Freya and lois' blog

We had a great start to the week by mostly everybody getting 10/10 in their spelling test. This continued when we went into our celebration assembly where we were introduced to the sports committee and celebrated lots of birthdays and writer of the week.

Literacy: 

We have been learning about persuasive letters and persuasive techniques. We read through a letter about banning play times and boxed it up( putting a box round each paragraph and explaining the purpose.)

Science: 

In science we did an experiment on sound.

Here are some examples of the work:

 RE: We were learning about advent.Mrs Mainwaring talked to us  Everyone wrote an advent acrostic poem. Here are some examples:

SPAG: In spag we did a spag test (spelling grammar and punctuation.) some people said the test was simple although some people said it was extremely challenging but it was only to practice so your marks didn't matter.

Carousel: 

Carousel was a bit different this week as songsters went to practice for their Christmas concert. Despite songsters not being there everyone else did normal carousel. Which was French and P.E.

In pe we are learning about dance and hockey

Reminders 

Friday 13th- deadline for £2 room

Monday 16th- £2 room and homework + diary

Tuesday17th- pe kit

Wednesday18th- pe kit

Thursday19th- 

Friday20th- 12:30 break up

Willow Class blog by Ethan and George.

Willow class blog by Ethan and George

On Monday we had a celebration assembly where the writer of the week was given out. There were also some celebrations such as: Ethan won 4 tickets to the rugby world cup semi-finals and the final. We also did star of the week for Josh.P.

On Tuesday we went to Linconsfield. We were split into 6 groups and we all did different activities. The activities were: gardening, in the house, a warden's life story, cinema, museum and a school from the olden days. There was also a shop to buy souvenirs. We had to do loads of different chores at the different places, as if we were evacuees.                                                                                                                    

On Wednesday we did shining star and we were all excited, in the end it turned out to be Josh. He was very lucky and we felt happy for him. Later on in the day we had P.E, it was country dancing Mr Edwards taught us a very tricky dance, the Britannia two step. We had to be light on our feet. In I.C.T we had to use audacity to set a spooky scene. Some of them were very scary/funny. We used a special microphone to do the recording. We had to layer the sounds so it sounded realistic. This was a tricky task so it was a bit of trial and error.

On Thursday we started off with maths. After play we put some more words on the word window, which is describing words on the window. The words that are on there we have to try and use in our work. The best word was perpetual. We then did literacy which is when we had to try and persuade parents to come to our school not the others. This was tricky because we didn’t want to be too silly and make them not come to us.

On Friday we did maths and it was hard. We challenged ourselves as we were doing a new topic. In Mr Edwards' group we were learning to calculate the areas of circles. The play time was fun because there were no ball games so we could do some running around instead. After play we did literacy: it was fun we were learning to edit our work.

 After lunch we did science, we were learning about how we hear. It was very interesting. The main part of this  was about vibrations.

Lucy and Sophie's weekly round-up

On Wednesday last week, UKS2 had an evacuation day. The day kicked off with the parents coming to wave us good bye before we were lead by our teachers into the hall. Then, we had to stand in rows and were inspected by Mr Edwards, Mrs Gilder and Miss Fowler. They looked at our fingernails and hair and then told us if they wanted us to go with them.

 Miss Fowler’s group were making make do and mend bunting and eggless ration cakes.

Mr Edwards was teaching us how to polish our shoes, clean the windows with vinegar and polish the entire schools cutlery for lunch.

Mrs Williams and Mrs Gilder’s group were milking

cows, digging up a flower bed, designing a dig for victory garden and planting a winter lettuce.

Then we had a V.E party with the bunting, cakes and country dancing at the end of the day. It was really good fun!

Thank you for all the brilliant costumes!!!

 The assembly interview

Last Friday:

What was your favourite act?:

Hannah: all of them

Georgia:  Marshalswick urchins

Louis B.M:  Strong Man

What did you like about it?:

Hannah: Everyone was really well rehearsed and it was a joy to listen to.

Georgia: it was different to some other sharing assemblies

Louis: Participating in the assembly

OUR LEARNING

Art

Monday:

We did our final draft for our WW2 posters. They are really good. Have a look:

Celebrations:

Good learner: Owen

Writer of the week: Lucy. W

Star of the week: Lucy. A

Birthdays: Nick- 19^th

    

Literacy

Monday:

We finished our Anne Frank timeline using the laptops. We watched video clips, read about her and found out about her diary.

    

R.E

Tuesday:

We designed a meal that was Kosher that we could serve to some Jewish friends coming round to dinner. Here are some examples:

Salmon, peas tomatoes and rice

Fish goujons, mash and salad

Spellings

Monday:

We all got given spellings this week based on letter strings with different pronunciations. Here is a copy of all the words.

List 1:

Right

Fight

Light

Beard

Fought

Lied

Tried

Fried

Pour

Hour

List 2:

Weight

Height

Eight

Tight

Search

Hearth

Bough

Cough

Dough

Enough

List 3:

Niece

Piece

Grieve

Thieves

Neighbour

Armour

Freight

Honour

Favour

Drought

Literacy

Tuesday:

S.P.A.G: We were converting words into their past tense form and learning some of the rules that apply. We also tried it with whole sentences.

Interesting facts we have learnt this week:

·       Learnt how to save something that won’t save (Lauren)

·       Anne Frank fell in love with a boy called peter  when she was in hiding in the secret annexe (Abbie)

Joke of the week:

Q. What did the nothing say to the nothing?

A. Nothing!!!

Carousel

Tuesday:

Music: In music this week, we were learning how to play 12-bar blues. Some people even got onto playing with both hands. It sounded great!

