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Francis Drake Class

Mrs Stuchfield & Mrs Koro welcome you to

'Sir Francis Drake Class'!

Summer 2 PSHE theme

Keeping myself safe.

Drake Class Progress Award Winners. Well Done Sonny & Charlotte!

Science- The children looked around the playground for different materials and how they were used.

Sign language

Position and direction in maths

Young Writer's competition winners.

We had an amazing day at 'Imagine That'!

Well done to our 'Young Writer' competition winners.

We have been learning all about the Maasai Tribe in Kenya and their cultures. We then made our own interpretation of African necklaces.

Multiplication practise.

After Healthy Heads PSHE lessons the children wrote something they had learnt about. They said "I have leant about resilience and never giving up. ""I know how to work as a team." I understand what self-esteem is and confidence.

Summer I -PSHE theme

Healthy Heads    

Self-Esteem

Resilience

Kindness

Positivity

Teamwork

 

 

Reading Golden Ticket Winners.

Queen's Platinum Jubilee lunch.

Craft afternoon with parents for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

Week 5-Healthy Heads-Positivity-We learnt about growing, changing and becoming more independent.

Our butterflies have hatched, we have loved watching them the last few days.

Geography-The children have been researching the 'Big Five' of Africa and completing fact files.

Week 4 Healthy Heads-Resilience-We learnt about the different feelings we may have and ways we can manage our feelings .

African Sunsets in art.

This half term we have been using 2paint on purple mash to create, impressionism and pointillism art.

The children set up an experiment in science today to find out the difference in growth of seeds and bulbs.

Week 3 of Healthy Heads was about using teamwork skills -Learning about what fair and unfair means, listening to others and playing cooperatively

Our caterpillars have changed into chrysalis.

Art-To use simple shapes to make sculptures of the human form.

Week 2-Healthy Heads with Coach Rob-Kindness- We learnt about what kind and unkind means and what it means to give support to others.

Well done Maya for 'Star of the Week' this week for your enthusiasm for learning.

Oh my, look how our class caterpillars have grown!

PE- practising, bouncing, throwing and catching.

Investigating mass.

Week 1- Healthy Heads lesson with Coach Rob- The children learnt about self esteem and how to build confidence.

For 'Earth Day; today we discussed how we could look after our planet, by using less water and electricity and making sure we always put litter in the bin. We then made our KS1 area tidier and planted flowers and shrubs in the planters and in the old wellingtons we had collected.

We had an amazing visit from the author Dan Worsley today! He came to do a writing workshop and told us a story about a pirate. The children then started to plan their own description of a pirate and then describe how they would feel when they saw him. They used some great description. Such as, trembling with fear and their feet were stuck to the ground with terror. Next they will write their own story about their pirate and edit it.

In geography today we have started to look at Kenya in Africa, we used Google Earth to find out where Kenya was in relation to Fleetwood and then we used atlases to find the capital city, Mount Kenya and other landmarks.

Spring 2 - PSHE theme

What is the same and different about us?

Recognise what they are good at;

set simple goals;

growing; and changing and becoming more independent;

naming body parts correctly;

belonging to different groups.

Easter Egg Raffle Winners.

Our 'Golden Ticket' winners this half term : for reading at least 3 times a week and reading ebooks at home, had their treat today.

Some of the children's completed Topic Homework this half term. Well done everyone.

Science-Our experiment revealed that the unclean bread which all the class touched after playtime grew the most mould first. How disgusting!

Mrs Koro taught the class how to tie-dye.

Stations of the Cross

As part of our human body topic this half term we had a visit from the dental nurses to talk to the class about teeth hygiene.

DT-Designing, preparing and making pizzas.

DT- Investigating different breads to find out which one would be the best for a pizza base.

British Values-The rule of law- Today we learnt all about making rules to keep us safe, healthy and happy.

The children labelled all the body parts they had learnt.

In science we used glitter to investigate how far germs travel if you don't wash your hands.

music

PE

Our Lenten journey.

