Term Four Week 4

Thank you to everyone this week who has made an extra effort to ‘ditch’ the car and walk or scooter/cycle more during their journey to school as part of the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel – it continues next week too so please try to support us in this event.

As  mathematicians this week, Y5 children have been exploring angles and how they are a measure of turning. Look at them showing their understanding of rotating 90, 180 and 270 degrees as they move in clockwise and anti-clockwise directions.

During guided reading this week, we read a biography about the scientist James Chadwick who discovered the neutron was part of the atom and how significant this scientific discovery was. We read the text using ‘popcorn reading’ and then answered these questions to demonstrate our understanding of its content.

As musicians, Y5 and Y6 children enjoyed playing a range of percussion instruments (claves, shakers and drums) in a 16-bar repeated pattern to accompany Calypso music – it put everyone in a cheerful mood as the style of music is so upbeat and lively.

It was brilliant to receive this picture of Eva and Imy from Y5 who have shown they are true Uphill citizens both in and out of school as they carried out a litter pick in the local park in their own time because they were fed up of the sight of all the rubbish left lying around the area. An example to us all girls!