St Mark's Teacher

The children have all started back to the New Year in a brilliant way. They are enjoying the new project of ‘A Toy’s Story’ where we have been learning about different materials and their properties as part of our Science learning. The children have loved exploring the materials and thinking about the best material for Teddy’s coat so that he doesn’t get wet in the rain! Last week, we thought about toy robots and used our imagination to create our own robot collages.

As part of our English, we have been learning to retell the story of ‘The Tiger who came to Tea’. The children have loved putting actions to the story and are enjoying writing their own versions using a different animal. Maybe ask your child to tell you their story. In maths, we have been thinking about comparing and ordering numbers within 20. The children have been thinking about why a number is greater or less than another and using their knowledge of tens and ones to help compare the numbers. Over the next week, we will be learning about length and height where the children will learn to use rulers to measure accurately to the nearest whole centimetre. Please find our project knowledge organiser and topic web below.

We’d like to thank all the parents and carers at home who have supported their children over the last week with home learning. The children have been producing some great work at home and have settled back to class well when they return.

Year 1 Team

2022 Year 1 A Toy’s Story Knowledge organiser.docx

2022 Year 1 A Toy’s Story Topic Web.docx

What a super day we had in Year 3! Thank you for sending your children in non-uniform, there were many questions this morning and guesses to why ‘Red, White and Blue’. The day started with a mystery suitcase that we found in our classrooms. Sadly, these were locked and the hunt for the code started. In 3SB, we started looking under our chairs but these codes didn’t work. We then all went on a hunt around the school ground to collect the next set of clues. Many tasks led us to learn what our new project is called ‘Red, White and Blue – London vs Paris’.

They are very excited about our new project. In the afternoon we started our design and technology unit. For this we talked about what we could use for joining things together. We then experimented with different resources as we joined paper together.

The children have brought home their knowledge organiser and information about the project. You can also find a copy here:

Yr3 – Red, White and Blue topic web

Yr3- Knowledge organiser – Spring 1

Year 3 Team 

Happy New Year from the Year 5 team! What an incredible start all of the children have made this week in their return to school. Their enthusiasm for learning has blown us away over the last few days – all of the teachers commented in our celebration worship today how hard it was to choose a Star Learner as all of the children have shone so brightly. 

Attached below are two documents to share with you. Our Knowledge Organiser gives you lots of facts about our new topic that we would love the children to read and learn with you at home. Our Topic Web describes all the learning that we have planned for each core and foundation subject over the next six weeks. We hope it gives you a detailed insight into what your children are learning. 

So what is our new topic? We hope you have already heard about it from the children but, just incase you haven’t, it’s the Glorious Greeks! This history topic always proves to be a favourite amongst the Year 5 children year on year and we have no doubt that this year won’t be any different. One very important date to note please is Friday 11th February. On this day, we would like the children to come into school dressed as an Ancient Greek for an exciting project outcome day. For costumes, an old white bed sheet always works well wrapped into a toga. 

Thank you for your on-going support as always. We look forward to sharing some of the children’s work with you soon. 

The Year 5 team

Year 5 Spr 1 – Knowledge Organiser Year 5 Spr 1 – Topic Web