Power Down Day and all that ...

We seemed to have space raced through this week!  Firstly I would like to say a big thank you for the amazing rockets that have been created as part of the children's home learning.  And an even bigger thank you to all those families who remembered the restriction on size!  As I hope some of you will have seen, the rockets are now flying in space (well, ok hanging from the lights).  I am sure you will agree that they look marvellous.  We had a real array of creativity from edible to lego built rockets.  

Next week's home learning will be to produce a guide for 'everything you know about fractions'.  Again this can be as creative as you like from pop-up posters to models showing factions.  The home learning will be due in on Monday, 7th December 2015.

This week the children have begun to learn more about fractions - recognising what a fraction is and its equivalence.  There has been some great progress this especially from the Year 2s.  Next week we will be learning fractions of amounts, objects and numbers and learning that if we know, say, 1/4 then we can work out 3/4.

Literacy next week will be continuing to learn how to write that all important description of a scene - the where and the when.  Last week we had fun learning that we could use our five senses to help us write scene descriptions.  

The children had a great couple of days learning and composing their own musical pieces with Mrs Martin at the beginning of the week.  Well done Mrs Martin and Mrs Sibley for not complaining too much about the headaches!  

Our space helmets continue to be the focus of our afternoons.  We have added visors and a layer of white paint.  Next week we shall complete our space logo to add to the helmets.

Today the children have all enjoyed learning in the dark as the School took part in Power Down Day.  The morning saw the children design their own garden. The brief was to design a garden to attract bees.  As we know bees are a vital part of our eco-system and I think the children all enjoyed the challenge.  Some great designs were created and all will be entered into a class competition with the winning design being created in our own Veg Trugs (kindly donated by Friends of Fordham).  

This afternoon the children produced posters to encourage people to remember the 4 Rs - re-cycle, reduce, reuse and repair.  We had a very good chat about how the children and their families might try to use one of these at home. Watch out for children turning lights off behind you and asking for teddies to be sewn up!

Have a great weekend.

Mrs S

A little bit of extra home learning - thank you Imogen!

We created our own Space timeline

Fabulous edible rocket

Sophie used her design skills from lessons to create the perfect plan to build her rocket

Now it's your turn - composing their own space theme

Cutting the shape to size and adding visors

Adding a bit of measurement to Power Down Day