Please find ParentMail from the week commencing 24th April below.

The class were extremely excited to share their work and learning from our Arts Fortnight. I am very proud of each pupil, who engaged and immersed themselves during each activity, each day. A particular highlight for myself was watching the final dance performance, which I think a lot of our visitors would agree was very moving.A big well done from Miss Peartree!

5P thoroughly enjoyed the two weeks of Arts Fortnight. The concept was around children exploring their emotions through colour, enabling an ability to better express, digest and explore their emotions. This involved workshops around emotional literacy and understanding. Each morning and afternoon the children ‘checked in’ in their sketch books. At these checkpoints, they chose a colour, which reflected their mood and emotions, then doodled how they felt.

For the most of these two weeks, we were in the Arts studio following a larger process in which to create high-quality pieces of art, that had the concept of our project, ‘Colourful Me’, at its core. Most mornings we were in the dance studio, practising and learning our dance, working alongside Miss Prachatt.

During Spring 2, the children thoroughly enjoyed the micro-bit unit. Here they worked both collaboratively and independently to create blocks of code in which to programme the micro-bit to perform actions such as text, shaking, sounds and different actions dependent on clicking a button.

What an exciting day full of excitement and wonder! We started the day with the Upper KS2 World Book Day quiz in the main hall. The children worked in house teams to collaboratively produce an answer.

Following this, we created fact files about C.S Lewis, the author of the Chronicles of Narnia. 5P also created illustrations showing their take on a map of Narnia. After finishing the film in the afternoon, we headed to the library for Narnia themed activities including a exciting ‘treasure’ hunt.

Before our trip to Adel Woods for den building this week, the children enjoyed a DT lesson based on building stable structures. The task was completed in pairs in preparation for our trip!

On Thursday, the children had a lovely trip to Adel Woods and became expert explorers and den builders. They worked in house teams and were judged on the basis of stability, size, weatherproofing and comfort

This week was E-safety week! We had lots of important conversations with the children about how to be safe and kind online. We had an exciting assembly, E-safety workshop, live BBC lesson and each child entered a design competition.

During the afternoons in 5P this week, we’ve focused on our Art unit, based on Pole to Pole. The children created an initial sketch. This was inspired by a collection of books and resources based on the Arctic and Antartica. Moving on to our final designs for the silk work, we paid closer attention to our placement, selection and mixture of colours.

As you can see in the photos, the children combined inspiration from the Auroras, their learning of mountain ranges in Geography and animals who live in these environments.

We look forward to showing you our process and final silk pieces!

The previous week in 5P was full of learning! We developed our skills in writing dialogue, continued our multiplication unit and delved deeper into our class novel ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’.

We thoroughly enjoyed our Computing lesson, where we learnt about how to search, manage and handle databases. This lesson included lots of quick fire questions around countries, their populations and languages in order to evolve our speed in searching and finding an answer within a large amount of data.