P6/7 and P7 have recently been making the school a little more Christmassy by decorating different doors around the school.
The children had to measure the doors then draw a plan of their door to scale. They then had to plan out their design and select the resources they would need.
We then had Mrs Townsend-Sawley judge these doors and the winning design was ‘It’s Cold Outside’.
Well done to everyone on their amazing designs!
This Term in P6/7 we have been continuing to focus on Literacy and Maths. In Maths we have been learning about angles. We all should know what an acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles is. We have been measuring different angles with a protractor and have had a go at drawing different angles too.
We have also focussed on number patterns. We looked at Pascal’s triangle and Fibonacci’s number pattern.
In Literacy we have been writing different types of poems, reports and instructions. Linked to our IDL focus of Festivals of Light we wrote a report about Diwali and created a game about Hanukkah, which we wrote instructions for. We learned about Advent too and made a Christingle. In Literacy we have also looked at the features of different types of traditional stories (myths, legends and fairytales). We have had a go at comparing older and more modern texts.
In the lead up to Remembrance Day in November our class created poems inspired by Flanders Fields. We then created paintings of soldiers walking through poppy fields. Our class painted poppies onto stones and we took them home. Some of us placed them on local war memorials.
As part of our Health and Wellbeing focus this term we looked at cyber bullying. We created posters about the topic, they tell us what is wrong with this form of bullying and the effects of cyber bullying. Our posters suggest ways you can deal with cyber bullying too.
As well as the writing we did about Festivals of Light we created rangoli designs. During Diwali these are created at the entrance to homes of those celebrating the festival. We designed ours and created ours in chalk at the school entrance. We had to make them symmetrical.
Today we said Goodbye to our cleaning supervisor Angie. We wish Angie all the best in her new role and will be sad to see her go. Angie has been here since Heathhall opened and will be sadly missed!
We had a number of pupils who took part in the Super 4s Cross Country League recently.
Well done to all involved!
Pupil Award
Star Writer
Teacher Award
In Literacy we have been doing lots of interesting work such as, imaginative story writing, describing a character using similes, metaphors and personifications, taking notes about the festivals of light then putting them into a descriptive paragraph and lastly lots of grammar.
We have been writing imaginative stories :they could be about anything. We had to add adjectives, similes, metaphors and personification. Personification is describing objects like you would describe a human, e.g his cloak hung LAZILY over his shoulders.
We have been learning about 2 of the festivals of light: Diwali and Hanukkah. Diwali is a festival that Hindus and also some Sikhs celebrate. Hindus and Sikhs from all over the world celebrate this occasion. The story is about a prince called Rama and his love, Sita. They get sent of to the forest to live with Rama’s brother, Lakshmana. An Evil demon king also lives in the forest called Ravana. Ravana has 20 arms and hands and 10 heads! Ravana kidnapped Sita but she left a trail of her jewelry that lead to the monkey king : Hanuman. Hanuman promised to help Rama find Sita and he told all the monkeys all around the world to help. They eventually found Sita trapped on an island and they built a bridge out of stones. Rama then defeated Ravana using a magic arrow. People lit lamps to help them find their way home.
Now people light little lamps called Diya lamps to remember Rama and Sita. People leave their doors open and create Rangoli patterns to guide the goddess of Wealth and Fortune, Lakshmi, into their homes.
Hanukkah is celebrated in the Jewish calendar. The story is about an evil king called Antiochus who didn’t like people with different beliefs to him so he started a war and anyone who didn’t go to his side would be harshly suffered. Everyone went over to Antiochus’s side. A group of people called the Maccabees never and they went to war and won. Then they looked for oil to help them, it was only meant to last for a short while but god was on their side and it lasted 8 days and 8 nights. Now people light 8 candles in memory of the Maccabees.
In Maths we have been doing symmetry work with Mrs Sim. We worked on our Diwali project whilst doing this. We made symmetrical Rangoli patterns out of paper and we drew and coloured our own. Here are some examples.
“I really enjoyed doing this.” Tyler.
“They were very fun.” Poppy.
“I really like them because they are bright and colourful.” Abbie.
“I really enjoyed doing these because they were symmetrical and really fun to make.” Carrie.
“I liked doing it because it was really colourful.” Callum.
“Learning about Diwali was really fun and I loved how we incorporated it into our maths symmetry. I learned lots of interesting facts I didn’t know. It was really fun to do all the research and it was genius to add it into our maths, art and Diwali.” Scarlett B.
With Mrs Clanachan, we have been learning about Percentages and we calculate percentages from 100. For example, if you had 37 out of 100 it would be 37%. Somehow we managed to incorporate our fractions into this : 37% would then become 0.37 or 37 over 100. After that we did some games like fractions bingo, loop cards and decimal pairs which was really fun.
We have just started revising time and finding the difference between time intervals. E.g. John got on a train at Fullham and was on
We were really proud of all our nursery children who sat quietly at 11am during the two minutes silence for Remembrance Day.
