Thankfulness & Investigating Sound

This week in Gascoigne class our curriculum has been incredibly varied and very busy. The children have produced some excellent fronted adverbial work in literacy as well as acrostic poems about Thankfulness and Harvest. Each child was also asked to create a ‘plate’ that represented which foods they were thankful for.

We have continued to work on Ancient Greek DT projects this week and some children have shown a real flair for design and creativity. In addition, the children continue to impress our visiting teachers during their vocal coaching and woodwind sessions.

Today our curriculum became more investigative as the children were tasked with being scientists – testing materials and their ability to provide effective sound insulation. They were absolutely fantastic in their approach to working scientifically, taking time and care to produce accurate and clear results.

Finally, when you rummage through school bags this weekend you will notice the children have been given homework for the first time. This includes a variety of tasks and information about the learning taking place in class. There is no obligation to complete every task, many are just suggestions that children can complete if they want to further develop their learning in a particular curriculum area. Please just have a look and discuss with your child.

Have a great weekend.

My Perfect School Day

On Monday 17th, every child in school was asked to write about what their perfect school day would look like. 

In Gascoigne class we had an assortment of great ideas which together would no doubt make for a very bizarre 'SCHOOL' day. 

The children's suggestions included many wacky food themes, interesting yet somewhat non-educational 'lesson' choices as well as a comfy dress code of pj's and slippers!!!

Quite a few of their ideas linked to the previous Friday when we gave children a 'taster' of the perfect day, allowing them to eat pizza & ice-cream at playtime, produce lots of creative artwork and also try out a full size & very loud drum kit!!!!

The children now have some clear targets for their writing and hopefully realize as the year goes on there will also be lots of opportunity for new experiences and activities which will link with and support our classwork. (No more pizza at playtime though!)

New School Year

Good afternoon and welcome back to the new school year.

I hope children and adults alike had a relaxing and refreshing holiday and are ready for the learning journey ahead.

This year in Gascoigne class we have a mix of old and new with regards topics and areas of study across the curriculum. To begin the year our main topic theme will be 'Ancient Greece' which links directly to geography, history and technology objectives. 

In Maths, we start the year with a focus on Number and Place Value, whilst in English the children will recap and develop some key writing and spellings skills through a varied range of text types.

In addition, we are fortunate that our class will benefit from specialist musical and sports tuition throughout the year and as always we have many trips, visitors and activity days planned to ensure the children have a broad range of experiences to support their in school learning. 

Myself and Miss Burnell are very excited about working with the class and can't wait to get to know everyone better. 

Keep checking back here regularly for more news and photos about our learning in Gascoigne class.

Many thanks,

Mr Riley