We have started learning and practising our times tables each week this Term. Times Table is actually another word for multiplication table. It is a table that shows the results of multiplying two numbers together. Learning your times tables is very important because you use them in many different types of real life problem solving situations. FOR EXAMPLE… When your shopping for food and you need to work out how much it would cost to buy more than one of the same item. Or… If you are cooking you might need to make a double batch and would need to multiply the ingredients to find out how much ..read more

This year we have looked at Narratives as a text type and our class all wrote individual stories using our imagination. This week was the final week to complete the Mayoral Make-A-Book Competition and everyone worked very hard to complete them. We all designed our own front covers and blurbs which were laminated and we typed up each page of our story and drew our own illustrations. Mrs Baldwin then bound them professionally and they have now been entered into the competition. We enjoyed reading each others books this week and to our C.A.T Buddies. Everyone was really excited to see all our ..read more

This year, with the help of Mr Philbrook, we were introduced into the world of coding using Spheros. What are Spheros? A Sphero is a spherical robot designed by Sphero. It is a white orb wrapped in polycarbonate, capable of rolling around, and controlled by a smartphone or tablet. A Sphero can roll at a speed of up to 7km/h in any direction and change colour. Using a range of Apps, students can accurately direct the movement of the Sphero using code. Why do we use them? Creatively designed lessons incorporating Spheros can develop many of the attributes. We can design and create a code to dire ..read more

This year our class is using the Sound Waves program for Spelling. This program allows us to learn and recognise the different sounds that letters make when reading out words. Last term, we began by discussing what phoneme’s and grapheme’s are. Phoneme  the smallest unit of sound in a word. When we say or hear the sound it is a phoneme.   Grapheme the letter or letter combination used to represent a phoneme in written form. When we write the sound it is called a grapheme. None of us knew what these two words meant which was great because by learning about these words our brain grew with new k ..read more

This term our class have been lucky to have Alan visit us for a lesson each week to teach us about Chess. Chess is a two player strategy board game played on a checkered game board with 64 squares arranged in an 8 by 8 grid. It was thought to be the first ever game that was played on a board with squares that had different types of pieces. The game originated in Northern India in the 6th century AD. Back then it was called Chaturanga which translates to “four divisions” which is in reference to the four divisions of the military. Below is a list of the chess pieces and what their original name ..read more

To begin the year we have been talking about the difference between a fixed and growth mindset. Mindsets are beliefs about yourself and your most basic qualities. Think about your intelligence, your talents, your personality. Are these qualities simply fixed traits, carved in stone and that’s that? Or are they things you can grow throughout your life? We started by writing down something we feel we can not do, or are not good at. We then looked at the two different mindsets. Fixed Mindset Refers to the belief that our basic qualities (intellegience and skills) are fixed traits which can not be ..read more

Well six weeks has passed and the holidays are over for another year! Mrs Baldwin hopes that everyone has had a very relaxing and enjoyable break. There is so much to look forward to this year! Below are just some of the things to get excited about!! Working with our CAT buddies Achieving our Accelerated Reader targets Science investigations Maths investigations Blogging Swimming lessons Using a range of computer programs and apps  Sports day Entering into the Mayoral Make a Book and loads, loads more!!! One of the BIG changes that has occurred over the holidays is out classroom space. We are ..read more

Finally the 100 Word Challenge has begun!! If your wondering what this challenge is and what it involves then keep reading! Every year the blogging community run a competition called the 100 Word Challenge which is open for students under the age of 16. Each week a prompt is given which can be a series of words or a picture and students need to use the prompt to create a writing piece of up to 100 words. Each Sunday a new writing prompt is added to the website and everyone has until the following Saturday to enter. We have been writing some individually during class time each week. The writin ..read more

Our class have really enjoyed our latest Art activity involving tin foil. To begin with Mrs Baldwin gave us a plastic sheet and we had to draw a design using textas. We then used string and glue to stick the string along all the lines. Once they were dry we then stuck aluminium foil over the top of our designs. We had to carefully smooth the foil over our pictures. The string left a bump to divide the sections of tin foil. Finally we used permanent markers to colour in our designs. Mrs. Baldwin remembers doing this as a kid at school and like us, she had a lot of fun making them! They look M ..read more

How to measure length correctly This term we began our new Maths topic – Measurement. The skills we will be learning in measurement are: What is length and how can we measure it? Appropriate measuring tools and how to use them Units of measurement: millimeters., centimeters, metres and kilometres. Perimeter Area To begin with we brainstormed what we thought units of measurement were and what units of measurement we would use to measure certain objects. Here are some examples: Small units of length are called millimetres. A millimetre is about the thickness of a plastic id card (or credit card ..read more