Tag Rugby – Swancote – Pick-up time

Just a quick clarification message for those children attending next week’s tag rugby competition: they will need to be picked up at 4pm from Swancote (BRFC).

Scorpions – Runic Shape Poetry

Year 5 and 6 have recently been exploring Viking runes and their meanings. Based on this, they have created their own shape poems. Check them out below:

Well-done Assembly – 21.01.22

Good Afternoon.

 

Here are this week’s well-done certificates.

 

Well-done Certificates

Fireflies:

 

Grasshoppers:

 

Dragonflies:

 

Scorpions:

 

Numbots and TTRS Certificates

Numbots and TTRS certificates will be given out in class again, but… here are…

 

This week’s top three pupils (for completed levels on Numbots):

3.) Ari C (Dragonflies)

2.) Sam R (Grasshoppers)

1.) Teddy Y (Grasshoppers)

 

and…

 

This week’s top three pupils (for correctly answered questions on TTRS):

3.) Joshua W (Dragonflies)

2.) Finley P (Dragonflies)

1.) Hugo M (Scorpions)

 

School Prayer

We will finish today’s assembly with an opportunity for a quiet moment of reflection with our school prayer.

 

Dear God,

Thank you for our wonderful school.
Help us to be good learners.
Help us to look after each other.
Help us to be respectful and kind, and to make everyone welcome.
May our school be a happy, safe place – where learning is fun,
where we all work together to be the best we can be.

Amen

Urban Biathlon

Last Thursday, 18 children from KS2 took part in an Urban Biathlon. This first started with an (approx) 1-mile mud run and ended with a 100m swim.

 

Check out the children in action below:

Swimming – 07.12

We have our final swimming session tomorrow. This is an additional session from the original dates. All children in class today were made aware of this; however, I am aware some were absent today and will have therefore missed the message.

Parent Sessions – Scorpions

Today (Thursday 11th), I have sent emails with specific times to those who have requested parent sessions for next week.

If you have not received an email and were expecting one, please let me know and I can amend this.

 

Best wishes to Peter!

All the Scorpions and school are sending lots of positive vibes and good wishes to Pater who is having to have an operation on his arm today – and we are very impressed with his dedication to learning times-tables whilst waiting!

What a great distraction!  Remember Peter – you are stronger than you believe – and will be back home before you know it!

Scorpions – No Swimming tomorrow

Due to the current situation we think it advisable not to take the Scorpions (Year 5/6) children to the swimming session tomorrow.  This is purely as a precautionary measure to minimise any risk.  Dragonflies will be swimming.

Netball Festival – POSTPONED

For those attending this week’s netball festival (23rd Sept), it has unfortunately been postponed – and will now take place at the same time next Thursday (30th Sept).

We have been asked that parents please use the Leisure Centre entrance when picking up from BES at 4pm.

 

Waterbottles and Waterproof Coats

We have had a number of accidents with open top waterbottles so can we please remind parents to ensure children bring a non-drip waterbottle to school.

Waterbottles are often kept on class tables, and when an open top bottle gets knocked – the water floods the tables and can damage children’s work.

Can we also please remind parents to send their child with a warm waterproof coat EVERY day  – as we will get children outside at breaktimes as much as possible – even in wet weather, as they need the ‘downtime’ and fresh air.

Albrighton Cross Country

Nineteen Brown Clee children from KS2 took part in a cross country competition yesterday at Albrighton Primary School. Despite the high temperature, they all battled well, finishing in some really impressive positions.

The Year 3 and Year 4 races were around three quarters of a mile – whilst the Year 5 and 6 races were about 1 mile.

 

Here are some picture of the runners in action

 

Next week’s event is at Oldbury Well School.

Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly 2021

Here are this year’s Year 6s sharing their memories of their time at Brown Clee.

 

An extra thank you to the year 5s (Hugo and Ruby) who shared George’s and Aggie’s memories (who both unfortunately were not in school for the last few days).

 

Tomorrow (Friday) afternoon – Class 4

Tomorrow, Class 4 children will need to come into school in their P.E. kits. Boys are best wearing swimming shorts and P.E. top. Girls can bring a swimming costume – which they can get changed into at lunchtime and then wear under their P.E. kit.

 

All will need to bring spare clothes to change into at the end of the day. These need to be something which is quick and easy to get changed into.

