Falconer's Hill Academy OUR CHILDREN, THEIR FUTURE, OUR RESPONSIBILITY

Learning Round-up

Maple: What wonderful week it has been! Maple have been working hard learning all the routines. The children have been sound detectives and exploring some new vocabulary in Talk for writing, in maths we have been looking at place value, in history we explored the different times during the stone age, in geography we located London on a map Well done Maple you have worked incredible hard this week!

Silver Birch: Silver Birch have a had a brilliant week! We have been working hard in our Writing lessons, learning our model text ‘The Squeaky Story’, which the children have really enjoyed. In maths we have been focussing on using place value to help read numbers represented in different formats. We have also been working really hard in the afternoons in all our other lessons. A huge well done for everyone, we are all getting used to our routines for the day and we have made a wonderful start to the year.

Elder: Elder have had an amazing week. We started off by introducing our very exciting Talk for Writing topic where we found a treasure chest and predicted where it could have come from. We have also been learning about how important our skeleton is in Science and completed some fabulous Maths work around place value. Well done Elder class!

Pine: Pine have had another amazing week. We have started to introduce our new texts in Talk for Reading and Talk for Writing, uncovering a treasure chest in the process! In our writing lessons we have been developing our setting description skills to create an image in our reader’s mind. We have also had a strong start to our first maths topic about place value, working with numbers up to 4,000. Keep up the fantastic work!

Willow: Willow have had a fantastic week. They have enjoyed beginning the Talk for Writing unit, Ice Forest. We have been exploring using different sentence starters with fronted adverbials and expanded our descriptive vocabulary. In history, we have been analysing sources to discover where the Mayan’s came from. Keep up the great work!

Sequoia: What an amazing week Sequoia! We have begun learning all about the Mayans in History historical sources, started to explore our Rainforest topic using atlases to locate the rainforests of the world and examined the heart and circulatory system by making plasticine hearts and labelling the different parts. We have had a fabulous week starting all of our topics in reading, writing and maths too! Keep it up Sequoia!

Acer: We have had a super busy week in Acer! In maths, we’ve been practising speedy recall of our times tables and place value in numbers up to 4 million! In reading, we are enjoying exploring the exciting language within Mortal Engines and have had great fun bringing our model text, The Mountain Troll, to life with a text map and actions! In the afternoons, we’ve been exploring reversible and irreversible changes, migration and the purpose of different maps. Keep working hard to be the best you can be, Acer.

Oak: What a busy week in Oak class! We’ve had some fantastic maths’ work in place value in numbers up to 4 million and great determination in practising times tables. We have been exploring the new vocabulary within Mortal Engines and we’ve made a discovery of a new exciting creature, The Mountain Troll. In the afternoons we were focusing on investigating the migration of homo sapiens, inspecting reversable and irreversible changes of matter and discussing the use of distinct types of maps. Keep working hard, do your absolute best up and reach for the stars Oak class!

Attendance

Overall Attendance: 94.8%

Maple: 92.5%

Silver Birch: 95.8% - 3rd Place

Elder: 95.7%

Pine: 99.5% - 1st Place

Sequoia: 96.6% - 2nd Place

Willow: 93.7%

Acer: 93.1%

Oak: 92.0%

Healthy Eating Award

We are working towards out Healthy Schools Award. Please take a look at our draft Healthy Food and Physical Activity policies. Please remember to send your child in with water in their water bottle and a healthy packed lunch. Don't forget to consider the fresh cooked balanced meals from Caterlink.

Reminder - snacks at playtime must be healthy e.g. fruit, low sugar/salt bars. This should not be crisps. Water bottles need to contain water and not squash OR fizzy drinks.

Allergy awareness - we are a nut-free school. Please ensure Nutella sandwiches and Celebrations and other sweets containing nuts are not brought into school.