Year 6 – Miss Seymour

12th November 2021

The children have been having fun with maths this week for national maths week. They’ve taken on lateral thinking challenges within lessons, taken maths outdoors and used games to secure learning to demonstrate the practical application of maths in our lives.

Science projects – half term homework

Look at what we did before when we were in Year 5

Please follow the link and read our Christmas poems

We have had such a fantastic first half term in Year 5! We would like to thank the children for all their hard work, for settling in so comfortably and for making it a pleasure for us to teach them.

Thank you to everyone who brought in their carnival masks and outfits. We can’t wait to use them later on in the term.

We have now completed our final piece of Beatriz Milhazes inspired art work. The children have worked very hard on these. Don’t they look brilliant?

We are looking forward to adding more of our incredible work on our Learning Journey board next half term!

With the current situation, our Happy News display tells the children in Year 5 about the many positive that are happening throughout the world. This display encourages children to keep positive and optimistic during this difficult time.

We are so incredibly proud of our Reading River! In Year 5, we love to read and we understand how important it is to enjoy reading. Our Reading River gives children the opportunity to recommend books to their friends and to have discussions about what they are reading. Most of the time, children will choose their next book by using this vehicle. It’s always so inspiring to hear children’s excitement about what they have read!

Our Learning Journey is an ongoing project for us in Year 5. Our topic this term is South America. We have been creating art work inspired by Beatriz Milhazes, a South American artist. We are currently in the process of finishing our final pieces. We have also been learning about the Geography of South America. The children can now identify the countries in South America and their flags. We have also been learning about Christopher Columbus and how he was the first European to discover the Americas. We are extremely excited to learn more about this interesting continent!

Our English unit this half term has been to explore our literary heritage. We have been learning about William Shakespeare and his work, with particular focus on his comedy play, Twelfth Night. Our Everyone’s a Writer board displays a piece of writing that the children are proud of.

Our English Working Wall helps the children with their ideas when writing. The children use this board to support them in spelling or to magpie any ideas from the lesson. It’s always a great help!

Year 4 with Miss Armstrong – February 2020

Children explored how and why we need to be careful when using the internet. We discussed what to do if we see something inappropriate, including seeing or receiving unkind messages. Groups were given scenarios to act out and present to explain how they should approach the situation.

January 2020

This term, Y4 are exploring humans including animals. This week, we have been exploring the effects of different drinks on our teeth. To investigate this, we observed the change of appearance and texture of egg shells after they’d spent a night of soaking in the liquid. Here are the children’s’ observations and some photos of the exciting experiment.

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Last term we…

1) We made Christmas tree baubles out of felt to show off our sewing skills and produced snowy window cards using oil pastels.

2) Team building task to improve our social skills and ability to work in a group to collaboratively create a drawing. Year 4 created Rickmansworth in a drawing!

3) One of us enjoying a calming cuddle with Barney

4) Dance festival at Rickmansworth School where we had a fabulous time dancing to No Roots

Year 3 have had a very exciting Spring term so far. We have dived into the history of pre-historic Britain and will be producing cave paintings of our own.

In addition to this we have just finished writing our own alternative fairy tales based on the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. Finally, Tuesday was Environmental day. We took part in a competitive quiz about recycling and produced beautiful pieces of art work to show what pledge we are willing to make to care for our earth. These will be on display shortly.

Things we did in year 2

We wrote our own books about the wolf, the duck and the mouse


We learnt about the Great Fire of London		We love our book corner
		We became authors and wrote our own Wild stories

Our working wall helps us during our English lessons

dscn5847 — We loved making autumn leaves

dscn5846 — We have been learning about our body