Maths Trail

There were two highlights this week with Dads in school on Thursday morning and our maths trail around the village on Tuesday afternoon. Luckily the sun shone for us on Tuesday and we went off in small groups measuring, code cracking, adding and multiplying (and lots more) to find our way around the village and back to school.
Huge thanks to Miss Redfearn for organising this. Fun was had by all and it was a brilliant opportunity to work on our maths skills. Thanks also to all the parents who came with us. We couldn't have done it without your support.
Also this week we had a go at making our own Torah scrolls in R.E. Although we had a good try at writing in Hebrew we concluded it was very tricky! We also had a go using a quill which was interesting...
Next week we are going to be starting our D.T topic on vehicles and packaging so we need to remember lots of boxes and tights for our science!!!

Our Synagogue and PYO Farm Trip

We had an amazing time picking strawberries and the sun came out for us too! Thank you very much to the ESA for paying for the yummy strawberries, luckily they were a favourite with everyone.
Farmer Max...


Read some extracts from our recounts about the Synagogue below.

On Tuesday we went to Cheltenham Synagogue. First we had to separate into boys and girls and we went in through different doors to different sides of the room! Next a man called Michael talked to us about the Torahs, then he opened the Ark (pictured above) and showed us the Torahs, they were very beautiful. By Rosie

First we went on the coach. When we were there we saw a man who showed us the Ark, it was fun. He told us about the Synagogue and we saw a very small scroll. He told us lots of information and the seats were a bit uncomfortable. By Thomas

There were prayers on the wall. I also found the Ark where they keep the scrolls. Boys and girls went in separate doors. By Joshua W

At the Synagogue there was a man and a lady. The man was called Michael and the lady was called Miriam. At a service if there was not enough room the men would sit on both sides and the ladies would sit upstairs. Michael showed us the ark and he had to pull the curtain. Miriam said all about what Jews do at home. She told us about Jewish festivals. Michael had a kippah and a prayer shawl. We all looked at and touched some Jewish artefacts. In the Ark there were Torah scrolls and they were handwritten! By Joshua R

Week beginning 9/5

As usual we have had yet another busy week. We have had a mixed reaction to our SATs but they are done now and the information from them will be useful to the teachers to support future learning.
As well as carrying out lots of tasks in maths and literacy we have had an exciting visit to see what is growing at our local allotment. Luckily the sun shone for us. We caught up with some of class one working on their patch which was nice and encountered a few scarecrows too! See the pictures above for some of the things we found.
In French this week we had conversations with each other which went very well, Miss Redfearn is a French specialist so is passing on some useful tips!
In PSHCE we started to learn about head lice and we are hoping to produce information leaflets over the next month. We were all fascinated by this subject and some of us have a better knowledge than others!
In R.E we began our topic on Judaism and have identified all the things we would like to learn. It's a good job we are off to visit a synagogue soon as that will answer many of our questions and seeing things in real life is much better than reading about them. We look forward to a more normal week next week!!!
HELP REQUEST: We are in need of (old) tights to make some cress heads in science. If anyone has any to spare please send them in. Thanks

Last Week of Term

Despite it being the end of term we have had an incredibly busy week. We have spent a great deal of time writing Viking sagas which are amazing but some of us were still writing them up on Friday!!! Some of us typed them up but others wrote them into a special book. They are incredibly exciting stories and we hope to read some to class 3 after Easter and some will go on our class page of the website soon.
Also this week we had a go at making a device using a circuit (pictures above). We began this on Monday and needed Wednesday to continue with it, in fact we actually voted to continue working on this rather than make Easter cards! Luckily we were able to make Easter cards on Friday!!! There were some fantastic devices made and lots of us actually want a bit more time so we may have another session after Easter to give everyone the chance to finish off! Olivia and Joshua W made a super lighthouse. Oliver and Joshua R made a very impressive game which buzzed if you got the answer wrong and lit up if it was correct and Emily and Holly made a warning mat!
On Tuesday this week Mrs Ayling took us for P.E and we worked on a wake and shake dance which was good fun.
Miss Redfearn spent four days with us this week and will be in full time after Easter until the end of June.
Also this week we did a brilliant assembly to end our history topic. Next term we start to find out about our local area!
Have a very Happy Easter everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Week beginning 14/3/11

On Tuesday this week we said goodbye to Miss Gobey our student who had been coming in two days a week since September. She has promised she will come back and visit and kindly handed out some sweets at the end of the day plus there are still more for another day!
We have decided to work on the theme of circles in dance this half term and are using some Indian music. We are really getting into this and have found lots of ways of making circles with our bodies. Next weeks lesson takes inspiration from a dream catcher so if anyone has one they wouldn't mind sending in for us to see that would be much appreciated!
On Wednesday afternoon we had fun making our own circuits and seeing what what we could find out... See the photos above. The Y4 got to go and be part of the audience for class 3 at the village hall so they missed this exciting lesson but there will be plenty of opportunities for them to catch up as we will be doing lots more exploring of circuits, it's great fun!
In literacy we have been writing reports on bicycles. On Monday we had a go in pairs at an oral report which was brilliant. We have some budding news reporters amongst us.

Spaghetti Week

We wanted to know how much spaghetti we could eat in a minute!


We have had an exciting start to the half term with a focus on spaghetti. Before half term we compiled an enormous list of questions we wanted to ask about spaghetti. We started this week with a day in class 3 to enable us to use the computers for our research. We worked in pairs to answer some of the questions. There were some we couldn't answer and some which we weren't sure of, for example do wolves really eat spaghetti with avocado???
On Tuesday we actually made spaghetti and we had the chance to eat it for lunch but only 11 of us did. Most of us at least tried it! In the afternoon we went to the village hall and measured how long it was in spaghetti and then played a spaghetti game!
On Wednesday we investigated how many pieces of spaghetti there were in a pack and how much would fit in various containers. We then had a fantastic time making sculptures. We started with clay or a box/container and added spaghetti! We created some very interesting pieces...Finn's eagle was particularly impressive.
On Thursday and Friday we finished things off and then presented all the information we had learnt during the week.
Also this week we met Miss Redfearn, a PGCE student who will be working with us this term and next.

Wk beginning 7/2/11 in C2

Writing our songs and we got to perform them too...
Our trip!



We have had a really fun week with Sing up day on Wednesday and then our trip to the Roman Baths and our Roman feast. The week started quite normally although we did have Mrs Green for maths on Tuesday which made a nice change!
Sing up day on Wednesday was fantastic! We started off learning a whole school song in assembly and then back in class we learnt a class song called Viking Rock. It was amazing and everyone liked it. We had to spend quite a long time practising it though as it was quite tricky! We also found time to write our own songs for different times of the day. Read a couple of them below! We are going to put them all in a book and sing them during the day...
Break Time by Immy and Rosie
Time for break
Time for break
Time to pack away
And have a nice play.
Put your coats on and go outside.
That's how we have our break.

Lunch Time by Jim and Alec
Lunch time, lunch time
Yes, it's lunch time
Food and drink
Apple and banana, yes banana.
Lunch time, it's lunch time.

On Thursday we went to the Roman Baths and had a super day. The weather wasn't brilliant but we were under cover most of the time so it didn't matter! There was so much to see and do. We got to dress up as Romans, have a go writling on a wax tablet with a stylus (Roman pen) and
look at real Roman artefacts. It was a really enjoyable day and we learnt so much.