Welcome back, everyone! Happy New Year.

This week we have been working hard rehearsing our assembly, Giraffes Can’t Dance. Children have been learning their lines and different dances as well as preparing props. It is all looking great so far.

We have also written an imagined response to a dream that a little boy had about his Grandpa. We had to pretend we were the little boy and write to our Grandpa all about it. We had to tell him what had happened and how it made us feel. We included openers, connectives and describing words.

In Numeracy, we have started learning about subtraction. We have been using 2 and 3-step strategies and number lines to take away single and double digit numbers. The P4s have been working with 3-digit numbers.

In Health and Wellbeing, we read The Huge Bag of Worries and thought about any worries we might have and talked about what we can do about them. We realised that not all worries are that big once we have let them out and some of our worries aren’t for us to worry about and we should try to blow them away.

In PE, we have done circuits and also lots of dancing!

This week, we have also been doing our Skills Academy. Children were either developing skills through Lego building, playing board games, creating animations or printing.

This week we have made our lovely snowman wrapping paper to wrap our self-portraits so that we can take them home and gift them to someone special. We are hoping to make someone feel special when we give it to them.

We have also made a beautiful Christmas angel decoration to take home today along with our Christmas cards.

In Numeracy, we have been doing some challenges using our addition and understanding or number skills.

We loved the Church Service on Thursday and really enjoyed sharing the French song about what Father Christmas wears with the congregation.

Both the P3 and P4 classes enjoyed their Christmas parties at the beginning of the week ad the whole school enjoyed singing along to the Christmas Top 10 Countdown today.

Have a great holiday, everyone.

This week we have been writing a Diary Entry, imagining that we were William from our class novel, The Christmasaurus. We had to include his thoughts and feelings, plus connectives, openers and descriptive language. In Literacy, we used a thesaurus to find more interesting verbs that we can use instead of verbs like walk, run, say and laugh. We tried to use some of these in our writing along with adjectives and onomatopoeia.

We have finished our presentations for our individual presentations on either PowerPoint or KeyNote. We have written a record card with notes for our presentation so that we can try and look up at our audience when we’re speaking.

In Numeracy, we have been doing mini assessments. We have done Christmas yoga because the hall is being used for Christmas parties. We have made a beautiful Christmas card with trees of different sizes showing near, middle and far. We finished our rotation of Outdoor Learning activities and had Committees. Today we very much enjoyed the P1 Nativity too! Well done, everyone.

It’s our first Festive Friday! We have been writing our jokes for Newport Primary School’s community bags. We had fun looking at lots of Christmas jokes and choosing one that we wanted to share. We hope to make someone smile at Christmas.

We have also started learning a French Christmas song about what Santa wears! We hope to share it with families at our Church Service.

In PE, we have started doing circuits to improve our fitness. We had 7 different stations that worked different muscles, developed different skills and made our heart rate and breathing faster.

In Numeracy, we have been learning column addition to help us add two 2-digit or two 3-digit numbers together.

In Health and Wellbeing, we researched a charity to find out what sort of things they do to help people or animals.

In Literacy, we started writing our individual presentations. We used the internet to research an animal of our choice and took notes about facts we wanted to share. We will be making a PowerPoint or KeyNote presentation to go with them.

In Science, we explored our senses and how it might feel if they were impaired. We went round lots of different stations and either played a game, discussed a question or investigated something all to do with our 5 senses. We learnt that our senses are very important to keep us safe and there are ways in which people who have lost a particular sense can be supported.

 

This week we have been learning about skin and why it is a very important organ in our bodies. We learnt about what it does to protect us. We learnt how to use Book Creator on the iPad to make a book showing all of the things we had learnt. We had to include a title page, introduction, headings, facts, images and an ending. Book Creator is great because we can change the background, change the size, font and colour of the writing and add lots of images.

In Numeracy, we have learnt how to use Split Strategy to add 2 and 3 digit numbers. It involves splitting the numbers into hundreds, tens and ones or just tens and ones, and then adding these together before putting all the answers together to get the final answer. With bigger numbers it can be helpful to write out each stage.

In Art, we have learnt about Fair Isle patterns and then used this style to decorate a Christmas stocking. They look great and we have put them up in the hall to decorate it for Christmas.

In Health and Wellbeing, we thought about our needs and wants. We discussed certain things like money, food, medical care, clean air and education. We discussed that needs aren’t always available to everyone in the world. We thought about how our needs link to the Rights of the Child and how these aren’t being met for every child in the world. We thought about some of the small things that we could do to help like giving food to a food bank, donating to charity, walking to school or recycling.

In PE, we did a Minecraft yoga session.

Today, the P3s shared an assembly about Childline and the importance of asking for help if they need it. They learnt the phone number and wrote the names of trusted adults that they could talk to. The P4s will be doing this next Friday.

 

This week we have written a leaflet about the digestive system. We had to include and introduction and and ending. We also had to use openers, connectives and adjectives. We were learning more about adjectives this week. We also had to draw illustrations for each stage of the system. We are still working on editing our work and showing where we have used openers, connectives and adjectives.

In Numeracy, we have been practising the 3-step strategy for adding 2 2-digit numbers. Some answers were over 100. Some children were doing some word problems and trial and error challenges too.

In Art, we have started a self-portrait in the style of Julian Opie. We thought it was quite a ‘cartoony’ style of art. We traced a photo of ourselves and then used it as a print to get our face drawn on a piece of art paper. The eyes and nostrils are just black dots! Next week are going to paint them and outline them in black pen. The backgrounds will be nice a bright.

