Year 3 - Fossil Fun

Year 3 are thoroughly enjoying their learning linked to their Dinosaurs topic this half term.

We have been researching in Literacy finding out interesting facts about dinosaurs and last week we discovered how fossils are made in Science. We have even found out where fossils have been found across the seven continents in the world.

Don't forget that next week, on Wednesday 19th October, we are visiting the Natural History Museum to further extend our learning!

We are looking forward to searching for the famous palaeontologist Mary Anning's fossils in the museum. Pop in to our classrooms to see our new displays all about her.

Find out more here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/mary_anning/

A great big WELL DONE to all the children at High St who were celebrated in last Friday's Achievement Assembly!

In their newly appointed roles as House Captains and Deputies, the children went to visit Deptford Reach on Friday afternoon to donate the huge amount of food donations brought into school from the recent Harvest Festival Assemblies. The children were taken in the school mini-bus with Mr Smales and Mrs Parsons. 

Deptford Reach (http://www.deptfordreach.org.uk/) is a charity which supports homeless people and those with mental health issues, in Deptford. We met the co-ordinator, called Dee, who gave the children a tour of the facilities and talked about the many different ways in which the charity supports local people in Deptford. 

By offering all the generous food donations to a local charity exemplified so many of our school values, such as Kindness, Empathy and Thoughtfulness. 

Congratulations to all the children who were celebrated in last Friday's Achievement Assembly at Manor Way!

Year 5 took part in a National Maritime Museum Music Project based around the life and times of Samuel Pepys. The children visited the Museum to gather information on significant events of Samuel Pepys' life through research of the exhibition. They then took this knowledge into a song writing session with poets and professional musicians to create a song about an area of interest. The musicians then visited the school to help the Year 5 produce music and singing styles to accompany the song. Finally, we got the chance to perform the songs to an audience in the National Maritime Museum. It was a wonderful week. All adults that accompanied the children were very impressed.

Welcome to Year 6's first ever blog!

To develop our writing skills, Year 6 have been using a new process to help us embed key grammatical skills to improve our writing. Excitingly, we are using visual, audial and kinaesthetic techniques to match our personal learning styles. So far, we have honed our skills in persuasive writing, diary entries and we are currently working on non-chronological reports. 

Our focus has been on developing our use of embedded clauses, modal verbs and subordinate clauses. We are so proud of the progress we are making and we have really enjoyed the opportunity to explore a new learning style.

Dinosaur Fact Files!

Year 1 Fun Fact Files

Over the last two weeks we have been exploring non-fiction texts about Dinosaurs. We have learnt lots of fascinating facts about different dinosaurs. In preparation of writing our own amazing fact files, we have used different sources to research our favourite dinosaurs. We worked in groups to use laptops and iPads to explore websites to gather information to use in our writing.

Have a look at the fantastic fact files we created and ask your child about the fascinating facts they have learnt.

Dino Directory!

Visit this website to find out more fun facts about dinosaurs in preparation for our visit to The Natural History Museum.