Paralympian

Today the children at Stanmore Primary School welcommed an actual Paralympian to our school! Luke served in the RAF for 8 years as a Senior Aircraftman. In 1996 he was in a motorbike crash which left him paralysed from the chest down. Luke competed in the 2016 Invictus Games in Orlando and specialises in rowing and hand-cycling.

Catkins

This week we have been focusing on seaside habitats! We have explored rockpools and have created our own rockpool habitats for creatures such as sea urchins and starfish. We have investigated molluscs and crustaceans, finding out that their hard outer shell protects them. In maths, we have continued to consolidate skills such as subitising, counting and recognition of number whilst learning about sharing and grouping! We are proud of Catkins continuing to try their best despite the heat!

Maple

Maple class have had an amazing week. They have complemented their phonics screening check this week and all the children have done fantastically well. I am constantly proud of their achivements, progress and effort. We also had our roleplay Victorian Lesson this week which the children absolutely loved. I played the role as the mean 'Mr Hardiman', a Victorian teacher we learnt about previously, and the children had to follow Victorian classroom rules.

We also had our athletics day today where we had a special visit from a Paralympian.

Rowan

Rowan's Class Pets have arrived!

A special box arrived this week: four black, wriggly caterpillar's ( much to Mrs Kempsons disgust). To ensure that Year 2 have a secure understanding of how a life cycle works, we are going to be observing our new friends over the next coming weeks and note down what we see. Already, they have doubled in size, and are extreme climbers. Many of us think that they will become pupa's within in the next few weeks, and then transform into fluttering butterflies.

Birch Class

Children in Birch Class are loving their current English unit which is inspired by the beautiful book, 'Botanicum'. They will be writing their own version of an encyclopedia entry next week, but this week, enjoyed working in the outdoor classroom to identify some of the features of an encyclopedia entry.

Sycamore

We are so proud of the children in Year 4 who have taken part in the Multiplication Tables Check. This is for all Year 4 children nationally, to check their quick times tables knowledge. We don't know the results yet, but they have worked very hard using their keys to success in order to learn and revise their times tables knowledge. Well done!

Sycamore Class have produced some excellent pieces of writing advising someone on how to create a high quality narrative text. We have been working on using a range of fronted adverbials, as well a different sentence structures.

Year 5 and 6

In Year 5 and 6 the children have been testing the thermal qualities of various materials to keep the teachers mug of tea warm in the morning! They have also written some detailed newspaper reports about a tragic crime in which an innocent fly became lunch for a hungry spider.

A Paralympian comes to visit