As part of our learning about remembrance day we created list poems focusing on what remembrance is.
Once we had finished, we placed them on to pictures of Flanders fields that we had created using pointillism and Georges Seurat as our inspiration.
I was amazed at the powerful poetry and beautiful imagery the children had created!
Well done everyone.
This blog post contains our new blog challenge!
This week is Anti-Bullying week and the theme this year is ‘One Kind Word’. We can’t wait to participate in the kindness challenge and see all the different ways we can spread kindness! Emerald Class are such a kind and caring class!💖
Here is our Kindness challenge for this week for use at home and school. I wonder how many you can complete! 😊
Blog challenge for this week! 🔵🟡🟢🔴
Well done Blue team! You won last week’s blog challenge! Which team will win this week? 🏆😊
This week’s blog challenge is linked to our kindness challenge!
Listen to ‘The story of the Star Thrower’ which is shown below. Then use the template to show 4 different ways that you will be kind this week! I am sure you do lots of them all the time; this is a great way to really show just how kind and caring you are!
Instead of writing in the stars, you are welcome to think of your own way to show your kindness challenge if you prefer!
Make sure you show your kindness challenge to Mrs Styles or Mrs Huntbach to gain a point for your team!
What a lovely story! Here is a template for writing your kindness challenge on if you would like to use it. We can’t wait to share your lovely kindness work! ❤
Well done Emeralds you have had another super week!
We have been working really hard on our learning in Maths to explore the concept of addition as well as to learn our number bonds!
On Friday, the children made their very own number bond rainbow which went home. Please help your children to learn these number bonds off by heart! We hope the rainbow might make a good display and a nice way to learn the different ways to make the total!
You worked super hard Emeralds! Keep working hard to form your numbers the correct way round too!
We love to explore the concepts within Maths. We used number cards, Numicon, tens frames, number lines and lots more resources! We like to use practical methods to help us to learn and embed the concepts. 😃
We had a great time learning about the very first person to land on the moon, Neil Armstrong! We found out lots about his adventures.
Did you know that his footprints are still on the moon even though it’s been more than 50 years since he has been! Wow!
It is such a joy to talk to Emerald Class about space. They have shared lots of knowledge so far! I think we have a few future astronauts and scientists in our class!
Emerald Class were also amazing when we created images of the solar system. We talked about the size of the planets and Emerald Class tried really hard to show this perspective in their work too!
Today, Onyx Class worked in teams to find all possibilities in their Maths session. They showed systematic workings and wonderful collaboration! Well done everyone! 👍
Ruby Class loved getting active on Thursday while completing Maths!
Today we had lots of addition and subtraction word problems spread around out classroom. With a partner our task was to find the problems and solve them using all of the addition and subtraction knowledge we have learned over the past few weeks! Look at us in action below!
This week Ruby Class have been learning all about remembrance.
The children have shared some excellent knowledge about Remembrance Day and why we come together each year to think of those who gave their tomorrow for out today.
On Tuesday, the children created some fantastic remembrance list poems. I was blown away with the children’s ideas and the quality of their work.
On Thursday, we had a wonderful Remembrance Day assembly with our whole school led by Onyx class (Year 5/6). We then went outside to our flagpole and lay a Remembrance wreath and showed our respect with a 2 minute silence. Following this we had some super Year 6’s come and read us some beautiful remembrance poetry.
To finish off the week, we enjoyed creating our own landscape pieces of art based on what we think Flanders field would look like when poppies grow each year. We used oil pastels and water colours to create our wonderful masterpieces. We talked about making sure the poppies in the foreground were larger than those in the middle and background.
Well done Ruby Class. You are all AMAZING!
Emerald Class love their RE learning with Mrs Huntbach! Emerald Class have been learning about the Jewish Festival, Sukkot. Sukkot is a week-long Jewish holiday that comes five days after Yom Kippur. Sukkot celebrates the gathering of the harvest. Sukkot also commemorates the biblical story of the Jews’ escape from Egypt. They wandered for 40 years through the desert, living in temporary shelters.
These temporary shelters form a large part of the Sukkot festival today. Jewish families create a Sukkah, which is a temporary shelter or hut built outside. The roof of the Sukkah must be made of something that used to grow in the Earth (such as palm leaves or bamboo). The walls can be made of any material that can hold up to the wind. Families will decorate their huts with leaves, fruit and vegetables.
Emerald Class have been superstars during their learning and made a model Sukkah with their partner. Super team work Emeralds!
Onyx class really stepped up to the mark today and led our Remembrance celebrations for the whole school!
To start the day, they wrote fantastic descriptive paragraphs about the poppy fields of Flanders. Then, the wonderful Team and Vice Captains led a virtual assembly for the whole school. Did you know that the Marigold is a sign of remembrance in India?
Next, the whole school gathered around our flag pole at the front of school where we shared a 2 minute silence in memory of all those affected by war and conflict. Caprice and Harry -our Head Boy and Girl- laid a wreath with a lovely message attached to it from everyone at Sound.
Back in school, Onyx Class then spread out into all classes and shared a range of Remembrance poems that they had learnt off by heart for their homework. They performed them beautifully and confidently and received lots of super feedback from the other children. Well done guys!
After this, Poppy shared her senses Remembrance poem (that she wrote last week as part of our poetry week) with Topaz class and five members of Topaz shared their Remembrance cinquain poems with Onyx Class. The imagery and choice of vocabulary was unreal! Wow!
Finally, this afternoon Year 5/6 investigated the roles of those who didn’t go off to war and what part they played in the war effort. They looked at causes and consequences and realised that to win the war was a huge team effort. Peace was a team effort.
Onyx Class will always remember them ❤️
We learnt lots about the significance of Remembrance this week and why the poppy is such an important symbol of Remembrance.
The children were excellent in our Remembrance activities. They were so respectful and thoughtful during our Remembrance assembly and when we went outside to have our two minute silence. Well done Emeralds!
As part of our Remembrance writing, we wrote poems this week. Here is a selection of some of our work:
We also wrote poems focussing on the red and black colours shown in the poppy.
We also worked really hard on our field of poppy masterpieces. We used paint to create the meadow and sky, followed by the red poppy shapes. Emerald Class then added more detail to the meadow by adding other flowers to the meadow using oil pastels. Well done Emeralds! The children really impressed Mrs Huntbach and I with how carefully they used the paintbrushes and pastels to create their work. We loved how much the children thought about the effect they wanted to create. It’s wonderful to see just how unique every piece is! Great work Emeralds!
Blog challenge update! 🟢🟡🔴🔵
Great work on so many entries to our blog competition this week! Here are the entries of the poppies made! We love them! Thank you for all of your hard work, the children have enjoyed sharing their creations with the class! 😃
Stay tuned to see which will be the winning team!
The children in Topaz Class have had a very respectful day learning about Remembrance Day and taking part in our Remembrance Day service. This afternoon we completed activities around this important day including making a wreath to take home.
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