Wolves
The teachers in
Foundation Stage are Mrs Augustin and Miss Taylor. The children are also support by some of our Learning Support Assistants.
In the Foundation Stage we
focus on making the children feel ‘at home’ by providing familiar games and
activities with their friends.
We experience the festivals of Diwali, Chinese New Year, Bonfire Night and
Christmas, through making and tasting traditional foods, dressing up and role
play. The children also develop their creative skills using a range of media
producing: cards; lanterns; dragon masks; and paintings to music.
We enjoy exploring the local area and we have visited the church, post- box
and woods to support our learning.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record
• Appropriate clothing for the weather (as we play outside every day whatever
the weather!)
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
Autumn Terms in Wolves
In Wolves, this half term, we have visited the computer room to create digital art. We have been busy in Maths, exploring and continuing repeating patterns, more and less and getting to know numbers 1-5 really well through sorting and matching activities. We put on our chef hats and followed recipes to make tasty jam sandwiches for our celebratory, end of half term picnic! One of our favourite stories was Mr Gumpy’s Outing. We especially enjoyed pretending to be the characters from the story in Mr Gumpy’s boat. Wolves used their senses to explore the school grounds on our Welly Walk. They had fun throwing the Autumn leaves in the air, being quiet whilst looking for birds in the bird hide and discovering what was living under the logs. In PE we have been developing our gross motor skills by practising our ball control skills. The children had fun making obstacle courses outside and drawing maps after listening to the story, Where the Wild Things Are.
Pandas
Pandas
The teacher in Year 1 – Pandas is Miss Bowers. The children are also supported by some of our Learning Support Assistants.
At Thringstone we follow a topic and creative based curriculum, using year group objectives from the National Curriculum. Throughout the year topics are varied to meet the objectives and maximise children’s interest and learning.
We have an open door policy where parents are welcome in school, and this helps forge close links with home.
We expect all children to read regularly at home each week and learn their number bonds and times tables. We also encourage children to carry out weekly homework where they apply their learning, understanding and skills.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record and books
• Appropriate clothing for the weather
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
Pandas have had a fantastic start to the new academic year!
We have been enjoying our daily Phonics lessons and learning new pieces of alphabetic code. It’s always exciting when we find our focus code in our reading books.
In Maths, we have enjoyed using equipment to help us with our learning. Here we are sorting objects by shape, size or colour, and using counters to help us remember our number bonds to 10.
Our topic this term is Childhood. It has been interesting to learn about childhood in the 1950s and how it was the same or different to childhood today. We recognised lots of the games in the pictures but we don’t wear the same clothes as they did back them. Their TVs look different too; they are much smaller!
In Science, we have been learning about different materials. We have explored the properties of different materials and undertaken experiments to find out which materials are best for certain objects. Here we are investigating absorption properties.
In Religious Education, we have been looking at different communities that we belong to and how those communities make us feel. In the picture here, we are looking at objects that you would own if you were in the religious community of Judaism.
In PE, we have been developing our attacking and defending skills. It has been fun to play lots of games together that involve teamwork and respect.
There simply isn’t enough time or space to tell you about all of the amazing things that we have been doing. Just know, we are working hard, have a great time, and believing and achieving together!
Tigers
The teacher in Year 3 – Tigers is Miss Concannon and children are also supported by some of our Learning Support Assistants.
At Thringstone we follow a topic and creative based curriculum, using year group objectives from the National Curriculum. Throughout the year topics are varied to meet the objectives and maximise children’s interest and learning.
We have an open door policy where parents are welcome in school, and this helps forge close links with home.
We expect all children to read regularly at home each week and learn their number bonds and times tables. We also encourage children to carry out weekly homework where they apply their learning, understanding and skills.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record and books
• Appropriate clothing for the weather
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
Tigers have been having so much fun!
Our history-based topic ‘Through the Ages’ helped us discover similarities and differences of tools, everyday life and homes during the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
In English we wrote our very own Stone Age adventure narratives. We also explored other genres including instructional writing, Cinquain poems and Chronological reports.
