Wow! I’m sure everyone will agree that KS2 put on a fabulous performance of Robin Hood And The Sherwood Hoodies on Tuesday and Wednesday.
They have worked extremely hard by learning their lines, singing songs and making props.
There are some incredible young actors amongst us at St James’, and most of all, we had so much fun putting the performance together!
A massive thank you to everyone who came and supported yesterday at Sports Day.
We kicked off in the morning with EYFS and then carried on with years 1-6 in the afternoon.
A huge well done to all the children who took part and showed courage, resilience and lots of determination. The signs made in the classes looked fantastic as well.
Congratulations to the blue team who scored the highest amount of points!!!
We enjoyed joining together this afternoon for some football coaching.
Check out our brilliant ball skills!
During our D.T lesson, years 3 and 4 joined together to explore how to create models using Techcard. They did a fantastic job at using the resources to construct stable models.
decide increase
describe
exercise height
surprise beautiful
Next week, we will be practising spellings with the tion suffix.
station
caption
emotion
nutrition
fraction
question
This half term, some children will spend our “Book Club” sessions reading in a shared group. Year 3 love this time and it’s brilliant to see them sharing a love of reading together.
I have been so impressed with how they organise themselves in their reading groups and decide on a realistic amount of reading that should be done at home before the next session.
In order for group reading to work properly, the children need to make sure they are reading at home so they can keep up with their group.
This week, Year 3 have been learning how to tell the time on an analogue clock.
We recapped o’clock and half past and familiarised ourselves with the minute and hour hands.
After this, we looked at telling the time past the hour and to the next hour.
We notice that the numbers on the clock represent 5 minutes, so knowing our 5 times tables is very important.
We also tried to solve some word problems such as:
Year 3 leave for their trip at five past 9 and arrived at half past 9.
How long does it take them to travel there?
Help at home:
Use this virtual analogue clock with your child and ask them to make different times looking carefully at the hands.
Interactive clock | analog clock | digital | movable | teaching clock | visnos
To finish our forces and magnets topic, Years 3 and 4 created some games using magnetic force.
Their favourite was the fishing game where they put some magnetic tape onto a rod and a paperclip inside a fish. They explained they knew that the tape would be attracted to the paper clip, so we could catch some fish!
As we did such a great job, we went and showed Reception our work.
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Help at home: Can your child explain how they created their game? Can they explain what we mean by magnets and how they attract and repel?
To start this week’s R.E lesson, we recapped what we already knew about some of the world’s major religions.
We also learnt new facts about religions that may have been less familiar to us.
Each week, we will keep looking at these facts and building on our learning of other faiths.
Help at home: Ask your child what facts they can remember about some world religions. Can they name the places of worship and holy books?