Even the rain didn’t stop us learning! What a lot we learnt on Friday when we visited Stonehenge! The children were a credit to our school and behaved beautifully throughout the day.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the parent helpers that joined us on our trip. We can’t offer these opportunities without your help.
Year 3 Team
Your contributions to Tapestry
At St Mark’s we are keen to promote strong links between home and school and to also recognise children’s achievements in both settings.
We would really like Tapestry to be a collaborative effort between staff at school and parents and carers at home. It’s been lovely to read your comments to our observations sent home so far. Please continue to share your thoughts!
In addition it would be great to begin to see observations which you have made at home. If your child does something that really makes you think ‘WOW’ and you feel it is a particular achievement or a ‘first’, complete an observation to share this with us. Your child can then take a turn to share their WOW moment with the whole class.
Examples of WOW moments could be:
Instructions for how to write and send an observation can be found in these simple user guides:
We look forward to finding out what the children are achieving at home.
Year R Team
Year 2 have been having lots of fun learning about the Great Fire of London. We’ve used the 5 W’s of Newspaper reporting (Who, Where, What, When, Why) to find out all of the key facts about how the fire started and why it spread so quickly. We’ve used these facts to write some amazing newspaper reports that you will be able to see in their books when you visit us on parent’s evening. Do use the Knowledge Organiser that we sent home to test your child on the facts. We’re sure you’ll be surprised about how much they now know.
We’re currently investigating fire safety in our school to help the children understand that fire safety has hugely improved since the Great Fire of London.
The children are also excited because we have introduced Times tables RockStars today. They will be coming home with their login details tomorrow. These will be inside their homework books. When they log in they will be able to create their own avatar and then will complete a short skills test game called the ‘Gig’. This may contain some challenging questions that your children will probably not currently be able to do. Please don’t worry about this. This is used to create a baseline to show how your child improves with their mental maths skills throughout their school career. The children will then be able to access our year group section of RockStars where they will be able to develop their skills with their 2 times tables. If you have any questions, please pop in and speak to your class teacher.
We look forward to seeing you all at one of our parent’s evenings.
Year 2 Team
We are looking forward to our school trip to Stonehenge on Friday! We have been watching the weather forecast very carefully and it has constantly been changing. Sadly, it looks like it is going to be a rather wet day so children need to dress appropriately. There is very limited shelter so providing things below is extremely important.
Clothing
School jumpers and polo shirts
Trousers/ leggings
Trainers (That may get muddy!)
Waterproof warm coat with a hood
Lunch
A back pack with lunch in this (bear in mind they will be carrying this all day)
Water bottle
Year 3 Team
Thank you!
Thank you so much to all the parents who attended our Windmill Hill Chat on Tuesday evening and our Year 6 Curriculum morning on Thursday. We hope you found both of these informative. The PowerPoints for each presentation have been uploaded onto our website in case you missed either of them, but please feel free to pop in and ask us any questions about the year ahead should you require.
Bush Tucker Trial
The children have certainly got their teeth stuck into our first topic, Rumble in the Jungle, starting with an Amazon Rainforest inspired ‘Bush Tucker Trial’! They were offered jungle delicacies including Parrot Intenstines (strawberry laces), Frogs’ Eyes (peeled grapes and raisins) and Sloth Droppings (prunes and chocolate covered raisins)!
Lots of eager children keen to try the ‘Parrot Intestines’!
‘Worms in Mud’, anyone?!
The ‘Monkey Vomit’ clearly went down a treat!
Brandon’s face lit up at the sight of ‘Frogs’ eyes’!
The ‘Wild Fungus’ was all a bit too much for Sophie!
Smiles all round for ‘Forest Floor’!
After this, the children created their own descriptive Amazon restaurant menus, featuring some of these delicious sounding meals along with their own unique creations! Why not come along to our Amazon project outcome on Tuesday 22nd October, where you may be tempted to try some of these delicacies for yourself!
Amazing Artists!
Wow – we have been truly amazed by the incredible artwork the children have already produced since starting Year 6. We have used Georgia O’Keefe’s style to inspire our own ‘close ups’ of Amazon flora and fauna. Can you guess which creatures are lurking in the rainforest?
A Few Reminders
Year 6 Team
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