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