As part of our learning on e-safety, we’ve been thinking about when we use passwords and how we can make them as strong and secure as possible. We ordered passwords from the strongest to the weakest and discussed why it isn’t a good idea to use names and dates of birth. We did agree that using lower and uppercase letters, numbers and symbols are a good way of making our passwords safe and secure.
On Tuesday, we celebrated Shrove Tuesday by making pancakes.
They were delicious!
We had a fantastic World Book Day. Well done to all the children who dressed up as a book character. Thank you to Miss Wood from Wetherby Library who came to judge our classroom doors. Each class transformed their door into a book cover.
First Steps: The Gruffalo’s Child
Y3/4 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Y1/2 Man on the Moon
Y5/6 Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears
The winners were foundation with the book Whatever Next?
Our older children spent some of the afternoon reading to our foundation children and sharing some of their favourite stories.
This week’s spelling activity involves making new words by adding an appropriate suffix.
ing, ous, able, ment, ary, ion
Put each new word into a sentence.
This week’s homework is ‘practice makes perfect’ and involves reading a text and answering questions about it.
Please see Miss Beatson if you need a new sheet.
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Suffix tial or cial |
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| potential | crucial |
| residential | racial |
| influential | artificial |
| confidential | unofficial |
| torrential | special |
This week, the homework relating to staying safe was brilliant! Here are some examples:
Olivia created a fantastic ‘gaming’ story, similar to our class novel- The Forest of Doom, although her story related to bullying. She also made a spinner using an electrical circuit to decide what happens in the story. A fantastic mixture of Living and Learning, English and Science!
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
suffixes: –able or -ible |
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| adorable | horrible |
| considerable | Possible |
| comfortable | legible |
| enjoyable | incredible |
| reliable | sensible |
| changeable | terrible |
| laughable | visible |
In years 5 and 6, we are thoroughly enjoying our class novel: The forest of doom.
We have battled and escaped many creatures in the forest and we have written non-chronological reports about our own Fighting Fantasy creatures.
In order to battle, we had to roll two dice to create a stamina, skill and luck score. Fortunately, our stamina score was high and it has helped us throughout our adventures.
In PE, we have been working on our own stamina! We hope to see our stamina improve over the next half term by practising the same skills each week.
In Art, we have developed our drawing skills to create our own creature, which we are going to build into a sculpture using Modroc.
We’ve looked at well-known sculptures and shown our own appreciation of art by researching, discussing and writing about them.
We’ve had a great start to our ‘Staying Safe’ week at St James’!
Yesterday, we had a visitor from the road safety team who told us how to stay safe when crossing roads and how to ride our bikes and scooters safely.
Today, we had some visitors from the NSPCC, who told us how we can keep ourselves safe and what we can do if we don’t feel safe. The children were very good at making the Childline phone number with their hands! The children have been given some parent leaflets to take home about online safety, which have been created by the NSPCC.
We’ve also had a fluffy visitor in school- a cuddly, ‘pretend’ dog from the Dogs Trust. The visitors told us how the charity helps dogs to be re-homed. Their key message was how we can stay safe around dogs and the body language a dog might show if it was unhappy.
We are looking forward to many more workshops and visitors throughout the week to help us stay safe. Look on the class news pages for more information about what each class are getting up to.