Hello ‘folks’, first of all we’re as glad to be back at school as you are glad to have us back! Great to see our friends, more variety to our day, back to some sort of routine and structure, learning new things again and, of course, an end to having to teach you how to do things.

Mr Burns, it seems, is not all he’s cracked up to be. He’s actually really moany, he’s always saying we’re not listening. Well at least we think he says that……….. It’s early days I suppose, he might improve.

We do have a few new things going on in the classroom though – ‘Peak of the Week’, Achievement Wall, ‘Stars of the Week’, birthday balloons, there’s more to come we’re sure.

In terms of schoolwork, at the start we did a bit of revision across the board as expected. Just to see where we’re all at. We’ve since moved on to Fractions and now Decimals in Maths with Percentages to come after. Quite a few of us were very happy with our Assessment Poster showcasing all our knowledge regarding Fractions. In Literacy we’ve been doing quite a bit of comprehension, Burnsy does this ‘Quick-Fire Comp’ which is slightly more palatable. Writing has focused on Writer’s Craft where you continue a story in the style of the author. We’ll be bringing home a creation in a short while for you to pin on the fridge.  Lots of P.E. and learning about ourselves and each other in Health & Wellbeing. We had a crack at Mindfulness too and we’re going to keep at it going forward. As you know, we’ve been outside quite a bit (in all weathers!) and we’re always trying to think of creative ways to learn about our Numeracy, Literacy and Health & Wellbeing while we’re out there. A thanks to Mrs Hutchison and Mrs Verdinelli for coming along on a Tuesday morning which lets us get to the forest.

Other headlines would be our Cartoon Creations which we’re extremely proud of – we’ve heard lots of people admire them on the way past. We’ve been learning about Vocations, different feast days and the messages in bible passages during R.E. We got to choose which country we wanted to investigate and also which aspects we want to find more about. The idea is that we feedback to each other and that way we learn more about a wider variety of countries. We’re also doing the Solar System with Ms Harris when she comes in.

There’s also been plenty of high jinks, usual suspects in the middle of things. Can’t tell you anymore than that, but hopefully you don’t hear more about them at the Parents’ Evenings coming up………..

Speak to you again in a month, hope you are well. J

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