PSHE-Learning about how we change and grow and become more independent. Sonny's mum brought her baby and toddler into class so the children could ask her questions about how they are different to themselves and how she takes care of them. The class thought of some really great questions: What do you have to do to look after a baby? Who looks after you?

Fair Trade assembly Cardinal Allen Catholic High School came to deliver an assembly all about Fair Trade and why it is so important for the farmers and workers to receive their fair pay. People all over the world earn their living by growing food or making things to sell. Their food and products are shipped to other parts of the world and sold in shops. Many products in our supermarkets are made from things imported from less developed countries. However, unless they are paid a fair price for what they have produced, they will not have enough money for food, schooling, medicine or clothing.

Music

PE-catching and batting

In RE we learnt about why we ask for forgiveness and acted out the story of 'The Prodigal Son'.

Fractions-We found a 1/2 of an amount and 2/4 of an amount in the playground so the children could notice the connection.

World Book Day

'The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn, the more places you will go!

Dr Seuss

PE

This week in Science we carried out an experiment to see if older children could move faster than younger children. We tested this by seeing how many star jumps children from each year group could do in one minute. We predicted, plotted the data on a chart and then evaluated our prediction.

After the Ash Wednesday Mass today, we stayed at church to look at the items Father Michael uses in mass. We learnt all the names, found out what the items were used for and passed the them to each other carefully.

Merian told us all about 'Baba Marta Day' which is celebrated in Bulgaria on the 1st March. It celebrates that Spring is coming, trees are in blossom and everyone exchanges good wishes and red-and-white threads.

We celebrated Shove Tuesday today to prepare for Lent.

Owen is the 'Star of the Week' for always being a kind, super friend to everyone in class. (He even offers to help his friends fasten their top button and tie after PE).

The Fire Brigade visited us this week to talk about using a fire plan at home and why it is important to have fire alarms. We then used role play to remember the facts they had taught us.

History-ordering key events in Florence Nightingale's life.

Maths - statistics

The winners of the 'Young Writers; Competition.

We prepared for Lent by writing our Lenten promises.

In PSHE today we talked about trusting our friends and played a game to show trust.

PE-catching

We have a kindness wall in our class to catch children giving compliments and showing kindness. The children then write their compliment on a hand and receive a friendship sticker.

Spring 1 - PSHE theme

How do we show our feelings?

 

Different kinds of feelings;

strategies to manage feelings;

change and loss; 

recognising how others are feeling;

sharing feelings.

The 'Science Star of the Week' is Kaila, for working so hard and showing an enquiring mind.

Today we took part in further fundraising to support the very brave Isabelle and her family 💙💛 The children had a non uniform day and came to school in blue and yellow which represents the charity colours of Neuroblastoma UK 💙💛 We will update our final fundraising total after half term. Thank you for your generosity!

In maths the children have been mini teachers and taught each other how to solve word problems about money.

Internet Safety day.- We discussed how to keep safe on the internet and then designed posters to help other children in school understand how to stay safe online too.

Today we had a special visit from the British Institution of Science! We learned lots of new amazing things all about our bodies and how they work. We took part in some amazing experiments that included lots of flames, explosions and bangs! A fabulous afternoon had by all! Tomorrow we are making our own sunflowers to tie in with our Plants topic and we are making our own bath bombs! Ooodles of fun in Key Stage One!

'Star of the Week' is Daisy for always trying her best and always looking smart. Well done!

To start our new unit in maths- 'money' we had a shop in class and the children bought items and made the amounts with coins.

We made binary trees in computing.

For children's mental health week, we talked about how we can sometimes feel sad even though we don't know why and as a class we discussed how we could 'Grow together'. The children thought of ideas of how they could grow as children in a positive way by trying new things and reading a book.

The children learnt about the story of Chinese New Year and how it came about. They then designed their own Chinese dragon.

The 'Star of the Week' is Olivia for being so helpful in class and to her friends.

