Wow! What a year! I just want to end the year by thanking all Class 9 parents for welcoming me at St Marys and being so supportive. Class 9 has been a pleasure and I cannot wait to spend another year with them. Year 6 will bring more memories and special times together.

Thank you again.

Have a lovely/restful summer. See you in September.

Miss Bingham

Class 9 have had an excellent week this week and have continued to work extremely hard. On Monday, they had an amazing trip to Ironbridge visiting the China Museum and The Jackfield Museum. They learnt about the trade and development of tea and made their own small tea cups. They are looking forward to painting these next week. At the Jackfield museum, they enjoyed exploring how tiles and pattern on tiles have changed over time.

In Literacy, Class 9 have continued their flashback writing based on The Chocolate Tree. This week they designed their own God for their own flashback writing. They had to consider their God’s appearance, personality, voice, actions, mannerisms and habits. Next week, they will use this vocabulary to develop their God through their writing.

In Science, Class 9 have been learning about Earth and Space. This week they debated whether the moon landings were real or fake. They had to summarise evidence that supported or went against the moon landing, and then come to their own conclusions.

Please remember to bring in any reading books the children have at home that belong to school by Friday.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Bingham

Class 9 have had another excellent week. They are working so hard to still produce excellent week even though the summer holidays are fast approaching. In Literacy, Class 9 have continued focusing on The Chocolate Tree and have been busy exploring the main characters this week. They started the week with a hot seating activity. This enabled them to play the role of the two main Gods and dive deeper into understanding the actions and thoughts of these characters through a variety of questions. After this, we gathered a class vocabulary bank and they used this to write character profiles about the two Gods.

In Maths, Class 9 have been focusing on decimals. They have been adding and subtracting decimals with the same and different number of decimal places. This has allowed them to recap column method, from autumn term, and apply this method with decimal numbers. Class 9 have picked this skill up quickly and next week will move on to multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000 and developing an understanding of negative numbers.

In RE this week, Class 9 have continued their work around the kingdom of God. They focused on how Christians show their beliefs in the kingdom through their actions. This includes songs. Class 9 discussed this and then used songmaker to create their own songs about the kingdom of God. Their final songs were brilliant and they enjoyed sharing them with each other.

Remember Class 9 will be going to Ironbridge on Monday. They need to bring a packed lunch, appropriate footwear and waterproof coats just in case it rains. Make sure children arrive to school on time as the coach will be leaving promptly at 9am.

Finally, I would like to say I am over the moon to be moving up to year 6 with the class and we had a brilliant transition day together producing art work to go on display in our new classroom.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Miss Bingham

Class 9 have had an excellent week this week. They have worked extremely hard to complete their work and have produced some excellent work. I have loved seeing them express themselves in Art. They have been creating pattern designs from different countries ready for their final piece. All patterns have been unique and creative.

In addition to this, Class 9 have read and began to explore a new focus book; The Chocolate Tree. We read the book and summarised the story, creating a glossary of words that we were unsure of the meaning of. After this, Class 9 explored the actions and thoughts of the God Kukulkan and the Maya civilisation. They discussed three questions based around the characters actions/thoughts and used a conscience alley to present their ideas to the rest of the class.

In Maths, Class 9 have finished focusing on shape and angles. They identified angles on a straight line and find the properties of 3D shapes. In Geography this week, Class 9 learnt about food trade, and how food is imported and exported around the world. They located countries around the world where our food is imported from.

Please remember that next week on Tuesday 4th July, children will take part in move on day. Please reassure your child that change is normal and we are here to support them.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Bingham