​We have begun our new English topic of persuasive writing and I have been extremely impressed with the persuasiveness during some of the children's arguments. The children have identified lots of features which they would expect to see in persuasive writing and have made links with the importance of continuing the use of grammatical features we have previously used in our writing, such as including modal verbs.
​I hope you are prepared to listen to some well-reasoned arguments as the children have already begun to make people question their original stance.

​This year the School Council and Ethos Leaders have been joined the National Young Leaders Award. They have been focussing on LEAD.
Love
Example
Action
Dream
 
The focus for the session this week was about action and how to prepare to take actions. They learned about Mya-Rose Craig (BirdGirl) who is a wildlife champion and has devoted a huge amount of time to protect the most endangered wild birds. Due to her commitments, she has become the youngest person to receive an honorary doctorate. The children learnt that they are the young voice of our world and no-one can hold it against them and that by believing this they are able to be the light of the world to shine through any dark. The children also learned about Jack Monroe and Shiden Tekle who are inspirational leaders and have felt inspired and realised how lucky they are. From this meeting, the children have identified topics which they would like to focus on and feel empowered to stand up and take action for what they believe in.

The wildlife champions were eager to discover the creatures and animals that come out at night around Northlew. They convinced Sarah, the wildlife champion leader, to borrow a night-time camera, which is extremely in demand and set this up on the playing field. They were able to spot the culprit of who has been pooing in our field! They captured some fantastic images of foxes, pictured below. They have also been inspecting how many bugs there are in one scoop of dirt by using a microscope and found a huge amount, they were really surprised by this and how small they were. They are eager to begin a new project in a overgrown area of the playing field after being inspired by their clearing of the brambles to create the spiritual area.

Our Early Years Reception children have been learning to order numbers 0-10. We have also been singing 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive.

We had a visit from Clive Pig, Mr Storyfella, to do a performance and drama workshop about how the Romans invaded Britain. He told the story from the viewpoint of a Celt. The children had great fun learning about how the Romans invaded Britain and some of the entertainment that they enjoyed.

During the summer term class 2 have been researching and discovering about migration during their topic lessons and linked to their English. We have had some fantastic examples of poetry based on injustice from class 2 during this topic. We have used Maya Angelou’s poem ‘Still I Rise’ for inspiration.

As a Church of England school, we encourage a lot of opportunities for self-reflection for the children. We do this in a multitude of ways such as through our discussions in class and worship, using written self-reflection journals daily and the children have been developing a spiritual area outside which they have created sculptures for based on values which are important to them and inspired by the sculptor Anish Kapoor. Following on from creating our sculptures we had a visit from Adella Webb, who taught the children about mosaics. The children have created some beautiful pieces which will brighten up the spiritual area along with the flowers that the gardening group have been growing.

We have also been able to welcome Reverend Leigh back into school last week as he delivered a worship based on our school focus value this term of friendship. Inspired by these worships, some of class 2 have volunteered to lead a worship. The children planned, rehearsed and delivered worship to the whole school.

Following on from our sessions with Mrs Jolliffe last half term within our music sessions we have been learning about following musical notes to play instruments such as glockenspiels to our music.

​The year 5 and 6 children in class 2 braved the rainy weather to develop their bike riding skills during Bikeability sessions. The children were able to assess if their bikes were roadworthy and how to keep themselves safe whilst riding a bike out on the road.

TEACHER: Mrs Stefanie Lee
Years 3, 4, 5 and 6

Our school day begins with an early morning challenge which will be either maths, grammar, handwriting or spelling activity. The children have the opportunity to complete this independently and then we review this as a whole class . As the children are older, we encourage them to come into the classroom independently and begin this task after reading through the instructions on the board.
We also provide opportunities for children to have small group interventions or keep up/pre teach sessions to ensure that all children are reaching their full potential.
Our morning sessions begin with developing our writing, grammar and spelling and children are given opportunities to develop specific age related techniques. After break-time,  the children return to class for their maths lessons which consist of 15 minutes of daily fluency as well as developing their understanding, reasoning and explanation of numbers and the number system, shape, space and measures.
As a Church of England school, the Christian values are prominent in our curriculum. Children attend worship once a day and this is then referred to throughout our learning. We also attend our local village church regularly giving the children lots of opportunity to reflect on their beliefs.
To begin our afternoons the children participate in a guided reading carousel which they follow to enhance their love of reading. This allows them to discuss and reflect upon books which they have read, independently and with group support. Following that, the children explore the curriculum through a wide variety of subjects such as; R.E,  history, geography, science, PE, music, art, design and technology.                     ​

TEACHER: Mrs Janine Cook
Years 3, 4, 5 and 6

Welcome to Class Two and the Spring Term.

This term we will be exploring the Vikings.  The children will be looking at what countries the Vikings invaded, the clothes they wore, food they ate and the Gods they worshipped.  We will also be creating our own weaponry and taking part in our own Viking battle on the playground!  Our Friday afternoons will be dedicated to art and design and the children we design, create and produce their own Viking Longships. 

Our mornings will focus on handwriting practice, English, spelling and grammar and our learning will centre around a book or film extract.  The children will have opportunities to explore a range of writing and produce their own stories, poetry and non fiction texts for a purpose.  We will also develop our deeper thinking in maths everyday, particular focusing on our reasoning and making connections with numbers.

Our afternoon sessions include French, Science (this term focus is our body and how it works), PE ( progression in hockey and dance) .

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