We have had an eventful and exciting week celebrating numeracy. We completed a whole school, Christmas themed activity to help our elves get ready in time for Christmas. P5’s task was to create a stable shelf to hold toys. We first tried a basic design, improved this design, planned, drew detailed diagrams and tested our finished shelves with toys. We used problem solving skills, considered balance and weight distributions.

REMINDER

Swimming starts tomorrow (Friday 24th November) so please remember to bring your swimming kit to school. Swimming will run on the following dates:

24th November

1st December

8th December

15th December

22nd December

12th January.

We also have PE on Fridays so please wear comfy clothes and shows for this aswell.

We have learned a little bit about the musical genre of Jazz this term and we discovered that the very first piece of music to be played in space during the Apollo 10 mission was a song from the Big Band and Swing era called ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ by Frank Sinatra.

We learned that  jazz music actually evolved from folk music which is traditional songs passed down from generation to generation.

One traditional folk song we have learned recently is ‘Obwisana’ from Ghana, in Africa. It is traditionally sung by children in a circle passing rocks in time with the pulse of the music. We adapted this by using drum sticks to keep the pulse and we also composed our own four beat patterns. Our performance takes the form of (A) the song, (B) stick pattern 1, (A) song, (C) stick pattern 2,(A) song, (D) own stick pattern,)A) song and the ‘coda’ which we have learned is an Italian term used to describe the ending in a musical piece.

P7 pupils put their enterprise skills in action, setting up stalls offering games to raise money for Children in Need. P5A thoroughly enjoyed the burpee challenge. The pupils even got to meet Pudsey himself. Well done to everyone who took part and raised money for Children in Need.

P5A met with their P3A reading buddies and enjoyed reading stories together in our school library. This is a great opportunity for pupils to learn from each other and gain more confidence in their reading whilst supporting a fellow pupil.

Our topic this term is Space, where we have been learning about the Sun, Moon, constellations and planets. Pupils did a great job creating these solar system pictures, placing the planets in the correct order from the Sun.

Welcome back everybody after our October break. We’ve had a great couple of weeks back at school learning about our Space topic and catching up on everybody’s news. Please see attached the curriculum information for this term, containing our planned learning.

Term 2 Curriculum Information

Please see below, the optional home learning grid which includes literacy, numeracy and topic work.

Please email pictures of any work to gw21leaskcaroline@glow.sch.uk

P5A Home Learning Grid 2

We have been learning about the properties of 2D and 3D shape in maths this term. After learning to draw 3D shapes, pupils tried making 3D models using wooden sticks and blue-tack. Pupils really enjoyed making cubes, triangular prisms and squared-based pyramids. Some pupils even started to build houses with the resources.