Ship Ahoy!

What a fantastic start to Term 4!

Thursday was the Big Day with Badger Class Assembly in the morning and our first Swimming Lesson at Ringmer School Pool.

The children were so excited about performing, there was a real ‘buzz’ to our subject! We hope you were Dazzled by our facts and Zapped by our energy.

The work on treasure maps has been such fun and encompassed many parts of the curriculum. It was an added bonus that we had the 300th anniversary of the rescue of Alexander Selkirk from a desert island, that prompted Daniel Defoe’s  novel Robinson Crusoe.

The water theme continued in the afternoon with our first swimming lesson at Ringmer Pool. Due to the help of many dedicated, talented volunteers we had a tremendous start to the lessons. The children were split into small groups which enabled them to get more specialist teaching  and their behaviour was impeccable. We assessed them according to the reply slips we received, then had some fun with swimming tools provided. It was great day. 

But we mustn’t leave the week without mentioning our Learning Journey for this term – Bread. We began by identifying as many different types of bread we could think of, and came up with more than the number of children in Badger Class. An impressive list and still growing!

End of Term New Term

It’s the end of a very busy, eventful term during which the children have learned lots about Light and Electricity. You will see some of their work at our class assembly and homework is to compose a short verse using words that rhyme with ‘Dazzle’ and ‘Zap’. We have begun preparing this in class.

Happy Handwriting Week was a great success! The children enjoyed writing out a verse of ‘You are old, Father William,’ by Lewis Carroll, which we read at the beginning of the week, and they saw, day by day, that their handwriting improved by comparing it with the previous day’s efforts. Each day one child was awarded a team point for the most improved handwriting and one child for the overall best of the day. On the final day two awards were given for the most improved handwriting. The challenge now is to remember to write that way in their work.

Next term our new Learning Journey is ‘Bread’. We will be studying the scientific aspects in the context of Materials and their changes of state, looking at different types of bread around the world, making bread, and as Easter approaches, explore the significance of the bread at the Last Supper.

Meanwhile, enjoy the break and we meet again in the first week of Lent, ready with our pancakes!