Today, in English, we generated descriptions about Grendel and Beowulf.

Balancing in gymnastics: counter balance and counter tension.

This week we have been:

In English, we have published our poems.

In maths, we calculated with money.

In art, we finsiehd our projects.

 

Next week we will:

In English, we will start our Viking unit.

In maths, we will explore place value past 1000. 

In science, we will explore everyday uses of materials.

We also have some end of unit assessments to complete.

 

Belonging - !I saw a child help another child."

Resilience - "I saw soemone working hard in maths."

Achievement - "I saw this child finish their publishing!"

Make discoveries - "I learned how to join my r."

Brave and Ambitous - "I saw someone workign extra hard in science and they wrote extra sentences."

Enjoy Learning - "I have been really focusing in handwriting because I want to get better."

Respectful and Responsible - "This child is always respectful to the teachers and says please, too!"

 

We finished our art projects!

Today we had a special assembly from Turning Tides, telling us all about how our donatiosn will help others.

This week we have been:

In English, we have drafted our poems.

In maths, we rounded decimal numbers to tenths and hundredths.

In art, we began our projects.

On Wednesday 8th October, we went on our Rivers' Trip!

 

Next week we will:

In English, we will edit our poems.

In maths, we will start our unit on money. 

In science, we will reflect on our investigation.

In geography, we will complete our end of unit assessment.

 

Belonging - "When i was sad, this child helped me feel better."

Resilience - "This child always tries his best even when he finds it hard."

Achievement - "I have improved my reading a lot."

Make discoveries - "I discovered that I need more support for my letters in art so they don't fall over."

Brave and Ambitous - "This child had a really good first day at school. Well done."

Enjoy Learning - "I have been enjoying learning with my maths partner."

Respectful and Responsible - "This child helped me when I was hurt on the playground."

 

Please see the side-bar for photos from our trip today!

In art today, we have begun to make our name sculptures using the typography we have been developing.

This week we have been:

In English, we have been learning about cohesion, synonyms and antonyms – we planned our writing.

In maths, we have explored how measures link to tenths and hundredths.

In science, we investigated our insulating heat experiment and attempted to plot a line graph.

In art, we made prototypes of our typography.

Next week we will:

In English, we are drafting our poems.

In maths, we are finishing our unit on decimals with rounding hundredths and thousandths. 

In science, we will reflect on our investigation.

On Wednesday 8th October, we are going on our Rivers' Trip!

 

Belonging - "This child is always nice in class and doesn't interrupt others when they are speaking."

Resilience - "This child worked really hard on their times tables and I saw them smile when they moved up."

Achievement - "This child has done really well in English and when I helped him he got it! Well done!"

Make discoveries - "This child always listens well in class. I think they learn loads of stuff."

Brave and Ambitous - "This child was brave today because he went to the office by himself and he was scared to go at first."

Enjoy Learning - "This child has really gotten into reading this week and has done loads of quizzes."

Respectful and Responsible - "This child always picks up everyone else's stuff even though nobody asked her."

 

Spelling disco!

One last look at the art show before it's all taken down...

Today in maths, we applied our knowledge of hundredths and tenths to the context of measure.

This week we have been:

In English, we recapped contractions and possessive apostrophes.

In maths, we explored rounding tenths and hundredths.

In science, we planned our insulating heat experiment.

In geography, we researched a river in detail. 

In art, we embellished pages from a book for our class display.

Next week we will:

In English, we will be learning about cohesion, synonyms and antonyms.

In maths, we will explore how measures link to tenths and hundredths.

In science, we will investigate our insulating heat experiment.

In geography, we will begin to explore some of the causes and impacts of river pollution.

 

Belonging - "I saw someone helping another child at playtime."

Resilience - "I saw another child feeling really puffed out during PE, but he kept going."

Achievement - ""I saw another child really struggling with maths at first, but by the end of the lesson, she was doing it on her own."

Make discoveries - "We all discovered what hypothesis means."

Brave and Ambitous - "I saw another child giving 100% to their science learning - he didn't get distracted once!"

Enjoy Learning - "I saw another child spend the whole day smiling!"

Respectful and Responsible - "Another child helped me understand my learning because I wasn't here yesterday."

 

In gymnastics, we have been practising different types of rolls - straddle, forward, and backward!

Library time!

This website is helping us understand place value – today we moved onto hundredths:

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/pvChart/index.html 

 

Today we explored place value using dienes to represent ones,  tenths and hundredths.

Today we learnt short extracts of poems off-by-heart and recited them, with actions.

In maths today, we explored rounding tenths to the nearest whole number.

This week we have been:

In English, we have been learning about modal verbs and modifiers.

In maths, we have been exploring the additive and multiplicative nature of decimals.

In science, we have explored electrical conductors and insulators.

In geography, we learnt about why rivers are important.

We walked to Worthing Assembly hall to see a live orchestra.

Next week we will:

In English, we will be recapping contractions and possessive apostrophes.

In maths, we will explore rounding tenths and hundredths.

In science, we will plan our insulating heat experiment.

In geography, we will research a river in detail. 

 

Belonging - "I saw this child helped her friend with the long walk. She motivated him along the way."

Resilience - "I saw this child keep going even though it was hot."

Achievement - "I saw this child work really hard on their spellings."

Make discoveries - "This child made a maths discovery and then used it to help me. I get it now!"

Brave and Ambitous - "I know this child was scared about the walk this morning but they did it and they seemed to have fun."

Enjoy Learning - "I saw this child enjoying their maths learning and they could tell me a lot about decimals."

Respectful and Responsible - "I see this child always showing this value. They're like a role model for me."

 

Friday music lessons – Glockenspiels.

Today our resilient class walked to Worthing Assembly Hall to see a live orchestra. They were enamoured all the way through and represented Bramber very well!

In science today, we explored electrical conductors and insulators.

Today we created our own typefaces and it was so much fun!

Here is a helpful link that may support understanding of sentence types at home:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbvqkty#zvbf46f

 

On our first day, our WOW start was BIG ART with our class river. This will soon have all our names on and be displayed in our classroom. 

Today we explored the water cycle in our geographical science lesson. We made a water cycle in a bag and have been excited to see how the sun has caused the water to condense on the inside of the bag.