⭐️ Well done to Grace who is our star of the week for her fantastic efforts in all areas of the curriculum especially handwriting. Her continued efforts have been noticed. ⭐️

In Science, we have been looking at solids, liquids and gasses. We conducted an investigation to see the density of liquids, discussing how viscous certain liquids are. We then observed the buoyancy of raisins when adding then to a carbonated drink.

In art, we used watercolours to add colour to the images we drew last week in our view finders- drawing what we can see.

We attended Holy Trinity Church for our Harvest Service, thank you all for the donations which will go to the local food bank . All children joined in with our class  ‘Thank a farmer’ speech.

In PE, we have been working on multi skills, we have been skipping, balancing and learning a controlled throw into a target.

For Geography this half term, we are learning about Europe. This week we looked at the different flag and currency.

We have had such a busy week in Hawkstone and all children have worked exceptionally hard

⭐️ stars of the week ⭐️

Jack and Scarlett

Jack for his fantastic attitude transitioning from KS1 to KS2.

Scarlett for her effort in maths, not only is she challenging herself but asking if she’s unsure,

In Hawkstone, we love sharing our favourite books with others and every week bring our books in from home and discuss the author, characters and plot with our friends.

In RE, we have been looking at our school motto- hope for ourselves, others and the world. We researched Eco-churches and Mucknall Abbey who offer hope to others. As a school we are collecting dried food for the local food bank for Harvest.

Here we made posters to share with others.

In English, we have been looking at a diary WAGOLL- what a good one looks like and exploring its features, we then wrote our own based on the book ‘Gorilla’.

In PSHE, we are learning about internet safety and respect online. These are some comments the children came up with. We had a good discussion about social media sites and ages children are allowed to access them.

In maths, we use our working wall to support our learning, this enables children to seek support if they are unsure or forgot a strategy. This unit is all about adding and subtracting 1s, 10s, and 100s. The children were secure knowing which column changes for each question.

Such a great week by all and thank you for your continued support, we are able to answer any questions through the class dojo or the school office. Thank you.

We are now settled into our new class, subjects have started and the children have already produced plenty of work to be proud of.

⭐️ Allan was our star of the week  last week where he displayed a fantastic attitude to learning and he was a superstar all week.  ⭐️

In maths, we have been using concrete resources to secure our knowledge of place value. The children have been understanding how many tens are in hundreds and how many hundreds and in thousands. We also used a part part while model to partition numbers and ordered numbers on a number line.

On focus in Hawkstone class is number formation. We will be sending formations home for a number of children to practice at home.

At Holy Trinity, we are fortunate to have a lovely well resourced library. We had a look at at the book and selected ones for our reading for pleasure afternoon.

The books below are the books we brought from home and shared our favourite books with the class, discussing the author and why we enjoy reading these books.

Hello everyone – I just wanted to say what a wonderful first few days back! It’s been lovely to hear about everyone’s summer and I’m really impressed with how well everyone has settled in.

In our first few days back we’ve come up with some class rules, had a game of rounders, elected 2 school councillors and a worship ambassador.

Just to let everyone know, our PE days are Thursday and Friday but more information about subjects will be sent out next week.

All children have come home with a TTRS and a Dojo letter – any difficulties logging on please let me know.
We will be handing out reading books and records and spelling as of Monday. We are also encouraging a love of reading  therefore, if you have a reading book at home you child would like to read during our reading for pleasure sessions, please bring it in Wednesday and Friday, this can be anything from magazines, fiction or not fiction books.

As a school we would like to develop our ‘Garden of Hope’. Each class has had an opportunity to create a tranquil garden where they can spend time reading, reflecting and taking in the ‘wows’ of the world. In time we will be asking for volunteers to help develop this area- (more to come TBC).

Well done to Elsie and Grace would were elected to be Hawkstone’s school councillors.
And Abi our worship ambassador.

Our stars of the week ⭐️

Miguel-for his fantastic attitude and behaviour on the school residential.
Jessie- for her effort in homework with maths. When she’s completed a task in class, she will ask for work to complete at home to consolidate her learning.

A huge thank you for all the support with Big Green Week, we have successfully recycled a good amount of clothes with the Salvation Army and we had a huge amount of posters and information to inform others.

In DT, we took part in a sensory session where we tasted a selection of pizzas. We focused on the appearance, smell and taste and rated them.

For our computing session we planned and created our own games on scratch, we used our knowledge of coding and designed with care.

In PE, we have been practicing how to hit the ball using a tennis racket.

This week we celebrated RSE day for part of our PSHE. The theme this year is KINDNESS, we listened to songs with a message of support and completed a selection of activities to help us understand being kind and how to support others.

We have had a very busy week in Hawkstone class, in science we have been learning about reversible and irreversible changes of state. We conducted an investigation to see which items had a reversible change of state, we also recorded the temperature when heating and cooling.

We have been using a thesaurus to improve our word bank.

Following on from our Big Green Week, we have been supporting The Salvation Army’s scheme Recycle with Michel. So far these are the bags we have collected. WOW!

For our DT unit, this half term we will be making pizzas. We spend the session researching pizzas 🍕 we looked at the ingredients, allergies,  nutritional information and flavour.

In PE we have been focusing on our tennis skills.

Kobie is this week’s UV sun watcher.

We have our sports day on the 11th July, we have been practicing our events ready for then. We hope you can make it.

This week has been a very different week, the children have been working towards their sun safety certificate which they achieved on Friday. We are now a sun safe school. Well done all. We have also been supporting The Big Green Week.

In English, we have been looking at the work of artist Jean – Michel Basquiat. We brainstormed info about him to write a final paragraph.

We also completed our class text, and an accelerated reader test. The children read parts of the story to each other, individual chapters and to the class.

Well done to our class readers for showing effort in reading and a reading for pleasure.

We are supporting Big Green Week, and supporting the Salvation Army with the recycle with Michael, if you have any clothes you no longer want, then fill the bag and return to school the 23rd June. Thank you