Year Five have made an excellent start to the academic year this week. We’ve been so impressed with both their presentation and enthusiasm for learning. The children have really played an active role in lessons and it’s been great to get to know them a little bit.

Journeys

Our over-arching theme for this term is ‘Journeys’ which will link together our work in English with a range of other topics. The classes made a good start in English this week – considering what they thought of when they heard the word ‘journey’, then going on to share the best and worst journeys they had ever been on (let’s just say there were plenty of vomit stories!) We started looking at the picture ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker which is our first text involving a magical portal.

Maths

The children have really impressed us with their place value knowledge this week as we’ve brushed up on rounding numbers as well as saying numbers aloud up to one million.  

SeaCity Museum trip

We’ve had an outstanding response to paying for the school trip to SeaCity museum. It’s such an interesting day out for the children – really bringing home to them the scale of the Titanic and its loss on the local area.  

Year Six have got off to a tremendous start this year; we are really pleased with the attitude and enthusiasm they have shown towards their work this week, and towards being back at school. 

We may only be four days in, but we've wasted no time in beginning our learning.  We started English by writing non-chronological reports about polar bears, and in maths, we've been thinking about place value and the number system.  In geography, we've started to learn about South America, and we've thought about budgeting in PSHE.  As well as this, two classes have had their first visit to the swimming pool. 

Around these lessons, we've done some thinking about our key rules for school - being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  We'll be focusing on these key words a lot as the year progresses, but if we can continue to demonstrate those values as well as we have done so far, we should be in for a great year!

Have a lovely weekend.

Y6 Team

We have been really impressed with how well Year 3 have started their time at BWJS – there has been lots of smiles and positivity across both Maple and Gingko Class and the Year 3 staff are very proud of the children.

This week, we have started using some of the new Maths equipment to help us explain place value in different numbers. In English, we have watched a short video about a river creature who loves to eat marshmallows! We will be discovering more about this creature later on next week. We have had lots of success logging on to the computers and really enjoyed our first library session choosing our books to take home.

Enjoy and restful weekend and we look forward to welcoming the children back on Monday.

Year 3 Team

Hello and Welcome to Year Four.

The children have made a really great start to the school year. They have been busy showing their teachers what they are capable of and building relationships across the classes.

This term, like most terms, is going to be a busy one with lots of lovely topics and activities for the children to get their teeth into.

We made a start this week on our new history topic of the Anglo-Saxons. The children enjoyed learning about the origins of the Anglo-Saxon tribes and where they settled in England.

On Wednesday and Friday of this week we started our Science topic of ‘Mixtures and Separating’. Already the children have carried out come observations of different types of substances and learnt the difference between substances and mixtures. You could test your child on this. Can they give you an example of each?

During our maths lessons this week, we have gone back to the fundamental concept of place value. The children really enjoyed demonstrating their understanding of this using the different maths resources available in school. They have also carried out their baseline assessment for Times Table Rock Stars. This gives them an idea of which tables they are confident with and which need some attention over the next few months. Please support your children with this and ensure they are completing their daily practise as this is an important focus this year.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 4 Team

Year Five have made an excellent start to the academic year this week. We’ve been so impressed with both their presentation and enthusiasm for learning. The children have really played an active role in lessons and it’s been great to get to know them a little bit.

Journeys

Our over-arching theme for this term is ‘Journeys’ which will link together our work in English with a range of other topics. The classes made a good start in English this week – considering what they thought of when they heard the word ‘journey’, then going on to share the best and worst journeys they had ever been on (let’s just say there were plenty of vomit stories!) We started looking at the picture ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker which is our first text involving a magical portal.

Maths

The children have really impressed us with their place value knowledge this week as we’ve brushed up on rounding numbers as well as saying numbers aloud up to one million.  

SeaCity Museum trip

We’ve had an outstanding response to paying for the school trip to SeaCity museum. It’s such an interesting day out for the children – really bringing home to them the scale of the Titanic and its loss on the local area.  

Year Six have got off to a tremendous start this year; we are really pleased with the attitude and enthusiasm they have shown towards their work this week, and towards being back at school. 

We may only be four days in, but we've wasted no time in beginning our learning.  We started English by writing non-chronological reports about polar bears, and in maths, we've been thinking about place value and the number system.  In geography, we've started to learn about South America, and we've thought about budgeting in PSHE.  As well as this, two classes have had their first visit to the swimming pool. 

Around these lessons, we've done some thinking about our key rules for school - being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  We'll be focusing on these key words a lot as the year progresses, but if we can continue to demonstrate those values as well as we have done so far, we should be in for a great year!

Have a lovely weekend.

Y6 Team