We have had a great week, with a PJ day, games, movies, and a PARTY. Unfortunately, we have had to say goodbye to Mrs Herd who is moving on to another teaching job closer to home, we want to wish her all the best for the future.  Although this is sad news, we can't wait to welcome Miss Wolf to our class in January.

All of Elm class would like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and New year and we look forward to 2025 and what it will bring.

CHRISTMAS WEEK

In PSHE the focus was how to be a critical consumer and what is value for money. This led us to debate the pros and cons of buying wonky carrots over straight carrots.

We finished our topic by designing a traditional Mayan mask. Some designed a celebratory mask while others designed a death mask.

After recently completing practise SAT's papers, the children were keen to find out how they performed. We reviewed the papers, giving us an opportunity to highlight where they could have picked up extra marks.

The class were excited to finish their maths topics for 2024.  We revisited metric measurements and converted to imperial measurements.

We were excited to watch the Reception class perform the nativity on Monday.

This week the class have written a non-chronological report on the ancient Maya civilisation. They worked hard to include the criteria required and included lots of the information they have learned this term.  They also worked hard to present their work beautifully.  

Week commencing 9/12/24

English - We have finished The Final Year and have written our own poem based on personal experience.

In PE, we practised putting and chipping the ball over obstacles.

In Maths we have finished fractions and moved on to converting metric units

We used our Mayan calendars to look up our birthday. It was much more complicated!

Week commencing 2/12/24

In topic, we began to look at how important Chichen Itza was to the ancient Maya Civilization and will continue this next week. We also learnt about the Maya calendar and how it was influenced by the stars. Did you know that their calendar was more accurate than the Gregorian calendar we use today!

In Science, as part of our topic on Living Things and their Habitats we learnt about yeast. We conducted a comparative test, ensuring that it was a fair test, to find out the best food source for yeast. We compared flour, salt, sugar and vegetable oil.

In English we have continued reading The Final Year and are nearly ready to draft, write, edit and illustrate a poem of our own next week. 

In PE on Wednesday, the class were introduced to archery. We had a fabulous time and were pleased we got through the session without hitting the fire alarm!

This week, Elm Class have shown great resilience whilst completing their first set of practice SATs papers and Mrs Twelves and Mrs Herd are extremely proud of them. This will not be the only practise they do before May, as practise will help the children to familiarise themselves with the questions and the pace required to complete all of the questions in the time allowed. 

Week commencing 25/11/24

Maths - we have continued revising how to multiply and divide fraction by an integer.

English - We continue reading 'The Final Year'. In the story, the characters have just gone through Christmas and New Year so the class enjoyed writing a poem about and sharing their Christmas traditions.

In topic, we learned that the Maya's invented the world's first team game, Pok-ta-Pok then had a go at playing it in PE. We had to adapt it a little, such as we didn't have a sunken floor, we used plastic hoops and masking tape instead of stone hoops and no one was sacrificed!

We enjoyed Christmas Unwrapped at the Baptist Church. We played some games and quizzes about Christmas, learned more about the Christmas Story and decorated biscuits.  Thank you Mrs Judith Taylor for the invitation, we had a fabulous morning.

Week commencing - 18/11/24

In PSHE we discussed financial risk and how we would look after our money.

We continue learning about the Mayas in our topic work and have enjoyed looking at the Mayan artifacts in the classroom.

In Science we continue to look at the classification of living things. We are progressing from animals and plants to micro organisms.  We went on a walk to collect some leaves to help us decide how to classify them. We also searched inside and outside the classroom to identify where we thought micro organisms might live.

In English we have continued to read 'The Final Year' by Matt Goodfellow. It is based around a character called Nate who has just moved up to Year 6. The class have identified will many of the feelings discussed in the book.

Maths - In Maths we have finished the first unit of fractions.  We tested our learning by playing fractions games.

Week commencing 11/11/24

In Science we are looking at the classification of living things and have progressed from classifying animals to plants and microorganisms.

In English we began writing some poetry about people that mean a lot to us.  

In Maths we looked at alternative ways to work out calculations involving fractions. We looked at the bar model method, improper fractions and mixed numbers.

With Mrs Nicholls we explored perimeter and area.

In PE, we progressed in golf from putting to chipping. 

Topic - We have continued learning about the Maya culture. This week we learned about their Gods and the number system. Did you know the Mayas invented the zero as a place holder?

Week commencing 4/11/24

The class voted overwhelmingly to change the day that Homework is sent out from Thursday to Friday. As the books are not being sent home until Friday this week, the children all have until next Friday to complete it.

Izzy was the first in the class to finish reading 10 books and chose to teach the class for 10 minutes. Izzy decided to play a game of Heads and Hands outside at the end of the day, involving the whole class.  Great job Izzy!

Golf and Yoga are our new focus for PE this term. On Wednesday, we enjoyed practicing some short distance, controlled putting out on the playground. On Friday, we started Yoga, revising the yoga poses.

We have started a new topic about Fractions in Maths. So far this week we have revised simplifying equivalent fractions and finding fractions on a number line.

In Science, we have begun out topic of Living Things and Their Habitats.

In English, we have begun with poetry, based around a book called 'The Final Year' by Matt Goodfellow.  It has already given us lots to think about.

As it is the start of a new term, we have begun lots of new topics.  We have begun to learn about the ancient civilization of the Mayans in History and Geography. It is a good job that this is a longer term because there is much to learn!

Term 2  29/10/24

Welcome back! We hope you've had a fabulous break over the half term and are ready for long term before Christmas.