Year One Reenact The Great Fire of London.
To celebrate the end of our Great Fire of London topic, Year One historians created their very own 1666 Tudor street. As the children placed their model houses in a line across the playground, they made sure there were no gaps between the buildings.
Ask your child why.
Then, it was time for the fire!
Ask your child where the fire began. 
We watched in amazement as the flames spread from house to house. Every single building was destroyed!
Ask your child why the fire spread so quickly.
Then, we noticed a gap in the houses. The army used gunpowder to blow up some of the houses.
Ask your child why.
Ask your child what happened to the fire and what is this called.
We have been really impressed by the children’s enthusiasm and increasing knowledge about this important event in history.
Ask your child why history is important.
Well done, Year One!
Christmas songs
A couple of songs for you to enjoy. Fingers crossed that the link works! 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jWtNx9RcwDG0grwwZQ7frQ_9nBr8gUME/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j_cwoovkWtwUlNJuqtJn5pM0SxnOOqXr/view?usp=sharing
Living and learning: RSE
Over the last three weeks, we’ve been learning about RSE – relationships and sex education.
We’ve learnt about such a wide range of topics, from what happens during puberty to how to maintain healthy relationships with friends, family and others!
We’ve learnt that our emotions might change a lot but that nothing is permanent and we know how to help ourselves. Reading about inspirational people who have experienced a rollercoaster of emotions and hearing stories from members of our class really made us feel better. We’re all in this together!
We’ve covered a lot of science over the last three weeks and feel much more knowledgeable! Teamwork has also been a huge factor in what we’ve been doing, as has listening carefully and contributing thoughtfully.
“At first, I thought it’d be nerve-wracking but now I think it’s been so helpful because I know what might happen in future,” said Hifza.
“It’s been very helpful even if it was a bit strange at times!” laughed Joude.
Noah said, “It’s been very interesting learning about RSE. It’s really just learning how humans have survived and reproduced as a species.”
Spelling help!
Many children in the class had spelling as a target on their Learning Updates. Here’s some more information and lists of words to practice with your child.
Things you can do to help:
- Practise the spelling list which come home each week before the Friday test.
- Look back at lists from previous weeks and test your child on a few of these so that they’re revisiting the rules.
- Read lots. This exposure to words will have a positive effect on spelling.
- Keep talking about and practicing homophones. Click here for the lists.
- Be aware of the Y3,4 National Curriculum spelling lists. Many of these will be covered in the lists across Year 3 and 4 but it’s good to have them all in one place.
- Finally, we still have Lexia which helps with reading and spelling at KS2 as well as KS1.
Also, here is the Spelling Strategies document which gives you some different ways of practicing and learning spellings.
Merry Christmas from Year 2!
Merry Christmas everyone!
We hope you enjoy our Christmas assembly 🙂
So, sit back, click on this link and enjoy!
Merry Christmas from Y6
We’re rounding off this term after oodles of hard work and some truly fantastic learning with a mini medley of Christmas songs – the class even had a go at writing one themselves!
Have a very Merry Christmas from Y6 and enjoy the video!
A Christmas Visit from Y3!
Last week, in Y3, we prepared a couple of christmassy things for parents and carers to enjoy!
Our first christmassy video shows Y3 reading a famous poem: A visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore.
After we had performed this, we enjoyed singing along to our favourite carol as voted for by the class – Jingle Bells.
Click on the links above and enjoy!
The Year 4 Christmas Assembly
Hello everyone,
Here it is! Our not very Christmassy, Christmas Class Assembly. We hope you enjoy it!
The Year 4s
Muffling Sound!
In our science lessons this half term, we have been learning all about sound.
Last week, we learnt about how sound travels in waves and that it has to travel through a medium to reach our ears.
Most recently, we have been learning about which materials muffle (make quieter) sound the best – these are called sound insulators.
Here are some pictures of us muffling the sound of a buzzer using different materials such as foil, cloth and a plastic box.
After we had observed what happened when we muffled the buzzer with the different materials, we measured the number of decibels the buzzer produced before and after we muffled it.
We recorded these using the Numbers app and then made our own bar charts to show the data.
Ask your child if they can remember which material was the best sound insulator and why!
As an added challenge for your child, see if they can remember what medium and sound source mean!