Written by P7B

This week:

• We completed some Christmas problem solving activities. We had to use a range of problem solving strategies, such as trial and error and draw a table or a picture. We had to use our teamwork skills as we had the option to work with a partner or small group.
• In writing, we have been looking at Narrative writing and have created our own Christmas Treasury containing a number of Christmas stories. Our first was based on the film, The Snowman, the second, on a book called Christmas Gingerbread and the third is a diary written by a busy elf who works in Santa’s workshop. We are looking forward to sharing our work with some of the younger pupils next week.
• We practised our listening skills by completing a Christmas tree picture. The main skill that we find difficult is listening to all of the instructions, not just the first part. We will continue to work on this next term.
• We had a Prefect Break where we had the opportunity to play table tennis, Just Dance and Karaoke, free time on ipads and crafts.
• Some of the children have read a non-fiction book which included Christmas traditions from around the world. One of the chapters focused on food and featured Panettone from Italy. We all tried some on Friday. Most people in the class enjoyed it and likened the taste to mince pies. Those who didn’t some didn’t enjoy it said it was too sweet.
• We received our Christmas presents from Mrs Wilkinson a little early so we can wear them next week for the Christmas lunch.

We are looking forward to:

• Our Christmas Party on Monday
• The Christmas Lunch on Tuesday
• Watching the Christmas Pantomime
• Painting our clay sculptures
• Taking our Christmas crafts home!
• The Christmas holidays!

It’s been a very festive week in P7 with lots of our activities linked to Christmas – we have still been learning though!

In our Maths we’ve revised co-ordinates and line symmetry from earlier in the block as well as working on our Problem Solving strategies.

We completed some Reading comprehension about Christmas in other countries and also improved our mental map of the world by doing some Geography tasks linked to countries, flags and capital cities.

Sam F and Ailish became teachers for the afternoon when they shared with us what they have been learning about Micro:bits and showed us what they were and how to use them.

We’ve also had some time for Christmas crafts and digital artwork as well as enjoying our third Prefect Break.

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Phew!  What a busy week!

P6 had a wonderful time at their Christmas Party yesterday. They played; pass the parcel, musical bumps, musical statues, musical arms and the After Eight game (which was very messy!).

We also took part in some year group dances and enjoyed a yummy snack half way through. A huge thanks to the Parent Council for our treat bags.

Well done to Dylan who won ‘Best Dancer’ and Rudi who won ‘Kindest Person at the Party’.

Thank-you P6s for an excellent time.

P2/3 and P3 Christingles Christmas cards.

  Working hard on our letters for Riverside House. We hope the residents enjoy our cards as much as we enjoyed making them.

What is your wish for Christmas?

In our party clothes.

On the 2nd day of Christmas we drew these amazing baubles on our iPads. We are enjoying the Inspire Learning Christmas activities.

We had fun recycling sweetie wrappers to make these Christmas cards. We are thinking more about how we can be Eco friendly.

We have enjoyed listening to Christmas music while we have been doing our Christmas crafts. This has actually helped us to feel quite calm and relaxed.

We have worked very hard on 2D shape in Maths too. It has been fun learning about the shapes then playing with them. we have also done some addition and subtraction to make Christmas tile mosaics. We turned these into jigsaws that we can use for Mental Agility games.

P5a and P5b enjoyed their Christmas party on Tuesday afternoon. There was dancing, games and party food, and some very smart and sparkly outfits!
Thank you to Mr Hawkins and Mr Cocolin who have been teaching the dances in PE, and to the Parent Council for the lovely party bags.

Mrs Stevenson’s class spelling – long o

P2 had a fantastic party !

It was so much fun partying with our whole year group.

We loved dancing the Military two step, we played snowmen statues and we had fun finding a partner in the snowball game.

Thank you to the Parent Council for our party bags and food. This made our party much more special.

A big thank you to all of the adults who helped out at our party.

It was lovely to see everyone in their party clothes.

We have been doing some Christmas themed activities this week.

We made Advent  christingles and have posted a video about them.

We sang our Christmas song and painted pictures to go with it.

In PE we have been learning dances for our party next week.

Our recount writing was about our journey back from space where some goes wrong but fortunately we resolve it and get home safely.

In grammar we learned about comparative and superlative adjectives.

We are learning about written methods for multiplication and will be doing division methods next.

In health and well-being we watched an NSPCC video with the message ‘speak out, stay safe’.

We have been using our iPads to learn new skills from the Inspire Team’s 12 days of Christmas. Here are some of our creations!

What a busy week – it seems to have flown past!  We’ve had a festive theme to many of our tasks this week but are very much still learning!

What have been your highlights this week?

What have you learned to do that you didn’t know how to do before?

What have you enjoyed the most? Comment below