We love you Mrs Byrne!

We've had a really special last week of term, doing lots of lovely things with Mrs Byrne.
Some of us enjoyed coming back into school on Monday to see her. On Tuesday we had lots of fun at our party day. Mr Marvel was REALLY funny and we had yummy cake.
Today, we were able to share all of our hard work over the past few weeks with Mrs Byrne. She was blown away with our beautiful cards and the amazing singing we worked together, as a whole school, to do. The teachers made us laugh a lot when they did their sharing assembly!

This is what we would like to say about Mrs Byrne:

Our Home Learning is the FORIS Easter challenge.


Have a brilliant Easter holiday- see you on Tuesday 17th April

Eddie the Penguin Saves the World...

Wow- what a busy week we've had!
It started with our amazing performances of Eddie the Penguin Saves the World... We had so much fun singing, speaking and acting for the school and all of our grown ups. Mrs Turner, Mrs McLellan and Mrs Orchard are so proud of us all too.
I enjoyed saying my lines - Daisy
It was fun when I went on stage to sing the song - William
I enjoyed going on the stage at the end- Charles

We used our English and computing skills together to create non-chronological reports about space. We read non-fiction books to find facts, and wrote them in our own words. Then we used  https://creativecommons.org/ to search for and collect pictures to go with our reports. We talked about using the internet safely to collect images. The pictures we find by using this website are ones we are allowed to reuse.

It was hard to collect the right picture with my group. Poppy helped us. We all persevered until we managed to paste it into Word. Grace
We printed the pictures.. Tom
The sun is made out of gas. Arlie

Theo brought in a story called 'Man on the Moon' which we read before we wrote our own space story.
I had an adventure in space. I met an alien and we became friends. Theo
On the way back from space, my spaceship broke down!

In maths, we have been exploring using measures. We used a ruler to measure length. We enjoyed exploring weight using the grams.We discovered how heavy a kilogram is. We also used our reasoning skills to work out how much a container could hold.

Today has been Sports relief. We loved wearing our sports clothes. We had fun dancing with Oak class. The we went outside to skip, play tennis, throw and catch balls and then we went on a run around the outdoors! We hope we've raised lots of money.

This week, we talked about road safety and our Home Learning is to create a poster about it.

Next week is busy.... It's Mrs Byrne's  last week.

Monday 3:30-5 we can come back to school with our grown ups to see Mrs Byrne.
On Tuesday, we need to come to school in party clothes :)

This week William got the Star Award for his great thinking about keeping safe near roads. Well done William.

Ben is our Learning Owl this week. He always works hard, he uses 'because' to explain his thinking and he was really enthusiastic in all of our pay rehearsals and performances. Well done, Ben. Have a great weekend with Snowy.

Science Week

This week we took part in a competition for British Science Week. We had lots of card squares that we had to use to make a reptile.We used another piece of card for the legs and tail, then stuck our 3D model onto another piece of card.  We had lots of fun, but it really made us use our Learning owl skills of perseverance, trying out different ideas and taking risks.


In science, we have also been finding out about our bodies. We have named and labelled different parts of our body. We also explored our 5 senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste.
The raspberries tasted juicy - Indie
The coffee smelt pretty nice - Ethan
I saw a purple flower - Lucas
I heard birds tweeting quietly - Harry


In maths, we have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We looked at patterns on the hundred square to count in tens. We used coins for 2s and 5s and used the Diennes sticks for tens.
In tens, you wouldn't say 6, 7 or 1. You would say 10 or 20. They numbers all end in 0. Mollie
You never say odd numbers in 2s. When you count in 2s from 0, you only say even numbers. Grace


In PSHE we had a look at some boxes, bottles and pictures of medicines and cleaning products. We had a grown up conversation about how we can keep ourselves safe around the medicines. We all knew that we should only have medicines that our grown ups give us and that we shouldn't touch washing tablets and other cleaning things.


Our Star Award this week goes to Theo. He has taken responsibility for singing well, speaking clearly and listening to our instructions during our play rehearsals. he has also tried hard with his work, and talked confidently about keeping safe around medicines. Well done, Theo.


This week's Learning Owl is Mollie. Mollie is a good role model for the rest of the class, she perseveres with her work and always uses Learning through Play time to take her learning forward. Well done, Mollie. Have a great weekend with Snowy...


We've had no photocopier this week- so there's no label in the Home Learning Book, but we'd like the children to find out some information about a different country. They can record their facts in their own way.


We've been working really hard on our performance of Eddie the Penguin Saves the World and are excited to share it with you next week. We could practise our words- especially speaking clearly- over the weekend.

Money, money, money

This week in maths, we've been learning about money. We have sorted and added coins- we matched coins to pieces of Numicon and found different ways to make an amount. Today we had a go at paying for our snack. Some of us were challenged to find a different way of making an amount.
One of our morning activities was to use coins to make our initial and then find the total.
Ross -My 'R' was 30p.
Theo- Mt 'T' was worth £2.10.


We have been focusing on non-fiction this week in English. We read Animals in Tress and looked at the different features. A glossary is a bit like a dictionary, it helps us understand new words.
We also wrote questions we had about animals.
What do tigers eat? Evie
How do Elephants swim? Sophia
How do monkeys swing?


