We have had a wonderfully creative week. Year 6 have been creating death masks and learning about mummification, the process of preserving bodies ready for the afterlife. Year 5 have been creating Viking armour, Year 4 have been creating Roman ‘bullas’ and mosaics and Year 3 have been taken back in time, to the Victorian era! Please revisit the news page to read about our Museum week projects.
This week we have been learning about Online Safety. The theme for Safer Internet Day 2022 is ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’. We have been thinking carefully about how we an keep ourselves safe online, whether we’re using the Internet to find information or playing games online. Please remind your child to only use trusted websites, never give out their personal information (name, age, address, school etc.) and to tell a trusted adult if they see anything that worries them online. There are some great online safety resources for the whole family on the Parent Zone website so please do explore these.
Gold Award Winners
We have also had our Gold Award assembly today. We were celebrating independent learners, children who are resourceful, resilient, reflective and collaborative in their approach to learning. It was vey difficult for teachers to pick just two teachers, but the Gold Award winners this half-term are:
(Y6) Beech: Carla & Kemara Oak: Indya-Marie & Nicole A
(Y5) Sycamore: Erin & Evan Willow: Zeenat & Harry Hazel: Sofia & Martyna
(Y4) Rowan: Viola & Nealan Hawthorn: Tamila & Theon Lime: Matilda & Jemima
(Y3) Birch: Ethan & Xaviera Cedar:Maya & James Holly: Gokhan & Beatrice
Rainbow Winners
| Class Name | Rainbow 1 | Rainbow 2 |
| Holly | Betaneya – for confidently using her capitalising skills in all lessons. | Tess – for confidently capitalising on her skills and resources during lessons |
| Cedar | Fungie – an independent learner, who has used her learning powers to achieve her best this week. | Jago has spent this week being super absorbed, noticing details in class and feeding back his ideas clearly. |
| Birch | Maria- for being super absorbed when completing her architectural sketch of her replacement building for The Crystal Palace. | Sewa- for amazing noticing skills when using the resources around you to be independent. |
| Lime | Jemimah – for always being absorbed in her tasks and persevering when she is stuck. She always uses her prior knowledge to help her and completes all tasks with 100% effort. Well done! | Ami – for staying absorbed in her tasks and completing them as best she can. She perseveres when she is finding a task challenging. She has made great progress learning her sounds which she uses when reading and writing. Well done! J |
| Hawthorn | Frank – for persevering to improve his handwriting. | Raul – for changing his attitude to his learning with a positive result. |
| Rowan | Hector – for applying his knowledge of multiplication to find the area of his table top in sticky notes. | Ben – for his dedication to improving his reading using Lexia. |
| Hazel | Malcolm – for caring for others in the playground | Xavier – for improved focus in lessons. |
| Willow | Romy – for showing excellent reasoning skills when faced with tricky factor problems. | Ashvi – for showing real commitment to improving her reading skills on Lexia. |
| Sycamore | Lucy – for keeping an amazingly positive attitude, even when facing a big change in her life. | Evan – for persevering and keeping strong, especially when feeling down. |
| Beech | Bailey – for trying her hardest to improve her independence. | Mercy – for being a fantastic Pegasus Person. |
| Oak | Sundus – for her enthusiasm and support in editing the class assembly. | Rileigh-Jae – for staying focused during lessons and persevering when she is having difficulties. |
Cypress Superstars
Eduard in Beech class won the Golden Lock this week. Enjoy your prize and keep up the sustainable travel! Alex and Amelia wowed me with their Egyptian death masks and Connor had showed attention to detail with his artwork. Jackson has written a review for the book Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good, which has been published in First News! It is a very detailed and informative review too, Jackson – well done! Matilde came to show me her artwork inspired by American graffiti artist Keith Haring, which she completed at home. Matilde you are very dedicated and talented! Ralph has been busy at home showing his creativity and sewing talents by making a pair of combat trousers! Wow! I’m putting in my order Ralph! Sam, Lucy, Nicole, Viola and Leah impressed me with a Forest School inspired song and performed it beautifully in the office! They also performed it for their classmates and Miss Binks in their classroom. You used rhyme, thought carefully about how the words fit your rhythm and showed great confidence when performing – very impressive! Amelija has been making amazing gains in her phonics and read her book to me beautifully and understood everything she had read. Lily wrote a very detailed set of instructions paying attention to the use of imperative verbs and use of short, clear sentences. Amelia in Lime class created a very impressive project on volcanoes that included leaflets and posters! It was informative, eye-catching and well-researched! Keep up the hard work. We are very proud of you- especially as you invested so much of your time at home on your project!
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We hope that you have a great half term break and will see you when we return on 21st February!
Mrs Carpenter and the Upper School team
