Wednesday 19 December 2012

Art in Willow

In art we have been creating perspective Christmas cards. We have a front which has large picture and the middle with medium picture and the back with tiny pictures. Then we pieced them together using PVA glue. Finally we wrote a message on the back so it was ready to send!

Friday 14 December 2012

Art in Willow Class

In art we have been creating perspective Christmas cards. We have a front which has large picture and the middle with medium picture and the back with tiny pictures. Then we pieced them together using PVA glue. Finally we wrote a message on the back so it was ready to send!

Design and Technology in Willow Class

In D and T we have been designing some bread with added ingredients. We are doing this to explore how yeast works.

Work of the week

Work of the week this week is…

Olivia!

Well done Olivia.

Writers of the week

This week we have 2 writers of the week and they are…

James and Juliet. Well done to those 2 Js.

Shining star

The shining star this term is…

LEWIS

A VERY WELL DONE LEWIS!!!!

I.C.T.

At the moment in I.C.T. we have been piecing together our films on Microsoft windows movie maker. Soon in music we shall compose some music for our films on the keyboards.

Music in UK2

In Upper KS2 we’ve been creating music for the James Bond Skyfall trailer. To do this we have used different voices on the keyboards in the treetops mobile classroom. Some groups have even used sound effects to enhance their music.

Literacy in Willow class

In Literacy this week we have been writing a recount on a specific day in the pearl diver story. We have to write this recount from Saeede’s point of view (Saeede is a boy on the ship) which means we have to write the story in 1st person.

Songsters christmas concert

On Thursday the 13th of December at 18:00 the Songster’s Christmas concert took place. They selected a number of songs from the 2 concert they’re going to in January as well as some Christmas songs they performed on this date.

Science

In Science we have been investigating how mould develops on white bread and brown bread by leaving  one of each on a surface in a plastic wallet. We also put 1 piece of brown bread and 1 piece of white bread in a warm and dark cupboard in a plastic wallet.

P.E.

In P.E. we have been focusing on arts of dance. Most recently we tried is a the gumboot dance which combines the use of wellington boots, clapping and the chest.

Star of the week

The star of the week this week is…

TIAN!! Congratulations Tian!

Joke of the week

Joke of the week
Why don’t you go to South America?

Because it’s too Chile!

An interview with Ewan!

What is your favourite topic we've done this week?
Literacy writing about he pearl diver from Saeede’s (a boy) point of view because: I found it more fun than the other pieces of writing we’ve done this term.

What is your favourite subject and why?
P.E. because: it’s fun to get out of the classroom and play some sport also I feel I express myself during the lessons.

Who do you want to be star of the week and why?
Mr. Edwards because he’s epic!

What are you looking forward to in 2013?
Isle Of White trip

Table points update

At the end of the week the table points are:
Saturn: 161
Jupiter: 146
Neptune: 52
Mercury: 18
Venus: 45

This week's bloggers are...

William and Huw!!!

Friday 7 December 2012

Table Point update

There has been lots of lost table points this week due to untidy tables.

Jupiter has 146
Saturn has 141
Venus has 50
Neptune has 42
Mercury has 8

LOTS OF YELLOW SUNS!!!!!!!

Phoebe, Oscar, Lucia, Jack, William L, Olivia and Ewan

Well done to you all for your fantastic tour guiding.                       

Maths

This week in Maths (Mr Edwards class) we learnt about measurements.
We also learnt about capacity and mass. We learnt that if you want to convert milimetres into centimetres then you divide by 10.

Literacy

This week we looked at a book called The peal diver.We did a story mountain, from the main
Characters point of view, thinking about the structure of the story.
Next week we will be writing the shark attack from Saeed's Point of view.


Now it is time for joke of the week


What do you say to a dinosaur who is blind?

Did he see us?
                                              
                                By Huw

Star of the week is ……

Elouise.....

Well Done Elouise!
                     

Achievements!

Tian passed his Gujarati test.
Huw passed his piano exam.
WELL DONE TO YOU !!!!!!!!

An interview with George

What do you like learning this year?
 “I like learning about literacy because it puts my mind to it. It takes me a long time to plan. It also makes me do my literacy target.”

What helps you learn?

“I use my literacy target because there are times when you need to use paragraphs as well as the excellent teaching of Mr Edwards.”


How does it help you?

“It helps me because the way he teaches is helpful to my writing as well as helping me with the paragraphs.”


This Weeks Bloggers

This week, the bloggers for Willow Class are: Alex V and Moosa

Friday 30 November 2012

Please walk on the Pavement!

