Welcome to the last term of the school year!

Everyone has returned refreshed and ready for our new topic ‘Navigating Norfolk’.  It may be on our doorstep but we have been comparing the Norfolk Broads with the Lake District and discovering some of their features.  It has been interesting to find out facts about a place we live so close to.  This has been linked to our English reading books ‘Float’ and ‘Floodlands’.

Foxes started the week trying out some origami as they grappled to learn how to fold and crease paper into first a plane and then a boat.  This was highly amusing as they wrote instructions using explicit details, imperative verbs, adverbs and creative imagination.  We tried out each other’s instructions to check for clarity.  

In maths, we learned about decimals and how to divide by 10.  Children reasoned with problems to show their understanding.  

Year 6 have had a week of SATs practise but had a busy week of bikeability with some year 5 too.  There was also Judo for others and a new gymnastics session during PE.

This week we enjoyed sharing the ‘Stickman’ story.  We had fun building our own Stickman, balancing logs on top of each other to see how tall we could make him.  

After reading about him floating down the stream, we investigated other things that float and sink. 

Outside, our dinosaurs went for a swim and had a game of hide and seek!  The next morning, we discovered the water had frozen.  There were shapes in the ice that looked like dinosaur footprints and teeth! 

We used sticks to make wind-up hedgehogs and road tracks for our cars.

If you go for a walk this weekend, look out for a good stick.  What could you use your stick for?

This week saw the first of our music lessons from the visiting Norfolk Music Hub teacher which was well received  in Fox class.  Not only did we learn our first notes on the recorder but we also began to understand how to read music too.  We can’t wait until next week.  Some of Fox class joined in the after-school club where children are learning to play the ukulele. (Spaces are still available if you wish to join – I am even considering it myself.  It sounded so much fun!)

It has been a shorter week than normal but Key Stage Two have still managed to pack their learning in.  Our independent diary writing showed stamina and reflection as we edited our work to showcase our understanding of cause and effect conjunctions, fronted adverbials and emotive phrases.  Topic focused on map reading around Britain to identify where the Romans invaded.  We looked further into many of the Latin names for our cities plotting these on our maps with the help of Google Earth.  Do you know the first area the Romans invaded? Ask your child/ren because they should be able to tell you and name some of the Latin cities.

We hope you enjoy the photographs this week!

Otters have been looking at ‘More / Less’ in maths and continued our stories of ‘Rapunzel’. In topic lessons we have looked at Indian Weddings, Henna and the city of Mumbai. We have been loving our new weekly Boogie Bounce sessions and we are really excited for our next session! Soon we have got a special visitor coming in to do some workshops based on Diwali! Watch this space!

Wow what a busy few weeks it has been! We have had transition days, swimming, sports days and somehow continued to do our normal lessons. This week the children researched Howard Carter and completed a fantastic fact sheet all about him. They then put their new found knowledge to good use and debated whether he should have taken the artefacts from Tutenkamun’s tomb. Well done team!

This week in Otter class, as well as working hard to keep cool, we have been very busy learning about fractions, and thinking about the things we would keep or change for our poem ‘If I Were in Charge of the World’.  In topic, the children have been busy learning painting and drawing techniques, ready to create their own Monet/Klee masterpieces! On Tuesday we celebrated our similarities and differences on ‘Go Ahead and Sparkle’ day. We created some gorgeous rainbows on the playground that you may have seen, and while we were out there we were treated to a sun halo. The children were fascinated (and confused as it was not raining), so we returned to class and had an impromptu investigation into what causes them.