Happy Friday! Welcome to another weekly blog.

We have had another super busy week of new learning. In English this week we have continued our topic on Windrush child. We have been writing speeches from Leonard to his Mum about his thoughts and feelings of living in Britain. Also we have had lots of grammar focuses this week including modal verbs and using semi colons correctly. 

In maths this week, we have been refreshing our  column multiplication knowledge and using bus stop for short division. Next week we will be tackling more division problems and long division too. 

In history this week we have finished our unit on the industrial revolution by focusing on the impacts it had particularly in Devon. We looked at our Exeter had changed over the period. Next week will be producing an end of unit poster or PowerPoint to show what we have learnt in the unit. 

In science this week we looked at separating materials in three different ways: sieving, filtration and evaporation. 

In PE yesterday with Coach Kai the children played a whole class game of capture the flag. See photos below.

On Friday 25th October we will be having a whole school TTRS day to celebrate multiplication and number! Children are invited to dress up as Rockstar's and there will be lots of fun activities  during the day including a glam rock station with face paint.

I hope you have a lovely weekend :) 
  

Happy Friday! 
Welcome to another weekly blog from Sycamore. 

This week we have been busy learning about the Windrush in English through our next book Windrush Child. We have been reading the book which is all about a child on their way to England for a new life from Jamaica. Today we wrote some lovely poems about the child's journey on the Arosa Star. We will continue this book next week learning what life was like when the Empire Windrush arrived in England. 

In maths we have continued with our unit on the four operations. We have been focusing on factors and multiples and prime numbers. Make sure to ask them what the definition of a prime number is! Next week we will be looking at multiplication and division further. 

This week in our history lesson, we have been exploring the main inventions of the industrial revolution. These included the Spinning Jenny, Water Frame and the Locomotive. We discussed which we thought was the most important invention and most of us chose the Locomotive and railways as this transformed many lives of the working class. Next week we will be researching the impact on the industrial revolution in Devon. 

In art this afternoon we have been experimenting with charcoal. This has been very fun but slightly messy! Check out our blog next week for the finished pieces! 

I hope you have a lovely weekend! :) 

Happy Friday! Welcome to another weekly blog.

This week in English we have written our own wellness articles about how to be kind to ourselves, each other and the planet. The children have been excellent wellness coaches within our articles. We have also spent time publishing these and some are now on display outside the classroom! Next week we will being starting a new book and new unit. 

In maths this week we have finished our place value unit and have completed the end of unit assessment. The children did very well in this and now have secure understanding of place value. Today we started our new unit on the four operations by practicing and revising our column addition and subtraction. 

Our history lesson involved exploring what the working conditions were like during the industrial revolution. We then had to decide if we would rather work in a mine or a factory and why. 
In science this week we continued with looking at particles with a focus on impure mixtures and examples of these materials.

In PE yesterday due to the weather the children played bench ball in the hall which was enjoyed by everyone - see photos below. Today in our PSHE lesson we discussed the importance healthy and balanced friendships by looking at different scenarios of friendship problems. This afternoon in art we have been continuing with our symbolic tiles all about things that represent us!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend :)

Happy Friday everyone! 

What a busy week we have had this week, we have begun to get into our normal timetable routines and were lucky enough to go on a trip too. 

In English we have finished reading the book 'Here We Are'. On Wednesday we discussed the themes that we think the authors covers in the book. We have started researching for own final piece which will be an article all about looking after ourselves, each other and the planet. On Monday we will start drafting our articles using the research. 
In maths this week we have continued on the topic of place value looking at ordering and comparing numbers up to 10 million and powers of 10. We will continue and finish this unit next week by practicing our rounding skills. 
We have started our science unit on physical and chemical changes by looking at the three states of matter. We explored the different states by observing and describing the changes happening when ice cube melts. We also performed what a solid, liquid and gas particles look like and their characteristics. 

On Thursday we were extremely lucky to be invited to be part of the Whiddon autumn festival with some world class musicians and singers. The children were behaved well and sang beautifully. One of the exciting parts of the day was that we got to meet the composer in residence - Rocky who composed one of the songs we sang. I was very impressed with all the class yesterday!

Today we were visited by Mrs Underwood who invited all the children to the college open evening next week. We also enjoyed a lovely art lesson this afternoon drawing our Wayob and symbols that represented us. 

Have a lovely weekend!

Welcome to the year 6 blog! 

What a busy week we have had! The children have settled in so well to year 6. There is going to be a lot of hardwork this year but also lots and lots of fun!

We have been sitting some Mock Sats papers this week to give a baseline of where the children are and the areas we need to focus on.  The children have approached these with an excellent attitude and should be proud of themselves! 

In English we have started our new unit based on the book Here We Are. We have explored creating our own expanded noun phrases and using them to write our own non narrative poems. 

