Thank you to the children and parents who have sent in work this week. These three superstars not only sent in work this week but also joined in with our Zoom Maths lesson on Monday. We went back to multiplication and division and worked together to remember the strategies we use to solve these number problems.

Abbie has produced a beautifully write postcard from Paddington to Aunt Lucy and illustrated with her own drawing of Paddington Bear himself. From our History learning this week Abbie chose to set up her own role play and looked after her teddies just like Florence Nightingale looked after the soldiers. She also worked really hard on answering multiplication and division word problems. Well done Abbie!

Emily worked really hard on her postcard from Paddington to Aunt Lucy. After thinking about what she wanted to say and the key events from the book, Emily wrote a beautiful postcard explaining all the adventures that she (as Paddington) had got up to. She even created a landmark front for her postcard, just like you’d buy in a shop. A fantastic piece of writing. Well done Emily!

Another week of hard work from Grace, having focused on her maths and English she moved on to look at the work of Florence Nightingale and made a lamp our of paper craft in the style of a lamp she would have held. Grace also made her own playdough this week, following a recipe and set of instructions. To finish the week, Grace looked at the famous London landmarks and decided to focus on Wembley as her chosen landmark to create a fact file including all the key facts she had researched. Well done Grace!

Thank you to all the parents who continue to send work in showing all that their children have been up to. It is wonderful to see so many of them still working hard, despite the motivation wearing a little thin at the moment.

Alannah has been busy working on her artistic skills. Throughout the year Alannah showed her art skills and creativity in lessons but her time at home as meant she can work on these even further and I think you’ll agree they are absolutely incredible. Alannah is attending online sessions with the National Art Gallery and creates beautiful pieces of artwork based around a specific theme of the week. It is wonderful to see Alannah using her God given talents and I cannot wait to see her new masterpieces over the next few weeks. Well done Alannah!

A few weeks ago the children were tasked with creating a habitat in their garden or local space for a hedgehog. After many weeks of patiently waiting Evie’s special hedgehog hotel got a visitor. A big hedgehog came to rest his head for a little while and Evie very kindly bought him some food to munch on whilst he rested. Evie also had fun creating a lava lamp. The Year One children are now working on their ‘working scientifically’ skills for the next few weeks and have been tasked with performing some experiments of their own at home. Evie chose the lava lamp experiment and it turned out to be very successful. Well done Evie!

George has been as busy as ever! He worked on his maths and conquered the tricky topic of time. He also took his art materials out with him on a walk and created a lovely summer tree piece of artwork. He also spent time writing his own traditional style tale about a troll ad a fairy, with beautiful cursive writing and some great choices of vocabulary! George has continued to practise his cursive writing and phonics which has meant the work he is producing is presented beautifully and spelt correctly. Well done George!

The week wouldn’t be complete without an update from Grace. Once again Grace has worked incredibly hard at home completing maths, English, science, RE… You name it, Grace has given it a go. Grace continues to work hard on her cursive handwriting and is always searching for more challenges to be had. For our cityscapes focus, Grace chose a local landmark the Whittle Arches and had a brilliant go at sketching them from a photograph. Well done Grace! Another great week!

A huge thank you to those who continue to send work in, it is wonderful to see how well the children are getting on at home. Last week, the children were tasked with writing their own traditional tale. I have been sent some and they are fantastic!

Abbie worked really hard on her writing and not only has worked on her handwriting but also spent lots of time planning her story to think about what journey she wanted her story to go on. Well done Abbie!

Alannah once again blew me away with her fantastic art skills. She continues to look at the work of different artists and uses this as inspiration to create her own pieces. This week the Year One children were focusing on landscapes and Alannah looked at the work of Hockney and used this to create her own piece. She is a brilliant artist and I love seeing her different creative pursuits. Well done Alannah!

Emily worked very hard on her traditional tale. She created her own version of the story of Little Red Riding Hood. She introduced an Evil Queen and a Prince to the story. Beautiful writing and some great ideas, well done Emily!

Phoebe has been as busy as ever! She has exercised everyday both on her trampoline and going for long walks (when the weather was a bit nicer). She planted some sunflower seeds and has looked after them so well they are ready to be potted in their own plant pots as they continue to grow. She has also been working hard on her writing and has used her brilliant ideas to write her own traditional tale about a Princess called Jasmine and a witch called Agatha. Phoebe has made fantastic progress in her phonics and continues to complete daily activities to learn and practise new sounds. Well done Phoebe!

Veronica has been working hard on her maths this week. She has focused on time and solving problems relating to this. She has continued to try really hard and has succeeded! Keep up the good work Veronica, Well done!

Grace has once again worked incredibly hard to complete her home learning. She has given all curriculum areas a go and continues to achieve. You can see from the sheer number of photos that she has gone above and beyond the expectations. Have a look at all of the different things she got up to. She even spotted my mistakes in some of the code breaker tasks and wrote her own number problems to solve and make the code right! Well done Grace!