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Last week we started to get togther some presentaions about the birds of prey.   Here are our results!

Of was all systems go today in Year Six as we really got to grips with the new year.

The morning started with a visitor to our class, Miss Baron, who came to see all our good work. We showed her our drawning skills in our art session using pencils and computers!

Then it was time for break. We had an extra 10 minutes today because we hit our school attendence target last week!

We then had our ‘normal’ Numeracy session.

In the afternoon we had a session with the whole of Year 5 to work on our factsheets about the birds of prey that we saw last week. It was great we all got to join together in the Synchroneyes chat groups to share our facts.

When the bell rang at 3:00pm we were all ready to go home, bit some of us then went to a Numeracy booster too!

What a busy day!

Last week we had some ratherspecial visitors in school.   Have a look!

At football before we had started we did
Some warm ups. The warm up was is called touch down.
When the match started we has a couple of shots and then the reaf blew the whistle and then we had started the game.
We had passed a lot and sorced a goal. Angel scored two goals but the ref blew the whistle and it was half time. We had about 4 or 5 subs on and we kept on swopping around so everyone gets ago so it is fair.

After half time we went back playing football. We had started to skill lots of people and then anthony scored a goal. I had past it to Adam and Adam chiped it up in the air and Darren headed it but it hit post and then Dylan had kicked it and scored.

This Friday was our Christmas Bonanza at school. Thanks to all the parents and friends of the school who came along to support us.

Stalls included:
Bottle stall
Tombola
Toy stall
Tin stall
Guess the weight of the cake
Hot dog stall
Guess the name of the teddy
Decorate a cake
And….. Santa’s Grotto

Massive thanks to John our site manager for all his efforts making the hall and his house look spectacular!

Christmas is here!

Mrkp:
Today we used a program called wordle to assess the quality of our character descriptions in literacy. Wordle is a program that makes ‘word clouds.’

We looked at a picture of a man looking over the edge of a cliff or well and wrote a 100 word description about him. We then used synchroneyes to look each others work and pasted it all into wordle.

We found out that most of us described the character using phrases like ‘he looked….’ Next time that we do this we are going to try and use much more powerful words to describe what we see.

Dion:
I like what we did today because it was really intresting, we all wrote a story and on chat we all sent our story so it would appear on everyones.

I think that Spanish is a great language to learn I think it is fun.   We play games and learn colours and numbers and we have Spanish every Tuesday in the afternoon and we have a laugh it is a great thing to learn.

Today we took part in a sponsored games morning and we helped other classes and the classes we helped were year one,two,three and four and our teacher is so kind he let us stay in our pe kits.

MrKp: I would just like to add that I was so impressed with the behaviour and helpfulness of Year Six, you really showed how kind and caring you all are when you helped with the younger children. Thank you for helping to make the day such a success!

Not content with doing a litter survey, which is still ongoing, we’ve decided to try out some other surveys of our own. There were some brilliant ideas that we came up with.

So at the moment we’re investigating these areas / questions and graphing our results to see what is happening.

1. Do the number of displays that have pictures on them decrease the further up the school you get?

2. Have sports cars got progressively faster as the years have gone by?

3. Which drinks are the most popular at lunchtimes?

4. Which classes have the greatest amount of paper recycling and why?

5. Which type of football player is the most popular in each class, do strikers get all the glory?

The results should be pretty interesting!