This week is National Storytelling Week and year 6 joined a webinar with a panel of gaming experts, players and designers to listen to how they use storytelling and world building in their roles. It was very interesting and has inspired some pupils to think about a career in game making. 

Look at how amazing the children's homework posters turned out. Well done Year 4, I'm that impressed, that they're on display too. 

Year 5 enjoyed the first session of their new focus in PE today - OAA.  Their task was a team building challenge where they had to demonstrate agility, balance, coordination and precision.  They had to use non-verbal communication to solve a problem - to get into alphabetical order by surname, whilst standing on the bench, without stepping off!  They were only allowed to use hand gestures - no talking or mouthing! All of the teams were impressive - they put their dictionary skills to great use!  Well done everyone!  Mrs Blomeley 

Well done to our Award winners in Year 5 this week!  Headteacher's certificates were given for great focus and enthusiasm, as well as being an outstanding member of the class in terms of behaviour and attitude to work!  Good to be Green awards were given to those who have followed our School rules all week of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  We also had some Silver awards presented for gaining 100 Star points.  Fantastic work everyone!  Mrs Blomeley

Well done to our Stars of the week!

Sophia for amazing confidence in the maths lessons and Mia for a fantastic newspaper report.

Well done also to Aoife and Kade for being Green all week!

Well done to this week's Head-Teacher and Good to be Green award winners! Also, congratulations to our bronze and silver star point winners who have reached 100 and 150 star points. Keep up the good work! 

Today we had some great discussions with Safe Squad about online and personal safety. The children know about how to protect themselves by not sharing personal information online and using strong passwords. They discussed cyberbullying and how to use social media appropriately. We looked at the age recommentations for apps like Tik Tok and WhatsApp- did you know the recommended age for using WhatsApp is 16?

Fantastic work this week year 4 and congratulations to all those who have received a certificate. 

The class are getting much better at using communication in the team building games to complete their challenges. In our yoga session we had to work with a partner to complete different poses. We then learned how to do feather meditation which was very relaxing.

This week to consolidate our understanding of how the circulatory system works we had to make a live reinactment in groups. The children had to explain the process using scientific vocabulary- this will hopefully help us to identify parts of the heart when we do some dissection at Rayner Stephens soon.