This term our DT topic is ‘Chop, slice and mash!’. This week we looked at different ways to prepare fruits and vegetables and the vocabulary used. After watching a demonstration each child in Pines took turns to chop some celery, slice a cucumber, mash a banana, grate a carrot, peel an apple and tear some lettuce. Everyone did an excellent job following the instructions. The following day in literacy we recalled what we did and matched the vocabulary to our photographs.
In English this week, Blossoms have been learning about the features of a balanced argument. Today, they used those features to have an oral debate about whether school uniform should be worn in school. The children worked in groups and were either for or against the argument. As a team, they came up with reasons for or against, supported them with evidence and then held a debate; sharing both viewpoints. Next week, we will be drafting our own written balanced arguments.
This week we began planning our summer enterprise. From Monday we will be selling delicious ice lollies outside of Oaks classroom at breaktimes (Monday-Thursday) to raise funds for rewards and to provide some equipment for our school.
We have started writing an advertising campaign and are in the process of recording some examples to advertise online, on dojo and in/around the school.
Here is a sample of all of our hard work, written by Jake in Oaks:
Introducing our new, fantastic summer enterprise: Frozen Flavours! Are you hot and bothered on a summer’s day? Do you crave a flavourful, refreshing treat at break time? If so, Frozen Flavours is here to help! Boring break times will be a thing of the past! We guarantee we will put a big grin on your face. Hello summer!
Imagine this, you’re enjoying a refreshing, mouth-watering frozen treat on a sweltering summer day. Every week, we switch up the frozen treat selection. One week rocket lollies, the next fruit twisters and many more… We will have something for all children to enjoy. Don’t worry parents, at the annual summer fair, we’ll be there!
Some of the money raised will go to Fellgate Primary School’s clubs, music equipment, playground equipment, art and school supplies. Also, it will help the students’ learning here at Fellgate Primary School. You can find us at Oaks’ classroom door. Some of the funds raised will be used for trip and rewards. The summer enterprise is a fun tradition for the Year 6 children, which gives them lots of responsibility.
Parents, if your child has any allergies, get in touch. We will make arrangements so your child can enjoy our brrr-illiant frozen treats.
Frozen Flavours is perfect to cool down on a hot summers day. Hello summer!
As you can tell, we were all extremely proud of our hard work!
We even had someone take the time to create an amazing logo for our enterprise using a laptop.
This week, Reception Acorns have been reading ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ by Giles Andreae.
We wrote some sentences about the animals, remembering to start with a capital letter, use finger spaces between words and end with a full stop. Then we checked our sentences by reading them to make sure they made sense.
We also used our phonics skills to spell words independently, and tried to sit our writing neatly on the lines.
In Maths, we have been exploring the + and = symbols, and making some addition calculations. We made groups of animals to work out the answers.
As part of our English work this week the children in Cherries have been writing diary entries. They pretended they were alive in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted and had some excellent ideas about what they would have seen, felt and heard. Take a look at some of our diary entries.
This week the children have been reading the story of Handa’s Surprise. The children sequenced the story and retold the story in their own words. The children explored the seven fruits that Handa had put in her basket. The children then recorded if they liked, disliked or did not try the fruits. In art the children continued working on animal patterns and created colourful snake skins as they practiced the skills of painting and rolling.
This week we have continued our English work using the story Escape form Pompeii and children used iPads to research facts to complete a fact file. They found lots of artefacts that were preserved in Pompeii, including people, a dog and buildings.
In Geography they have been using map skills to locate countries on a world map, including Italy, to link to our Emperors and Empires topic.
As part of the coronation we researched King Charles’ robe and designed our own with Willows. They made crowns and flags and enjoyed coming into school wearing red, white and blue ready for the coronation party.
This week in Rowans class we have been reading and sequencing the story of Dear Zoo. In phonics and maths we have completed lots of tasks. In science our topic is animals and we had to identify and sort farmyard animals. In art we identified animals and the colours needed to create animal prints using foam rollers.
To start our new topic of Emperors and Empires, Cherries read the story, Escape From Pompeii. In the story Mount Vesuvius erupts and this links well with the volcanoes the children constructed last half term. We first annotated the story by things we could see that linked to the Romans and the past. We then demonstrated how a volcano erupts by using water, washing up liquid, bicarbonate of soda and vinegar. The children loved watching the “lava” erupt out of their volcanoes.
On Thursday, Chestnuts celebrated World Maths Day.
In English, we solved measurement questions about George’s Marvellous Medicine related to our work on Roald Dahl.
In maths, we improved our money skills by solving riddles. This helped us to find totals and give change.
During art, we created curves of pursuit patterns.
Some of our excellent work is shown below.