We've been rehearsing Eddie the Penguin. Can we practise our words at home please? Our singing has been amazing!


Today we wore the hats we made for World Book Day. They had our favourite characters on.
The Ugly Duckling- Zaina
The giant from Jack and the Beanstalk- Ethan
Supertato- Tom
The BFG - Daisy


Our home learning this week is to take a photo to show what sustainability means to us. We had an assembly all about it, so should be able to explain it to you! We also have a Redbourn Fun Run competition to take part in - these entries need to be back on Monday.


The Star Award this week goes to Sam as he always takes responsibility for his learning. Well done Sam!


Tom is this week's Learning Owl. He tries hard with his work and is a great role model on the carpet. Well done Tom- have a great weekend with Snowy.

We are authors

We've had a great first week back after half term. We've enjoyed sharing our Home Learning - it looks like we all had lots of fun in the holiday.

This week, we finished the work we were doing about Katie Morag, by planning and writing our own story about her. We had so much to remember when we were writing - as well as full stops and capital letters, we thought about Wow words (adjectives) and joining words (conjunctions). We also thought carefully about our spelling and handwriting.... We wrote some great stories, with Katie Morag having all sorts of adventures.

She had a birthday - Chrisanthi
She went to school in England -Ross

In Creative Writing, we used all of our story writing skills again. This time we could write a story about anything we wanted. We all thought this was very exciting and Mrs McLellan is looking forward to reading them all.
My story is about Rugby - Harry
Mine is about the tooth fairy -Evie
There's a magic key in my story - James

This week in maths, we've been using everything we've learnt about adding and taking away to solve problems. We have been learning to do jottings to help us solve the problems- this means drawing marks or small pictures.

In Topic this week, we've been learning about Poland.
The capital is Warsaw - Thomas
Around Christmas it is -4 degrees

We continued our learning about Poland at Woodlands, where we worked together to make bright flowers.
They are used at Easter in Poland - Sophia
We also looked for signs of winter at Woodlands.
It was very cold - Tome
There are brown, scrunched leaves on the floor- Sam

This week, Indie has been given the Star Award for showing a real love of learning- especially in her writing. Very well done, Indie.

Our Learning Owl this week is Poppy. She works hard and tries her best with everything. She is always kind, polite and a great role model. Well done, Poppy. Have a great weekend with Snowy!

Next week is Book Week. Our Home Learning is to do some different reading activities- we could record some of these in our Home Learning Book.

We can bring our favourite book in on Monday, that we will have chance to read throughout the week.

On Friday, we also need to bring in a cushion (if we have one) as we are having a whole school read.

Toe Tapping...

We were really lucky this week because the Game On coaches came to do a volleyball workshop with us. We learnt to do a chest pass, overhead pass and bounce pass. Some of us didn't have the right clothes for outdoor PE, so please check PE bags over half term...

In English, we have carried on our learning using Katie Morag stories. We sequenced the story and wrote about our favourite part. Then, we looked at different pictures from the books and wrote sentences about them.
We couldn't use 'I can see...' Ross
Beautiful yellow flowers are blossoming. Grace
There is a helicopter delivering lots of Christmas presents. Lyla
Katie Morag is drinking burning hot tea. Ethan

We have been learning about Scotland in Topic too. We learnt a poem called Toe Tap and used our hands and instruments to keep a steady beat with it. We listened to some bagpipes - they make high sounds and the sound keeps going.

In maths, we have been learning to subtract a one digit number from a two digit number. We have used bead strings, tens frames and multilink to help us.
16 take away 8 is 8. Harry
13 minus 4 is 9. Beatrice
4 fewer than 20 equals 16. James

Next week is half term- our Home Learning is to record something we do.

Lyla got a special Star Award for being a great member of Beech Class. We know your new school will love having you.

Ethan also got a Star Award for working really well with others. Well done, Ethan!

Number Day

Today is Number Day. We have all come to school wearing a number - some of us have digits, some have a group of objects.
Jessica, Indie and Lucas all have the smallest number - 1
Ross had the biggest number - 301
We have been estimating how many stars are on Mrs McLellan's scarf.
We have been thinking about money and what it is used for. We have been using money to pay for our special snack. Our Home Learning this week is to explore using money - we could play shops, sort coins or trying to add them. We can record our work in our own way.

In Topic, we have been learning about the Isle of Coll. This is a small island in Scotland. We talked about how Coll is similar and different to Redbourn.
They both have a Post Office- Sophia
There is a vet in Redbourn, but not on Coll - Harry
There are tractors in both places - Jessica
We don't live near the sea in Redbourn - William

We also wrote a letter or postcard sharing the good things about Coll and why people want to visit there.

In English, we have been reading Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers. We have been predicting what might happen in the story. We also wrote some questions to ask Katie Morag, we remembered to use question marks.

How old are you? Arlie
How did the sheep get into the big loch? Lyla
How do you get to school? Chrisanthi
When were you born? Thomas

Yesterday, we had a dace workshop with Hayley from Dancing Stars. We did some activities to warm us up, then we played musical statues. After that, we learnt a dance routine and worked well together. It was great fun!

Sophia got the Star Award this week for working well in a group. Well done, Sophia.

Ethan is this week's Learning Owl. He has tried hard with all of his work, taken risks and persevered with his learning. Well done, Ethan. Have a great weekend with Snowy.