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!