It's hard to believe that the summer term has come around
so quickly again! The children are appreciating being able to spend more time
outside enjoying the beautiful surroundings of the school and staff are always
keen to get children out of the classroom and hold lessons in outside spaces
where possible.
This month, the whole school embarked upon a Bluebell
Walk one afternoon which was kindly organised by Ms Waites. Diligently prepared
for the great British weather with Rain Macs, Wellies…. and Sun Cream and Hats,
pupils and staff enjoyed a walk through the fields and into the woods to see
the Bluebells.
Eleanor
from Year 4 said:
I
liked our Bluebell Walk. Everyone in the juniors had someone from Infants as
our buddy and we got to chat to them and help them if they needed it. We saw
the lovely Bluebells and we walked in some very squelchy mud. Afterwards my
wellies were really muddy!
In Physical Education pupils are focusing on Athletics
for the summer term, with lots of relay race practicing in readiness for Sports
Day. Pupils are also enjoying Football, Rounders’ and Tennis.
This month members of the school community, including Mrs
Comer our head teacher, parents and pupils, took part in the “RBC Race for the
Kids” 5K event in London in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. One of our pupils
has been supported through leukaemia treatment at GOSH this year and we were so
proud that he managed to get round the whole course independently and complete
the 5K. “Team Woody for RoRo” raised over 15k for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Nursery and Reception have been learning how to create
exciting similes this month and have been looking at examples like “As hot as
the sun” or “As big as an elephant” and trying to create their own. One example
I was given by our pupils included “As kind as Miss Ayres!” which I thought
summed her up perfectly!
Years One and Two are studying weather for their topic
and they have been creating musical instruments to make weather sounds.
In Years Three and Four pupils have been focusing on fractions
in Maths and looking at explanation texts in Literacy.
This month has been SATS focused for our Year Six pupils.
The first year to take the new government SATS papers, I’m sure some of you may
have seen reactions in the media from teaching staff and parents to the
questions set, which were considerably harder than in previous years.
Miss Williams our 5/6 teacher has told me how proud she
is of all of the pupils who worked so hard in the lead-up to the exams. She was
especially impressed with how much all of the pupils supported each other during
SATS week, sharing supportive words and boosting morale amongst each other. The
camaraderie and resilience they displayed during SATs week was excellent.
I’m pleased to report we had no tears from pupils,
although there was a few scratching of heads from Governors trying to decipher
some of the answers to the questions!
To close this month, our Years One and Two Teacher Miss
Groves is sharing some work from her class:
“This
half term in year 1 and 2 we have been focusing our English work on the story
‘Monkey and Me’ by Emily Gravett. We really enjoyed role playing the story
which is about a girl and her cuddly toy monkey going to a zoo. We monkeyed
around pretending to be different animals, which included actions and sound
effects as we recounted the story.
We
even had a visitor to help inspire our writing, a monkey! Well, it was Miss
Groves dressed as a monkey.
We
became authors of our own ‘Monkey and Me’ stories this half tem when we wrote
mini books. We designed and created the front cover for our books. We then
studies blurbs from other books before writing our own. As well as writing, we
drew illustrations to accompany our stories.”
