Design a Christmas card
Fiction Express chapter 3 and quiz
TTR tournament Year 4 v’s Year 5
Spellings and Reading
Design a Christmas card
Fiction Express chapter 3 and quiz
TTR tournament Year 4 v’s Year 5
Spellings and Reading
This week I have added a reading lesson for homework on Reading Eggs. Please also read with a grown up at least 4 times this week and write it in your reading record as well as practising your times tables.
Also, when we were visited by Firefighter Rob this week, he challenged us to learn our full address. Please practise this over the week. We will see if we can remember our addresses next Friday.
In the summer term we wrote letters to HRH King Charles III to celebrate his Coronation. This week we were very excited to receive a thank you card from the King and Queen. We will frame the card and display it in school for everyone to see.
This week in Haughmond we have been learning about why we observe Remembrance Day. We have found out about the symbolism of the poppy and the traditions used to remember the end of World War One. We discussed how Remembrance helps us to think of those who have been involved in all wars and Josie told us stories about her Dad and shared his medals with us. Some of the rest of us also talked about our great-grandparents who we knew had been in the military. This afternoon we finished the week making poppy suncatchers and a class poppy wreath.
Homework this week is to read chapter 2 of your chosen book on Fiction Express.
TTR, Reading eggs and SPAG monsters are also available for use over the week.
Pupils in Upper KS2 today experienced the Royal British Legion and the National Literacy Trust in a live interactive assembly, inspiring children to explore and take part in Remembrance. This event brought together art, music, poetry, veteran interviews and more to create a unique, interactive, live-streamed experience helping students understand why we continue to remember.
We did a two-minute silence at 11am alongside thousands of pupils from other schools, who had also joined the event.
You can watch a recording of the event here:
This week we were visited by Firefighter Rob who came to talk to us about his job and how he fights fires in 2023. He talked about the equipment that firefighters use and we compared it to the equipment used to fight the Great Fire of London. He also talked to us about how to keep our homes and ourselves safe.
Today a mysterious suitcase was delivered to school. It was a very old suitcase and we decided we needed to work out who it belongs to. We used the items in the suitcase as historical sources to find out about the past. We thought at first the suitcase might belong to a pirate or bird watcher as there was a compass and pair of binoculars but eventually decided the case belonged to a soldier from WW1 when we looked at the rest of the clues.
Year 5 pupils today have undergone Play Leader Training with Mrs Johnson to help the younger pupils play at break and lunchtimes. They will have a rota and lead games and play with Pimhill and Haughmond pupils.
The children were amazing today, it was lovely to see them taking the lead and teaching the younger ones new games.