To build on our crew character traits, we undertook some team building and problem solving activities this afternoon as we got to know our phase crews better. Well done for working hard to solve the various tasks and challenges! We have more in store tomorrow!
Category : Phase Blogs
Spreading kindness by making birthday cards for all!
Our HoWLs focus in our first week back is the ‘be kind’ strand. We have discussed lots of ways to show and spread kindness to our whole Plover crew. We started our first activity by creating birthday cards for all staff and our entire year group. When it is somebody’s birthday, they can take a card from the birthday box and feel special whilst reading all of the lovely messages written by our Year 6 crew.
We can’t wait to spread kindness throughout the year!
-Miss Blackham
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Starting back
This is just a reminder of some starting back dates for the new F2 children.
1 to 1 parent meetings with the new class teacher are on Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th August. Your meeting time was on the letter that was sent home. If you are unsure of your time slot please email me on [email protected].
Half of the children are in for a full day on the Thursday and half on the Friday unless we have made different arrangements for your child.
All children will be in for full days from Monday 2nd September unless we have made different arrangements for your child.
Please bring wellies, waterproofs and pumps (all named) with you to the meeting as well as any medication that your child will need.
Many thanks
Mrs Price
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LKS2 Chocolatey Celebration of Learning
Thank you for doing us at our Celebration of Learning on Friday.
It is amazing to reflect on how much we have covered this term as we listen to the children talking about it and went through the exercise books.
I think the singing was the most beautiful performance we have ever had and the final product went down a treat!
Thank you to Mrs Williams (Julianna’s Mum) for taking the basket of goodies to the Care Home.
Mrs Graves
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Sporting Success!
Congratulations to all footballers across school whose clubs have had their presentation evenings. Crew Haycock are extremely proud of their players, here are a couple of them with their awards.
Shout out to Kodish who won keeper of the season!
Good luck next season, everyone!
Mrs Haycock
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We can plan and carry out a fair test!
Over the last couple of weeks, Years 3 and 4 have been working as scientists and experimenting with states of matter: trying to find out if temperature affects the rate at which matter changes state. Our final task was to investigate the quickest way for Mr Wonka to create his chocolate river if all of the chocolate he has only exists in solid form.
Here we are, trying to think of different ways Mr Wonka could try to melt his chocolate…I wonder which location or method worked the best and melted the chocolate the quickest?
Now to consider our findings and draw conclusions for Mr Wonka!
Mrs Haycock
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Active maths in F2B
F2B had so much fun this afternoon doing some active maths in class. We read the story ‘Ten minutes to bed Little Mermaid’ where the children learnt how long 1 minute was. We then guessed how many times we could do different activities in 10 minutes such as hopping on one foot or rubbing our tummies after lunch! We then timed each other to see if we were right!
Keep up the great work F2B!
Miss Wood.
I Always Get Smart!
Methmi is such a fabulous young lady: she never ceases to amaze me! During Science lessons, we have been thinking about changing states and have been investigating the question: Does temperature affect the rate of melting? She took it upon herself to use a thesaurus to research a bank of vocabulary that she could use in her write up so as she did not repeat herself and to ensure her word choices were appropriate! Well done. What a superstar you are!
Mrs Haycock
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We are marvellous mathematicians!
Well done and thank you to these superstars for being so kind as to help their friends understand how to compare decimal numbers using the < and > symbols! Your use of mathematical language was excellent. Talking your friends through the method of looking at each place value column in turn, and helping them to remember which symbol is which, enabled them to compare the decimal numbers accurately. Thank you and I hope you are proud of yourselves!
Let’s keep being kind to each other and working collaboratively so that together, we can make as much progress as possible before you become Year 5’s!
Mrs Haycock
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Kason is getting brave and Mrs H is dafter than we thought!
Whilst investigating Oobleck, Kason asked a huge amount of questions to build his understanding of its, in Kason’s words, ‘weird properties’. One of his questions was, ‘What does it smell like?’ I told him I didn’t know and to smell it to find out.
’No,’ he said. ‘You smell it!’
Knowing what was coming, I took off my glasses to ‘smell’ the Oobleck. Here is what followed…
We learnt that the Oobleck splits over time to form a watery layer on the top which is what I mainly got all over my face. However, when this watery layer evaporated and my face was dry again, the Oobleck solution left behind a powdery layer which was very tricky to get off! My eyelashes were still white when I got home! Never mind – it was worth it to help your children remember their learning about this Non-Newtonian fluid. Kason had a great time too!
Oh, and to answer K’s question: It doesn’t have a smell!
Mrs Haycock
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