An extra note to all children and parents:

Plewase be careful when crossing the road  and try to walk on the pavement provided when coming to school, to make sure no one gets hurt.

Please make sure that you are aware of vans and cars coming in and out of  school. 

CD STARS

On Friday, the whole school are recorded songs for a christmas CD.

Each class has worked very hard learning a class song, as well as the whole school singing together, with each of the Key Stages singing Silent Night and Ding Dong Merrily on High.

Songsters performed excellently, and you can enjoy the wonderful soloists:
Huw Richards
Emma Beardon
Lois Blow
William Collins
Laura Robinson
James Liu
Elouise Wathen
Lauren King

Well done to all of those!

Songbirds also performed a song.

This CD is going to sound brilliant - and we hope you enjoy it!

We have enjoyed our Science this week.

 
On Monday we did our last lesson on space.

Mr Edwards got us thinking about why the moon changes shape. We all came up with different ideas but all stared to pick out bits on why then Mr Edwards showed us a video of how the the moon looks different shapes.

As we rotate round the sun the moon rotates round us so we get 8 moon shapes because the suns light shines on the moon making it loominate so you only see half of the moon that’s why we have a new moon, waxing crescent, waxing gibbous, half moon, waning gibbous, last half moon, waning cresent.



Then we started a new topic about micro-organisms which was really fasernating and disturbing to look at. We briefly looked at viruses, fungi and Bactria. On Wednesday we started a experiment where we took 2 pieces of brown and white bread to investigate which grew mould quicker.

Also, Lydia and George put their hand prints on a piece of brown bread, so we check how much bacteria are on our hands. We will check each throughout the weeks and watch the progress.

     

An interveiw with Alex Penn


This week we are interviewing Alex Penn


What has been the most interesting fact you have learnt this week?
Learning about micro organisms and how they are everywhere.
What has been the highlight of your week?
Maths because we were learning to convert measurements.
what did you find hard in lessons this week?
I didn’t anything hard this week - I was resilient!!
What has been your best work this week?
My best work has been on the reading test because I got my highest score.

Star of the Week!

This Monday Elouise Wathen was picked to be star of the week.

Well Done Elouise!
We think she deserved to be star of the week because she is a good friend and is
there for you when you need her.

 

This Weeks Blog

This week’s blog is written by Elouise Wathen & Lydia Jacobs.




 

Wednesday 28 November 2012

A big sorry from Mr Edwards

A huge apology for not being able to publish the blog the past 2 weeks.

Circumstances has prevented me, and I will try my best to make sure I dont forget to publish it every week!!!

Mr Edwards

This weeks blog is done by...

This weeks blog is done by terrific Thilanka and super Stefan.

Gardeners

Next weeks gardeners are...
Lewis and Oscar        remember to bring those wellies.

Assemblies

This weeks sharing assembliy was from: Poplar
Their assembly was about our bodies. They all make some lovely skeletons made out of paper straws. They also had some interesting facts about that you have more bones when you are a baby than when your body has grown to maximum size (adult). At the end they sang a song including every fact they knew such as that it takes 43 musles to frown and 73 to smile.

Interveiw with ...... Jack

Question 1: How has your time in year 6 been so far.
Answer:It has been pretty good, in maths I have enjoyed making 3D nets.
Question 2: What has been the best thing you have done in year 6?
Answer: The best thing I have done in year 6 would probably have to be trying out all the activities from the Britain since 1948 topic. 
Question 3:What interesting facts have you learnt in year 6?
Answer: I have learnt that Venus is the closest planet to the sun and is the hottest.

Table points update.

This week’s table point update
In 1st: Jupiter (136)
In 2nd: Saturn (107)
In 3rd: Neptune (62)
In 4th: Venus (53)
In 5th: Mercury (37)

Achivements

This weeks achivements.
 Most of willow class have got Super Sports Vouchers for outstanding effort in P.E. (Pysical education).

Maths

In Mr. Gigg's maths group they have been learning about mean, median, mode and range. A lot of people get mixed up with which word goes with which method. We have also been learning about pie charts.

In Mr. Edwards maths group they have done a mental math test and cracking tables. They are also learning about 3D shapes in detail.

Birthdays!

This week it’s Alisa’s birthday. Happy birthday Alisa.

song of the week

This weeks song of the week is: Set fire to the rain by Adele.
Chosen by Poplar class.

Star of the week

This week’s star of the week is……. Alisa!

Joke of the week!


Joke of the week!
Why did the horse wear stripy pajamas? 
Because it was a zebra!

Monday 12 November 2012

This week's Blog is by

Oscar Holmes & Thomas Wilton.

