Welcome to the Hub!

The teachers in the hub are Mrs. Lyle and Miss Benson. Supported by Miss Sikindari.

P.E days 

Year 3 and 4 have PE on Mondays and Thursdays. 

Year 5 have PE on Thursdays. 

Year 6 have PE on Mondays and Thursdays.

Give Me Ten - Children are expected to read for at least ten minutes every day and should record this in their reading record. Children should bring their reading record to school every day. We hope to see lots of children becoming Reading Champions this year! 

Maths Magicians - There are a number of key mathematical facts that children should know and remember. These are, of course, taught in school but it is essential that children practise them at home too. You can find out which facts your child is currently working on by checking their maths record book. This is also where you should record their daily practice. Children's maths record books should be brought to school every day. Children will be quizzed on their maths facts every Friday. As they progress through the different stages of facts, children have the opportunity to earn rewards and work towards becoming Maths Magicians!

Handwriting - Using www.letterjoin.co.uk, your child can practise their handwriting at home. There are desktop and tablet login details that can be found by clicking on the phonics, spelling and writing star at the top of the page.

Autumn 1 Update

Tortoiseshells have had such an amazing start to the year. They have come back with such determination to succeed in their learning, on the playground and on really exciting trips. We have been filled with so much pride with what they have achieved so far and can't wait to see the success that they will continue to build. 

English

We started this year off looking at the graphic novel 'Arthur and the Golden Rope' we wrote our own narratives with amazing adjectives and following the structure of Arthur and the Golden Rope. We then moved on to poetry, which fitted in beautifully with national poetry day. The children loved sharing their favourite poems with their friends and writing their own as well. They challenged themselves with their vocabulary (finding words that rhyme and make sense!), as well as exploring the syllables in words and how a poem can sound. 

Maths

The children have tackled place value this halft term- everything from partioning two digit numbers, ordering decimals, rounding, adding and subtracting 10 and 100. They have impressed us with their resilience and self-belief when learning new things. Check out tapestry for more of their brilliant work!

Hub History

The Stone Age

This half term the children have been learning about The Stone Age. We explored, where they lived, how we learnt about them from archeaologists and became archelogists ourselves to work out how the Stone Age people lived. 

The Ancient Maya 

This half term they have learnt all about The Ancient Maya, they learnt about where they lived, how they lived, what food they ate and what jobs they have. The children then had to become archelogists and look at artefacts and decide what that meant about how the Ancient Maya lived. 

Hub Science

This half term the children have been learning all about light. They have conducted experiments with shadows, tested how transparatent or opaque objects are and discovered how shadows work. 

Hub PSHE

We have been thinking all about rights and responsibilities! We have thought about how we have rights but we have to make sure we are not stopping other children having their rights. Like the right to be safe, the right to learn and the right to be heard. The children have thought hard about how we can make our class room a place where everyone can have what they need. 

Hub RE 

Humanism

The children have been learning all about Humanism this half term. They have been thinking about what motivates people to make the right choices. They have learnt how humanists rely on science to make decisions and thought about what we can do to live a good life and how that means different things to different people. 

Sikhism

This half term the children have learnt all about Sikhism. We have thought about how Sikh's show commitment and how we show commitment in our own lives. We thought about community and hosted a Langar for the other children in the Hub. 

What a brilliant half term we have had in Tortoiseshells and can't wait for Autumn 2.