Reception Pine :97%
Year 1 Maple: 92.9%
Year 2 Willow: 88.1%
Year 3 Elm: 94.2%
Year 4 Aspen: 93%
Year 4 Rowan: 96.5%
Year 5 Cedar: 97%
Year 6 Cherry: 90.1%
Year 6 Oak: 96.1%
Keep up the hard work! Our Hot chocolate winners this week are: Theodora, Anastasia, Nyla, Leo, Riyaad, Chloe, Leah and Donia. Joined together with the winners of last week Zala, Delilah, Logan, George, Fotis, Sibella, Aayat and Emma-Jayne. Lovely to hear about what you enjoy about school and understanding what you have been learning in all of your classes.
The children listened to the very moving core from Schindler’s list as they watched a moving slide show which spoke to them of the atrocities committed in the extermination camps. They learned about the why they were created and horrors that the Jewish people went through at the hands of the Nazis. The assembly demonstrated to all of about the importance of remembering the Holocaust and the suffering that so many millions went through. The children also tried to understand how to avoid this happening again in modern day. They watched a video of a survivor from the camps who recounted her experience.
Why do we need to know this? We have a voice to help change the world, video on your voice and how important it is to “speak up and speak out”. We use our voices to speak out about justice, hate and discrimination. We can challenge and change using our voices.
Starting off in Year 1: They have been practising writing their own sentences where they have shown great progress with and with even more practice they will be soon be writing paragraphs. Year 2 have been learning about the local community of Borehamwood and its local amenities and population. For such a small town there is a lot going on! Year 3 have been looking at rocks in science and comparing them with the evidence of photographs. They can now confidently tell you the difference between igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Year 4 Aspen have been learning about sound in their science lessons while Year 4 Rowan have produced some fantastic work about rivers. Year 5 produced some excellent facts about the Andes mountain range; the longest in the world and have created their own information sheets about them. Year 6 created some excellent writing using diary entries as their stimulus which they based on their book Hermelin.
Keep up the amazing work! Hot Chocolate winners are George, Sibella, Delilah, Emma-Jayne, Fotis, Andrii, Zala, Aayat, Logan who will receive their hot chocolate next week with Mr Soyka.
Children across the school have been working closely with Watford CSE Youth Trust FC to help celebrate children and young people embracing self-awareness, understanding emotions and forming strong connections with others.
Children were to design characters for the four Premier League Primary School Values – Inspiring, Ambitious, Connected and Fair. This year it has been linked with the characters from ‘Inside Out’.
Winners will be announced during Children’s Mental Health Week 2025. Good luck everyone!
Reception Pine :91.9%
Year 1 Maple: 98.7%
Year 2 Willow: 98%
Year 3 Elm: 100%
Year 4 Aspen: 97.7%
Year 4 Rowan: 98.5%
Year 5 Cedar: 98.1%
Year 6 Cherry: 100%
Year 6 Oak: 98.9%
A double up week on hot chocolate as we congratulate them this week and last. Well done to Billy-Ray, Mya, Jackson, Eunice, Joan, Bailey, Charlie, Ava, Ephraim and Reggie. Last week hot chocolate winners were Louie, Adam, Melanie, Eldon, Jaxson, and Maksmilian.
Nursery and Reception
Nursery have been looking at ‘Flips Snowman’ and have created their own snowman with what they see in the winter. Reception have been learning about ‘Polar Bear, Polar Bear, what do you hear?’ They have written down their own ideas for sounds.
Year 1 Maple
‘It is time someone wrote a story about a nice wolf!’ Year 1 have been reading 2Footprints in the snow” and have written the story out on storyboards making sure that it is in the correct order.
Year 2 Willow
We have been reading Man on the Moon and have created our own alien profiles using information they have learnt about the aliens in the book. We used different ideas to create our own personal alien.
Year 3 Elm
We have been looking at Narrative Poetry. This is poetry that tells a story but as a rhythm and rhyme. Children could choose to write about their families, pets and animals and more.
Year 4 Aspen and Rowan
We have been reading My name is not Refugee and we have written a diary updating daily on what has happened. Children put their thoughts in about what they would say to their mothers.
Year 5 Cedar
We researched facts about the Himalayas, in particular the highest peak – Mount Everest and imagined what it would be like to climb to the top. We wrote a diary entry about our experience. We discovered, using a range of sources, information and interesting facts about the Alps. We then created our own presentational pieces using this information.
Year 6 Cherry and Oak
We have been reading ‘The Spider and the Fly’ and have created diary entries writing as the spider inviting and persuading other insects to visit them. We used vocabulary that would draw in the insects to stay.
Year 5 have been learning about mountains in Geography and have made a presentation in class which have been put up on display so that everyone can enjoy their learning. In Year and 2 they have been looking at writing a shopping list and writing stories about wolves. 4 Aspen have been going above and beyond with their homework while year 4 Rowan and Year 3 Elm have been talking about dreams with Mrs Lunniss in RE. Year 6 in RE with Mrs Lunniss have been looking at Buddhism and drew lotus flowers. Keep up the great work!
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