We’ve had a lovely last week of half term. The children have been busy as always and we’ve had lots of fun activities. We began the week preparing for our Jubilee celebration on our first day back at school, making Union Jack flags and posters to decorate our party. Everyone is so excited!
In Maths this week, we have been recapping what a half is and how we can identify a half. On an outdoor lesson in the pergola, the children identified numbers and in groups correctly divided the number, splitting the objects into two hoops. In our next Maths lesson to consolidate this, the children were given a number of cubes to build a tower. They were then asked to split the tower in half and explain how we knew it was halved. Everyone showed great understanding and could correctly identify half of the tower and explain that the two halves must be equal in size.
On Tuesday we visited Sir Charles Parsons for our swimming lesson. The children all demonstrated such confidence in the water (and of course were rewarded with some free time at the end of the session). We returned to school just in time to join in with the Cèilidh dancing. What great fun!
In PSHE, we began to look at pizza recipes, which we will be making for our Jubilee Celebration. From the recipe, everyone made their own shopping list with the ingredients we will need. A few of the children then took their shopping lists with them to Lidl to buy the ingredients. They all showed such maturity, walking sensibly to the shop, choosing their ingredients, checking dates and paying for the items themselves. We can’t wait to continue with shopping trips next half term. The rest of the class continued with Samba in their PE lessons, getting their moves ready for our Brazilian Carnival next term!
As our year 6’s get ready to transition to their new schools, we have begun working on our ‘Social Stories’ to help make the transition as smooth as possible. The children were thinking of how they feel about being at Hadrian School, how they feel about their upcoming move, the similarities and differences between the two and what can be done to make them feel happy and confident.
We spend our last day of half term in assembly celebrating the achievements of the wonderful children in this school. This afternoon we have our Friday Clubs, followed by a party for our birthday boy!
Hope everyone has a lovely holiday, see you all soon!