We worked in pairs to make 3D shapes and descried their properties.

The 'Star of the Week' is James for his sensible and mature attitude to learning.

Have a read of our amazing recounts about our class trip to Fleetwood Museum.

In computing we played the game 'Guess Who' to practise separating data we had so much fun!

Our unit in PE this half term is all about trust, so we played a game where we had to trust our team to help us move along the bench without falling off.

maths-we made our own clocks to support us working out time problems with before and later.

Emily is our 'Star of the Week' for trying her best in everything she does and never giving up.

Science-we discussed different weather symbols, different weathers and the four seasons today.

In computing we have been learning how to collect and represent data on a pictogram.

Maths- learning 5 minute intervals

Our visit to 'Fleetwood Museum' to start off our Victorian's topic was amazing! We learnt lots of new facts and will be writing a recount about our visit and later a non-chronological report about all the facts we have learnt.

Recounts -Partner work using time words to make up silly sentences.

Music- We listened to our new rock song today. 'I wanna play in a band' we listened, appraised and moved to the beat.

Practising o'clock and half past.

Maths- To start off our topic of time we played 'What time is it Mr Wolf?

Autumn 2

PSHE theme-Feelings and friendship

What is Bullying?

The 'Star of the Week' this week is Dominic for making super progress with his reading. Dominic also received Mylo's 'Star of the Week' too!

The children took home 'The Posada Box' to welcome Mary and Joseph into their home on the way to Bethlehem.

Our Christmas party and a special visitor!

Donkey ride and fun in the snow!

We made Christingles.

We sung 'Little donkey' for the parents today to wish them a Merry Christmas and then played in snow.

Christmas 'mindfulness colouring'

Blackpool Schools and youth work Charity visited us this week to tell us about the journey of the Christmas Story. We pretended we were explorers to find out the real meaning of Christmas and sang songs with the shepherds and sheep.

Amelia is 'The Star of the Week' for trying so hard in maths every lesson, she is a super, maths whizz!

Christmas lunch

Music-This half term we have been learning the song HOHOHO. We have listened to a range of other songs and appraised them, played movement games to keep the pulse and practised using glockenspiels to the tune.

Fractions of amounts

'The Star of the Week' is Porscha for being a model St Mary's pupil, she shows good listening skills, is always smart, always tries her best and never gives up.

We had a special assembly today with 'The Creepy Crawly Roadshow', they learnt about minibeasts and their habitats and the children sat beautifully and asked really thoughtful questions to find out new amazing facts. They even held the mini beast , they were so brave!

Sonny is the 'Star of the Week', for writing an amazing story plan about an explorer and working so hard in maths.

Division

In science we have been learning about food chains. The children created their own food chains using the words - producer, consumer, predator and prey.

The 'Star of the Week' is Maria for making great progress in reading and writing.

PE - dance - travelling in different ways- The children used their bodies to travel like different animals -tall, short, fast and slow. They then performed with partners to the rest of the class.

Tayson is the 'Star of the Week' this week for having an enquiring mind and bursting with enthusiasm.

We remembered the fallen soldiers for Remembrance day today, we paused for a minute of silence to show our respect and then discussed what it would have been like for them. We then designed our own poppies for remembrance.

DT/science - We finished creating our animal habitats from around the world. Next we will evaluate them.

Well done to our poetry young writers winners.

This week our book from the same author is 'The Explorer' , we came into class today to find it had turned into the North Pole. The children acted out the story and then we brainstormed words we could use for our writing this week.

This week in computing we have been learning how to email.

The Star of the Week is Lucas, for always choosing to do the right thing.

To celebrate Diwali we learnt about the story of Rama and Sita and how 'The festival of light' started and then we made our own Diwali lanterns.

We started to make our habitats in DT this week. In pairs we chose a habitat, designed it and decided what colours we would need and how we would fix it together. Then we started to make them.

