Some pupils from 6JM have shared their thoughts since returning after Easter:
I found Easter School rather fun, there were a few things I needed help with but I found it quite easy. I like the fact that we were in small groups and I found that easier to help me learn. I found coming back to school okay although I don’t like getting up that early. I’m looking forward to English and Music this term as last term it was really fun so it could’ve even better this term! LP I found easter school different and fun because you had a new teacher for the week. I liked how easter school was one-to-one and in smaller groups so I can concentrate. I have found doing maths much easier for me after easter school. I am looking forward to sats being easier and our leaver’s play. SWC What I liked at Easter school was that it was very calm and chill and I didn’t feel like I needed to get the answers correct and my teacher in the group that I was in helped me understand my mistakes when I did get a question wrong. I feel more confident in maths because of Easter school and I have enjoyed coming back and seeing the teachers and seeing my friends. It has also helped me get back into routine. I have been really looking forward to camping on the field since year four. I have seen year six doing it and I have been excited ever since. I am a bit nervous for the SATs but I know all I can do is try my best. I am also excited to see who the new prefects are. MS I found Easter school helpful and fun at the same time because our teachers were really explaining things well and correcting our mistakes but it was also fun with all the games and activities. I found coming back to school easy because the Easter school was like a little warm up before settling back into the school routine. I'm looking forward to SATS so all our hard work would be put to good use and afterwards we get to do lots of fun things as a reward. GR Easter school was amazing. We did lots of fun things like getting a biscuit break with bourbons, shortbread, custard-creams. What I liked about easter school is that we did lots of maths related games and even blooket at the end of the day for 15 minutes. I have found being back at school really easy now that I've gone to Easter school and my maths has improved. I’m looking forward to learning about human evolution, bata factory and English. JF I found Easter school interesting, I got to solve questions I could use to challenge myself. What I liked about easter school is the fact that it got me to practise more for the upcoming SATs. I have found coming back to school fun: seeing my friends, seeing the teachers, learning new topics and lot more. I am looking forward to becoming a prefect, becoming the best student at East Tilbury, SATs and camping on the field for the year 6 graduation/leavers. BB I came back to school with a smile because I saw all my friends again. DV Easter school was good as I learnt about fractions and decimal places. We also were in different groups, which was cool as we were in groups of five or six. I’m looking forward to cricket in PE as I enjoy it the most. I’m also looking forward to history - we are going to learn about Bata which is going to be interesting. PN This term in year 1, we have been working as part of a team to develop our logical thinking and communication skills. We started off by working together playing team games by passing different balls down the line in a variety of fun ways including up and over, passing side to side and how far the ball would go through our legs without stopping it. We’ve practised our balancing by placing bean bags on different parts of our body whilst moving around the room. We had to work as a team, making sure our team all balanced their bean bag in a different way. One of our favourite activities has been the team challenge games. We were set challenges for our team to travel from one side of the hall to the other. However, we had to stay inside the hoops so we didn’t fall into ‘the swamp’! Some of us used them as boats whilst others used them as stepping stones. The biggest challenge was to get the whole team safely across the swamp when we could only use our two hoops as stepping stones, with only three people allowed in the hoops at one time. We had to really think about this logically in our team and talk through the different ways we could do it! Some of us were successful, working out that we could take three people across, leave two on the other side before one person went back to collect the other remaining two! Next week, we will have a similar challenge but with other equipment to use to move across the swamp whilst carrying different size balls, bean bags and relay batons. Our communication and cooperation skills, which are important elements of team games, have really improved this term.
Are we seriously halfway through March already? What a couple of weeks it has been – escape rooms and dressing up for World Book Day, drawing rivers with chalk in an English lesson and then this week it has been Science week. We have a few extra science lessons to take part in starting with a poster competition about time and even a live lesson at the end of the week.
In English we have started to sentence stack a poem about rivers, hence the chalky - art lesson last week. Maths is carrying on with perimeter and moving on to area and our geography lesson links in well with English as we are looking at the importance of water in the world. For World Book Day this week, Year Six pupils and staff had a memorable day. To commemorate the day, and inspired by the book ‘Little Badman’ (where the main character, Humza aims to be a rap sensation), I made the following rap: Year six staff, in costumes they shine, Inspired by Little Badman, they redefine, Mr. Beven as Humza: rap sensation divine, The energy's electric, it's our time to climb! Pupils diggin' the "footy and booky" quiz, Knowledge and fun, it's the ultimate bliss, In character at the party, they reminisce, Year six vibes - you can't miss this. Escape room antics, fun and doom entwine, Laughter echoes, in every design, From horror to comedy, genres align, Year six reads, expanding minds like vine. Elsewhere, away from the World Book Day antics, the year group have continued working towards their SATs: making the connection between percentages, fractions and decimals in Maths; passive and active voice has been explored and revised by the pupils in Grammar; creating a horror narrative has been chill inducing within English. |
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