

Joke of the week: Can February  march          A: No but April may

ICT: in ict we have been creating our own music and then we edited it some people sang some people were doing reports on sports.

P.E. in p.e. this week we have been doing hockey first we learnt how to hold the stick with a demo from Ollie. Then we got to use the pucks, and we had to dribble with it close to our stick otherwise Mrs. Gilder would come and take the puck away.

Science: in science this week we made string telephones and then we touched the string and it would make the sound go all funny. We had to have it tight otherwise it wouldn’t work.

Star of the week: is Josh.

Friend of the week: Ashley

Literacy in our literacy lesson we have been writing a paragraph showing not telling.

We watched a small clip based on Nike. After we watched the clip we talked about how it showed and not told.

We also learnt some Kung Fu punctuation. Ha

 Mrs Gilder and Mrs Williams

 In our maths lesson we have been learning how to represent data. We drew a pictogram and wrote down 9 different author’s .e.g. JK Rowling and Michael Morpurgo. After that, we drew down how many books there were. Also we have been learning how to use a bar chart.

Art

In art, we designed our own posters based on ww2 .e.g. Dig for Victory.

First we drew a rough copy of our poster. Our poster was based on spies, food, Women’s land army or blackouts.

Linconsfelid Trip

 On Tuesday UKS2 went to Linconsfield. We had to imagine that we were evacuated we had a number of activities to do.1 gardening. Gardening, we had to imagine there was fire on the roof top. We then split into 2 groups and had a race with a hosepipe. All of a sudden, the air aide siren went off, we had to rush to the Anderson shelter as quick as possible. 2 school. When we were in the school we had a very strict teacher called Miss Barber, if we were naughty she would hit us with a ruler. We made our own identity card also she would talk about what schools would have been like during WW2.3 Blitz. After the school, our group were next to go to the Blitz. Everyone said they had real rats but actually they didn’t. The man was an actual evacuee when he was young.  4 museum. In the museum we got to hold a real gun which was very heavy also we got to hold a backpack a man called stain came in and talked abut ww2 and what it was like to be a solider. He also told us how hard and difficult it was fighting because there would be Germans everywhere. 5 house. One of the activities was the house there was a lady called Anne she would say that she wouldn’t miss anything if we were being naughty she would have a tape to cover our mouths. Anne taught us how they would make clothes in the ww2 it was great fun.  6 cinema. In the cinema, we watched a clip of how to be evacuated. There were short clips of different subjects on how to be evacuated. Finally there was a small gift shop I brought a key ring and a blow ball set. Everybody enjoyed their day!

Star of the Week

This week’s star of the week is Jess. Jess said that she is feeling amazing

Friend of the week

This week’s friend of the week is Reece.

 Reece is feeling very delighted.

        By Hafsah and Yasmine!

This week's bloggers: Emma and Cara
Photographers: Jason and Millie

Literacy- This week we played a game called Kung Fu punctuation.  We looked at some adverts and thought about why they were persuasive. 

Maths- This week we learnt about shapes. It was really fun!

Pe: We learnt a new game: Shuffle ball.  

Science- We learnt that sound travels in sound waves.  When something makes a noise air particles vibrate, your ear  picks this up and then your brain then works out what made it. Fascinating!

Audience with... Cara showed us the amazing doll's house she has made.  Will shared an awesome book about WW2.  

Joke of the week- What do you call a three legged donkey?                                     
Sports people of the week- The netball and football team!
Friend of the week- Charlie
Star of the week- Jonathon
Riddle of the week- What cheese is made backwards?                         A wonkey !










Edam (as Basil Brush says) Boom Boom!

This week's bloggers are Millie C and Charlie

This week we had our evacuation day.  It was fun and a good experience.  Milking the cow was a yucky experience.  We dressed up and enjoyed polishing shoes.

In science we learned about the ear.

On Friday we did our sharing assembly.  Everyone loved it!

Joke of the week.
What did the cheese say when it looked in the mirror?  Hello me (Halloumi)

Sports person of the week is Will R for his football skills.

Star of the Week: Jonathan

Friend of the Week: Emma

This week's bloggers are: Francesca and Flo
Photographers: Millie and Sam 
In literacy we have been learning about the gunpowder plot.  We did a acrostic poem and started writing a biography on Anne Frank.  

We had fun in our PE lesson this week.  We  did country dancing from WW2.  Everyone had a smile on their face and we felt exhausted afterwards.  

In history we have been studying food rationing from WW2  and we got to taste a navy style hot chocolate called kye.

We have been practising our Music Hall Sharing assembly.  We are looking forward to seeing lots of parents next Friday.  

Thanks To Reece who brought in a DVD he made with Ashley, Jack and Louis - it was very good.

Well done to the fottballers, netballers and those who did the cross country.  
Sports person of the week: Daisy

Joke of the week:  Where do baby apes sleet?  In Apricots.