For maths, we focused on place value, then began using formal methods such as number lines and Column method to support us in our addition and subtraction calculations.
We enjoyed improving our attacking and defending skills in Hockey and dancing in our PE lessons.
In RE we reflected on the ‘Creation Story,’ celebrated Rosh Hashanah for Judaism and created Rangoli patterns for Diwali.
We deepened our understanding of pulse in Music by creating and performing our own songs using cups. Then we focused on voice building up to our Christingle performance.
In computing we discovered all about computer networks and started to program using Scratch.
Whilst in science we had lots of enjoyment experimenting with Magnets and learning about light!
Spring term
Tigers have been working super hard this Spring Term!
We became Geologists in science, discovering several types of rocks and soil,
And in PE we improved our gymnastic skills and made a racquet in tennis.
Our topic Rocks, Relics and Rumbles helped us learn lots of new facts,
We explored layers of the Earth and made our very own exploding volcanoes.
Learning French playground games and all about French classrooms has been fun,
For RE we explored the Islamic culture and the Easter story.
We started practising for our Vocalease performance,
And had fun creating different Rhythms using body percussion in Music.
Lots of concentration was demonstrated in Maths,
And in English we were creative when writing for different purposes.
We continue to enjoy learning in different ways, Believing and Achieving Together.
Cheetahs
The teachers in Year 3/4 – Cheetahs are Mrs Kemp and Mr Oldham. The children are also supported by some of our Learning Support Assistants.
At Thringstone we follow a topic and creative based curriculum, using year group objectives from the National Curriculum. Throughout the year topics are varied to meet the objectives and maximise children’s interest and learning.
We have an open door policy where parents are welcome in school, and this helps forge close links with home.
We expect all children to read regularly at home each week and learn their number bonds and times tables. We also encourage children to carry out weekly homework where they apply their learning, understanding and skills.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• Change
of shoes for inside school – eg plimsolls
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record and books
• Appropriate clothing for the weather
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
Cheetahs have been busy this Autumn Term,
With lots of new facts and information to learn.
We’re striking the right chord in our ukulele lessons,
And have been lucky to hone our hockey skills in our PE sessions.
Describing one another in French has been fun,
And creating pizzas using ingredients grown at school was definitely yum!
We’ve selected effective materials for our soundproof investigations in Sound,
And through studying the life of Queen Elizabeth II, many facts were found,
For Rosh Hashanah we created our Apples of Hope with care,
Considering our wishes for the future that we wished to share.
This Spring Term, what a busy time the Cheetahs have had,
Playing tennis in the sunshine has made us glad.
We’ve built habitats in our Forest Schools on our lovely school field,
And during the RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch kept our eyes keenly peeled.
The NSPCC Number Day saw us play lots of games and have fun,
And we were really pleased with our colourful weaving once it was completed and done.
‘Shrinking’ our writing about mountains let us explore each different one,
And with all this exciting learning, we can’t believe how quickly this term has gone.
Snow Leopards
The teacher in Year 5 – Snow Leopards is Mrs Hammersley and the children are supported by some of our Learning Support Assistants.
At Thringstone we follow a topic and creative based curriculum, using year group objectives from the National Curriculum. Throughout the year topics are varied to meet the objectives and maximise children’s interest and learning.
We have an open door policy where parents are welcome in school, and this helps forge close links with home.
We expect all children to read regularly at home each week and learn their number bonds and times tables. We also encourage children to carry out weekly homework where they apply their learning, understanding and skills.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• Change
of shoes for inside school – eg plimsolls
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record and books
• Appropriate clothing for the weather
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
Snow Leopards have made a great start to the new school year.
During the first term we are going back in time for our history based ‘Dynamic Dynasties’ topic. In this topic, children learn about periods of ancient Chinese History. They explore a timeline of the first five Chinese dynasties and learn about legends surrounding the beginning of Chinese civilisation. We have studies oracle bones, learnt about religious beliefs and explored bronze artefacts that set the Shang Dynasty apart from other civilisations. We have studies hierarchy and discovered who was powerful and who was powerless.
