Signed, Sealed, Delivered!

SATs are donnnnnnnnnnnnnne!!! (As you can probably tell, Miss Vidler is probably the most excited person in the class about this!)

What an amazing, fabulous week we have all had.

By the time we were finished on Thursday, we had a chance to relax and watch 'Hoodwinked' - which fitted in nicely with our current topic too!

Which brings us to today - our 'Back to Foundation Stage' Day!

When year 6 entered the classroom in the morning, they found that the classroom had been arranged so there was a puzzle station, art table, reading corner and building zone! We had lots of fun in the morning playing, painting, building and generally enjoying ourselves!

In the afternoon we managed to have even more fun, by inviting ourselves into Class 1! Mrs Wainwright commented on how we were able to extend the imaginations of the younger pupils and enhanced their creative thinking and problem solving skills by extending their play in ways Class 1 had not thought of. Of course, we also had the opportunity to have some fun ourselves!

Well done year 6. Every one of you has done our school proud this week and you all worked hard for your reward day. As I said to you earlier, don't forget the joy of playing. We have a tendency to start asking you to be more like adults as you turn 11, but it's just as important for you to enjoy being a child for as long as you can!

Have a lovely, relaxing weekend,

Miss Vidler

Half Way Through...

All the English papers are done!
Year 6 are doing incredibly well this week - keep it up for the maths too please!

Anyway thought I'd post this midweek update to show some of the more fun things we have managed to do as well as our exams!

Miss Vidler set us some 'Murder Mystery Maths', where we have to solve different mathematical puzzles to work out the criminal from a list of suspects. Miss Vidler loves doing puzzles to help her unwind, but as you can see here some of us used some serious concentration too!

On Monday afternoon we took advantage of the sunny weather to do some watercolour artwork. Some of us went outside and used the school grounds for inspiration - look how chilled out we are on SATs week!

This afternoon we had lots of fun, as Miss Vidler set us 'The Great Gingerbread House Competition'. We didn't use gingerbread, but were given wafers instead, and using icing sugar as cement and sweets for decoration had to use our problem solving and creative thinking skills to design the fanciest edible house that any Hansel or Gretal would be proud to be locked up in!

So here are some photos of us with smiles on our faces, not bad for a week of tests!
(Also a good chance to look at the houses that were made, I doubt there was anything left of them by the time the children got them home!)

Thank you for some of the lovely comments we have received from parents recently about the fun things we are doing in class, your children really do make it worthwhile although it's always lovely to hear positive feedback too!

Still some more fun times ahead, with year 5 going on a trip and year 6 having their reward day this week!

Miss Vidler