Learning Journey – Back to the Future
A Snapshot of our Week…
Reception: Building on our superhero theme, our attention has shifted towards real-life superheroes. We have discovered that all around us there are lots of superheroes like nurses, firefighters, bin collectors, carers, doctors, postal workers, vets, police officers, teachers, scientists etc. but also some unsung heroes like mums, dads and grandparents. The children have enjoyed thinking about what superpowers these superheroes have and how they use them to help us!
Year 1: We have been using our imagining and planning tools to write our stories based on the Magic Bed, including lots of interesting adjectives. In maths we have started learning about length and height and we have been using our maths vocabulary to compare different objects.
Year 2: We have done some amazing writing based on our book ‘Toys in Space.’ We used our imagining tool to describe how we would feel if we met an alien for the first time and created a wonderful tableau of our reactions- we really love drama!
Year 3: We love history and have been Paleontologists this week investigating and classifying different types of fossils, our science also links brilliantly with our guided reading book ‘The Lost Species’ and our literacy book ‘Stone Girl, Bone Girl’.
Year 4: We had a fantastic trip to the British Museum on Thursday. It was brilliant to see all the knowledge we have been learning about Ancient Egypt on display at the museum. We even got the chance to become archaeologists for an hour and touch some real artefacts from an ancient Egyptian tomb! Ask them anything about ancient Egypt now and you will be stunned by their knowledge.
Year 5: We have learnt about the Ancient Greek Olympics – believed to have been held to honour their powerful god Zeus – and used our making links and reasoning tool to make predictions about our new Guided Reading book, Who Let the Gods Out?, in which Zeus is one of the characters.
Year 6: We have made amazing use of our perseverance tool this week as we have begun learning to understand and write algebraic formulae. It has been a fun challenge to get stuck into. We have also been using our planning tool to plan and write a set of instructions about the Ancient Mayan sport of Pok-A-Tok.
World Book Day – Thu 7th Mar
Highlights of World Book Day at Dulwich Wood this year:
- So many children and adults dressed up as their favourite character and joined the WBD parade which ended with a dance party and free books and stickers for just about everyone!
- The WBD parade which ended with a dance party and free books and stickers for just about everyone! Some KS2 children went up to the Nursery in the afternoon and shared their love of books and had fun building lovely relationships and shared memories with the Nursery children.
- Reception and Y1 children now love Little Rabbit Foo Foo as much as Mrs Jary does!
- Y1, Y2, Y5 & Y6 had the best time with Katherine who shared her passion and love of Anancy stories. Children and teachers got to dress up, sing and dance in her bespoke story telling sessions. Thank you so much to Katherine (who is the Grandma of Annalise Y4).
- Y6 spent an hour with Nehemiah’s Dad Juelian, an actor and published author, he inspired many of the Y6 children to have an ideas notebook by the side of their bed and believe in their own hopes and dreams.
- Published author and illustrator’s Gabby and Alex shared one of their books ‘If I had a Polar Bear’ with Y2 and Y3, all children learnt how to draw polar bears! Many Parents had pre-ordered the book so some children went home super happy from that session too.
- Y1 also made a trip to Kingswood Library and Y4 had an Ancient Egyptians workshop in the British Museum!!
- Also a big thank you to local artist and professional illustrator Magda Brol who launched World Book Week on Monday, teaching children from Y1-Y6 how to draw the perfect Ivy Newt and then spending the rest of the morning with Reception drawing crocodiles!
Share and Care
Molly (6A) asked her family to give her a ‘word of wisdom’ and thought of things herself too. The words below are the responses including asking ‘why?’ as this is a wise thing to do – to question things before accepting them. Thank you Molly for your kind and colourful contribution.
Coming Up
Extraordinary Parents Meeting – Thu 28th Mar
- We are delighted to be able to invite all Parents/carers at Dulwich Wood Nursery and Primary School to a special Parents event on the last day of this term.
- Chartwells will be serving a free continental style breakfast
- Friends will be selling teas and coffees (£1 or donations welcome)
- Second hand uniform and book stalls
- Chartwells information about their menu changes
- ‘Solve the School Run’ charity want to know how the school street has impacted on you.
- Meet other parents and chat to the Leadership Team
- There will also be an opportunity to find out about the changes to the Parents Association (the Friends) and how you can get involved
- Buy raffle tickets for the Easter Egg Raffle!!
- Hear the Y6 steel pans group from 8:35am
- Upper Hall – Easter Celebration Assemblies. A Classes (9:30am – 9:50am) & B Classes (9:50am – 10:10am)
- Please come and join-us, we really want families to be part of our wonderful school community!
Dates for your diary
Tue 12th Mar
Learning Reviews – Reception, Y2, Y5 & Y6
Tue 12th Mar
Y3 Trip – Natural History Museum
Thu 14th Mar
Learning Reviews – Y1, Y3 & Y4
Fri 15th Mar
KS2 Celebration Assembly
Wed 20th Mar
Y1 Trip – Ragged Museum
Fri 22nd Mar
Reception & KS1 Celebration Assembly
Tue 26th Mar
Y5 Trip – British Museum
Thu 28th Mar
Extraordinary Parents Association Meeting
Thu 28th Mar
Term finishes at 1pm. No Emu Club
Mon 15th Apr
Children return to School
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