Sammy the Snake loves all your stories. 

My Snake Surprise!

Thank you Mrs Wood and Pucky!

HOMEWORK UPDATE - Homework is given out on a Friday and needs returning  / completing on the following Thursday e.g. Friday 7th - Thursday 13th, Friday 14th - Thursday 20th.

Remember the Kingfisher Motto - TRY YOUR BEST AND FORGET THE REST.  

All children have a new reading book and reading record. There are also Ebooks on their Active Learn account to start reading too! Happy reading and let's try to get a golden ticket at the end of the week. 

• Homework - we try to be very clear and informative about homework;  however,  if you are unsure  about it please come in and see us.
• Spellings - every Thursday the children will have a test and then be issued with a new set of spellings to learn for the following week. Please can you encourage your child/children to look up the words in a dictionary to learn the definitions.
• Active Learn - Ebooks, numeracy  and science challenges plus spelling , grammar and punctuation (SPAG) games will issued to each child's account weekly. Please monitor reading records as we communicate via these books. 
• CGP Books - these will be given out and children will know the section they need to complete and when to bring them back into school.
• Mini-Projects can also to set, with the influence and help of the children and their ideas. 

All we ask, is for children do their very best, and forget the rest. Every little helps to reinforce the skills they are learning at school - including reading. READ FOR MEANING - READ FOR FUN!

ALL HOMEWORK NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED AND HANDED IN ON A THURSDAY MORNING. NEW HOMEWORK WILL BE ISSUED ON FRIDAYS. 

Thank you!

What melting point does gallium (Ga) have?

Skills used: predictions, measuring water in ml, teamwork, recording results, close observational skills, and finding the answer - writing up a conclusion. 

Awe and wonder - how do you know the 1g of gallium has changed state?

Here are some of the responses:

 'It wobbles when I shake it!'

'It flows around the bottom of the test-tube.'

Literacy : Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts; Alfie's Story and The Ugly Five.

Children have read a range of animal stories to inspire their own stories.

We love our motto: read for meaning; read for fun!

For most people, the idea of finding old human poo is disgusting; and the idea of cutting it up and looking at it through a microscope is even worse! But this is exactly what some archaeologists do to help us understand what people ate in the past, and how they prepared their food.

Poo from the Past - they loved making and adding  the dietary evidence to their  Aztec poo, add popping corn or maize, pumpkin seeds, and the skin and seeds from plants like tomatoes, chillies and peppers – these are parts of the foods that Aztec people ate, which might not have been fully digested. 

The Fire, Water, Air and Earth Pavilions enthused, excited and ignited the Stanley children's interest, and for some, love for science, technology, engineering  and mathematics (STEM). The practical workshops were amazing; from extracting DNA from a kiwi, looking at chemical reactions to observing forces that impact on a hot air balloon, the children were engaged and active. 

Thank you to all the parent helpers that supported this school trip. 

We have looked at the seven days of creation, God's message and how he passed on his earth for Christians to love, respect and look after. 

What an excellent 2017.. we can't wait for 2018!

Start date for swimming in 2018 - 12th January.

LITERACY

Biography

Autobiography

Poetry

Letter Writing

Play scripts

NUMERACY

Problem Solving 

Fractions

Operations (add/subtraction/multiplication/division)

Measures

Graph work  - Science

Topic

All Around the World

Science 
Electricity

ICT 

Scratch - Coding 

P.E

Pilates/Swimming

Spanish 

40 minutes of Spanish 

R.E

People and Creation - Freeze Picture

Magnets and Forces Day.

Many experiments and exploration going on today; measurements and recording happening too! Super work Kingfishers. 

Animation Day - I  Can't Sleep Stories.

Today, the class have been using a variety of programs: Purple Mash (story creator), Scratch and an animation app.  Our expert coding club members have been  sharing their skills with other children in the class; teaching them how to chatbot. It has been great day, ultimately bringing our story writing to life through  ICT .  Super ICT skills Kingfisher Class!

We made our characters from clay and made our bedrooms out of cardboard boxes 

Autumn Term Two Year Three Spelling Overview

Autumn Term Two Year Four Spelling Overview

Literacy

Poetry – Our Senses. 

Biographical writing - Grace Darling.

Play script - The School Bell.

Persuasive Writing - Should children decide what time to go to bed?

Numeracy

Mental Addition/Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Statistics

Fractions

Ratio

Proportions

Time:12 hr/24hr clock

Science

Magnets and Forces.

Topic

Shopping Bags

Design and Technology Focus.

P.E

Swimming and Dance

R.E

Christmas WOW Week

The Birth of Jesus.

Foot Prints and drama.

ICT

Animation and Story Telling.

Purple Mash

I Can'e Get to Sleep Stories

Kingfishers would like to show you their amazing day at 'Warwick Castle' yesterday.

We have arrived  

Here we are at the top of : Guy's Tower' and Caesar's Tower.

After this we went to watch the 'Birds Of Prey' demonstration. This was awesome the birds were very close to our heads.

After Lunch we went to meet our monarch. Who can it be????

Henry VIII and his six wives. Kingfishers were amazing, they answered every question they were asked about the King, and our guide - Rachel said we were the best group she had seen all year. Well done kingfishers 

Who are these soldiers? 

