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Issue 16 7th February 2016
In This Issue Page 1
Fabulous Footballers Fly the Flag
Page 2
Foundation Stage Magic Moments
Page 3
Key Stage 1 Magic Moments
Page 4 & 5
Key Stage 2 Magic Moments
Page 6
App of the Week and PE
Fabulous Footballers
Fly the Flag Our vision to Care, Challenge and Inspire was clearly evident last
week in Dubai when our year 5 and 6 girls and boys football
teams travelled to the BSME Football Competition. All of the
children showed fantastic team work and care for each other on
our travels. They rose to the challenges presented, particularly
our girls who were competing in their first competitive match
together, and above all they inspired each other, their parents
who came to support them and their teachers. Mr Hashem, Mr
Darren and Miss Claire were so proud of each and every one of
them throughout the competition not only for their fantastic
football but their teamwork, camaraderie and sportsmanship. The
girls came a very credible seventh and the boys finished third
narrowing losing in the semi-final to the eventual winners of the
competition. Huge congratulations to both teams.
Issue 16 : 7th February 2016 Foundation Stage Magic Moments
In FS1 Green…
In FS2 Green…
2
…this week we have been having lots of fun with our new teacher Miss Vikki and our new TLA Miss
Amira. We are continuing with our topic ‘Space’, where we have been learning about planets and
stars. We have made planets with marble paintings, used our fine motor skills to thread stars and
havewritten our names using sticky star stickers. We have also been learning about 3D shapes for the
first time. We were given toothpicks, marshmallows, cherry tomatoes and raisins to experiment with
making 3D shape structures. We constructed cubes, cuboids and pyramids independently.
This week in FS2 Green, we performed our assembly all about dinosaurs. We decided to tell the story,
‘We’re going on a dinosaur hunt’ by making a video that starred all of us as we travelled through rain,
wind and a forest to find a Tyrannosaurus Rex. We used the green screen, which allowed us to be
transported to a variety of settings and provided us with exciting backgrounds for our story including a
steaming volcano, a tropical rain forest and an enchanted castle. We loved working with our friends to
make our video and in particular, loved acting out the excitement of being chased by a dinosaur. Our
parents and the other children in FS2 and FS1 loved our film and we thoroughly enjoyed showing it to
them.
Issue 16 : 7th February 2016
Key Stage 1 Magic Moments
3
In Year 1 Green…
In Year 2 Green…
…we have been learning all about Space and Space
History! We have made timelines in Topic to
represent all the amazing events that happened in
space such as Neil Armstrong walking on the moon
and Yuri Gagarin orbiting the Earth. In English, we
practiced using connectives to join sentences and
we also had great fun learning about question
words and forming silly questions to ask each
other. In Maths we learned all about 3D shapes and
made our own 3D shapes with clay. We have also
begun learning about weight - we weighed all sorts
of things in our classroom and found that some
things (like books) were very heavy indeed!
…we have had our science hats on recently and have spent some time learning about the conditions
that plants need to grow. Using our science skills we planted our own seeds a few weeks ago and have
grown them in different conditions to test what a seed needs to grow successfully. Finally, our
patience and hard work has started to provide us with some results! Here you can see what happens
when you grow a plant with no air, with no water and finally when you give a plant air, water, soil and
light. When you look at the picture can you tell which plant had which conditions?
Key Stage 2 Magic Moments Issue 16 : 7th February 2016
4
In Year 3 Green…
In Year 4 Green…
…we have been hard at work learning all about mummification and have been incorporating our
knowledge into our history, art and literacy work. We have used excellent technical language such as
‘preserve’, ‘prepare’ and ‘embalm’ in our instructional writing and we couldn’t believe that the Ancient
Egyptians mummified cats and pulled brains out of
their nose in our history lesson! We have also been
getting creative in our class and made our own
silhouettes of famous Ancient Egyptian gods. Have
a go at year 3 green’s Egyptian ‘Guess who’ and see
if you can work out who they are.
…we have been learning about the Roman
Empire. This week we have been comparing
life in Roman times to our way of life today.
We have learnt about the types of activities
that Romans participated in when socialising
as well as the different types of food that they
ate. To understand what it would have tasted
like, we went to the cooking room to make our
own bread! We followed a recipe that that was
similar to the method that Ancient Roman
bakers and soldiers would have used, although
we used ovens rather than open fires to bake
our bread! It was a very messy affair but we
really enjoyed ourselves and most importantly
our bread tasted great!!
Key Stage 2 Magic Moments Issue 16 : 7th February 2016
5
In Year 5 Green…
In Year 6 Green…
In preparation for our trip down the Nile, we have
been learning about rivers in Year 5. We have
developed our science and geographical knowledge
and have learnt about all aspects of rivers including
pollution and the impact this has on the land and
wildlife. In our english lessons we have been
learning about persuasive speaking and writing, and
as part of our finale to the topic we wrote speeches
to convince our audience to stop polluting rivers. We
were all very proud of our presentations and many of us had very convincing arguments, no more so
than Tarek, who, as you can see in in the photo, was extremely animated and passionate about what he
had to say. His delivery was a magic moment.
…we have been looking at the capital cities of North and South America as part of our topic, ‘The
Pan-American Highway’. After the Student Council highlighted a desire for more group work in Year
6, we decided to do a fun and fascinating ‘jigsaw’ geographical activity. This involved sending a
member of each group off to find out more about four capital cities across the Americas and then
reporting back to the group. The task allowed everyone to discover more about each city, while
learning cooperatively.
Apps, PE and Information Issue 16 : 7th February 2016
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Coming Up Next…
15th – 18th February Nile Cruise Trip 2
Wednesday 17th February
FS2 Concert
Friday 19th February School Closed – Half Term Begins
In PE… …this week we have been back outside now that the wet weather has disappeared, the sun has
returned and the temperatures have warmed up. In KS2 we have been continuing with our focus on
athletics in preparation for Sports Day in March. Teamwork has been at the forefront of our lessons
with the children in KS2 learning about relay racing. We have learnt about the distance run, the
different hand over techniques as well as how to increase our speed whether running on the straight or
bend of the track. All of the children worked well together as a team with classes cheering each other
on. Next week, we look forward to learning about the different jumps in athletics including long jump
and high jump.
Year 5’s have been very busy investigating rivers in
their topic lessons this week, learning to locate
and identify them on maps, as well as compare
the properties of rivers based on their
geographical location. Having quick access to
Google Maps, Google Earth, and
www.google.co.uk, students were able to research
the necessary information, view rivers from far
distances and close-up, as well as screen shot live
rivers directly from Google Earth. They then added
this to their classwork data. This is another great
example of how technology gives us immediate
access to international places right at our very
fingertips. Google Maps can be used at home to
help plan transport from one place to the next,
give verbal navigation directions for drivers, and
can even be a great tool to compare weather
forecasts if your family is planning a holiday to a
destination in another country!
App of the Week