In Health and Wellbeing, we designed clubs that would encourage children to be active for 60 minutes. We made posters to advertise our clubs. We had to include all the details about it, including healthy snacks! We shared our posters with the class. We know how important physical exercise is to keep our heart and lungs fit and our muscles strong. We also thought about the ways in which our families and friends support our Wellbeing by thinking of examples of each of the wellbeing indicators – Active, Healthy, Achieving, Included, Respected, Responsible, Safe and Nurtured.

In PE, we played games of 5 a side football. We had to try to find space so our team mates could pass to us.

Today, we started our committees again and then we had the final rotation in outdoor learning. We have been learning about our skeletons, how to measure in metres and all about the artist Andy Goldsworthy.

This week in Science we have been learning about the heart and the lungs and their functions in the body. In Literacy, we wrote a leaflet to show our findings to others. We also enjoyed sharing our learning about the digestive system with families today. We used a fork, a plastic bag, orange juice, tights and a tea towel to show what happens to a banana and biscuits when we eat them! We learnt how the teeth and saliva break the food down in the mouth and then stomach acid and churning in the stomach break it down even more. The body then takes all the water and nutrients it needs as the food passes through the small intestine and the large intestine. When the food reaches the anus we have the urge to go to the toilet and then we poop it out!

In Numeracy, we have been practising our adding using a 3-step strategy where we add the tens first and then add the ones in two steps, stopping at the next tens number (the ‘tea stop’!) before adding on the remaining ones! We can use a number line to help us break it up.

In Maths, we have been adding costs and finding change. We also set up a Pet Shop with Mrs Skilling where we can practise buying and selling items!

In Art, we finished our milk carton pencil pots! They look fab and hold pens and pencils well! We are really pleased we have reused something that normally gets thrown away. We also had a choice of drawing and colouring a tiger. We chose a tiger as our last class novel had a tiger in it who liked to speak in rhyme and cook!

We are really enjoying the start of our new class novel, The Christmasaurus! It is very funny!

In Health and Wellbeing, we made strategy jars to put ideas in about how we can manage some of our emotions. We worked really well in groups of 4 showing our cooperation skills. We also took photos of us showing the emotion we were working on! It was funny!

This week we have been learning about onomatopoeia. They are words that sound like the things they describe. We used them to write Bonfire Night poems. We also used other descriptive language. All of the poems were excellent! Children have written them up neatly to go on display.

In Numeracy, we have started doing addition work. We have looked at using a 2-step and 3-step strategy to add single digits and 2-digit numbers to 2-digit numbers! We can use a number line to help.

In Art, we have started our design project to re-use milk cartons as pencil pots. We have made a design and have ‘papier mached’ the carton to give us a better surface to paint on. Most of us have chosen to make our pots into animals.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been thinking about how we can manage our emotions. We role-played being a Flight Attendant for Newport Air and we had to give support to a passenger who was angry, worried, sad and happy! We were able to help the passengers feel better by giving advice and being supportive.

In PE, we played games of indoor hockey and also started doing some football skills.

In Science, we cut out skeletons and put them together and labelled lots of the joint and bone names. We also looked at skeletons of some animals and used clues to work out what the were. They were all ‘record-breaking’ animals.

In French, we learnt how to say the seasons.

Welcome back, everyone!

 

This week we have written a story about a child who wakes up with super powers. It was lots of fun planning our stories and we have written and edited them. We have been using coloured pencils to underline where we have used connectives, openers and descriptive language. If we don’t have any we write a sentence to include one.

In Numeracy, we were learning how to use greater than, less than and equals symbols. We have also been doing a Halloween themed problem-solving challenge. We have had to read the questions carefully and then use our number skills to solve the problems.

In PE, we practised our hockey skills and played a game where we had to try a score a goal against a partner.

In Health and Wellbeing we have been talking about the different emotions we can experience and how these can change all the time. We read ‘My Many Coloured Days’ by Dr Suess and then chose colours that match our moods. We wrote new words to ‘If You’re Happy and You Know It’, changing the emotions and giving things you could do to feel better. For example, ‘If you’re sad and you know it, hug a friend’ and ‘If you’re angry and you know it, count to 10’.

Our new topic is The Human Body and this week we learnt about the skeleton and its functions. We learnt that it keeps us upright, helps us move and protects some of our major organs. We learnt that children have 270 bones but adults only have 206 and this is because some of the bones fuse together as we get older.

We have been doing Skills Academy at school this week and the children have been enjoying learning new skills in Lego building, working with others, playing new board games, learning about animation and printing.

This week P3/4 have been writing a story set on Mars. We were inspired by a story on Newsround. We had to describe the setting and our characters. We have been working on including connectives, openers and descriptive language. Some children have also been working on adding paragraphs. We are all editing our work to check for missing full stops or capital letters. We use coloured pencils to underline where we have used the things we are looking for in our steps to success.

In Numeracy, we have been completing some mini tests to check what we have learnt this term!

In PE, we learnt to move with a hockey stick and ball. We had to dribble around cones.

In Outdoor Learning, we used natural materials to create shapes, lines and patterns.

We have been thinking about how we can share facts with a partner and how we can show good listening when our partner is sharing with us. Half the class took notes about oystercatchers and the other half about puffins. Then we shared what we had found out with our partner. We used peer assessment to record how well we had done.

We are going to do a ‘reusing’ project to help the planet. We are going to make pencil pots using the milk cartons in school. We made posters to ask other  classes to collect them for us. We have been washing them and cutting the tops off. We tried sanding them to see if the paint would stick better. Ut didn’t work all that well so we will have to think off another option!

 

Have a brilliant holiday, everyone!