SWIMMING STARTS ON THE 22ND SEPTEMBER!!!

THANK YOU TO ARWEN'S MUM, JOSHUA'S MUM AND LOUIS'S MUM FOR HELPING OUT WITH SWIMMING ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON. IF ANYONE ELSE CAN GIVE UP ONE FRIDAY AFTERNOON THAT WOULD BE SUPER.

We shall continue to include creative arts: drama, music, speaking and listening and art exercises throughout our CREATIVE CURRICULUM.

You will find the year three and four- autumn term- weekly spellings are available to see. 

The test will take place every Thursday, and be recorded in your child's reading record, and marked that day so you can see their progress. 

Autumn Term 1 Year 4 Spellings

Autumn Term 1 Year 3 Spellings – including some prefixes and suffixes

Kingfisher Team Points: children will be awarded team points to celebrate their school and home achievements. In the words of Bruce Forsyth: 'Points mean prizes!"

 We have STAR of the Week and merits too.

Kingfisher Homework will consist of:

Spellings weekly: please ensure children learn the definition of the words too.

Reading: read for meaning is our motto, so please ask children questions about the content of the book and support them if they are struggling understanding with any words or phrases. Ebooks and school books are available and both need to be used accordingly. 

Numeracy: Active Learn and sometimes paper based work sheets.

We shall from time to time, ask the children to design their own homework and complete practical activities too. 

If children read independently, which is super,  please encourage them to record in their reading records the page number that they had read up to, and any new words they have learnt so we can celebrate new words in class. 

 PLEASE IF YOUR CHILD IS STRUGGLING WITH ANY OF THE HOMEWORK SET, PLEASE GET THEM TO STOP, AND DROP A NOTE IN THEIR READING RECORD AND WE CAN SUPPORT THEM ACCORDINGLY IN SCHOOL.

Mrs Davies and I would like to thank the children for their amazing behaviour, in and out of the classroom today. It was our final swimming lesson for this academic year and it has been super to see the children's confidence grow in the water, as well as in their understanding of water safety.

Our Science Experiment

Which chocolate will melt the fastest and slowest?

We used the tin cans to melt three different types of chocolate: dark, white and milk chocolate.

Kirk Hallam Secondary School, kindly lent us heat-proof mats so we could carry out the experiment safely. We took every precaution to make this safe, and our outstanding behaviour shone (as usual).

THIS WAS OUR MORNING...

Drum-roll please...

We had calculated an average (from a set of six results) these were our findings.

Beach Topic - Whitby and Volcanic Islands.

We have been learning about sand and making sandcastles, we have been learning how to find the area, and volume of our designs. 

Yes... You've guessed it, our yellow sponges are our blocks of sand.

Let's make sandcastles!!!

Map work: where is Whitby?

Researching skills and asking great questions galore.

Beach and Numeracy Fun!

Literacy - genres covered: mystery and adventure stories, instructional writing, information texts and finally shape poems and word play. Roald Dahl - Revolting Rhymes. Dictionary and Thesaurus skills and much more.
Numeracy - the four operations ( + - ÷ x ), fractions, percentages and decimals and word problems.
Science - Changes of State and Electricity.
French - class instructions, colours and more french phrases.
P.E/Swimming - swimming and athletics. A day trip is planned P.E based - more info to come.
Topic - What is it like in Whitby? Water safety will be covered.  A geography based topic summer term; however, art and music will feature within the seven weeks of the term; concluding with a beach-themed party.

ICT, drama, music, art will feature in our creative, cross curriculum for the final weeks of the summer term.

Kingfisher children are writing persuasive speeches. The majority of the class believe school uniform is a good idea; however, there are a few children, who are trying hard to persuade them that school uniform is unnecessary and demeaning. 

What do you think?

Mrs Stanley Wainwright has been sharing her views and emotions, bring out the red hat (well wig it's all we had).

Olly shared some great views and thoughts about the emotions of: parents, children and teachers on this subject too. 

Sugar and salt are soluble materials: they will dissolve in water. We used sugar cubes and submerged a sugar cube in hot water and watched what happened. IT DID NOT MELT! IT DISSOLVED!

We sang: 'There's a thousand ml in a litre.' This helped us measure half a litre of water (500ml) and quarter of a litre (250ml).We also used a thermometre to measure the temperature of water.

All equipment was used carefully.

French - All About Me - Qu’est-ce Que Tu Portes?

We will continue to promote music, drama, art throughout the summer term.

Light and Shadows

Kingfishers' have been researching and learning what materials are: opaque, translucent and transparent.

A big science question: how are shadows formed?

We have made dens, and used our torches to move around, using the light to help us.

We have learnt what light sources and reflectors are, the differences between the two and how we can separate them.

I over heard a conversation whilst two children were sketching...' I am no good at art.'

The response I heard back:  'Everyone is good at art in their own way!'

Thank you Sophie for these wise words, it made my day hearing you say this and we shared it with the whole class too.

Thank you to Claire and Adam Rowan, for the wonderful story: Katie and the Starry Night! A magical journey through five van Gogh masterpieces. We have loved reading this story. Good reading class!