As part of our topic about ‘Saving the World’ we have been learning about recycling and where our waste goes. First we had a visit from Severn Trent to explain how water gets cleaned, brought to our houses, taken away and cleaned again before re-entering the water system. We then we had a visit from Veolia and found out all about recycling and which material goes where! The children’s recycling knowledge really is fantastic!
Today the whole school enjoyed an ISING pop assembly. We danced, sang, spelt ‘love’ with our bodies and even measured children’s mouths to see whose was the biggest. This was linked with our school values. What a brilliant morning!
Wrekin and Caradoc Class enjoyed a lovely trip to the Ironworks in Oswestry on Wednesday. During our day we painted some pebbles which are going to be used to form a pathway at the Ironworks. We also had a look around the shops and did some sketching. In the afternoon we completed the safari quiz, had some ice cream and shared a story. The story was from the Wigglers (where we had painted our pebbles) and was about everyone being unique and special. The children and staff all had a brilliant day and we are so proud of them all. The Ironworks were amazing hosts!
This afternoon we had a go at making a finger puppet to see how materials joins together before making our sock puppets. We were only allowed to use recycled materials and left over bits of craft things! We realised that material doesn’t cut as easily as paper and that we had to cut carefully. Look at our amazing finger puppets!
Today we had a go at making our own pancakes! We followed the recipe to make them and enjoyed having a go at flipping them. The best bit was definitely eating them… yum! This week we will be writing an explanation text about pancakes.
This afternoon we having been evaluating sock animals by saying what we do and don’t like about them. Next week we will be designing our own sock animals! We will be making these using recycled products – socks!
Yesterday we were beginning to think about Global Warming in relation to our Saving the World topic. We discussed how the atmosphere is getting thicker – meaning the heat from the sun is being trapped around our world. The children were very worried about the ice at the Arctic melting and what would happen to Father Christmas and the animals. We carried out a fair test to see whether the ice would melt quicker when wrapped in cling film (to trap the heat in) or not. We found out that the ice does melt quicker when the heat is trapped in. The children were able to relate this back to our planet and think about ways we can stop this from happening!
Look at our fantastic Chinese creations!
Today we our planning our stories ready to write them next week. One story is about a fox whose home gets destroyed by builders. The other story is about a park which is full of rubbish and needs clearing up. The children are using the Messy Magpie story as inspiration and are demonstrating excellent teamwork.
| 11.1.19 | Group 1
shop shed ship fish |
Group 2
day play May stray tray |
Group 3
stray spray clay crayon delay |
Group 4
acorn bacon apron angel lady
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Ready for a day of fun and learning!
| 7.12.18 | Group 1
car hard park card |
Group 2
hammer letter dinner summer |
Group 3
huge tube cube use June |
Group 4
some come done none month brother |
| 23.11.18 | Group 1
my coat road soap goat |
Group 2
are was they you |
Group 3
looked these even theme complete |
Group 4
mouthful delightful cheerful wonderful
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Today we opened some envelopes and had to work out whether we had opened a letter, some instructions, a card or a story. We then received a letter from Ferdinand asking for our help! We will be using our finger spaces, capital letters, full stops and exclamation marks when we write to the matadors to tell them to stop fighting Ferdinand and his friends. Wrekin Class are very excited and can’t wait to get started with our letters. Some children suggested that we go on a plane to Spain to tell the matadors we want them to stop – Miss Pugh said this was a great idea but I think it would cost too much money so writing a letter would be better!
Today we continued our work on instructions and made poppy biscuits. Wrekin Class enjoyed being the first class to use the new cooking room and their biscuits looked and tasted fantastic!
This week we are looking at instruction writing. Today we followed instructions to paint firework picture using marbles. We worked as a class to find the words which were verbs and had a go at pretending to do some of the actions before we did our pictures.
| 25.10.18 | Group 1
year dear gear near |
Group 2
sure pure cure pull full |
Group 3
were there launch August haunt |
Group 4
old gold hold told cold |
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19.10.18 |
Group 1
and fork sort worn
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Group 2
clown clap groan growl |
Group 3
some come chew threw new few |
Group 4
door floor poor find kind mind |
| Group 1
Car Park For Fur |
Group 2
Are Dear Fear Near Beard |
Group 3
When What Which Who Why |
Group 4
Bigger Sadder Singer Slower
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What a fun morning!
On Friday we made some LEGO models. The children were very proud of their creations; especially their model of Big Ben.
| 5.10.18 | Group 1
Night Road Food Boot |
Group 2
They All Crisp stamp |
Group 3
Blue Clue true Rescue statue
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Group 4
Hottest Silliest Quickest Cheekiest |
These are some ways we have been learning our spellings in school. Writing words one letter at a time in a pyramid shapes helps children to think about each letter at a time. Drawing boxes around the word helps children to remember the shape of the word. Look, cover, write and check helps with memory skills and gives the child instant feedback on their spellings.
| Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | |
| 28.9.18 | No
Go Wait see |
My
Her Me She We Be |
Have
Like Third Girl Enjoy Boy |
What
Was Want Word Work World |
As part of our English work we have been planning how to make and write an information book. We were asked by the Museum of London to make some information books on the great fire of London as they had lost all of theirs! The children are really engaged with their writing and are excited to send their books to the library! Today we used teabags to make our book covers look old-fashioned. We also found out some more information about the great fire and used a dictionary to find definitions for our key words. Our books should be ready by Friday .
Enjoying a story at forest school and talking about the seasons.
The link below is for a brilliant game all about the great fire of London which can help you to learn facts about the fire ready to write our information texts (books for the library!) next week.
Today we have been practising our kung fu punctuation! Why not ask your child to give you a demonstration. This is to help us remember capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
| Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | |
| 21.9.18 | the
to chop shed them song |
was
you stop from plan |
said
so play about tried seat |
walked
looked turned rocked because |
On Monday we rushed to the forest school area as we had been told there had been a fire! We found lots of suspicious objects in the forest and started to think about who could have caused the fire. This week we will be using describing words (adjectives) to describe these artifacts and writing a recount about our discoveries in the forest. All of this excitement has and will lead to brilliant writing and a great interest in our topic of The Great Fire of London.
Minsterley Primary School
Plox Green Road
Minsterley
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY5 0BE
Tel: 01743 791398
Headteacher, Miss Katie Wilcox
Administrator, Mrs Julie Chesters
