On Monday Jo came in to introduce Bike-it Week. Three people dressed up and we had to decide who was the brightest person, so they would be seen in the dark evenings.

We have also been busy making reindeer and peppermint creams for the PTA Christmas Fair on Friday…

Friday – Wear something BRIGHT Day

Daniel won our class prize for being the brightest.

We had to vote on our winner because Mrs C thought we all looked fantastic!

Thank you very much to Mrs Redpath who helped us wrap our reindeer and peppermint creams. They sold like hot cakes…

We mustn’t forget our entries for the Make or Bake a Christmas Tree Competition….

Well done Adam- first prize!

Ready for our Open Day tomorrow we have completed our Poetry, Art and Science displays and thought it would be nice to share our work with you…

It is road safety week next week and beside this we will be baking in class- preparing gingerbread reindeer to sell on our table at the PTA Christmas fair.

Please could I ask everyone go on a cone hunt over the weekend as we will be using them on Monday 30th November during a Christmas Experience (every child needs one).

Finally a few reminders:

Cake break tomorrow

Wear something bright day next Friday (PTA Christmas Fair)

Homework this week is to keep learning those songs and lines and think about costumes. Extension activities could include more Mathletics, reading for the Reading Awards – Non-Fiction (research for your Non-Chronological report) and spelling activities.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs C.

Please remember that it is our cake break on Friday – 20th November!

A reminder has been sent out via email or slip.

Many thanks

Mrs Chapman

We have all been using the column method to subtract 3 and 4 digit numbers. Some of us started with decomposition – splitting the numbers into thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. We know how to ‘borrow’ by taking a ten, hundred or thousand….

We also used numbers with 2 decimal places – to answer money and measure problems.

We had to remember to record all the numbers correctly so that the value of the digits and the decimal point stayed correct.

We looked at these lovely textiles and tried to copy one of them.

We noticed they were all inspired by leaves, flowers and birds.

We have had a wonderful afternoon sketching collections of Autumnal plants.

Observational drawing – looking very carefully and only drawing what we can see – not what we think should be there.  Everyone tried very hard and concentrated on drawing what they could see.  Some of us added some colour with pencils and pastels.  We were all delighted with the results.

Look at our wonderful shapes and balances…

We have been reading Autumn poems, looking for similes and metaphors and other poetic devices used to create wonderful images with words. We have chosen some of our favourites and we are keeping them in our SWAG bags.

Today we went for an Autumn walk around the school grounds for inspiration…. I’m sure you’ll agree, it is a wonderful time of year.   We are going to have a go at writing our own poems tomorrow. 

On Monday afternoon we started our new topic by reminding ourselves of the 7 Life Processes:

– MRS NERG

Movement, Reproduction, Senses             Nutrition, Excretion, Respiration, Growth.

The year 4’s then made posters to help us remember these and looked at Habitats.

The year 5’s thought about flowering plants and how they reproduce – seeds and other ways.

We have taken some leaf, stem and root cuttings and we are going to look after them and see if they can grow into new baby plants. 

    
    
 Finally we had a look around the raised beds for seed heads and other evidence of reproduction of plants.

The strawberry plants have new, baby plants (with roots) forming along the length of long runners sent out by the adult strawberry plant.

Some seed heads are beautiful.

Lime N and C were taken back in time today. To round off our Anglo Saxon topic we decided to have an Anglo Saxon feast and dress up as Anglo Saxons. In the morning we all had a go at making the chicken stew. Once again Mrs Redpath and Mrs Taylor showed us how.

We also completed our banners and put on our broaches.

Thank you everyone who helped and attended our Saxon Feast: it was fantastic to see pupils, parents and staff tucking into chicken stew and apple cake.

We were entertained by lyre players and performance poetry.

We also shared our banners…

What an exciting and busy day!

Thank you once again to everyone that joined us. We have really enjoyed sharing our work with you.

Have a wonderful break and I will see you all next term.

Mrs Chapman