Class 5 Blog

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  20

  Jun

  Human Development

  Posted by Mr J Chaffey

  We had a look at human development from birth to old age today, this required the children to piece together a rather large puzzle in groups. First they had to match up a photo, age range and description before arranging them into the correct order. To add some extra pressure, there was an incentive for good teamwork and collaborative skills.
• 19

  Jun

  Swimming

  Posted by Mr J Chaffey

  Hopefully tomorrow we will be able to get in the pool and start swimming. Just a reminder that children do need footwear to walk to and from the pool, swimming kit, towel, sun cream and goggles. Goggles are really important to help develop children's swimming technique, especially as we only have a short amount of time available to us.
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  07

  Jun

  Hola!

  Posted by Mr J Chaffey

  Welcome back to school, I hope everyone enjoyed some sun over the half term! We have a very full half term before we break up for the Summer. With swimming, sports day, a science trip, the return of Spanish and many more activities to get through, we are going to be busy! We had an introductory Spanish lesson this week with some singing and simple phrases which everyone enjoyed. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone gain confidence in using Spanish and maybe even find it useful on holiday!
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  22

  May

  Clay Fish

  Posted by Mr J Chaffey

  For the last three Wednesdays, the class have been designing and creating clay models. Each child drew designs with varying patterns and ideas. They then went on to make the sculptures and paint them and the results are fantastic! You will be able to have a look at these at the open afternoon on Friday so please come and ask the children about them. Another art project over the last few weeks has been the 3D sculptures made from recycled materials. Thank you for all the CLEAN recycling that was brought in, we managed to avoid a classroom smelling like a skip! The children overcame lots of design and construction problems. They used all the resources available to them and trialed many different methods to piece their design together. Lots of fantastic art and DT has been created over the past few weeks.
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  13

  May

  Reading

  Posted by Mr J Chaffey

  More children seem to be leaving reading books at home or don't currently have a book on the go. This makes it difficult if they need to read during school. They then tend to avoid reading in school or just pick a book and pick up a different the following day. Please can you try to help them to bring them into school and hopefully this will increase interest in reading. Also just a reminder about My Maths homework being completed. A little encouragement at home will remind children that there is Maths homework to be done weekly.
• 11

  May

  Mindfulness

  Posted by Mr J Chaffey

  As you all know Friday was a mindfulness day. Our aim was to train our brains to focus on the task at hand when other factors may distract us. We trialed many breathing meditations which calmed our minds and judgement. Children then suggested scenarios where this may be useful, these ranged from social situations, sporting fixtures and work. Everyone found a calming, peaceful place in their mind that they used to control their breathing. These techniques are proven to have benefits for many people around the world and hopefully they can help children in the future.
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  10

  May

  Mindfulness Day

  Posted by Miss E Fitzgerald

  Isn't it embarrasing when you turn up in the same outfit as someone else?! Well not for us... as a big Harry Potter Fan (which I think most of the children in the school know about) it was an obvious choice to wear my Harry Potter pjs on mindfulness day. It seems Maisie had the same idea, but she topped me as she had the slippers to match (my first plan this weekend is to go and find a pair myself.) I'm so glad we managed to get a snap together - I wonder if we have the same outfit planned for pyjamarama day...
• 09

  May

  Boxercise

  Posted by Mr J Chaffey

  The hall was unavailable on Thursday, which meant we had to make use of other space available to us. We cleared some space in the classroom and completed a boxercise class instead. Everyone was surprised at how difficult the exercise was. As it was full of movements that we don't normally do in our regular exercise, it challenged us mentally and physically. One comment was 'it normally takes me 20 minutes for my legs to ache during running, this has only taken 2'. It was a fun alternative that definitely got the class working hard.
• 30

  Apr

  Welcome Back!

  Posted by Mr J Chaffey

  I hope everyone enjoyed the Easter Holidays. It has been a very busy first week back and it's great to see some sun and get outside, although it would be lovely to see some more! We are going to be designing a recycled sea animal over the coming weeks which the children will design individually. As part of this challenge, it is their responsibility to clean and collect recycled materials from home to then bring in to school where we will construct our projects. They should be choosing materials that they will likely find at home (although I will provide some extras in school for good measure).
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  30

  Apr

  Coral Reef

  Posted by Mr J Chaffey

  After sharing a picture book with the class called Alba The Hundred Year Old Fish, we tried to show a contrast between a vibrant, energetic coral reef full of life and the coral reef we could expect; full of pollution instead of fish and no colour at all. This ties into our Literacy where we are looking at the truly stunning sights that we can see in our oceans.