With special thanks to Alex Vernon & Jamie Regan

Maths:

In maths we have been learning about 2D shapes. When you look at 2D shapes you need to see if it has any parrellel sides - when 2 lines will never meet.We also looked at Perpendiclar when a corner meets at 90 degres( right angle).

Achievements

Last week's star of the week is Antonia and this weeks is Ewan.
Last week’s good learner is Lewis for always being there when Mr Edwards needs him, and making a fantastic job of the HIFI system, so well done Lewis!
This week’s good learner is George, he is this because he always working hard and doing his best, so well Done George!
This week Juliet has achieved a whopping 7 silver medals in her swimming competition!
Thomas and Ewan came second in the Bishop Storkford U11 cup finial as well!
  
A busy week for Willow, so congratulations all around.


The joke of the week is:

The joke of the week is:
“I’ve got a apple phone –
It’s got all you can eat data”

Friday 26 October 2012

A Very Busy Week!

Enterprise Week


Due to how busy our class company have been throughout the week, the blog unfortunately is unfinished. Therefore, Oscar and Thomas (our bloggers for this week) will carry on and write the blog for the first week back.

Enterprise week has proved a fun, exciting and very worthwhile project, providing the children with so many new learning opportunities.

The children worked out the budget, with the £30 given to us, Negotiated letting and rental costs with Ms Buckley, Advertised their product, Marketed their product, Produced over 400 cakes (with a lot of help from Mrs Marriott, Mrs Hewitt and Mrs Geddes), and diligently organised the day excellently.

The hall was buzzing with excitement throughout the whole afternoon, and the children demonstrated a caring and helpful attitude towards the younger children, aiding them in giving the correct amount of money.

All children took their roles responsibly, turning up to their shift on time, with some children working overtime.

I want to say a massive congratulations to all the children involved for embracing this project, and working so hard throughout the whole half term.
Elouise Marketing our Cupcakes

Selling at our stall

Some responsible workers

It has been a long term, and I think that the children have had an excellent start to Year 6, setting a superb example to the whole school, and leading by example.

Have a restful half term.

Mr Edwards

Friday 19 October 2012

Moon Buggy Update


This week on Monday we made a huge step foward with some people even getting to stick the motor on and their circuits on. We also had our first people start decorating their moon buggy and even testing it on a test course made up out of the floor and rubber bands.


This is lucia's moon buggy

Music

In music this week we put both hands together on the James Bond theme tune. Some of us found it a bit hard so we went back over the basics and we got it in the end.

James has worked hard and has managed to finish the whole theme tune from james bond using BOTH hands!


The song of the week this week is.....musical memories which we started to learn on Wednesday;  this song is already a favourite in songters as they have performed it in front of the school.

We look forward to music next week!

Joke of the Week

What did the chimney say to the other chimney?

"You're too young to smoke!"

Week 7 in Willow

Week 7 in Willow

We have had a brilliant week this week in Willow and we hope to have lots more in the future!



Fact of the week: Did you know there are more sheep in Wales than humans?



This Weeks Brilliant Blog was writen by Lewis And Juiet







A Note From Mr Edwards

What a busy and action packed week we have had this week!

Our filming is nearly complete, and we have shared a few laughs over some of the "Out takes" of the films. These are all looking good, and I am sure will shape into good films after half term, when we start turning them into movies, using Movie Maker.

A few reminders:


- Christmas card designs and orders need to be in on Monday if you wanted to take part in the Christmas Card Project.

- We all completed face portraits today for the Willow Class Canvas Bag - there is an order form sent via email.

Enterprise Week - Next Week


Dont forget to come and support us in our fantastic project. We will be working towards the business side of this next week - and will be mass producing 2 types of cakes. So don't eat and save yourselves for our fantastic cakes on Friday.

Have a good weekend,

Mr Edwards

Film Stars Update

This week in litracy we carried on with our films and each group filmed about 2 scenes for their films
On friday it was our last chance to film our movies and luckily we all added the finishing touches to our scenes.
We have all worked really hard on our movies and hope they turn out well; if we are lucky, we may get an extra session to revisit scenes next week.

Cartoon of the Week - By Huw Richards


Here is this weeks cartoon by Huw

In Coversation with.......Lucia

How do you feel your week had gone this week?
Good because I have been able to nearly complete my moon buggy. Also my table has been picked for the best idea for enterprise week.

What has been your faviorite moment of the week and why?
Doing my moon buggy because i am very creative.

What are you proud of this week?
My good leaner certificate because i have never had one before.

What interesting things did you find out this week in willow?
 I have learnt how to use a camera.

