Class 5 had so much fun decorating their eggs on Wednesday morning, for our whole school boiled egg competition! We are looking forward to seeing who the winner and runner-up is! Take a look at some of our amazing designs below.
This week, we continued our work on Wriggly Squiggly! We focused on punctuation and practised our use of capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. We also learnt some new vocabulary such as ‘abseiled’! We added the ‘ed’ suffix to verbs from the book in preparation for our retell of the story. Take a look at our brilliant retells of Wriggly Squiggly below!
This week, we have been reading the story of ‘Wriggly Squiggly’. We made Wanted posters to help us find the monster from the book, who had been up to mischief around our school! Take a look at some of them below, we’ve used some excellent vocabulary.
NEWCASTLE UNITED – CARABAO CUP WINNERS!
We thought it was really important to celebrate within class, a really special time in history that occurred on Sunday… Newcastle United winning a major trophy for the first time in 70 years!
We watched highlights from the football match, spoke about our favourite players, any other teams we supported and discussed what their win signifies… That through resilience and perseverance, you can achieve anything! Newcastle United didn’t give up – it may have took them 70 years but their fans continued to believe in them despite their losses and they finally did it! ⚽️
Class 5 completed facts, coloured in Newcastle United badges, some children had favourite players and got their photos took alongside them and we also designed our own football kits! ☺️
This afternoon, we’ve had Natalie from the Healthy Minds Team in to teach Year 1 how to change their negative red thoughts, into positive green ones! ☺️
We found out about a boy called Adam today who had recently moved to a new school. He had lots of unhelpful thoughts such as ‘Why did things have to change?’ and ‘I really miss my old friends and teacher’. We helped him feel better by changing his thoughts, such as ‘My teacher will look after me!’ and ‘I’ll make new friends and I can still see my old ones on play dates!”.
We also learnt a new breathing technique – hot chocolate breathing!
We’ve had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day, with the theme of ‘jobs’. We had some brilliant outfits – from caring vets, important police officers and hardworking builders, to sporty footballers and a bossy referee! ⚽️
We absolutely loved dressing up and doing lots of career based activities throughout the week. Happy World Book Day 2025!
This week, Class 5 have been learning all about measuring.
⭐️ We started with comparing heights using the vocabulary ‘taller than’ and ‘shorter than’.
⭐️ After this, we moved onto measuring using non-standard units – cubes! We measured how long and high different objects in the class were.
⭐️ Finally, we moved onto measuring with a ruler! We practised putting the ruler in the correct place and reading the ruler to the nearest cm.
Take a look below!
This week, Class 5 have been learning to count in 5s! We counted in 5s on a 100 square and discussed the pattern that we found. What happens to the tens? What happens to the ones? What stays the same and what is different? This aided our understanding. We then made our own multiples of 5 number cards and practised ordering them correctly! ⭐️
Our final PACT (Parent and Child Together) morning was for our Year 1s and their fab parents & caregivers! ✨
The Year 1 children loved showing their grown-ups how they learn and practise Maths with a range of resources – such as tens frames, our tens and ones and part whole models.
We will you keep all posted about future PACT mornings as we know you’ve all loved making special memories with your children in school.
Class 5 have been working incredibly hard in Phonics! This week we’ve learnt…
⭐️ the ‘le’ and ‘al’ digraphs both make the /l/ sound
⭐️ the ‘c’ grapheme can make the /s/ sound
⭐️ the ‘ve’ digraph makes the /v/ sound
We have also learnt how to read the tricky words: school, call and different.
Take a look at some of our super spelling below, using our new digraphs!