 

A large plastic bag would also be useful for transporting wet clothes back home at the end of the day. A towel will also be useful. Hopefully, if the weather is warm enough for the clothes being worn to dry, there will be no need to actually change at the end of the day.

STOP PRESS: Class 4 early return

Please note that Class 4 will be arriving back at school at 3.45pm having had a fun day of adventures at Edge Activity Centre. Please note that they need collecting at 3.45pm and not 4.30pm.  To collect children can parents please come onto the Infant Playground and wait on a yellow spot.

Tomorrow’s trip – picking up

To help ensure social distancing can be maintained, please come on to, and wait on, the playground before picking up at 16:30.

Class 4’s new axolotl: Loki

Recently, Class 4 have had a new axolotl arrive at school – which was kindly gifted by Claire Jones. As well as being a lot smaller (and younger), it’s very different looking to Larry (our loaned axolotl, who has returned to his previous school).

 

The class eventually decided to call it Loki. He/she (we won’t know which until it’s slightly) older has been settling into its new tank. Also, a big thank you to Shawn at Forty Fathom Aquatics, who kindly donated the tank!

Science – Field Study – Class 4

As part of our science topic on Evolution and Inheritance, Class 4 have been exploring how habitats can vary across the school grounds.

First, we needed to divide the school grounds up to a referable grid – so that we could randomise the areas that we were going to explore, which you can see in the images below:

Each group then had to use a random number generator to decide on which area of the field they were going to investigate first:

 

Once a group had generated a set of random grid co-ordinates, they needed to use their map to find it – and then place a 30cm quadrat (we made a square used four 30cm rulers) to investigate what the given area was made up from. Once investigated, they would create a new random set of co-ordinates to explore a new area.

 

Class 4 – Remote Learning – 05.03.21

Good morning.

 

Here is your (hopefully last ever!) remote session – as we are back to school as normal on Monday!

 

As mentioned, the plan with our activities over the next week will be to focus on practising key skills to help prepare for the return back to school.

 

Here is a basic overview of the week. As always, you don’t need to follow this if you don’t wish to.

 

Maths

Today we will be recapping the key skills from the last couple of weeks.

Recap (2)

 

I would like you all to have a go at  Q1 and 2 of the extension questions. For those of you feeling up for a challenge, you could also have a go at Q3 and 4. If you’re feeling extra ambitious, you could also have a go at the challenge question.

Barvember Q1-4 and Challenge

 

TTRS / Spelling Shed

Today for Spelling Shed and TTRS, we are going to have some Hive Games and Arena matches.

TTRS arena games are going to be tricky, but if as many of you as possible plan to go on the Arena game mode at 11:00, then there should be enough to play games against each other.

 

I have also set up some Hive Games on Spelling Shed – we will start the first of these games at 11:40 and once finished, we will start the next game straight after.
Here are the codes for these games:
GAME 1: 141126
GAME 2: 536811
GAME 3: 
968651
GAME 4: 
852761

 

Whole-class Reading

Today’s WCR session is on our SMART learning behaviours.

SMART – T

SMART – Q

 

Spellings

Here is your spelling activity for today: ibly&ably – (1)

 

Art and Design

For art, we are going to have another draw-along tutorial.

 

 

Physical Activity

As mentioned last week, we won’t be doing P.E. this week. However, it would be great if you could do some additional physical activity each day.

For your daily physical activity, I would like you to run, cycle or walk every day (it could just be around your garden – even if it’s quite small!). Then, if you could send me in the distance you have completed (it could be an estimate if you’re not sure), that would be great. A picture of you completing your activity would also be great if you can! The recommended daily physical activity for children (aged 6-17) is at least 60 minutes over a whole day, so for this particular physical activity you could aim for at least 30 minutes.

Class 4 – Remote Learning – 04.03.21

Good morning.

As mentioned, the plan with our activities over the next week will be to focus on practising key skills to help prepare for the return back to school.

 

Here is a basic overview of the week. As always, you don’t need to follow this if you don’t wish to.

 

Maths

Today and tomorrow, we will be recapping all the key skills we looked at over the last couple of weeks:

Recap (1)

 

I would like you all to have a go at  Q1 and 2 on the extension questions. For those of you feeling up for a challenge, you could also have a go at Q3 and 4. If you’re feeling extra ambitious, you could also have a go at the challenge question.

Barvember Q1-4 and Challenge

 

English

Today in English, we are going to recap what we have done over the last couple of weeks:

English – Overview

 

Whole-class Reading

Over the next week, we will have a WCR session every day. These will all link to a certain subject. Today’s is a text about the Peloponnesian War.