Do you think the writer of the week is worthy of her position?
Yes i think phoebe does deserve writer of the week because in every sentence she described what was happened in lots of detail.She also used an adjective to describe every single object, movement and feelings; also she used all her senses in her writing.

If you could change one thing about the week what would it be?
We had a maths test and at the end lots of people were just sitting there when they could of had a lession insted.

Table Points Update

This week we have all worked really hard and earned lots of table points. Here are the scores

Table Points Update:
Saturn: 92
Jupiter: 96
Neptune: 52
Mercury: 35
Venus: 48

Achievements


Writer or the week: This weeks writer of the week is Phoebe for her amazing piece of writing on her diary entry about her favourite time on Mars.

Good Leaner:Lucia for excellent responsibility and a pro active aproach to school life from Mr Edwards.

Birthdays: Happy birthday to JAMES, PHOEBE AND JAMIE!!!!

Raffle Winner: Well done to Oscar.

Assemblies

On Wednesday we had a singing assembly led by Mr Edwards. We got taught the "Musical Memory" song which always got you awake and cheerful. Unfortunately we didn't get to learn the whole song because we didn't have time but that means we have something to look forward to next week.

On Friday afternoon we watched Maple classes assembly, which was about all the learning that they had done since the start of half term. They also added a segment on blockbusters where they had there own game show.
Well done Maple class, we thought your singing was super!

Enterprise

On Monday, Willow class had a talk about Enterprise.
We have decided to make our cakes chocolate and vanila.We are also going to have some cakes iced and some cakes not iced so that kids or even adults can ice there own.
We hope our idea is a success!

Saturday 13 October 2012

FIlm Stars

This week, we have been filming our stories, which we have been working on within Literacy lessons. Each narrative is based around the idea of flashbacks, and we were inspired by the film "The Piano", which we have been learning about within lessons.

Venus table working on their film.

Jupiter table filming their scenes.


Friday 12 October 2012

Week 6 in Willow Class

We have has an action packed week in Willow class. We have started filming our films, and had a lot of laughs watching some of the interesting ideas, costumes and acting.

Achievements

Tian achieved level 14 and James achieved level 16 in cracking times tables.

Thomas  was awarded the Bedford plate for under 11's rugby.

Moosa  has been given a certificate at his mosque for good attendence, good behaviour and speaking clearly.

Lewis produced an excellent newspaper article for homework, and has been awarded work of the week!

Well done boys!!!

This week's Star of the week is Lewis Covey Crump.


Interview with Oscar


How has your week been:
It has been a great week and i've really enjoyed it .

What has been your favourite lesson:
My favourite lesson has been art and dt because it's really challenging and great fun!

If you could change one thing about the week,what would it be:
I would change one of the camera angles we used in our films so you could see the charecters better.

What has the best song we have sung in assembly:
I think that the best song has to be big red combine harvester!

A Note from Mr Edwards:

Enterprise week


We have been working hard on our enterprise ideas this week. Each table came up with a number of ideas, which they then finalised to one idea, which they presented to the class. 

The ideas varied from a newsagent, selling food, magazines and drinks to sandwich stalls, full of tasty wraps and drinks.

The overall winner was E.A.T - A stall offering cakes and sweet treats. 
The idea was from Tian, Olivia, Lucia, Alex P, Jamie and Salim, and they produced a confident presentation, with some very impressive market and financial research done from Tian.


We hope to see many of you to buy our fantastic cakes and treats!

Well done on working hard this week, and especially well done to everyone who put in extra work in home. 

Have a fun and relaxing weekend.

Mr Edwards


















What has been your favourite lesson this week?

What is your favourite assembly song?

If you could change something about the week, what would it be?
Excited and good for the future


Table point
surn 51

Sat 51
jupiter 51
neptune 30
mercury 25
Venus 37

Music of the week - Worlds greatest

Rowan class chose emilie snadez

Friday 5 October 2012

Science

How does the tilt of the Earth affect our lives?


This week in Science, we learned about why the tilt of the Earth affects our lives. We did an experiement and placed lots of chocolate buttons on a globe and shone a light on them to see which melted first.


Cartoon of the week - By Jack and William.

Title Pages

We worked at completeing or title pages in our spare time today.






Week five in Willow Class by Olivia and Phoebe

      Week 5        

Fact of the week:  The Sun is a star so big that over one million Earths could fit into it.

Birthday of the week:  Happy birthday Oscar for the 7th of October!

The star of the week this week is Phoebe.

This week we are bringing in money to donate to the lifeboat charity and we are having an assembly about it.

The Table point’s update is:

Saturn: 51
Jupiter: 59
Neptune: 58
Mercury: 41
Venus: 53

Work of the week this week is Alex Penn as he drew and wrote his homework with style.

