Blakemere's Weekly Blog - 20.09.2024

Date: 22nd Sep 2024 @ 11:30am

Another successful week in Blakemere! The children are continuing to impress me with their attitude and drive to their work.

English

We have continued with our text, The Watertower by Gary Crew this week. We initially created a setting description for the watertower on Shooters Hill using the noun phrases we created during the previous week. Lots of lovely vocabulary was used during this task. We have also explored created complex sentences this week and being able to identify the main parts of these. Finally, on Thursday I shared some rumours with the children about the watertower from our book and then they were encouraged to write their own. There were so many great rumours written about the sinister happenings.

Maths

In Maths, this week, we have explored Roman Numerals. We have looked at changing between numbers and Roman Numerals and how to partition the numbers when looking at dates. We have also explored counting in sequences of 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000 from any number. The children worked hard at this but there it was sometimes tricky when the numbers crossed the boundaries.

RE

We are focusing on the non-religious world view of Humanism and exploring the beliefs and values that all Humanists hold. The children have already been able to confidently recall the information we have explored so far and used it this week to write an information paragraph about Humanism.

Science

We have continued to explore and look at the similarities and differences between living things this week and used our knowledge to create a classification key. The children were tasked with coming up with a question that would split their group of animals into two groups. They then had to take one of the groups and ask another question to try and split that group down further. It was lovely to see the differing ways the children had chosen to group their animals.

A huge well done to Alex for winning the raffle ticket prize this week and to Kobe, Frankie, Lexi-May, Arabella and Natalie for having their work selected for excellent examples. They will bring them home next Friday to share with you.

Finally, a huge well done to Harry for being selected as Blakemere’s Worker of the Week by his peers.

Secret Question

What number is this?

MMCMLIX

Bring your answer into school to win some raffle tickets.

General Information

• Thank you for your support in using our new online reading journal. You will be receiving a new link on Monday to start recording your reading for next week so keep a look out for it in your inbox.
• Children now have their Times Table Rockstars login so please can I ask you to encourage your child to access it on a regular basis and at least 4 times per week. We will celebrate Times Table Rockstars every Friday.
• PE will be on a Monday and Thursday so please ensure that you have the correct PE kit in school on these days. Footwear is required on both days.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and if you have any questions then please do ask.

Mrs M