Communications
Elm Newsletter 10.3.23
Apologies for the late newsletter, the snow days were a little disruptive!
The children enjoyed learning to use possessive apostrophes in sentences. We looked at lots of book titles which had possessive apostrophes too: Fig’s Giant, Spike’s Best Nest, Tiny’s Big Wish, Toffee’s Friend…
This week we are learning to use adverbs to make our writing more interesting. Adverbs describe how (clap loudly), when (clap later) and where (clap outside) actions are done. We have also seen that some sentences can start with an adverb. ‘Suddenly, the rocket zoomed into the sky.’
We are continuing our learning about fractions. We are quite confident at finding 1/2 (half) of a number or shape. Now we need to learn how to find 1/4 (quarter) of a number.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Dowell and Mrs Armstrong
Chestnut Weekly News 10.3.23
Wow! What a strange week. I know we were all excited for some snow to play in, but I don’t think we expected quite so much. I hope you have been able to have lots of snowy fun. Send your photos to chestnut@crowmoorschool.co.uk so that we can share them with your friends.
In the few days we were at school, we had a busy time retelling our class text – ‘Lost and Found’, using story language and hot seating the characters. We will continue this next week and look at definitions of some of our interesting words from the text.
In Maths we have continued to learn about place value to 50 and how numbers are made up. We have been making numbers, finding one more or one less and ordering within 50.
In Science we are continuing to learn about plants and their life cycle. We will be planting seeds and exploring the school grounds as part of our work.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend and don’t forget to read and practise your phonics!
Miss Roberts and Miss Harrisson
Beech Class Weekly Newsletter 10.03.2023
What a funny week it has turned out to be! I don’t think any of us expected as much snow as we had – it was certainly very deep where I live in Broseley! I hope you all managed to get out and have some fun whilst it was here! It’s been great to see some of your snow pictures on Tapestry and the brilliant reading that’s been going on using the sound cards and tricky words! Looks like some of you have been VERY busy!
Before the snow arrived, in Drawing Club this week we looked at an episode of Tom and Jerry called ”Little Runaway’ from 1952 (I know Tom and Jerry animations were a firm favourite from our survey of parents and grandparents last term). The children thoroughly enjoyed the episode which started with a seal escaping from a circus and ending up in Tom and Jerry’s pond. They were brilliant at learning our ‘Get up, Stand up’ words – abscond, flabbergasted, dupe, scarper, imitate and capture and enjoyed drawing their pictures of the seal, alternative food to give him so he didn’t take Tom’s fish and designing a trap for Tom to catch him and get the reward money from the circus. There’s some great writing coming from these too as they write their magic words/phrases or write about what might happen to their picture.
In Maths we were looking at counting forwards and back from 10, talking about WHY a particular number was next and also looked at identifying MORE and FEWER and again talking about how we knew. The children are becoming more and more confident with this as we will always ask them WHY or how they know when they give an answer to ensure they have a good understanding.
In RE we have been talking about why Easter is important to Christians. As part of this last week we learnt about Lent, and this week we learnt about Palm Sunday.
Well done to our 10 readers who picked a prize from the Lucky Dip box on Monday for reading at least 5 times at home. This was our highest number yet! Well done! It would be great to see even more children winning a prize on Monday!
Have a lovely weekend and we will see you Monday morning!
Miss Jones & Mrs Kenny
Hazel Class Weekly Newsletter 10.3.23
Hello everyone,
This week in in English, we have been looking at different types of punctuation, exploring when to use inverted commas and exclamation marks. We have found examples of inverted commas and exclamation marks in our guided reading book and have created our own sentences involving the these.
In Maths, we have continued learning about fractions. This week we understood how to count forwards and backwards on a fractions number line. We also have found equivalent non-unit fractions using a number line. The children also made their own fraction robots by learning how to fold different shapes into halves, thirds and quarters.
In Geography we have looked more closely into evaporation and began an investigation to see how water evaporates over time. We started this by filling bags of water and drawing a line where the water started and seeing how it goes down throughout the term.
Our Science topic this term is Rock and Soil. This involved the pupils investigating which types of rocks are permeable and impermeable by submerging them into water. We also investigated whether the rocks were hard or soft by conducting a scratch test.
Have a lovely weekend, stay safe,
Miss Bliss, Mrs Martin and Miss Aldridge
Oak Class Weekly Newsletter 10.3.23
Happy Snow Day! The weather may be 3 months late, but I hope all children are enjoying it. Please send any pictures of your fantastic snow builds to the class email: oak@crowmoorschool.co.uk
In the short week we had, we were very busy.
In English, we have began writing our persuasive letters to Sir David Attenborough about how passionate we are about the existence of dragons. The children have worked really hard on their debating skills and developed their speaking and listening skills when communicating their ideas with the class.
In Maths, we have continued looking at decimals. It is great to see a lot more children engaging in the Mathletics this week, but there are still some not engaging at all. Please take the opportunity to engage in Mathletics, as this allows them that extra bit of practice ready for the end of topic tests. After all, “Practice makes progress”
In Science, we completed a fantastic experiment using Chromatography. We used techniques used by CSI to solve crimes, but we found the Mystery Super Speller. Please find photographs below:
You should have all received a letter regarding the school trip to Shrewsbury Abbey on Monday 13th March. Please send children to school as normal, with school uniforms on rather than PE kit.
Have a lovely, long weekend!
Miss Hipkiss and Miss Nicholas
Willow – 10.3.23
Good afternoon,
What an interesting week we have had.
The children have started our new maths topic on percentages very well, they have been using their understanding of fractions and decimals to help with this. In English we have been looking at writing diary entries.
In our computing and D&T, we have been looking at coding and programmable devices. The children have done very well coming up with interesting ideas and concepts.
I hope the children have been doing lots of reading and have managed to complete their Mathletics sessions.
I hope you have all had a safe end to the week and enjoy your weekends,
Mr Reynolds
HAF
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HAF Project- Easter Holidays
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