Old Leos women’s and girls cricket opportunity
Local cricket club, Old Leos, have opportunities for womens and girls cricket. Please contact them for more information.
Design & Technology food: overnight oats
This week, Year 2 have prepared, eaten and evaluated our overnight oats. This is part of our Living and Learning (healthy eating) and Design and Technology (food preparation) learning.
The children have used some different food preparation skills (snipping, peeling, bridge and claw cutting technique, mixing, measuring liquids, using measuring spoons, weighing and arranging toppings) as part of this learning to create their finished product.
Then, it was the best bit – the tasting!
Finally, we evaluated our product and considered any changes we’d make next time.
Help at home: your child will be bringing this recipe home. Why not try it at home and let your child show you the skills they have learnt.
Computing: What is a sprite?
This half-term, Year 4 are computer programmers!
A computer programmer is someone who writes instructions, called code, that tell a computer what to do.
Your children have been using Scratch on the iPads to demonstrate their programming skills. On Scratch, you can program sprites to do a variety of things like move, change costumes and make sounds.
A sprite is a 2d character in a computer game.
Your children worked with a partner to program three different sprites to move in three different ways. We had some really creative ideas like an astronaut floating through space or a fish swimming underwater. It was great to see your children thinking like computer programmers and building some really effective programs.
I’m looking forward to seeing how their programs develop over the next few weeks!
Help at home: visit the Scratch website (https://scratch.mit.edu/) and practise programming. Can you get your sprite to talk? Walk? Change costume?
Reminder: stay and learn session
Number 2 – 18.03.25 9-9:30am
Bikeability
Year 5 have taken part in bikeability; they have all really enjoyed the sessions! The leaders of the session have praised the children for their brilliant behaviour, great listening skills and fantastic determination.
Help at home: Why not go out on a family bike ride this weekend and ask your children to explain how to stay safe whilst out?
Group reading week 3
Here are the target pages for this week’s group reading. These need to be read by Friday 21st March. Your child’s reading record activity needs to be completed based on the pages they’ve read.
65-storey Treehouse: up to page 83
The Accidental Secret Agent: up to page 43.
Chatty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again: up to page 43.
Chatty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon: up to page 53.
The Twins at St Clare’s: up to page 23.
An Elephant in the Garden: up to page 56.
Help at home: read these pages with your child and sign their reading record activity.
Writing: Grammar
This week, in writing we have been looking at lots of different grammar units: subject, verbs and objects; active and passive voice; dashes, semi-colon and colons; and relative clauses.
Every main clause must have a subject and verb and sometimes it has an object. The subject is the ‘do’er or be’er’; they are the person or thing that is doing the action. The verb is the doing or being word and the object is the person or thing that is having the action done to them.
An active sentence always follows the rule of ‘subject, verb, (object). Whereas, a passive sentence always goes ‘object, verb, subject’.
Dashes, semi-colon and colons always go after a main clause (a sentence that makes sense by itself).
A relative clause can be used to give additional information about a noun.
They are introduced by a relative pronoun like ‘that’, ‘which’, ‘who’, ‘whose’, ‘where’ and ‘when’.
Help at home: Have a go at these exam style questions.
Oracy
Today, in reading, we practised some oracy skills in order to prepare for a debate.
One partner had to describe, using good speaking skills, a picture for their partner to draw. Then, we swapped over.
We discussed how you had to choose precise words so your partner could draw accurately.
We had a lot of fun.
Help at home by playing games like this, or other barrier games, to sharpen your oracy skills!
Guided Reading Week 3
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 21st March.
Extra Time: up to chapter 28/page 133.
Flood and Fang: up to chapter 11/page 137.
Rooftoppers: up to chapter 12/page 106.
The Girl of Ink and Stars: up to chapter 16/page 144.
Kensuke’s Kingdom: up to chapter 6/page 85.
Spring 2 : Week 3
The children have done an amazing job performing in our class assembly this week. They spoke and sang with confidence-well done reception.
During literacy we have been reading The Hundred Decker Bus. The children have been discussing where they would like to go on their bus and what they would have on their deck.
We have been enjoying developing our gross motor skills on the equipment.
Math
This week we have been looking at more than and less than. We were looking at what numbers fit inside each other (less than) and which number don’t (more than) for example, 4 fits in 5 so it is less than.
Remember: to read the online school books at home. Some of these have not been downloaded which means you won’t be able to read them. Please download them.
Next week on the 18th is our Math stay and learn 9-9:30. You will watch a lesson and then have time in the areas with the children completing math’s challenges.
I have spoken to the children about the new teachers that are replacing me -Mrs Wood Mon-Thu Mrs Brown(Friday). Today Mrs Brown has been in class.