The last week of term, 2013

Well, in true HJS style, the last week before Christmas has been as busy and creative as ever!
Well done to Will Rich, who took his own time to create a brilliant (and may I say, very high-brow!) quiz for the class, with prizes.




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Year 6 have had a great week with DT. Firstly, they helped year 3 with their 'Moving Monsters' project.
Secondly, we had a great time making Christmas decorations, using recycled materials to link in with our 'One World' topic.



























Surprisingly, (or perhaps not, knowing Class 1!) a group of extremely talented and creative people, made a 15 minute film entirely on their own. Premiering today, The Mafia (consisting of Seth, Will, Jack, Luke, Jake, Jacques, Jacob, Alec and a few extras), was an epic comedy! They have inspired a new literacy unit, and we look forward to making mo movies in the new year.

Thanks to Miss Lee who has been working with us for the last 5 weeks.

Finally, the homework issue;
1) Have fun!
2) Do some,thing lovely for someone else, without expecting anything back in return.
3) Literacy.....either write a short story (400-500 words), about Christmas, New Year or our new topic (World War 2). Please remember all the things you have learnt in your streamed literacy groups AND apply it!!
4) We will be starting photography after the holiday, so please bring in any photo that you think is amazing....this can be one you took yourself, from a paper or magazine, or from the Internet.
5) Maths......do some practice questions from www.satspapers.org.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

The run up to Christmas....busier than ever!

It's good to be back after a horrible illness and well done to Class One for working hard in my absence!
It's been a really busy time, with our 'Dragon's Den' challenge for persuasion, (well done to Jake, Katie Norris and Will for winning us over with their brilliant pen!).






We are now in different groups for Literacy, giving each group the opportunity to focus on specific targets. This is NOT setting, but a great opportunity to work on different technical aspects of our literacy, with a different group of people.


Class one have also been busy doing their animations about e-safety. They are using the animation software that year 6 used last year for the Festival of Literacy and are having great fun in the process!

Welcome back for autumn half term.

Despite the bad weather,  we are happy to be back in school..........yes we are! We have had a busy week in literacy doing lots of work on persuasion. The class were particularly good at repetition (or whinging as we have noted!).
Using our imaginations and our bodies we have also been looking at adverbs and have learnt some great new vocabulary and made a new display. Here are a few examples!

Falling clumsily, by Seth!













Hurriedly pouring, by Jack Thompson!











Lazily stretching, by the class!

The first half term is over!

Class one have been busy as we have neared the end of term. There have been lots of sporting activities including the cross country and football tournaments.

In class we have been studying creating suspense in stories, making animations in ICT and adaptations in science.

Our maths set is busy today with the 'Straw Challenge' as an end of term treat! Using only 100 straws and some Sellotape, they are aiming to build a structure that will support a cup of water 50cm off the ground. Working collaboratively, each group is using planning, mental calculation, shape (relating to strength of structure), estimation, trial and error and team work skills. Results will be posted after half term when the structures will be completed and tested!



Testing strength of different geometric shapes

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Tuesday 15th October 2013.
Class One have been lucky enough to have visiting published poet, Susan Jane Sims, working with us on creating original poetry. Starting with writing our favourite words on raffle tickets, we have then built up poems using these words and the poetic techniques we learnt earlier in the term.
Susan is visiting as part of The Threshold Prize (www.thresholdprize.org.uk). the Threshold Prize was set up to encourage children's interest in the richness of the English language and help them develop their own creativity.
Following today's work, we will be writing up our poems and posting them on Sue's site, www.poetryspace.co.uk. There are also interactive activities on the site that anyone can add to......so have a go alongside your child!