Date: 18th October 2013

Kain.P and Josh.D / Ashley.C and Jack.P

Art – We all made wonderful Christmas cards for parents to buy -they were outstanding.

Literacy- Anne Frank- We learnt about the diary of Anne Frank  it was amazing.  We did a description of the “Secret Annex” it was amazing so we all wrote a description.

Maths –We all did wonderful factors and also a “WELL DONE” to Kain for achieving level 8 in cracking times tables and now is on level 9!!! PS: That’s 8 weeks in a row I got it!!!

History-WWII-Ashley’s Granny co me in and talk about what happened in WWII it was amazing and she gave us the spy joke!!!

Sports person of the week- Jack Percy for winning 1st place in boys cross country tryouts!!!

Birthdays: Their were no Birthdays!!!

Word of the week: Callously

Joke of the week: Q. What do you call a spy when he's in bed? A. An undercover agent!!! Audience with... Jess did a presentation on her holiday in the Alps.  Will and Millie did a presentation on their football teams and included a quiz.  Kain showed his WW2 ships.  Charlie brought in some disco lights and a soldiers dog collar.  Millie and Megan had been busy baking for their audience with and gave everyone in the class a cake and some chocolate - MAGIC MOMENTS!

Bloggers Jonathan and Dafydd  

Art – Christmas card designs and calendar designs

We made the Christmas card designs by using water colors over the card to make the back ground look nice like Christmas time .

We cut out pieces of  paper and made them look like hills and then we stuck them on .Our calendar designs were made by using oil pastels to color the fields .We drew a little town on the hill side.

Literacy The Highway man

We acted out the story and then wrote a another verse to the poem.  

Maths For maths this week we used numicon to find factors of 15, 17, 2 ect. We found there are prime numbers they are numbers that can only be split into 1 and it self.

PE
We did a Boot Camp.  "It was Ok, very hard work.  I was really tired afterwards." Reece

Sports person of the week Ryan . C
Word of the week: Clatter
Star of the week: Ollie
Friend of the week: Millie C

Joke of the week: Why did the Chicken break the egg ? Because it was hungry.

Bloggers: Keira and Daisy

Millie was last week's star of the week.  Hafsah is this week's

Friend of the week: Cara

 Art 

We were making models of barrage balloons. We also are making a drawing of a child who was evacuated.

  

We have learning a songs about world war 2 and music halls.

Literacy

We have been learning about the highwayman poem in literacy. We have also been writing the story in the characters point of view.

Science 

We are looked at the eye and how it works .  We looked at what happens to our pupils when the light goes off.  

Friday afternoon

Year 6 went to Beaumont for a languages X factor.  We saw lots of last year's year sixes there. 

Year did some gardening.  We pulled out lots of weeds and harvested some beetroot, apples, a marrow and courgette.  

Date:18.9.13

Bloggers / photographers:Will.B & Sam & Reece & Ollie

Art – In art we had to paint a picture for our calendars. We had to do some printing to. We started by painting the background  then we made some silhouettes out of polystyrene . So we could paint them with black paint and printed them on our background.

Literacy: In our literacy we had to do a diary entry on when we first meet the highwayman, we also wrote stories from a characters point of view.

Maths  : In Mrs. Gilder & Mrs. Williams group we were working on our more than and less than symbols, also we were working on our decimals. In Mr. Edwards group we were also doing decimals but we were multiplying and rounding them.

History : In history we had to write another diary entry on when first hear Neville Chamberlain announce that we were at war with Germany.

Sports person of the week: Is Jack because of his excellent attitude towards his football.

Birthdays: Ryan, Josh and Hannah

Word of the week: Obliterating

Joke of the week: why does the vampire sleep in a coffin? … Because he is coughing. The writer of the week was Sam because of his fantastic vocabulary. The friend of the week is Ryan The star of the week is Millie C

Bloggers - Ryan and Jason
Photographers - Josh and William

Spelling – we did our horrible hundred ,we learned some new words like filly ,foal  exemplary, lavish, foe, conceal and obliterated.

Art – We made a Blitz inspired front cover.  We looked at examples of sunsets and silhouettes. Next we used pastels to create a sunset background using a limited colour palette. The pastels were fun to use but VERY messy!  Black sugar paper was used to make a city skyline silhouette. We learned about search lights and added these to our final picture.

Literacy – In literacy we have been reading The Highwayman.  This is a great poem, but quite sad.

Maths – In maths we started Cracking Timestables, we had a sheet and we had to complete it in 3 minutes. After that we put very big numbers in order and compared them.

History – In history we have been learning about world war 2. We looked at a map to find which countries were in the war.   Science:

Sports person of the week – Will Baynham for playing football everyday. Star of the Week: Reece Friend of the Week: Francesca Assembly Year 6 did an assembly to the rest of the school about what it means  to be a year 6.