Peloponnesian war – T

Peloponnesian War – Q

 

Spellings

Here is your spelling activity for today: ible&able – (3)

 

Geography/Science

You have another video to watch and make notes on. Remember, we are looking at practising sustaining our listening and attention skills.

 

 

Physical Activity

As mentioned last week, we won’t be doing P.E. this week. However, it would be great if you could do some additional physical activity each day.

For your daily physical activity, I would like you to run, cycle or walk every day (it could just be around your garden – even if it’s quite small!). Then, if you could send me in the distance you have completed (it could be an estimate if you’re not sure), that would be great. A picture of you completing your activity would also be great if you can! The recommended daily physical activity for children (aged 6-17) is at least 60 minutes over a whole day, so for this particular physical activity you could aim for at least 30 minutes.

Class 4 – Remote Learning – 03.03.21

Good morning.

As mentioned, the plan with our activities over the next week will be to focus on practising key skills to help prepare for the return back to school.

 

Here is a basic overview of the week. As always, you don’t need to follow this if you don’t wish to.

 

Maths

Today’s focused practice is looking at multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000. Remember, when we do this, you can just more the digits up and down in their columns (each column up is ten times bigger – e.g 5 x 10 = 50 / 5 x 100 = 500 etc).

x and divide powers of 10

 

 

I would like you all to have a go at  Q1 and 2 of the extension questions. For those of you feeling up for a challenge, you could also have a go at Q3 and 4. If you’re feeling extra ambitious, you could also have a go at the challenge question.

Fri 29th Nov 2019 Questions 1 and 2 without bars-merged

 

English

Today in English, we are going to looking at the use of standard English:

Standard English

 

 

Whole-class Reading

Over the next week, we will have a WCR session every day. With today’s text, you only need to read pages 7 – 11.

Brightstorm – T

Brightstorm (2) – Q

 

Spellings

Here is your spelling activity for today: ible&able – (2)

 

Art & Design

For art and design, we are going to focus on our listening skills and following instructions. You will also need some resilience and determination to ensure you don’t give up.

 

Your task is to follow this simple origami tutorial to make a fox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPSh5r2xF_U

You will need to pause and rewind the video so that you have time to do the actual folding.

 

 

Physical Activity

As mentioned last week, we won’t be doing P.E. this week. However, it would be great if you could do some additional physical activity each day.

For your daily physical activity, I would like you to run, cycle or walk every day (it could just be around your garden – even if it’s quite small!). Then, if you could send me in the distance you have completed (it could be an estimate if you’re not sure), that would be great. A picture of you completing your activity would also be great if you can! The recommended daily physical activity for children (aged 6-17) is at least 60 minutes over a whole day, so for this particular physical activity you could aim for at least 30 minutes.

Class 4 – Remote Learning – 02.03.21

Good morning.

As mentioned, the plan with our activities over the next week will be to focus on practising key skills to help prepare for the return back to school.

 

Here is a basic overview of the week. As always, you don’t need to follow this if you don’t wish to.

 

Maths

Today’s focused practice is our understanding of equals.

Equals, more than and less than

 

 

I would like you all to have a go at  Q1 and 2 of the extension questions. For those of you feeling up for a challenge, you could also have a go at Q3 and 4. If you’re feeling extra ambitious, you could also have a go at the challenge question.

Barvember – Q 1-4 and Challenge

 

English

Today in English, we are going to continue looking at some sentence skills:

Sentence Skills – (2)

 

Whole-class Reading

Over the next week, we will have a WCR session every day. With today’s text, you only need to read pages 1 – 6. The second half of this chapter will be tomorrow’s session.

Brightstorm – T

Brightstorm – Q

 

Spellings

Here is your spelling activity for today: ible&able – (1)

 

D.T.

 

For D.T., we are going to look at using our creativity, problem solving and resourcefulness. Your task is to build a boat (obviously, a miniature one and not a full-size one!).

The 3 key design features of your boat will be that it floats, it’s waterproof and that it can carry something. You can make it from whatever you want.

 

 

Physical Activity

As mentioned last week, we won’t be doing P.E. this week. However, it would be great if you could do some additional physical activity each day.

