Sycamore Class Bulletin
Sycamore Class Newsletter 28.4.23
This week in in English, we have continued our unit on speeches. We have focused on the different features of persuasive speeches including rhetorical questions and emotive language. Today we have tried to use some of these features to write our response to a speech.
In Maths, we have been learning more about decimals. We have looked at how hundredths are represented as fractions and decimals and on a place value chart. Today, we have looked at dividing a 1 or 2-digit number by 100.
In Science, the children enjoyed looking at food labels and finding the nutritional values of different foods. We have also looked at things needed to survive and be healthy and carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
Here is our topic web outlining what we will be learning this term:
SYACMORE Topic Web ‘How was Shrewsbury shaped’
The children have gone home today with a piece of card to create a crown for the King’s Coronation and their homework this half term.
Well done to this week’s Golden Certificate Winner, Evie. She has had a good week where she has tried hard and made good choices. Well done.
Next week, we have our trip on Wednesday. Children will need to wear school uniform with sturdy shoes or trainers. If possible, please send them with a backpack to carry their lunch and water bottle. Thank you.
Due to our trip being on Wednesday we will have PE on Thursday next week.
We hope you have a lovely weekend and enjoy the bank holiday.
Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies
Sycamore Class Newsletter 21.4.23
Welcome back and we hope you had a great Easter break.
In English this week, the children have read a range of different speeches, delivered a speech and looked at features of a speech. Today we have looked at the difference between fact and opinion, and next week we will continue to look at features of a speech ready to write our own at the end of the unit.
In Maths, we have started our work on decimals. We have explored tenths as fractions and decimals, tenths on a place chart and number line, and dividing a 1-digit number by 10.
In RE, we have recapped why Christians celebrate Easter where children enjoyed acting out Holy Week and then looked at Pentecost.
In Science, we have been talking at what animals (including humans) need to survive and stay healthy and sorted foods into different food groups.
Our Golden Certificate winner this week was Ethan. He has come back with a positive attitude to learning and been trying hard. Ethan has also been reading at home. Well done and keep it up.
Daily reading and practising times tables and spellings really does make a huge difference to the children.
Yesterday, the children were given a letter about our trip to the prison. Thank you to all those who have returned them already.
The children will be given homework for this half term on Monday so please can they bring their homework books into school. Thank you.
We hope you all have a nice weekend.
Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies
Sycamore Class 31.3.23
This half term has really flown and we have had another busy week to end our Spring term with our Easter competitions and disco.
Today the children really enjoyed making their moving posters of the water cycle in DT and we have been evaluating our work looking at what they did well and would improve on next time. This week we have been looking at Poetry in English where they have been looking at rhyming couplets and then writing their water cycle poems.
In Science we have finished our work on rocks by creating our own mini compost bins and looking at different types of soil.
In RE we have been looking at why Christians celebrate Easter and how it can make Christians feel sad, hope and joy.
Our Golden certificate winner this week is Alisha. She has been trying hard, making good choices and proven to be a good friend. Well done.
We hope you have a great Easter.
Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies
Sycamore Class Newsletter 24.3.23
A huge well done to Year 3 and 4 for their fantastic performance ‘Glint of Gold’. They were fantastic and we are very proud of them all. Thank you to parents and carers for helping them learn lines, practise songs and their costumes. A big thank you also to all those that bought refreshments before the performances (and those that sold them). We raised £125.60.
When they haven’t been busy practising and performing ‘Glint of Glint’ we’ve had assessment week. The children have written a story, been looking at grammar and punctuation and completed their accelerated reading test. In Maths, we’ve finished our unit on fractions.
Our Golden Certificate Winner is All the Children in Sycamore. They were amazing in their performance and we couldn’t be prouder. Well done, Sycamore Class.
Have a great weekend.
Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies
Sycamore Class Newsletter 17.3.23
It has been another busy week practising for our play next week. Thank you to all the children who have brought their costumes in ready. If they haven’t, please make sure they are in on Monday (20th). Tickets for the performances have gone home today.
In English, the children have been planning, writing and performing their play script in groups. The children really enjoyed performing them and it helped them check they had included all the features and things they could improve on.
This week our Golden Certificate winner is Kayla. She wrote a fantastic play script which she performed well with her group.
In Maths, we have continued to look at fractions. The children have been looking at equivalent fractions and adding and subtracting fractions.
In RE, we have looked at the events of holy week for Christians where we talked about Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
The children also enjoyed looking at properties of rocks in Science and investigating and creating snapping crocodiles in DT.
We hope you a have a great weekend.
Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies
Sycamore Class Newsletter 3.3.23
Hello everyone,
We have had a busy first week back. The children all looked great dressed up for World Book Day yesterday. They enjoyed talking about World Book Day and their favourite characters.
Our Golden Certificate winner this week is Lila. She is a great member of our class who has a positive attitude to learning and always tried hard. Yesterday, Lila thought of some fantastic adjectives to describe her character. Well done!
This week in English, we have been looking at play scripts. We have been discussing what we liked about these and what we notice, acted out a range of different scripts and finding features of a play script using an example from our play ‘A Glint of Gold’.
The children have been busy practising for our play. Please can the children bring in their costumes by Friday 10th March and continue to practise their lines at home. Thank you.
In Maths, we have started to look about fractions. This week we have been understanding the whole and that numbers can be greater than 1. We have also been looking at number lines to find fractions and have been comparing and ordering fractions.
This half term in Science we will be learning about the rocks. We looked at the different types of rocks. Why not ask your child and see if they can tell you about the 3 different natural types of rocks.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies
Sycamore Class Newsletter 17.2.2023
It’s been a busy last week to end the first half of our spring term, with parents evenings and the Valentine’s disco. It was great to see/speak to so many parents and carers this week.
This week we’ve finished looking at length and perimeter in Maths. The children have been calculating the perimeter of polygons and regular polygons, and finding missing lengths. After half term, we will be moving on to look at fractions.
In English, we’ve been finishing writing our explanation texts. We have been working on editing our work and writing it up neat. After half term we will be looking at play scripts.
Yesterday, the children enjoyed our first proper run through of our play ‘Glint of Gold’. Please can children with scripts practice their lines over the half term. All children have been given a letter about costumes today. Please let us know if there are any problems.
The children have also enjoyed sculpting insects this week in Art.
Our Golden certificate winner this week is Jake R. Jake is a kind, caring and helpful member of our class who tries hard and is eager to learn. Jake is making good progress in all subjects, especially reading. We are also very proud of Jake for performing in Get Your Wiggle On TITANIC THE MUSICAL. Well done, Jake.
Thursday 2nd March we will be celebrating World Book Day where children can come to school dressed as their favourite book character.
We hope you all have a fantastic half term.
Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies
Sycamore Class Newsletter 10.2.23
This week in English, we’ve been planning and writing our explanation text on the mummification process. We have been working on writing in paragraphs and using subheadings.
In Maths, we have been calculating the perimeter of rectangles and rectilinear shapes. We have also been calculating missing lengths and using this to help them find the perimeter of shapes.
We’ve been looking at positives and negatives to going online in PSHE and designing a mosaic in Art.
Our Golden Certificate this week is Indie. She has a positive attitude to learning and tries hard in all subjects. She is eager to learn and reads daily at home. Well done, Indie. Keep up the hard work.
Thank you to all the parents who have brought back parents evening slips. We will see you Monday and Tuesday.
Have a great weekend.
Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies
