02 July 2021

CYP Upper: Fun and adventure!

This week, we have been very busy. Our first group of Year 5 students have just concluded their intensive swimming lessons. It has been exhausting, but SO much fun! The next group begin on Monday! Year 6 have also been riding the rollercoasters at Chessington and are camping overnight together in the school field tonight! Year 5 and 6 had an amazing author visit with Jim Beckett, who explained his writing process and joined us virtually to deliver a very engaging and interesting workshop about writing creatively. Year 5 also visited Fulham Palace and studied the Thames – complimenting their thematic topic of ‘Rivers’; Year 4 have had a great time enjoying outdoor pursuits at Fryland Woods and  Year 3 are VERY excited about their upcoming trip to Littlehampton. Phew! What a jam-packed, adventure- grabbing week it has been! . We organised these trips very carefully to adhere to all Covid guidelines – school trips play an important part in the school experience and we want to ensure we can deliver the best possible experiences for all Cypress children- safely. We hope they had a great time.

Rainbows

Class Name Rainbow 1 Rainbow 2
Holly Pietro – for working on distilling golden nuggets of learning in our lessons Sophia – for revising her plans in literacy to get the best outcomes.
Cedar Ian – for distilling a fantastic ‘golden nugget’ for the class. Flora – for helping the class with good BLP strategies.
Birch Frank- for making fantastic links for science during our topic on plants. Clara- for your fantastic attention to tone and detailed sketching during thematic.
Lime Harry – for persevering in maths with reasoning questions Jimmy – for having a good attitude to learning and not giving up on tricky questions
Hawthorn Ilyas (Ill-e-as) Working collaboratively to read a passage from the Qu’ran in Arabic during RE and sharing his prayer book with the class Mujtaba – for  sharing  his copy of the Qu’ran with the class during RE and demonstrating how Muslim’s pray using his Prayer Mat
Rowan Alima –  for working collaboratively Oliver – for effectively distilling during maths
Hazel Mustafa – for persevering in swimming lessons Sangeeth – for great use of persuasive vocabulary in writing lessons.
Willow Nouria –  for making great effort in her letter writing, using great persuasive language. Sebastian – for always persevering in maths and being able to solve decimal problems.
Larch Emma  – for being dedicated to promoting and collecting the Y6 raffle money even when the teacher was unwell Esme -for being dedicated to promoting and collecting the Y6 raffle money even when the teacher was unwell
Beech Cassie- for using her distilling skills to select key information from a story map. Benyamin- for working hard to make links between a selection of pictures and the story being read in English.
Oak Simi – for writing a creative rap about himself (including his likes, character and ambitions) and then performing it in front of the class with good timing, confidence, enthusiasm and energy. Marvin – for writing a creative rap about himself (including likes, character and ambitions) and then performing it in front of the class with good timing, confidence, enthusiasm and energy.

 

Cypress Superstars

Our shooting stars this week are Eira, Gus, Dotty, Abbey (Birch) and Malcom (Rowan) for getting their gold Accelerated Reading awards – well done! Keep gaining those reading miles! A big shout out goes to Sam (Cedar) for a very impressive letter written as Edward Tulane – amazing emotive vocabulary Sam. Well done Abbey (Birch) for a very skilled piece of independent writing retelling a section of the story of ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’! Lena (Rowan) won the Word Wizard rosette this week, using the word ‘animated’ correctly in an ambitious sentence – great job! This week’s word is ‘disregard’. Get your entries in first thing on Monday for a chance to win the Word Wizard rosette!

 

We hope you have a fantastic weekend. See you on Monday!

 

Mrs Carpenter and the Cypress Upper team

Published on 2nd July, 2021

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