Carousel

Tuesday:

French: In French, we started drawing and labelling animals in French. We then had to write about which one was bigger, and which one was smaller.

Example of Lucy’s writing

The writing of the week:

Mum. That’s all I could think of whilst sitting on the train. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw little Jimmy bending over to be sick. Jimmy’s my brother. He’s only 5 and has a habit of picking his scabs until they scar. I don’t think any one will want him. A sea of pigtails, plaits and hats surrounded me. Suddenly, the train came to a halt. We were there.

P.E

Wednesday:

In P.E, we did some more country dancing. First, we danced to ‘Stripping the willow’ which was great fun! Then we tried a harder dance, which was called "the Gay-Gordons".

I.C.T

Wednesday:

We learnt how to record a sound onto a music program called Audacity 2.02. We used microphones and headphones to help us record and listen back. We also tried changing the pitch to a higher or lower octave.

Literacy

Thursday:

We were planning a piece of writing to do with who we admire. It could be someone famous. This was to help us learn to plan our writing in detail as if we were going to write it. They were really good!!!

History

Thursday:

We were learning about rationing in WW2. We had to put lots of different foods in one of three columns:  Rationed, not rationed or not available. Then, Mr Edwards made some hot chocolate that they had in the Navy. Some of us thought it was lovely, some disgusting!

Hannah and Georgia

Welcome to this week’s blog! By Hannah  & Georgia D.

The photographers are William & Louis.

 This week, we tried to blow up our Anderson shelters by dropping a ball onto it.

 In P.E, we are learning about dance and movement.
 In Literacy we have been learning the structure of a autobiography and a biography.
 We started to design our WW2 posters on Monday to advertise important events.

Birthdays: Hannah 13th and William  – 14th

 On Wednesday 13th we were evacuated to either a rich house, poor house or the countryside household. We all really enjoyed taking part in one of history’s most heartbreaking events.

 Interviews: Sophie A;

What did you enjoy about evacuation day? I enjoyed playing the part of an evacuee
 What was the best part? The party!
 What did you learn? That it wasn’t all fun and games

 Lucy W:
 Did you enjoy dressing up? Yes, it was so much fun!
 What was your favourite house? All of them!
 What was your favourite activity? Baking cakes
 What did you learn? How to clean windows, shoes, and silver wear

Reflection

Below is a link towards a game about reflection - something that we will be looking at this week in Science.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/physical_processes/light/play/

Willow class blog - A week of learning by Jack and Bradley

•In literacy we are learning about  the highway man, the poem

•Unfortunately, we are almost at the end of the topic

•We acted out the characters from the poem, we thought about their feelings and wrote the story from their point of view

We worked as a class and performed the poem, adding sound effects and actions and then started to write a new ending for the poem.

•In history we are learning about world war 2

•We are making Anderson shelters, when we’re finished with them we are going to drop bombs on them to see who has made the best one

•We have been learning how britain protected themselves from the threat of the Germans.

•In science we have been learning about the eye. We learned the different parts of the eye and watched a video of inside someone's eye.

•In ICT we are learning about E safety

•We learnt that you’re not safe on the other side of the computer.

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We were taught how to avoid cyber  bullying and what to do if we see something strange going on.

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Word of the week: Mendacious 

TO BE UNTRUTHFUL

•Joke of the week: Q: What's a sheep's favourite food?

 A: a bah-bah-queue                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Some photos from last week

The start of making our own Anderson shelters

 Locating bombed cities of the UK during the World War 2

  Some of our excellent gradient colour landscapes for our winter scene cards.

 We had time to look at all the excellent memorabilia people brought in about the second world war.

The Blog this week

            This weeks epic Bloggers are 

        Louis BM and Josh C

This weeks photographers are

                           Sophie and Lauren

 

Monday

 First thing in the morning we did spellings, most people got 10 out of 10.

     In maths we did some tests in paper “a”, without a calculator.

Ethan said  it got harder as it went on.

Bradley said it was challenging but it was fun.

    

After playtime we did a reading test.

Louis.J said it was enjoyable.

Tom said it was good because he thinks he did well.

    

For the whole of the afternoon we attempted to get the background done of our wonderful Christmas cards.

                                 

                                     Tuesday

On Tuesday we started the day of with word types in R.E.

After play we started a Spelling test it was tricky for some people.

Tom.J thought "I think I’ve done ok.”

Carousel: We played some matches in basketball and finished the day of some French.

                                              

                                  

Wednesday

To kick the day of we commenced with a maths test after a celebration assembly. Everyone found the maths challenging but know they achieved high. In the afternoon we also did some art putting finishing touches on.

                               

   Friday

On Friday we started the day with spelling bingo followed by a fantastic topic lesson on the blitz. After play we started to build some Anderson shelters out of cardboard whilst some people have self and sibling pictures. In the afternoon we did some science followed by golden time.

Star of the week:

Tilly.B

 

Writer of the week:

 Abbie.G

Good learner:

Sophie.A

Table Point Winners:

Churchill

                                                  

                                      Joke/Riddle of the week

                                                                

Q: What goes Ha Ha Boom?  A: You - You’ll be laughing so much your head will explode!

Joke by Jack.c

People say that a computer is just like an air conditioner but when you open windows the temperature doesn’t change!

Q: What goes Ha Ha Boom?  A: You’ll be laughing so much your head will explode!

Joke by Jack.c

People say that a computer is just like an air conditioner but when you open windows the temperature doesn’t change!

                                   

                                             

Lots of photos will be added on Monday!