Children have been working hard and enjoying learning new sounds everyday. We also welcomed parents in this week for an ‘Introduction to Phonics’ meeting to help understand how we teach phonics using the Read, Write, Inc scheme.
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Year 3 Science
Year 3 explored water transportation today.
They had to think about what a fair test was and work as a team to set up their celery and food dye.
We can’t wait to see the results later!
Dancing Raisins Y5
Last week in science we were continuing to explore the properties of materials. We carried out the ‘dancing raisin’ experiment and had great fun watching them! We had to make some predictions, observe closely and consider the reasons for the movement using scientific vocabulary
Descriptive writing in Year 6
This week, Year 6 have continued exploring emotive character descriptions based on the key text, ‘Rose Blanche’. They have learnt all about figurative language and its effect on the reader. Working as a class, they compiled everyone’s ideas to create a shared write based on a specific point in the text. We think they have demonstrated excellent creativity and teamwork to produce such a powerful image of Rose in the reader’s mind. See if you can identify excellent examples of similes, personification, alliteration and ambitious vocabulary in their paragraph below.
‘Her tear-filled, sorrowful, sapphire-blue eyes were like neverending waterfalls. Broken and fragile, her heart sank down into her malnourished, rumbling stomach which screamed in pain. Rose’s once golden hair was now as dark and gloomy as the forgotten forest. Slow shivers pulsed through her body as she looked over the empty clearing. Her cold, pale hand clutched a wilting blue flower; the only thing alive in this barren wasteland.’
Keeping our school tidy
Year 1 have been helping to keep our school tidy during busy time. Some children chose to use litter pickers to pick up any rubbish that they saw.
1, 10, 100 more and less
Year 3 have worked super hard on partitioning this week and have explored 1, 10, 100 more and less today.
They were able to use base 10, place value counters and arrow cards to support them.
We are so proud of their grit and determination.
Playing outside
Reception and Nursery have been enjoying using our outside space. They have been joining in with group activities, using the trim trails and using the mud kitchen.
Year 3 Music
Year 3 enjoyed beginning their Charanga unit on glockenspiels yesterday.
They looked at notes D and E and impressed Miss Peek with their call and response skills!
Year 2 Geography
Year 2 have started their first Geography unit where they will be comparing Norwich to Shanghai by looking at local Norwich landmarks and constructing models of them. Each class worked on a different landmark and produced replicas of Norwich Castle, the Cathedral and Carrow Road.
Year 3 Maths
Year 3 have enjoyed using different manipulatives to partition numbers to 1000.
They showed great concentration and independence.