In maths  we have started the first unit on place value by focusing on numbers to ten million! In history we have started the unit on the Industrial Revolution by looking at what life was like in Victorian society. 

The past few afternoons we have been busy designing our Christmas cards ready to be sent off. I can't believe we are already thinking about Christmas! 
Next week we will be getting into proper routine and getting started in all aspects of the curriculum. We also will be going on a trip to Mortonhampstead School for the Whiddon Autumn Festival. The songs are sounding beautiful. 

Have a great weekend, 
Miss Collins :)

What a busy couple of weeks we've had! Last Friday, we celebrated Rainbow Day and the joy of everybody being different, together. In class, we learnt about the protected characteristics and explored the meaning of discrimination, equality and respect. We made some beautiful, bright coloured kites and flew these on Thursday (when we had dry and windy weather!) These are now displayed all around school and look wonderful.

This week, we've performed our Year 5 and Year 6 play: Aladdin Trouble. Both performances were fantastic and that's thanks to the hard work, dedication and enthusiasm of the children involved. Lines were spoken clearly, songs were sung loudly and the whole play was a lot of fun from start to end! A huge well done.

Next week, we head into the last week of term. We've got the Leavers' BBQ to look forward to, along with the Leavers' Assembly on the last day of term (Friday 19th). I can't quite believe how quickly this year has gone but I'm looking  forward to celebrations and a really fun week next week.

This week, our highlight in Sycamore Class was our visit from the MED theatre group. Abby and Evie came along with their filming equipment to help the children create a film all about transitioning to secondary school. We used our learning from our Finch Foundry trip, and our inspiration from the characters in that story and history, to create drama pieces around some key values. Take a look at the photos below.

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Summer term 2 has started in full swing! Last week, Year 6 went on the residential to Normandy. Please read the offical blog to see what we got up to (our trip was Week 1 so please go back through the pages).
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Rehearsals for Aladdin Trouble are going well and children are beginning to be more confident at delivering their lines on stage. The songs are sounding fab too!

In other areas of learning, we are starting a transition unit of writing which relates to the Year 6's upcoming move to secondary school. During this unit, children will have the opportunity to write about things that are important to them and what makes them 'them' etc. 

Next week,  we are going to Finch Foundry for the day to take part in a MED Theatre project all around transition. We also have OCRA coming in to do a Quad Kids morning so lots to look forward to!

We've reached half term!

This week has been busy. We were really excited to start rehearsals for our Year 5 and 6 pantomime: Aladdin Trouble. We've already learnt some of the songs, we've been practising lines and read through the play several times. Please please please make sure that children are practising and learning their lines during half term - we want them to feel confident when it comes to performing.

On Tuesday, we were very lucky to have Mr Geoff Fox visit us for the afternoon. Geoff is a fantastic storyteller who shared the tale of growing up during WW2 and his experience of surviving a plane crash into his house. The children were wholly engaged and you could hear a pin drop in there - it was brilliant. We made him a lovely thank you card in which they shared their appreciation and were able to tell Geoff their favourite parts.

We were also visited by some 'Tudors' on Thursday afternoon! The local historians taught us all about the Prayer Book Rebellion which happened just down the road in Sampford Courtenay. It was great to learn more about the history of our local area.

On Wednesday, children watched an assembly about Normandy to share some final key messages and go over the itinerary, expectations, packing lists etc. If you have any questions at all then please Dojo me.

Have a lovely half term break and I'll see you afterwards!

Well, how else can I start this blog post off except for a huge WELL DONE to all of our lovely Year 6s for completing their KS2 SATs! I'm genuinely so proud of each and every one of them for their effort, dedication, resilience and amazingly positive attitude this week. They sat a total of 6 test papers beginning on Monday with Grammar questions followed by spellings; then Tuesday a reading paper; on Wednesday Maths arithmetic and reasoning 1 and finally, on Thursday, Maths reasoning 2. Every child was calm, composed and took it all in their stride. They were the model of Year 6 students. The results from the tests will be shared with us in July, so we have a bit of a wait for those.

Something that I think was enjoyed by everyone this week was our breakfast club which we ran each day before SATs. There was a slight air of nervousness on Monday as children arrived but this soon disappeared as they tucked into their toast, cereal and (later in the week) brioche and crumpets! Thank you FONTs for contributing to the costs of this.

Aside from SATs, we've spent time this week checking in and making sure our mental health was a priority. We've had lots of fun, particularly playing online quizzes as a class - a firm favourite with these children!

Today, we have told the children what the Year 5 and 6 play is going to be... it's Aladdin! Miss Collins and I are so excited to get this underway and we've already begun learning the songs.

Next week, we have so many exciting things to look forward to. We've got a visitor coming in to tell a story of an experience he had as a child during WW2; we are also logging onto an online assembly with a WW2 veteran. All of this is in preparation for our Normandy trip after half term. We'll be brushing up on our French conversation too! 

​Have a lovely weekend.