After SATs, the children in Eagle class @FP, could finally let their hair down and they enjoyed every minute being care-free. Both year 6 classes mixed together and played a variety of sporting games or just spent time outdoors talking or being on the swings and play equipment. The pack lunches were out of this world – I hate to think how much they will pack for our next day out on Friday 21st June.

We are learning life-skills in Eagle class. We will be looking at budgeting, all the various methods of payment, how to create a good credit score, savings and avoiding debt. The children have been fully engaged with all activities so far and are keen to ask questions ranging from, ‘Do you need to pay tax?’ to ‘How do you use cryptocurrency?’. I am sure all parents and carers will agree that these life lessons cannot begin too soon!

As part of our Jungle Fever topic, the children in Puffin class @FP have been thinking about protecting animals and our environment this week. Inspired by the wonderful story of ‘Greta & the Giants’ we have talked a lot about animals and how we can all do our bit to keep their homes and our environment safe. The children have been busy making posters to remind our local community to help protect our trees.
“The animals need homes and shelter. If we cut all the trees they will have no place to sleep, and some animals will have to food!” – Rhianna
“If we keep cutting trees we wont have clean oxygen to breathe!” Dexter
“We need to think about the microorganisms that live in microhabitats too!” Rachel
The children welcomed Councillor Jacq Paschoud to our school who gave us some useful tips to help protect our planet and directed us to a charity could plant some more trees in our school!

Year 5 Magpie class @FP, have spent some time in our school garden. They have been working collaboratively weeding and preparing the garden area for the next crops. Helping with gardening promotes healthy habits, such as eating fresh fruits and vegetables, and spending time outdoors in nature. It can also stimulate children’s curiosity and creativity, as they learn about different plants, animals, insects, and natural phenomena.

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What a busy end to term in Parakeet class @FP! Our class have been working away hard on our final Art and DT project of a Gaudi inspired 3D lizard. This week we finished writing our instructions, come and check them out!

“We built and glued the wooden frames for our lizard over two weeks” – Raziyah.

“Everyone cut and stuck down their mosaics using felt.” – Daniel.

Keep practising times table rock stars. Have a wonderful half term!

In Nightingale class @FP, We have had lots of fun in Nightingale Class. We have been working on our listening and attention skills with games such as “What’s in the Bag?” and “Kim’s Game”. We take part in these games every day to help us improve our focus and attention.

Some of the children in Year 1 and Year 2 went along to the Unicorn Theatre in London on Friday to see the production “The Princess and the Pea”. It was a great performance. We loved going on the train and also eating our lunch at Tower Bridge!

We bake every week in Nightingale Class and this week we made chocolate chip shortbread. They were delicious! We made them ourselves and then went on to write instructions for the recipe so that others could make them too.

We have been working on our ICT skills and love visiting the ICT suite once a week. We have been learning how to log on and off independently and also we have been learning how to use and control a mouse.

Last week we loved learning all about Space in both Nightingale classes. We learnt about the solar system and all of the planets. We went on to make Solar system posters. We played a Space Quiz in teams and new all of the answers!

We have been learning what plants need to grow and have planted our own seeds which will turn into bulbs. We spoke about where would be best to plant them and why and gave them lots of water as it has been so hot!

We are deep into Summer Term One and the children are really enjoying our non-core curriculum subjects. Islamic Empire, mountains, mosaics, tag-rugby, wooden frame structures, Judaism, athletics and steel pans! 

“Tag-rugby is great as you can spin and leave your opponent on the floor.” – Ipek

“We created a frame to put our mosaics lizards on.” – Stephanie

“If you pump your arms you can run faster.” – Reggie

This half term the Year 6 children @ FP were only thinking about SATs and it was a constant round of lessons about maths, reading and grammar. The children did really well and worked so hard. They should be very proud of themselves.

As a reward for all their hard work, we went to the park and had a great time letting off some steam.

Well done to all the students and a big thank you to the staff and parents who have supported the children’s progress all year.

Macaw class @FP have been working hard in maths looking at angles and using a protractor to measure angles accurately. In English, we have been learning about explanation texts and we are in the process of planning and writing our own.

This half term in DT we have been learning all about the construction of bridges. We have learnt about the different types of bridge designs such as arch, beam and cantilever. During our sessions we then had a go at designing our own bridge using the knowledge we have learnt, followed by making our product. We used carboard, lolly sticks, glue and pipe cleaners to construct our designs. Take a look at our carefully designed bridges.

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