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

Learning Round-up

Maple: This week in Maple we have been comparing local rivers to the river Thames. We have looked at stone age homes in history and compared them to our modern homes. We have a fantastic time writing poem for national poetry day, in maths this week we have started our new topic adding and subtraction. Well done Maple!

Silver Birch: Another brilliant week! We have been working really hard on adapting our model text to make it our own story, this will continue next week. We also wrote some poems all about us for national poetry day. The children were interested in investigating stone age homes and comparing them to the types of homes we live in now. Looking forward to another busy, productive week next week.

Elder: Well done Elder! We have started to write our suspenseful journey tale in Talk for Writing, designed workouts in Science focusing on which muscles they use and have had a fabulous Poetry morning. Keep it up Elder.

Pine: What a great week in Pine! We have started to write our own journey tale in Talk for Writing and we have already demonstrated lots of techniques to create suspense. We have also had some special events this week which have brought us different challenges and activities. Thursday was National Poetry Day and we create recipe poems to sum up all of the wonderful things that make us who we are. We also marked Anaphylaxis Awareness Week on Friday by dressing brightly and taking on the Challenge 14! Great work Pine, keep it up.

Willow: This week Willow have enjoyed learning about the crucial role the Amazon River has on the ecosystem and climate change. They have learnt about the features of river and the people that live along the riverbank. Willow have written some fantastic poems for National Poetry Day and enjoyed the opportunity to look at different poems. They are loving their clarinet lessons and are looking forward to sharing all they have learnt in these lessons with you. Keep up the great work Willow!

Sequoia: This week Sequoia have enjoyed continuing to learn to play the clarinet and can't wait to learn more songs that they will eventually perform to you all! The children have written some fabulous poems for National Poetry Day, learnt more about the composition of blood and looked in more depth at The Amazon River. We also learnt about the 14 food allergens in support of Anaphylaxis Awareness and learnt about how important it is to be conscious of

Acer and Oak: This week, alongside our usual curriculum lessons, we have enjoyed writing a poem about ourselves for the Young Writers Competition and we’ve developed our knowledge and understanding of anaphylaxis as part of Anaphylaxis Awareness Week. In maths, we’ve been detectives, solving magic squares and missing number problems and in writing we’ve planned our own information texts about some very quirky/terrifying trolls! We’ve also compared our lives to the Yanomamo tribe – the largest tribes in the Amazon, as well as investigating Julius Caesar’s motives for invading Britain! Keep up your enthusiasm!

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.

Attendance

Overall Attendance: 93.3%

Maple: 96.6% 2nd Place

Silver Birch: 88.3%

Elder: 96.5% 3rd Place

Pine: 91.0%

Sequoia: 94.8%

Willow: 98.9% 1st Place

Acer: 88.9%

Oak: 91.0%

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.