Carbon Ambassadors, Play Leaders and RE in class 3.

Carbon Ambassadors

Our 4 Y6 Carbon Ambassadors presented an assembly to the school asking everyone to come to school on Friday with a 'green accessory'.The children then tried to explain why a green accessory was relevant to the ambassadors. They talked about how we were trying to save money and cut down on wasted electricity and showed graphs relating to our school.

 They explained the peaks( sleep over night) and troughs( weekends)on the graph and explained on Friday they were taking several meter readings hoping we would be able to show we had remembered simple things like closing doors to keep heat in, turning lights off at break times etc.to hopefully save the school money.

Play Leaders
Mrs Key from Inspire+ is training class 3 as Play Leaders. They have learned the theory and talked about possible issues that occur at break and why they happen and how to prevent them eg. people having no one to play with.Now they are learning how to involve children n games, how to pick teams quickly and fairly and how to lead the actual games.

All learning how to work as a team involving everyone.

RE with Reverend Lillian

We have been looking at colours in RE and associated feelings and emotions and our next lesson was to look at colours in the church. Reverend Lillian came into class with lots of items that had special  colour significance . She showed us vestments  chasubles and stoles that she wore in different church seasons.We discussed the colours and what they represented in the church and compared these to our previous work thinking about colours.We learned all about the church seasons and at the end we ordered ourselves in church season order wearing and holding the items Rev. Lillian brought in. We made a circle to show that the seasons start again and are like a circle. 

The multi colours stole is worn in "ordinary time " and 

Can we remember the order?

Just checking we have got it right.

A super way to learn about the colours and what they represent in church.

Golden Time

 More stacking cup creations in Golden Time. Here some Y6 girls made a William Morris design ( a Victorian artist we have looked at in art).

Very creative .

Class 3 at work and having fun!

                                                                         Golden Time fun!

English-this week we looked at Remembrance Poetry and learned ways to write our own poetry based on abstract nouns. Jess is showing the class ( as 4 children missed the previous lesson as they were on a school Carbon Ambassadors visit) how to generate their own poem based on "love."

The class writing and sharing their ideas in their writer's tool kits.

talking and refining ideas

working with others- comparing poems about love, hate, war, peace... 

learning from others 

some fantastic poetry as a result

Our homework was to write our autobiographies.

They were super-I found out lots about them and felt privileged to read them.

Now the class are enjoying reading them too.

Choosing  which to read next

engrossed in their selected autobiographies

enjoying and appreciating everyones work

In maths we have worked on multiplication-here we are problem solving using our skills.

Can children work out the times tables? 

Sounds easy?

 No numbers were given,only symbols and the rules that the shapes stand for 11 numbers between 0 and 12 where each number is a different number.

trying possibilities

making predictions

it can't be because...

helping each other

it must be because...

getting there

the problem solved successfully.

Children in need...

Maths-working with different people showing them how to read and write coordinates to make a picture of Pudsey.

not everyone was confident so asked Y6 to help them

could Y6 explain clearly?

would everyone get a picture of Pudsey?

Yes! 

Pudsey watching !

We also made a copper coin trail round the school. How far would it go?

would it get all round school?

All classes working together.

making sure no gaps were left

A LOT of copper coins!

  

Bike wise certificates,playleaders, house badges, pupil voice and dojos

The certificates and badges for the year 5 children  who completed their Bike Wise training in October were awarded. The 8 children all achieved level 1, 5 achieved level 2.

                                          Here they proudly show the results of their hard work.

Mrs Key comes to class 3 on Thursday afternoons and is training everyone to become playground leaders. The first sessions involve discussions and activities getting the children to think about playtimes. What is good and playtime and what is not working so well. What could be done to improve playtimes -how could more children become involved in activities?

group discussions

listening to each other

asking questions

what if...

working with different people

answering questions with Mrs Key

What out for updates and the group achieving their awards at the end of the term.

Our new  House badges were awarded to Year 6-everyone in year 6  received votes in our recent House Captain voting so everyone deserved badges as they all have a job to do to support their house captains.

Jess and Amy- our Bronze PE ambassadors are asking pupils about PE as part of Pupil Voice. What do they enjoy, what clubs do they attend, what clubs do they want....

year 6...

what about younger pupils?

and even younger?

some sensible questions and answers-comments will be posted on our PE board.

Out Autumn term dojo winners were awarded their certificates.

The top 5 ...( a joint 4th = top 5 !) standing in front of our Chimney Sweep Boy Poetry display.

Rewards were decided by the children-cushions for a week, raffle tickets and a non uniform day.

All those who got greater than or equal to the class average were awarded their certificates too.

This group too  will receive rewards-cushions  for 2 days,a  raffle ticket and of course - a certificate!

Keep up the good work.