World Book day

Catkins

This week we have focused on growing. We read the story 'The Jack and the Beanstalk' and explored different beans and seeds. We also enquired about what we need to help a plant grow and read 'Jasper's Beanstalk' to give us some ideas! We invited a enthusiastic gardener (our very own Mrs Head) to teach the children how to prepare the soil and plant the beans. The children wondered where the beans will grow best! We will be monitoring the growth of these beans over the coming weeks. Last but not least, Catkins loved our World Book Day activities! We read the story 'Pattan's Pumpkin' and imagined what we would store in our pumpkin in case of a flood! In the afternoon, the children made their own potato characters and described their characteristics to adults! Super job Catkins!

Rowan

This week, we have been exploring units of measure with rulers and metre sticks and using the words length, and height. We quickly realised that a cm is smaller than a m, and were able to group our measurements in two groups: less than a metre and more than a metre.

R2L

This week in R2L, we have been looking at why there are rules. We have discovered that rules are mostly in place to keep us safe, to help us to know the right choices to make and to provide order. When playing games, we agreed that when everyone follows the rules the games are much more fun as we all know what to do. However, if the rules suddenly changed, it was very frustrating. We even had our own R2L orchestra where we had to watch the conductor very carefully! We decided that most rules are cool!

World Book Day

Rowan

We used the beautiful book, Pattan's Pumpkin to lead our writing. First, we explored a range of fruits and vegetables; we focused on texture, smell and colour and created expanded noun phrases.  In the Indian fairy-tale, Pattan grows a ginormous pumpkin which saves his village from a flood. We wrote our own instructions for growing pumpkins, followed by created our very own potato pals! 

Birch

Birch Class had a wonderful time on WBD, dressing as their favourite characters and listening to work from an award-winning author. They loved making the potato that they has bought in into their favourite book character using their creativity and imagination! I think that they look amazing!

Sycamore

This week we celebrated World Book Day. Firstly we looked at the poem ‘Sandwich’ by Valerie Bloom who is a Jamaican author who now lives in Kent. Afterwards, we created our favourite book characters out of a potato! Who knew potatoes could be so versatile! 

Year 5 /6

Year 5 and 6 had great fun on World Book Day, creating characters from favourite books from potatoes. Inspired by the exciting story, 'King Kong' by Anthony Browne the children used their empathy skills to imagine that they were one of the main characters (Ann Darrow), writing a letter home using evidence for the text. We also looked at the beautiful book ‘Change Sings’ by Amanda Gorman and looked at how we can all make a difference.

EARA

This week, four young leaders from Year 5 travelled to Waterlooville to take part in our first Equality and Rights Advocates meeting (EARA). This group has been set up to ensure that children have an active role in ensuring our school is inclusive and accepting of all different people, wherever they are from and whatever their ability. During the meeting the children met an artist who specialises in  using art to express his emotions and feelings and they had a chance to create their own masterpieces depicting an emotion they felt strongly. 

The group will meet regularly and will use their platform to inform and educate others on the importance of acceptance and kindness.