Birthdays – Francesca 1st September Jonathan 12th September Ryan.C 16th September Hannah 17th September Josh.D 18th September

Word of the week: trepidation

Joke of the week: What did the biscuit say when someone stepped on it? Oww crumbs

5.7.13

Welcome to this weeks blog!

By Hannah and Sophie

The photographers are Claudia, Holly and Lauren

We Will Rock You (All Week):

On Monday, we had our first proper run-through. We all did act 1 before break and act 2 after Lunch. Before lunch, the year 6’s did an extra rehearsal. It was the first time Mrs Gilder and the year 5’s and saw the

whole thing!

Interview (We Will Rock You):

How is it coming along?:

Lauren: Very well! I’m really enjoying it!

What’s your favourite part?:

Lauren: I really like ‘another one bites the dust’ with Phoebe and the  yuppies.

Celebrations:

This Saturday the girls 6-a-side football team are playing at Fleetville. We will be playing a total of three matches throughout the day.

There have been no birthdays unfortunately):  

Brambles opening ceremony (Last Friday):

Last week you will all know that the mayor came to officially open the outdoor learning classroom – Brambles!!!

We were all very excited about having a new place to learn without being stuck in a stuffy classroom during the Summer term. On Friday, there were lots of different performances from:

·       The  guitarists

·       Flautists

·       Acorns dance routine

·       Songbirds 

·       UKS2 (A taster of We Will Rock You!)

·       KS1 Pirate song

If you came to visit the occasion, Thank You very much & we hope you enjoyed it!!! 

Well done if you participated in one of the performances!!!

This week Finlay, Jason and Scott were working on the blog.  There was lots going on.  On Friday Year 5 took part in the K'nex challenge.  They designed and made models for fairground rides.  In the first group Lauren and Lucy won - it was a close competition! 

We have started reahersing for WWRY - it sounds really good!

The people taking part in District Sports did really well and we all enjoyed LKS2 Enterprise - the cakes, biscuits and icecream were delicious! 

This weeks blogger is Nick Powdrell

On Monday, we split into groups of 22 and 23 to start our week without the year sixes.

On Tuesday, we went on a walk around St.Albans in groups of 9 and answered a few sheets of questions on our way round.

On Wednesday, we had our main trip to Aldbury and Tring. Aldbury was a nice village but unfortunatly the weather wasn't as good as we thought. In the natural museum, we toured around it for a while and to finish of we learnt about skeletons.

On Thursday, we went on google maps to see differences between Aldbury and St Albans and started drawing and painting a house from Aldbury.

On Friday, we were finishing off work from the rest of the week and painted our pictures of houses in Aldbury in water colours.

Celebrations:

Mini athletics - Oakwood came 2nd overall
Writer of the week: Ethan Peakock

Interveiw:


Joke of the week:

Friend of the week: Isla and Rachel

Star of the week: William

Joke of the week: Why are babies so good football? Because they dribble a lot.

Science: In science we have been writing stories for are volcanoes

that we have been making with paper mashie. Once we made our stories we read them to Beech class and made them real life with our crops and made are volcanoes explode.

Maths: In maths we have been solving maths problems it was quite a challenge but very fun.

P.E: In P.E we have been doing district sport trials, well done to the people who triad or got in!

Pebble treat: This week we had are pebble treat. We played football, Para shoot, netball and golf.

Blue sky play: Also this week we had blue sky play and that meant we had fifteen minutes extra play.

Have a good half term everyone, but keep practising your work.

Thanks to Amy for helping.

Sycamore blog!!!

This week’s bloggers are

Lucy and Georgia

SATS

Monday-reading test

Tuesday-SPAG test

Wednesday-maths test A, mental maths

Thursday-maths test B

Friday –party

Science

In science we did a materials test the materials were

·       Tea

·       Instant coffee

·       Vitamin c tablet

·       Salt

·       Sugar

·       Sand

·       Ground coffee

 We put them in 15ml of water and a Petri dish then we put the materials in the Petri dish and looked at the reaction. 

    

    

 Literacy

In literacy we wrote some sentences about sounds around the school.

D&T

In art we have been making mountains out of papier-mache, now we have to paint them and decorate them.

Star of the week: Eloise

Writer of the week: Raj

Joke of the week:

Doctor Doctor it hearts in some places

Well don’t go to those places

By Joe

Amy brought some chicks to school from her mum's school - they were very cute.

Randolph Mathews

On Friday Randolph Mathews from the O2 came to our school to teach us rapping and making sounds

An interview with Isla and Rachel 

Did you enjoy the visit from Randolph Mathews?

Yes he was hilarious! (Isla)

I really loved the sounds and jokes he made! (Rachel)

What was your favourite part?

When he said his brother used to ask him what his problem was when he bumped into a tree and the voices he made were hilarious! (Isla and Rachel)

End of Interview.