Monday 6^th January 2025

Last term, our topic that unpinned our learning was River Deep, Mountain High. This term our topic is all about Time Travel. An exciting trip we have planned this term is to visit the Natural History Museum. Where we will travel back in time and see some impressive artefacts and much more!

In English, our key texts this term are Leon and the Place Between, Time Travelling with a Hamster and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. If the children have copies of these texts at home, they can come into class. In Maths, we are focusing on Place Value. In History, the children will be recapping the Romans before progressing onto learning about the Anglo-Saxons and the Mayans. In Art, our spotlight artist is Kurt Schwitters and we will be creating collages and painting. In Design and Technology, the year 4s are making sausage rolls and the year 5s are making a pasta dish with garlic bread. In science, we will be learning about animals including humans. We will start of by looking at our digestive system. In Music, we have a visitor coming in to explore Samba music. At the end of the Spring term there will be a Samba performance, date TBC. Our PE days remain to be every Monday and Wednesday. Every Wednesday this term we will be exploring different styles of Dance.

Our project this term is to raise money to buy more play equipment for our school. We will be baking cupcakes to sell on the playground after school on Friday 7^th February 2025. Cupcakes will be £1 each. We would be extremely grateful for any baking items such as sprinkles and icing pens. If you could bring these in the week commencing 03/02/2025. To note, our family learning day is Tuesday 4th March at 9:30am. The focus of this family learning day is to create a Mayan City Collage.

Important dates:

Friday 7^th February 2025- Cupcakes on sell after school, £1 per cupcake.

Tuesday 4th March 2025- Barley’s family learning session, 9:30am 

Natural History Museum- TBC.

W/C 9/12/24

Barley class have been busy creating a variety of shape poems over the last couple weeks. The pupils have continued to develop and build their landforms, which are looking fabulous. We enjoyed watching the KS1 nativity and the pantomime performance- some of us even starred in the pantomime performance! We have also been busy building our decorations which will be sold on Tuesday 17th December straight after school. With half the profits going towards Water Aid. 

W/C- 11/11/2024

We have been rather busy this week in Barley class! The children carried out a freezing experiment where they were able to determine whether all liquids freeze or not. Pupils utilised their scientific language through partner and class discussions. Pupils recorded their method, prediction, results and conclusion in their books and presented their findings to the class. The children conduct experiments every science lesson to support their growing knowledge and understanding. On Wednesday, the children learnt basic rules in netball, that they were then able to practise and develop. On Thursday, we learnt a French song! On Friday afternoon we completed British Values and Children In Need activities. The British Values activity is outlined under 'subjects'. 

This week in Barley class, we have completed our final adventure story. They are all amazing! We have also enjoyed singing in rounds and learning outdoors. Have a lovely week off Barley class! 

W/C 14/10/2024

This week in Barley class we have been writing our own adventure stories that link to our text ‘Wind in the Willows’. We conducted a noise experiment which focused on how noise pollution is caused. In design and technology, we have been busy designing our group bridges. The children were able to generate brilliant ideas working collaboratively. There will not be a spelling test next week but regular practise will still take place. The test will take place after half term. 

W/C 30/09/24

This week we have been using the column method to solve addition problems. We had a fabulous morning on Friday making bridges with our family members. We look forward to seeing how strong our bridges are next week. In science we have been learning about sound and enjoyed our outdoor experiment! In English we have started our new book ‘Wind in the Willows’. 

This week in Barley class we have been busy creating suspense writing, learning all about sound, experimenting with oil pastels and much more!

This week in Barley class we have been learning all about place value! We have also been busy practising our song for the harvest festival. We have been working really hard and have produced some amazing work as a result. 

Barley class have had lots of fun, we have been busy exploring our creative side! We had lots of fun experimenting with ice and skittles! We have also enjoyed learning about Monet and recreating some of his masterpieces.