Dear parents,

We have had another exciting week with lots of wintery fun! It is also now the third week of Advent and it was our turn to lead the middle area Advent Service. We explained that this week is the week of Joy, lit the pink candle and sang some hymns. We also researched a little more into the meaning behind the Advent wreath and drew our own. Miss Ventisei thinks they look beautiful!

This week during maths we have been learning more about money. We have been practicing our vertical calculations, including addition, subtraction and multiplication calculations and played a few competitive games of Kahoot! Oreo God (AKA Tyler!) won this week! Emily D says that her favourite thing about maths this week was our Countdown starter. We are all obsessed with this game at the moment, even Miss Ventisei!

Inaayah loved science on Thursday because we had a full afternoon of science stations. We were learning about circuits, conductors and insulators and we had lots of fun building and experimenting with these. Inaayah particularly loved building her own circuit on a cool circuit-building website and Lucy enjoyed doing an experiment where we checked to see if play dough was an insulator or conductor.

We have been learning about conjunctions throughout literacy this week and Bentley really enjoyed creating a story based on John Lewis’s 2021 advert ‘Excitable Edgar’. Emily D liked making a conjunction word cloud on the iPads too!

Julia enjoyed Health and Wellbeing this week where we discussed the Zones of Regulation and completed some class collaboration posters to display in our calm corner.

Lucy liked ERIC and Eilidh liked crazy hair day this week too!

This week our Hot Chocolate winner was Nikola! She always goes above and beyond to help others and show kindness to all in our school community. Thank you and congratulations Nikola!