The Children in KS 1 had a fantastic afternoon on Tuesday 11th February as they shared and applied their learning around what we all need to do to stay safe on line.

The children had explored the issues relevant to them in the morning and then came together in mixed year teams in the afternoon to create something which would help others to stay safe on line.

We had teams making model computers, some creating posters and a number even got together to create and present small plays. Because of this, we decided to move our learning to the hall so we all had the space we needed to practice and produce our projects comfortably.

The children were scaffolded in planning a project from start to finish and then presenting it to their peers. The peer evaluations provided were incredibly interesting!

Please talk to your children about what we all need to do to make sure we are staying safe and secure on line.

If there is anything you would like to talk to us about, please just pop in and we will find time to chat.

We love to celebrate all of the fantastic things that being a member of the human species gives us all and so Chinese New Year was a great opportunity to not only develop our understanding of China, its georgaphy, people and culture, but also to let our hair down with a bit of a dance!

We were delighted to be able to welcome back West End in Schools, who led the children through an energetic and exciting retelling of the story of how the Chinese years came to be named after animals.

Happy New Year of The Rat!

What a great question! This is a tricky one to answer and so when I got asked this by one of the children the other day, I thought it best to bring in an expert!

We were really lucky Mr McFarlane, one of our parents (who also happens to work for a bank!) was able to come in and give the children a really rich and informative experience that answered their question so well.

Please find below the half term home learning. It is due in on Monday 24 th February 2020. Reading and contact books are due in every day.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to come and see me.

Jack Whitty

Maths Home Learning

Spelling (HFW)

Spelling practise – words ending in tion. ssion. sion. cian 11.02,20

Understanding Vocabulary Meerkat Mail wc10.02.20

X Table Home Learning

Literacy HL Information texts 6.2.20

Spellings 6.2.20 tious and cious

Maths HL Converting units

For the next few weeks, we will be learning all about shapes in year 5.

Geometric reasoning 5.1 learning journey

The learning journey shows you the order that we will be learning about shapes in.

We started our learning journey by investigating shapes to remind ourselves of previous learning.