E Safety in 4C

We followed up Mr Soffe's awesome e-safety assembly by creating our own poster to help others understand why esafety is important. Then the class voted on the most informative poster. The winning poster said, "Before you send a message, let your parent or guardian know what you have written, If you delete your message your parent won't know if you have written something bad or good." By JN The winning girl's poster was this one. "It is important to be safe in the internet because if you get an email from someone you do not know you should always tell an adult. Get an adult to see what it is and then delete it. Never open anything on the internet that you don't know about. If you find anything like messages or emails always lock it, block it, show it and tell it. Always tell an adult about new information. Always never go on inappropriate apps." by LR. Well done class 4C, you have a lot of knowledge of e-safety.

Special Project for Green Council

Green Council had a special visitor today, Jenny from Sustrans.  She has chosen 3 of her favourite schools to help her with a project finding out how children travel to school.  The Green Council and teachers will be recording the data every day for four weeks for her.

Here she is explaining the project to Green Council.

We are looking forward to seeing the results, which she will come and explain to us.

Amazing home learning about The Great Fire of London.

1L have not only been enthusiastic in class learning all about the events of The Great Fire of London, but they have also been busy learning about it at home.

In the classroom there are now lots of pictures, timelines, facts, posters, 3D buildings, books and much more, on display, that 1L have produced at home.

Thank you 1L for always trying your hardest and producing amazing work and thank you parents for supporting their learning :) This really is a great topic!

The Garbage King

In Class 6C, we have started our new class novel, The Garbage King.  

We are investigating the different characters and how they feel.

Here is a group exploring the Zone of Relevance for Dani's character.  

The most important characteristics are in the middle and the least important ones are round the side. We had a lot of interesting discussion deciding what we thought he was like and justifying our decisions from the text.

Celebrating All Different, All Equal - Anti Bullying week at Shirley Warren

Last week saw the annual nationwide focus on Anti-Bullying which many schools take part in.

In our school we invited parents in to help update our anti-bullying charter and to see the activities we were doing to help share the message, "All Different, All Equal".

We asked all children to draw round their hands and on one side write or draw what they felt was different about them and on the other side what was the same as others.

Green Council made some examples to show the school what to do and here are their hands.

We were so pleased that so many parents could join us and we are pleased that our children understand that although everyone is different, we all have equal rights.

Learning through challenge in 6D

6D have had a great start to the year! This week, we have been developing our growth mindsets by challenging ourselves in a range of activities. Firstly, we had to build a pyramid of cups using only elastic bands - we were not allowed to touch the cups! When we'd done that, we were challenged to build a tower the same way; unfortunately we quickly found out that cups are flimsy and can fall over easily!

Our next challenge was to build the tallest freestanding structure possible out of spaghetti and marshmallows. We had a range of techniques, as you can see in the pictures - the most successful was by MR, using a triangular base with triangular supports. Well done M!

Marathan fundraiser visit

Today we welcomed Baz Newman, a parent of two of our pupils, to assembly to thank him for running in Southampton's ABP marathon in April to raise funds for Chromebooks in our school.

He was interviewed by two year 6's from our school's Green Council who chose the questions they wanted to ask.

We found out that the weather was cool but then it became very hot at 12.00. Baz trained for 4 months to run the marathon and it was the first one he had done, although he has run many Parkruns (5K) and other events before.

It was exciting to hear that his next challenge is on Friday, when he will be part of a relay team running from London to Cardiff which is 160 miles.

Thank you for raising £260 for our school.

Good Egg Award Winner KS1!

We are so proud of a certain someone winning the end of term Good Egg Award... This is how we celebrated. How lovely it is to see such companionship and pride for each other in our pupils! Very proud teacher moment! 

Miss N 😃