For your daily physical activity, I would like you to run, cycle or walk every day (it could just be around your garden – even if it’s quite small!). Then, if you could send me in the distance you have completed (it could be an estimate if you’re not sure), that would be great. A picture of you completing your activity would also be great if you can! The recommended daily physical activity for children (aged 6-17) is at least 60 minutes over a whole day, so for this particular physical activity you could aim for at least 30 minutes.

Class 4 – Remote Learning – 01.03.21

Good morning.

As mentioned, the plan with our activities over the next week will be to focus on practising key skills to help prepare for the return back to school.

 

Here is a basic overview of the week. As always, you don’t need to follow this if you don’t wish to.

 

Maths

Today’s focused practice is on how we can use our understanding of inverse to quickly solve problems. You should be trying to do these in your head (rather than using a written method.

Inverse

 

 

I would like you all to have a go at  Q1 and 2 of the extension questions. For those of you feeling up for a challenge, you could also have a go at Q3 and 4. If you’re feeling extra ambitious, you could also have a go at the challenge question.

Barvember Q1-4 and Challenge

 

English

Today in English, we are going to look at some sentence skills:

Sentence Skills – (1)

 

Whole-class Reading

Over the next week, we will have a WCR session every day. These will all link to a certain subject. Today’s is a text about changing states of matter

Changing States of Matter – T

Matter – Changing States – Q

 

Spellings

Here is your spelling activity for today: ent&ence – (3)

 

Science

Start this video at 10:58 (that is where we finished it last week). You will be doing the same thing as last week – except you will be looking at the second half of the video.

 

Here are your questions to focus on.

Questions on State of matter video – P2

Remember, you are focusing on your attention and listening skills. You can pause and rewind the video if you need to.

 

Physical Activity

As mentioned last week, we won’t be doing P.E. this week. However, it would be great if you could do some additional physical activity each day.

For your daily physical activity, I would like you to run, cycle or walk every day (it could just be around your garden – even if it’s quite small!). Then, if you could send me in the distance you have completed (it could be an estimate if you’re not sure), that would be great. A picture of you completing your activity would also be great if you can! The recommended daily physical activity for children (aged 6-17) is at least 60 minutes over a whole day, so for this particular physical activity you could aim for at least 30 minutes.

Class 4 – Remote Learning – 26.02.21

Good morning.

As mentioned, the plan with our activities over the next couple of weeks is to focus on practising key skills to help prepare for the return back to school.

 

Here is a basic overview of the week. As always, you don’t need to follow this if you don’t wish to.

 

Maths

Today’s focused practice is on subtracting mentally. You should be trying to do these in your head (rather than using a written method.

Subtracting mentally

 

I would like you all to have a go at  Q1 and 2 of the extension questions. For those of you feeling up for a challenge, you could also have a go at Q3 and 4. If you’re feeling extra ambitious, you could also have a go at the challenge question.

Barvember – Q1-4 and challenge

 

TTRS & Spelling Shed

Today for Spelling Shed and TTRS, we are going to have some Hive Games and Arena matches.

TTRS arena games are going to be tricky, but if as many of you as possible plan to go on the Arena game mode at 11:00, then there should be enough to play games against each other.

 

I have also set up some Hive Games on Spelling Shed – we will start the first of these games at 11:40 and once finished, we will start the next game straight after.
Here are the codes for these games:
GAME 1: 863628
GAME 2: 626849
GAME 3: 
763032
GAME 4: 
677996

 

Whole-class Reading

Over the next couple of week, we will have a WCR session every day. These will all link to a certain subject. Today’s is a text about the ancient Greek Olympic games.

Olympics – T

Olympics – Q

 

Spellings

Here is your spelling activity for today: ent&ence – (2)

 

Science / Geography

Seeing as the video earlier in the week was so popular, here is another video for you to watch and make some notes on. Remember, the skill you are looking to practise here is maintaining your concentration/attention for a long time.

 

 

Physical Activity

We won’t be having any P.E. (physical education) sessions over the next couple of weeks. However, we will be doing a some daily physical activity sessions. Out of interest, the difference between physical activity and physical education is that physical activity is simply completing some exercise – whereas physical education involves specific learning about a physical skill, activity or sport.

For your daily physical activity, I would like you to run, cycle or walk every day (it could just be around your garden – even if it’s  quite small!). Then, if you could send me in the distance you have completed (it could be an estimate if you’re not sure), that would be great. A picture of you completing your activity would also be great if you can! The recommended daily physical activity for children (aged 6-17) is at least 60 minutes over a whole day, so for this particular physical activity you could aim for at least 30 minutes.