25^th March 2013

BY THE AWSOME, EPIC, COOL, SICK, FRESH, HANDSOME, OKAY WE WILL STOP THERE

WILLIAM AND JOE

SUBJECTS

French

This week in French we learnt how to say all the planets, for example La Terre means the Earth.

P.E

In P.E we learnt all the positions in netball. We also learnt key facts and the rules of netball.

Easter activities

On the last day of this term we did loads of awesome activities, such as making our own biscuits and making baskets.

  

JOURNALISM DAY

This week we had a very exciting Monday.

We pretended that we had to do a news broadcast about real world news. Martine, a news reporter, came to help us with our news report, we also asked her some questions.

JOKE OF THE WEEK

 Why can’t a car play football? Because it only has one boot! By William K`

CELEBRATIONS

STAR OF THE WEEK:  Grace

FRIEND OF THE WEEK: Sophie

Sycamore blog!!!!!

It has been a great week in Sycamore class. We have done numerous lessons and activities. Last week we finished our tests and this week we got our results to know what school we are going to. Also this week we had parents evening.

Literacy:

This week in Literacy we have been learning about balanced arguments and writing them. We have also wrote about Questions that we have strong opinions about.

Science:

This week in Science we got our assessments back and we finished our investigation about evaporation and drew bar graphs to show our results.

PE

In PE we changed our topic, from football to cricket! We have many amazing cricketers in our class like Billy Owen, Joe Curran, Thomas Geller and Raj Lakhani. Thomas Geller won the fielding catching competition!

Maths:

This week in Maths, Sycamore class have been learning to multiply 2 digit numbers using the grid method and learning how to draw and understand co-ordinates.

ART:

In art we have started a new topic- camera angles and the effect it makes on the image. We also designed some Mothers day crafts.

Joke of the week

Why did the brown sauce loose the race?

He could not ketchup-Joe Curran

Reading

As you may know this week we celebrate our world book. On Thursday we looked at online authors speak live to the children and give tips to us to improve our writing. On Friday we dressed up as our favourite characters from a book. 

Sycamore Blog

By Rachel and Amy!!!

  

Literacy: In literacy we have been doing persuasive writing. We had a piece of text and had to underline the persuasive and the connectives in the piece of writing. We have also been looking at writing stories about real life issues.

Maths: In maths we are learning how to times using the grid method, but before we start we have to look at the number and have a rough estimate at what the answer could be. 

Art: This week in art we are learning how to take a picture from a different point so the person who is looking at it doesn’t know what it is.

PE: In PE we have been focusing on netball and cricket    . In Netball we have learnt the 3 main passes and marking by being T on (that’s how you mark.

ICT: We have been researching Aztecs questions. For example: What did the Aztecs eat? , who was the main leader of the Aztecs? , when did the Spanish take over Tenochtitlan?

Topic: we have been studying the Aztecs for the half term. We have learnt lots and look forward to a new topic after Easter.   

The end of year production is We will Rock you! We are all extremely excited and have been anticipating this play for a long time.  Well done to everyone for your fantastic auditions. 

Red Nose day: We have had a fantastic day. We will find out the results of the head teacher composition next week. Well done to Abbie whose picture got trough for our class and thank you for any other donations you gave in.

I hope we raise a lot of money for the poor people in Africa and all of the charities they are supporting all over the UK. We hope we have filled you in on the week. By Amy and Rachel. 

Welcome to this week's blog!!!

This week’s brilliant bloggers are Hannah and Lauren!!

The photographers are Claudia and Lucy! 

Birthdays: Happy birthday to Thomas!

Star of the week:   

Lauren for being a fabulous friend!

Friend of the week:

Grace the best, the best ever!!!!!!

 

This week we did our sharing assembly! It was about the Aztecs!

Interviews (about the assembly)

Sophie:

I really enjoyed it because we got to show what we were learning to the rest of the school. I also have really enjoyed learning about the Aztecs and it was fun to show it to the school!

  

Science: In science we were doing the water cycle. It told us all about how water evaporates and then rains down again!

Maths: In Mr Gigg’s maths group, we were doing rotational symmetry which was hard.

In Mrs Gilder’s & Mrs Williams’ maths group we have been learning about symmetry and we made our own patterns using the unicon.

In Mr Edward’s maths group we have been doing lots of different subjects! 

On Thursday, songsters performed at the Alban Arena. Some of our school were in the orchestra including:

Sophie – flute

Phoebe (Y4) - flute

Charlotte – violin

William L – violin

James – violin

Ellen (Y3) - violin

Well done to them all!!! 

Celebrations:

The Oakwood swimmers are taking part in the Hertfordshire primary schools gala on Saturday 23^rd March.

Everyone is looking forward to it!

Good luck to them!!!

Drama workshop: On Wednesday, UKS2 took part in a drama workshop about anti-bullying and the affects it can have. We filled in some worksheets about different types of bullying. 

In literacy we have been writing persuasive letters to give a reason for what we wanted to change e.g. Play equipment, house captains.  

Show and tell:

Sophie – Bat mitzvah

Raj – Labyrinth

Scott – Skiing 

Grace – Friend of the week news

Joe - Football news

Nick – Basketball club

Oviyan & Louis – Made their own comics

Billy & Thomas – football

Lucy – Hockey news

Ethan – Football news  

   

Topic:

We made our own news paper reports based on the Aztecs using a computer. 

 Congratulations if you have achieved your next level in cracking times tables!!!

Thank you for reading this week’s blog by happy Hannah and lovely Lauren!

 

 

Sycamore blog!!!!!

It has been a great week in Sycamore class. We have done numerous lessons and activities. Last week we finished our tests and this week we got our results to know what school we are going to. Also this week we had parents evening.

Literacy:

This week in Literacy we have been learning about balanced arguments and writing them. We have also wrote about Questions that we have strong opinions about.

Science:

This week in Science we got our assessments back and we finished our investigation about evaporation and drew bar graphs to show our results.

PE

In PE we changed our topic, from football to cricket! We have many amazing cricketers in our class like Billy Owen, Joe Curran, Thomas Geller and Raj Lakhani. Thomas Geller won the fielding catching competition!

Maths:

This week in Maths, Sycamore class have been learning to multiply 2 digit numbers using the grid method and learning how to draw and understand co-ordinates.

ART:

In art we have started a new topic- camera angles and the effect it makes on the image. We also designed some Mothers day crafts.

Joke of the week

Why did the brown sauce loose the race?

He could not ketchup-Joe

Reading

As you may know this week we celebrate our world book. On Thursday we looked at online authors speak live to the children and give tips to us to improve our writing. On Friday we dressed up as our favourite characters from a book. 

Sycamore Blog

By Amy and Katie

Maths: In maths we are doing coordinates.

The one rule is to go along the corridor first and then up or down the stairs.

Science: In science we are doing a test on our tables ,about how water evaporates. We had to make it a fair test by only changing one thing.

Literacy: In literacy we are doing arguments for and against. We had a debate on whether mobile phones should be banned from school.

Writer of the week:

 Lauren

Star of the week:

Lucy

Puzzle: There is a man in a twelve story flat, he gets the lift to the seventh floor and walks the rest of the way, Why?

Why are babies so good at football?

Because they can dribble.

Answers: Puzzle: He is a Dwarf so he can only reach the seventh button in the lift.

Audience with: Lauren with her 2nd scrap book of her holiday in New Zealand and Katie and her arts and crafts .Joe and Claudia also did an ammasing show and tell.