In English, we have written narrative poems and biographies. During Year 5 we will study many different genres of writing including journalistic, persuasive, informative, poetry, as well as fiction and non-fiction writing.
In Science we have been learning about the forces of gravity, air resistance, water resistance and friction, with children exploring their effects. We are really looking forward to our next Science topic on Space.
We have really enjoyed our Music lessons so far this year. We love Wednesdays when we have the opportunity to learn and play the Djembe drums.
In our PE lessons we work with Year 6 and have lots of opportunities to learn new skills and play new games too. We can take part in competitions outside of school. We go swimming every week and enjoy learning all sorts of strokes and skills. Forest School lessons are exciting, using our school grounds to create and nurture. We are really enjoying the outdoor adventure activities this half term, where we are able to build our teamwork skills.
We are looking forward to our other topics that we will cover this year. Looking at how vegetables grow and harvesting our own form the school garden, is amazing, in the topic ‘Sow Grow Farm.’ Cooking each week allows us to use these to create fabulous foods from recipes. We also study the Greeks and we look at the wonderful history and geography of the area that we live in.
Snow Leopards have had a shining start to the Spring term.
We became farmers when we began our new geography topic ‘Sow, Grow and Farm’ with learning all about Allotments. Children looked how population changes in a habitat can have significant consequences for food chains and webs. We then moved on to look at farming and the impacts of modern farming.
In Science, we learnt all about the life cycles of different animals, metamorphosis and how plants grow from a seed in our ‘Living things and their habitats’ topic.
In English, we have explored different genres of writing including non- chronological reports, diaries and leaflets.
We cartwheeled into our Gymnastics unit in PE where we developed our rolling, handstands and balancing skills on the high apparatus.
In Design and Technology, we worked in teams to plan and make a seasonal soup. It was delicious!!
We have enjoyed our Djembe lessons so far this term and have learnt lots of new rhythms. We also began our Mini Police sessions and really enjoy spending time with the local police to complete tasks each week. We are hoping to use the skills we have learnt to support our local community.
Dolphins
The teacher in Year 6– Dolphins is Mrs Hallam. The children are also supported by Miss Jones.
At Thringstone we follow a topic and creative based curriculum, using year group objectives from the National Curriculum. Throughout the year topics are varied to meet the objectives and maximise children’s interest and learning.
We have an open door policy where parents are welcome in school, and this helps forge close links with home.
We expect all children to read regularly at home each week and learn their number bonds and times tables. We also encourage children to carry out weekly homework where they apply their learning, understanding and skills.
Important things your child should have in school:
• A drinks bottle
• Change
of shoes for inside school – eg plimsolls
• A PE bag consisting of any plain T-shirt, a pair of shorts, plimsolls
• A bag to carry a reading record and books
• Appropriate clothing for the weather
Please ensure all your child’s things are named as a lot of school clothing is the same.
It is hard to believe that we are already in the second half of term. Dolphins have been very busy so far this year and we have already started our preparations for the Year 5 and 6 Christmas production.
Our topic this term is Maafa, which focuses on the trans-Atlantic slave trade; this has been the basis for much of our English work. The children have written some superb newspaper articles as well as persuasive letters. We have also been learning about the geography of Africa and have learnt many new countries and some of the geographical features of that continent, incorporating this into some of our ICT lessons.
We have had a great time in the first half-term with Mrs Kinsey and Forest School! We have explored the different habitats within the school grounds, built shelters, cleared and prepared large areas, used a variety of tools and even had a campfire and S’mores to end the half=term.
In PE we have been playing Basketball; improving our footwork, ball-skills and shooting techniques. Some of the children are becoming very good at lay-ups and jump-shots.
Our Science topics for the Autumn term are Electricity and Light. We had a lot of fun building circuits and we will be experimenting with prisms as well.
