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

Learning Round-up

Maple: Welcome to all the year 3 children. They have made an excellent start to the new academic year and have impressed the year 3 team with their amazing attitude and effort. This week we have been having “wow” afternoons, we have learnt about William Gilbert in science in geography we drew our own map of the UK and finally in history we did some cave drawings. Well done to all the year 3’s for their hard work.

Silver Birch: A big welcome to all of the Year 3 children! Silver Birch have made a fantastic start to the academic year and have demonstrated an amazing attitude in class. This week we have been learning about the topics we will be starting this term in Science, Geography and History. We learnt about William Gilbert who invented the electroscope, drew and labelled our own map of the UK and created some cave drawings. Well done to everyone for a great start and demonstrating a positive attitude!

Elder: A big welcome to the Elder class. It has been lovely to meet you all. This week we have had our wow afternoons to start off some of our subjects. In Geography they wrote a news report about Mount Everest, Science they made spines and in History they became a Roman soldier to march and protect us from the enemy. Well done Year 4 and I look forward to the year together.

Pine: What a fantastic start to the year! Pine class have been enjoying lots of exciting activities from a House morning to WOW afternoons. We have spent some time learning a bit more about our first topics in Geography, History and Science through lots of different activities. We particularly enjoyed creating the ‘Testudo’ formation (tortoise in Latin) with Roman shields to see if we would make it in the Roman Army. I can’t wait to see what the rest of the year has in store for us, keep up the great work Pine!

Willow: Welcome back to my Willow class. It has been a great start to the year and a wonderful introduction to our year 5 learning. This week we have launched our history, geography and science topics with our wow events. In history we have created our own words and messages using the Mayan alphabet. They made stamps of the Mayan symbols and printed their words onto card. I am looking forward to an exciting year together. Well done Willow!

Acer: What a great start to the year we have had! This week we have completed lots of PSHE work and Protective Behaviours where we have all learnt about keeping ourselves safe. We have also experienced some “Wow” afternoons for history, geography and science. We’ve started to learn about archaeology, rainforests and the scientist John Dalton. We have been so impressed by the enthusiasm and dedication to learning so far. Thank you everyone.

Oak:Welcome back to the new Oak class. You have demonstrated some excellent attitudes to learning already and we have been thoroughly impressed. This week we have launched our new topics in history, geography and science. Our new topics are Migration Through Time, Tropical Rainforests and Changing States of Matter. We have also completed some wonderful descriptive writing based on the painting “Surprised” by Henri Rousseau Keep up the great work.

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.

Reading

Your child should have come in with their Accelerated Reader book and reading journal. Please remember to record when your child is reading at home. A target of 3 times a week or more is great.

The novels that the children will be reading in class next term are as follows:

Year 3 -

Year 4 -

Year 5 -

Years 6 -

Please feel free to explore these at home as well!