Writer of the week this week is Huw as he used very powerful verbs and adjectives.

This week school council gave an assembly to show who the new members are. It was very interesting and we know that they will do a good job.

This week we are interviewing Elouise Wathen


What was your favourite lesson this week?

My favourite lesson this week was D.T because you had to make and cut the chassis exactly right otherwise it wouldn’t work. It was very testing.

What did you find challenging this week?

I found RE quite challenging because we had to write out the four noble truths in our own words.


 

What was your favourite lesson this week?

My favourite lesson this week was D.T because you had to make and cut the chassis exactly right otherwise it wouldn’t work. It was very testing.

What did you find challenging this week?

I found RE quite challenging because we had to write out the four noble truths in our own words.

Did you do Literacy?

Yes we did Literacy this week.

What did you do in Literacy?

We have been mind mapping ideas for making films on our tables.

What have you been learning about in your maths group?

This week we have been learning about using column multiplication which can be quite tricky because we hadn’t done before, until now.

How has your week been, did you find it challenging or ok?

It’s been enjoyable and challenging at the same time.

Harvest

Today (Friday) we celebrated Harvest with a fantastic assembly, organised by the school council. There was sweet singing from a number of our class:
William C
Elouise
Lydia
Lucia
James
Alex.V
Phoebe.
Our school council members to perform in the assembly were:
Lucia (who produced the brilliant power point as well#0
Ewan

Well done to them all!!!

Friday 28 September 2012

In Conversation with...........Lewis

How has your week been?
What was your favourite lesson?
My favourite lesson was Maths making shapes on friday i found that we had to use all the five R's
What lesson did you find most challenging?
Literacy because although I had fun, some of the work was a bit hard.
What are you proud of this week and why?
I did my best work on Literacy because I really extended my writing and  used good punctuation.
What was your favourite moment of the week ?
My favourite moment of the week was when songsters performed their song in assembly.
 Have you enjoyed this week?
Yes I found it very fun and enjoyable!
What interesting facts did you find out this week in willow?
I found out in Science that the Earth’s rotation creates the seasons.  
Do you think star of the week is worthy of its position? Yes.
Do you think writer of the week deserves to be writer of the week?
Yes because Huw really extended his writing by using good vocabulary.

Literacy

In Literacy we have been looking at the film "The Piano" from the character’s prospective. We have done this by hot seating and writing down questions that we would ask in our books.On friday we started making an extra scene we also manerged to get our scores from our first two pieces of writing. 

This week the Willow class blog is written by Ewan and Stefan

We have been working extreemly hard; In E.R.I.C, when we come in from lunch and when we get in to school to make sure the first Willow blog is amazing!

Maths

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

On Monday we did cracking times tables, in Mr Edwards class, also we did some problem solving in maths it was challenging but we did it in the end. In Mr. Gigg's maths class we were learning about factors, I found it easier then I expected and so did most of the other pupils Giggs group.

This week's birthdays.

This week we’re celebrating Ewan’s birthday on Tuesday - Happy Birthday Ewan !!!

Thursday 27 September 2012

In Scienece we have been working hard to create a display on the solar system

We painted the different planets, and made some meteors and comets.




We researched the different planets and created information sheets on each of them.


Finally, we set about creating our display...

Cartoon of the Week -By Jack and William

Wednesday 26 September 2012

Singing Assembly

This week, the Songsters performed in front of the whole school; singing one song that songsters learned and some assembly classics!

 We also wew suprised to find out that we achieved the sing up gold award for our amazing singing!

 
In summary, we experienced a phenomenal amount of fun on Wednesday morning. It was also great to see many smiles of the many members of songsters as they sang their hearts out.

Monday 10 September 2012

Willow Class

Welcome Back


I hope that you all had a fantastic summer, and enjoyed the Olympics. Maybe some of you were lucky enough to go to the olympics? It would be lovely to hear of what you all did over the summer.
We are now settling into the new school year and that the children are looking forward to having the additional responsibilities that Year 6 brings, such as being school monitors and house captains. Alongside this, there will be exciting new challenges and plenty of hard work. To help the children with their maths, it is important that they know their tables up to x12 and that they are practised regularly. For literacy, the children should read for at least 20 minutes every night and learn spellings thoroughly; children will have receive a list of their spellings each week and these should be kept safe for easy reference. Don’t forget: these will be tested each week! 
Homework will be set for both maths and literacy each week and children are expected to spend thirty minutes on it. 
We have lots of exciting events happening throughout the term, and we are all looking forward to learning all the interesting topics that are planned this term.