Welcome to the SYCAMORE BLOG

This weeks fantastic blog was created by Abbie and Lucy!

We’ve had an exciting week in Sycamore class and we’re here to share it with you!

Maths

This week it was mock SATS so the year 6’s have been working EXTREMLEY hard on their maths tests. The year 5’s, they have been working in treetops with Mr Gigg.

Literacy

In literacy we have been learning how to create suspense. We read a small story by Anthony Horowitz called "the man with the yellow face". We highlighted the bits that created suspense and explained how they created suspense.  We then wrote our own suspense stories.

Geography

In Geography we have been learning about mountains. We went to the brambles, the new outdoor classroom, and we were given sheets to fill out.  We went to brambles around looking for information about mountains. After that we looked in an atlas for different mountain ranges.

Science

In Science we asked, Does heating or cooling some materials cause them to change? We drew a table of Reversible things and Irreversible things. Then Mrs Gilder passed round materials for us to look at and then…

She burnt them!!!

 Art Interview:

Interviewer: Lucy

Interviewee: Georgia

Lucy: What did you like about the art this week?
Georgia: It was, interesting and FASINATING!

Lucy: Umm… did you find it hard?

Georgia: Yes I did because there was a lot of detail to put in.

  

P.E:

In P.E we played a game of rounder’s with Mr Gigg and Mr Edwards. We had three pitches.

Celebrations:

Star of the Week:

Thomas!

Friend of the Week:

Eloise!

Joke of the week!

When I grow up I going to have a BIG mansion with loads of bedrooms and no bathrooms!

Why no bathrooms?

Because I want to be filthy rich!  

Sycamore’s blog

This week's bloggers are:

Jaiyeola  & Eloise [and Georgia who helped Eloise do this blog]

Welcome back to school hope you all had a great holiday this Easter and have had lots of chocolate fun!

In this blog we will be interviewing some of the children about there hopping holiday. Some smashing show and tells. Plus lots more about sycamores wonderful week.

 5 holiday interviews

Abbie:

What was the best part of your holiday?

The most exciting part of my holiday was the day we were driving to Cornwall and we couldn’t start the car!

Did you enjoy your Easter eggs and finding them?

Yes because my mum did a terrible Easter hunt!

Where was the most interesting place you found your Easter egg?

In the airing cupboard!

Did you do anything else interesting in your holiday?

In Tintgel, the legend King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table was held.

Georgia:

What was the best part of your holiday and why?

Seeing my sister’s puppy because she is playful and she gives me lots of cuddles.

Did you enjoy your holiday and why?

Yes because it was a good long brake from school so that I could rest my brain.

What were the top 5 funniest places you found your chocolate?

1.             the toilet room

2.           the recycling bin

3.            the dog bed

4.          the one in my water bottle

5.            the one on the bed

Jaiyeola :

What was the best part of your holiday?

Sitting on a crocodile

Was that frightening?

Nope.

Did you enjoy it?

Obviously

Did you get any thing on your holiday[as it was your birthday]?

Yes the skyfall movie and the transformes movie.

Lauren:

What was the best part of your holiday?

The best part of my holiday was when I went to Edinburgh in Scotland.

What did you do there?

I went to Sterling Castle.

What else did you do?

For the second week I did a show called living the dream. [which Eloise was about to do but did not]

Hannah:

What was the highlight of your holiday?

When I went to Turkey.

What did you do there?

I went on a banana boat.

Was it exiting?

Definitely.

Did you do anything else?

We went to the theme park.[cool]

Did you go on any rides?

Yes. I went on this really cool roller coaster.

Maths:

In maths this week we are learning about 3D shapes and their nets.

We have also been cutting the out and making them while doing an educated guess on what it was going to be -some were very surprised by what happened. On Thursday we were learning how to measure 2D shapes and we went onto the infant playground to draw different sized quadrilaterals. Then we all went to another groups work and measured it.

The infant play ground is now covered with maths sums and chalk! [Also the junior]

P.E:

We timed ourselves doing cross country running and tried to get a personal best.

Next week we are going to do it again and see if we have beaten our record for two runs.

 

Literacy:

In literacy we have been writing poems about feelings and emotions here is an example done by Eloise and Georgia:

Pride

Pride is a beam of sunlight yellow

It tastes like chocolate brownies

It sounds like a loins roar

It feels like warm stone

It smells like a field of poppies

Well done to everybody that did a poem they were all A...M...A...Z...I...N...G!!!!

Also we have been doing extending our sentences so we would start off with the cat than we would improve it e.g the cat crossed the road….                                       

THE CLASS COUNCIL SECTION:

In our class council

Is:

JOE C which is the ch

SOPHIE A which is the vice ch

THOMAS G the typing person  

This week our class council we have been talking about:

Moving places

Our star of the weeks

Our lesson posters

Our enterprise money

Moving places

We have moved places and everybody is very happy.

Our star of the week

There are lots more stars of the weeks to be had so you might be next.

Our lesson posters

Claudia is organising a group to do the lesson posters as they need to be changed hope you do well Claudia!!

  

Enterprise money

We are happy to say that £90.00 of our money is going to charity.

Celebrations

Friend of the week: Holly

Star of the week: Scot

Joke of the week: why did the cow cross the road?

To go to the mooovies

By Georgia and Lauren

Birthdays: Jaiyeola

Writer of the week: Amy for doing amazing news paper report 

Show and tells: Eloise, Billy and Joe did very good show and tells.

We have now got a new poster up in the class room about grammar and a new one about the outside.

Next week we are practising SATS.

The week after that we have the boosters every morning so remember all of your things.

Some dates for your Diaries:

School disco 24^th of April.

6^th of July look on the news letter for more details. 

Clever maths:

If you where drawn onto a table and you where 2D would you be able to see your friend if he or she was drawn onto a bit of paper would you be able to see them. 

Hope you have enjoyed this blog and are looking forward to next week’s blog and also remember to check the news letter that comes out tonight.

Clever maths answer: no all you would see was the thick line of paper.

You can see this if you get a book and look directly at the side of the page you can’t see the picture.

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.