To start our new topic of 'Our Local Area' in Drake Class we used fieldwork skills to locate features in the school grounds. We split into groups and took photographs of locations around school then we came back to the classroom to create maps of the school grounds with symbols and keys. We then discussed the compass points to give directions to each place we photographed. The groups then showed the class their maps and discussed the symbols that they used to represent their key locations in the school grounds.

Predicting the end of a story using role-play. 'The lonely beast'.

Autumn 1

PSHE theme- Rights and responsibilities

How do we feel?

Lily was 'Star of the Week for a super improvement in her handwriting.

Happy Halloween from Drake Class!

We had a super spooky Halloween party in Drake Cass, we danced to spooky music, played games and had a sweet scavenger hunt in the playground.

PSHE- The life bus and Harold the Giraffe came to visit us to talk about our feelings and how we can make other people feel.

PSHE- We talked about how we can change other people's feelings by how we react to each other and through role-play we discussed how we could react more positively in different situations.

Music-Learning notes interactively and improvising.

Art-sketching animals.

PE-ball control and competition time against the clock.

Yusha was picked for the 'Star of the Week' this week for his super maths skills. Then he was also picked by Milo for his 'Star of the Week'. A double well done!

During Black History Month we had an assembly to explain what it is about and Sir Francis Drake Class learnt about segregation in the 1960s and how Ruby Bridges started her first day in an all-white school. They discussed how she would have felt going to a new school and being in the classroom with no friends to play with. The class was shocked listening to the story as they know that we are all special and equal. They understand that Ruby played a large part in helping other schools all over America to make the decision to desegregate.

We also learnt about Alma Thomas who was an art teacher and artist who created art with bold bright colours. She was an influential black person as she was the first African American woman to have a solo Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. We then created our own art inspired by Alma Thomas.

British Sign Language-This week during our BSL lesson we have been practising to spell out our names and say how we feel.

We have been sorting and writing sentences with conjunctions about the wolf.

The star of the week is Connor for settling in to St Marys so fantastically, working really hard and having a smile on his face every day.

We had a mysterious visitor today in Drake Class. A Wolf! The children thought of questions to ask the wolf and acted out the story of 'The three little pigs.

Finding doubles and halves in maths.

'The star of the Week ' is Skye for her amazing story writing using adjectives and conjunctions.

We have designed and made minibeast collages.

We couldn't go to the beach today so we brought the beach to Drake Class! We have been writing a story about 'The little monster who saved the ocean' in English, have discussed how to stay safe on the beach and how to look after our environment. The children enjoyed different activities and watched a Punch and Judy show with ice-cream.

Practical activities in maths - ordering numbers.

Place value fun.- against the clock!

The 'Star of the Week' is Freddie for being a sensible, caring member of our class, who is always ready to learn.

Music-zootime-actions

Today the children went to explore the micro habitats of the mini-beast in the school garden. We went back to class to describe the habitats using adjectives and then sketched the mini-beast we found..

Throwing and catching

Today we were lucky enough to have a whole school assembly from ‘The Bird Man’ of Eagle Heights. He spoke to us about his birds, his role in looking after them and what a big responsibility they are. We got to see them flying around the hall and some of us even had our picture taken with them.We also talked about adaptation, what they eat and how dangerous they can be, because they may be cute but they are predators! The birds even left us with a bit of a smelly present...eww! We learnt lots of facts and had plenty of fun!

The 'Star of the Week' this week is Ben. He is always enthusiastic to learn and always tries his best.

We started to learn the alphabet in our first sign language lesson.

We went on a minibeast hunt around the school garden.

This week the 'Star of the Week' is Charlotte, she has shown us she is always ready to learn and has also impressed us with her writing this week.

We have been working as a team to create class rules to keep us safe and help us to learn the best we can.

We played team building activities.

This year, it is 'The Year of St Joseph', we discussed who Joseph was and how he was chosen to look after Jesus and is the father of all. We then drew ourselves on hearts to surround St Joseph with our love.

Place value-maths

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