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Term 5

Lincoln Church Festival 23

The highlight of this week was our visit to Lincoln Cathedral along with Year six's from Tydd St Mary School to our annual Church Festival. We had and informative tour around the Cathedral noticing the beautiful carvings of animals, saints and kings even William I's pet dog.

We saw stained glass windows that were damaged by Cromwell and we agreed that something beautiful came from something broken, reminding us that when problems arise we can hope that things will become better.

Making Carrot cookies from WWII and chocolate krispie cakes for the Parents than-you lunch. Lots of fun was had and it became very messy.

Science Shadow experiment

PCSO Fylippa Bennett came in to talk to Elm Class about Anti Social Behaviour, responsibilities and consequences as a young adult.

Maths - In maths this week we have been continuing our work on algebra and learning to write algebraic equations and solving problems.

English - We have looked at autobiographies and have had a go at writing our own.

PE - We played a quick game of rounders this week, developing our fielding skills and team work.

Science - In science we explored the use of shadows. We spent the day measuring how long the shadow of the metre stick changed and the direction it pointed as the sun moved.

We discussed how these facts were used in the past to create sundials and measure the height of buildings. We also had a great deal of fun making our own periscopes.

Final week of term 26/5/23

Another reading session with parents went well this week.

English - Planning, drafting and writing stories based on evacuated children of WWII with a range of characters who speak either formally or informally.

Full title reads: "Evacuating The Children". VS Good shots including CUs of Salvation army women and policemen helping hundreds of children aboard special trains at the London main line stations. Good CUs of children leaning out of train windows smiling. GV Children stepping down from train onto crowded platform of the country station where they are to be evacuated.

After a very fun Monday unfortunately it was work as usual for the rest of the week.

Maths - We looked at number function machines and working out rules for number patterns.

History - We explored how propoganda is used by country governments to persuade people to agree to what the leaders believe in. We explored how Hitla used propoganda to persuade the Germans that Jews should be destroyed and in the UK there were times like 'the Miracle of Dunkirk' The army had lost the battle. But, instead of focusing on the disaster, the government celebrated the bravery of fishermen and others who used there small boats to rescue some 300,00 soldiers form the battlefield. This encouraged people living in Britain to believe that we could still win the war.

Science magic

Science - We explored how light can be reflected and refracted. Various small experiments were done to investigate.

Bill Nye The Science Guy on Light, Bending & Bouncing

Light bends through a lens. Bill shows us why. We call it the science of "optics." Notice that the light changes direction every time it goes from air to plastic,and then again when it goes from plastic to air. It's slows down and speeds up. When that happens, it just can't help but bend.

Dentist - Some children took part in an annual dental survey. Two dental nurses came in and asked a few questions about healthy diets and food consumption. They looked at their teeth and input data into a laptop. All children who participated got a sticker reward.

PE - We combined our orienteering and mathematical skills n PE this week and completed a challenge set by Mrs Edwards. In small teams we followed instructions to find letters and numbers to created a mathematical equation to score points.

PGL - Caythorpe Manor

We started the week off on Monday with lots of fun and adventure as we visited Caythorpe Manor PLG outdoor adventure centre. We scaled the climbing wall, shot arrows, glided on a zipwire and found numbers using orienteering instructions. A great time was had by all and the children reported to school Tuesday morning saying they slept very well.

Week commencing 15th May 2023

Lastly, a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to all our Year 6 Elm Class children who have undertaken the SATs this week. We could not be more proud of the hard work, perseverance and resilience you all showed. Each and everyone of you are amazing.

Well Done Guys!!

Thanks to the parents that came into Elm Class and read with some of the children.

In History we spoke about Children who were Evacuated in WWII. Mrs James brought in a wonderful historical artifact a bracelet given to her own Mother when she was evacuated.

Continued Team skills and leadership skills during our PE lessons

Another insightful and delicious Philosophers cafe in RE

Music was fun this week.

Week Commencing 8th April 2023

Elm Class wants to wish you all a wonderful Coronation Bank Holiday Weekend.

Good Luck King Charles. Long may you live.

The Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla

Geography

This week we discovered that over 50 countries were involved in WWII and many if those countries belonged to the British Empire. We located them all on the world map, showing which countries supported the allies, the axes and those which were neutral.

World War II

Art

Miss Parker gave Elm class a fun challenge this week. She asked them to use photography to prove their knowledge and understanding of Foreground, Middle-ground and Background.

PE

Another great lesson and fun had as we continued to develop our teamwork skills. Learning to trust in a leader to lead the team to success.

Science

We explored what shadows are and how they change depending on the distance away from the light source. We spent lots of time measuring distances and recording the results.

English

We continued with our formal writing having to edit drafts of letters and re-write them using formal vocabulary, passive voice and even in the subjunctive form.

Maths

Shaping up in Maths, reminding us of the properties of shape; how to measure angles with a protractor and how to plot co-ordinates on the 4 quadrants of the grid.

Week commencing 30th April 2023

History

This week we found out why WWII began and who the leaders of the main countries involved were. We found out which countries were our allies and which were the Axis powers.

We located all the countries using an atlas, we then found their capital cities and were surprised how many there are.

In music we have introduced a new instrument into our lesson - The Tiako drum.

Science

We worked on our scientific enquiry in science this week. We found out that when you light a candle, it doesn't melt, it in fact burns and this process is irreversible.

PE

In our lesson this week we developed our team work skills, which was great fun as well as revealing. We discovered how important it is to give clear and precise instructions and how easy it is for others to misunderstand.

RE

This week we recapped Hindu beliefs about Brahman and explored the Trimurti.

Creator - Brahma

Preserver - Vishnu

Destroyer - Shiva

Maths

We have been multiplying and dividing integers, decimals, and fractions. Looking at the most effective methods to find our answers.

English

We have been looking at the different parts and types of sentences. We can differentiate between phrases, clauses, simple, compound and complex sentences.

Looking and formal and informal words and writing.

ICT

Programming sprites to move round a mathematical shape was challenging in ICT this week . WE had to debug the algorithm several times before it went along the correct path.

Week commencing 24th March 2023

3 of our 4 Theatre performances went brilliantly today (Friday) with the KS1 children getting involved and having a blast watching the Elm Class actors perform

Exploring artifacts for 1930's

History

Mrs James brought in a selection of artifacts form the 1930's and as small groups and then a whole class,we discussed how life may have been very different in that era compared to how we know life today.

Science with Grammarsaurus - How do our eyes see?

Science

Finding light sources and the importance of light to allow us to see.

We also talked about the stars and sun in the sky and the differing sizes and how some appear larger or smaller depending on the distance that they are from us.

To show this in simple terms we selected our Tallest child - Issy ; our shortest child - Raymond and had a little fun. See the pictures below this text to see the results.