In maths we have been learning to find missing angles and lengths, we did this by using our knowledge of shapes. We explored that all triangles angles add up to 180 degrees. In English we have been doing descriptive writing about rain and droughts which we really enjoyed.
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Year 6 – 18.01.16
YEAR 6 LEARNING
In literacy last week Year 6 learnt about poems and we made our own poems about any animal of our choice. We learnt how to use repetition, alliteration and onomatopoeia . In mathematics we learnt about shapes and how to use a protractor accurately. In the afternoon we played doge ball in P.E to work on our teamwork.
5AG – 18.01.16
5AG RAINFOREST WRITING
We have been writing show not tell descriptions about rainforest animals. We had to include skills such as; simple compound and complex sentences, similes and metaphors and past tense.
We also had fun playing football in PE and solving fraction problems in maths.
5PD – 18.01.16
In Year 5 we have started a new topic about Rainforests. In literacy we have been doing a paragraph about an encounter with an animal of your choice. We had to focus on simple, compound and complex sentences. In maths we have been learning to add and subtract fractions with different and the same denominators. We are enjoying our football and our sitting down volleyball in PE.
Year 4 – 18.01.16
In Year four we have been learning about Samba and Rio. We have been on the Samba instruments and explored what noises they make. Last week we played all the instruments in the hall, it was great fun! In literacy we have been doing different sentence types for example; compound, complex and simple sentences. We then used them in our writing for a Samba information text. In maths we have been looking at the short division method. We then started to use it to solve tricky division word problems.
Our new digital leaders
We have our new digital leaders who will be updating our blog to tell you all about our leaning! We hope you enjoy reading!
4RP – Caitlin and Rose
4NG – Connor and Dylan
5AG – Raia and Ellen
5PD – Eloise and Sam
6NW – Hewgo and Max
6JJ/TB – Eloise and Grace
Year 4 do Samba!
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Samba Sounds at FJS
On Tuesday 13th January an excited group of Year 4 children made their way into the hall for a full samba experience.
Our visiting expert, Mr Ward, had brought a huge variety of exotic instruments for us to play including: drums (large and small), shakers and bells. Scared, we whacked the tamborim which boomed around the room. The larger drums made an even more impressive sound and we were told they represented a beating heart.
Before we knew it, our hour was up and we were samba experts! We can keep different rhythms going and we have tried all the different instruments. All that remains is to perfect our percussion ready to share with parents.
That was a sambatastically super samba session!
Children In Need 2014
Well in true FJS style, we came ready to raise money for Children in Need 2014.
We all dressed as superhero’s, creating our own names and powers! Many of us came armed with cakes ready for our cake sale and the BBC news came to film us arriving at school.
This year was no different and our traditional afternoon of games was enjoyed by the whole school community. Much hard work goes into creating our own games which are run and the rest of the school enjoy playing (and winning!).
After a wonderful day where much fun was had we needed to remember that we were raising money for such a worthwhile cause.
We await the announcement of the grand total amount raised and hope it is a new school record.
A Roman arrives…
This morning Year 4 welcomed a Roman from Butser Ancient Farm to kick off our learning unit! We had a wonderful day learning from an expert about the arrival of the Romans, their legacy, as well as teaching us about the power of the Roman Army. We prepared questions and our expert was able to accurately answer them.
We had took part in outstanding workshops to help us with our understanding and to bring our learning alive. The workshops included learning Latin commands, practising marching as the Roman Army, dressing up as a Roman and making our own Roman jewellery.
It was a captivating day which has given us a some fantastic information to use during our learning unit and motivated us to find out more, watch this space….
Year 4 campaign for the New Forest
Wow, Miss Dickinson and Mrs Graham were in for a treat this week when Year 4 came in buzzing with their learning unit homework. They were set the task of creating a campaign to minimise the effects of negative human impact in The New Forest.
The children presented their campaigns confidently and we enjoyed seeing the effort as well as the wide range of presentations.
We enjoyed PowerPoint’s, models of a not and then if we were to drop litter, posters (some even displayed in the forest), email communication to companies, litter picking membership clubs and even a letter with a reply from Councillor Desmond Swayne.
The quality and effort was so amazing we even invited the local press in to find out what we had been up to and what amazing New Forest citizens we can be – keep your eyes peeled for our story in the paper!
