What’s up
E-ACT?
Our learning this week…
Friday
10th
February 2017
Year One
This week in Year One we have been working really hard. In English we have been writing
stories based on the book 'Lost and Found'. In math we have been learning about numbers. We
have been playing games with missing numbers and completing number sequences and also have
been solving lots of problems! In Topic we have been comparing Blackley to the Arctic by
looking at similarities and differences and have also learnt about herbivores, carnivores and
omnivores.
We have performed our class assembly this week, the year one staff are really proud of all
our hard work!
Next week we will be writing recounts of the penguin's journey, solving problems using base 10
and finding out about arctic animals.
Year Two
This week we have been using imperative verbs to write our own set of instructions. We have
been learning about the features of a set of instructions. This is all in preparation for writing
our own fishy feast recipe next week. In math, we've been exploring the properties of many
different 2d shapes. We have been solving word problems relating to shapes and learned the
names of shapes that have 9 and ten sides. In Science, we tested whether fat would protect
our hands from the cold like it does with seals in the Arctic. We concluded that it does, but
the finger that wasn't protected by fat got very cold. We also made some safer Internet
posters and learnt how to stay safe online. We had a trip to the library where most of us
signed up for a library card.
Year Three
This week in Year 3, we have been working really hard learning about all the different
features of a non-chronological report and researching about Egyptians in order to write our
own report. In math, we have been focusing on our new unit of multiplication mainly developing
our skills of using the grid method pictorially. Our RE topic is looking at the religion
Christianity and Jesus' miracles so we have been leaning about how Jesus healed the paralyzed
man. The children have been designing posters linked to our new Healthy School initiative to
reduce our sugar intake. Next week, we will be putting all our research together about
Egyptians to create our own non-chronological report. In math, we will be moving on to looking
at how to use the column method to multiply. We will also be continuing our topic work on
'Tomb Raiders'.
Year Four
This week we have been looking at lots of different things. In math, we've been calculating
quantities using non-unit fractions. We can show you our two steps to calculate this using our
Fraction Actions: please ask us to show you how we do this! In English, we've been writing our
own narratives using expanded noun phrases, intensifiers, prefixes, prepositions, inverted
commas... And lots more! In our lunchtime clubs, some of us wrote poems and some of us made
friendship bracelets: even Miss Singer got one from a lovely pupil. We also had lots of fun
playing football with our friends, and we played multiplication BINGO in math club!
This week was also Internet safety week. We learnt not to give any personal details away to
strangers.
Year Five
This week the children have been writing a
newspaper report about a fossil. This has a
strong link to our topic ‘Time snatchers’. In
maths we have been converting fractions to
decimals. When the children have mastered
this skill, they have been creating video
blogs to explain the process of solving a
fraction/decimal tarsia. (This is like a
mathematical jigsaw). The children have
thoroughly explained how they have put the
jigsaw together. These will appear on our
class page soon.
Our reading buddies, Alyssa, Cameron and
Kirsten, have been working extremely hard
with 3 children from Year Three. In
addition to all of this fantastic news, the
children’s art work has been put up on
display by Mr Holt. The children have all
worked incredibly hard on their African
masks.
Year Six
This week we have been revising and doing
practice SAT's in Reading, Maths & SPAG,
and we are extremely proud of all the
effort and hard work our children have
made! In Topic this week we have been
learning all about what fossils are. In PE,
because of all the hard work in revising for
our practice exams, both classes were
rewarded with an afternoon PE session in
the form of a mini Olympic Games.
In E safety week, we learnt some very
important advice: never let a stranger get
your personal details; don’t let anyone cyber
bully you; and most importantly, don’t post
anything that Year
might show
5 details about
where you live, what your name is or which
school you go to. We have been designing E
safety posters to inform other children
about being safe online. Also, there is to be
an E safety workshop next week to educate
people about the dangers of being online.
Teacher’s who think children’s parents
aren’t aware of the dangers, will be invited.
Attendance:
This
week
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Mr Nuttall has been supporting another
of our E-ACT Schools with their
attendance this week for a couple of
days. We will put this week’s attendance
on the website on Monday.
Mr Nuttall tweets attendance every day.
Keep your eye out and remember we
expect every child in school every day
on time.
VIPs:
Year 1: Danielle and Rusne.
Year 2: Ethan Norton.
Year 3: Annie and Mame and Harley.
Year 4: Daniel and Jonathan.
Year 5: David and Ashton.
Year 6: Fatou and David.
On Wednesday 8th February, Eddie, the Blackley
Vicar visited Year 4 Hill. He came into our class
so that we could hot seat him. We asked lots of
questions on Christianity. The information Eddie
gave us was very interesting and he answered all
our questions in a fun, understandable way.
Celebration Assembly Award Winners:
Year 1: Tyler and Rachael.
Year 2: Abdou Saho and Freya Rowland.
Year 3: Stacey and Allan.
Year 4: Isabel and Liam.
Year 5: Olivia and Maxwell.
Year 6: Fatou and Kevin.
Blackley’s Basket ballers shoot into the semi-finals.
On Thursday 9th February, our basketball team took the short
trip to Abraham Moss High School to compete in their first ever
basketball tournament against other local schools.
The team: Patricia, Jacob, Amy Leigh, Mohamed and Declan.
The children were a credit to the academy and played
exceptionally well as a team. They played 3 games and won 2 of
them. This means that the children will now compete in the semifinal next week (16th) at the same location. We are incredibly
proud of them.
This week I have been so proud of Reception and Nursery for the way they keep everyone safe when they move around
school. Please encourage them to keep it up!
I have a request of all our parents and carers. We have just four values that we insist that all of our children follow. They
can be found on our website. Can I ask that you talk to the children about the values and check in with them each day as to
what extent they have followed them? Thank you.
I would like to say thank you to year six for all of your hard work in tests this week. All children improved on last time!
Well done.
I would also like to say well done to year five. Your wonderful art work is displayed on the stairs and I absolutely love it!
I’ve also been impressed with the quality questions that year four asked of Eddie this week in their Christian RE session.
Well done.
Kati-Anne Roughley Head of school: