We’ve had another busy week in Lawley! In English we have started looking at newspaper reports, focusing on the features and creating a success criteria for our own, as well as learning about conjunctions and adverbs.  In Maths we have been recognising quarters and halves, using shapes, cubes and pizzas!  In topic we looked at different towers around the world, creating our own fact files.  In DT we created our own castle collages with a range of cardboard, material and resources.  In Science we continued our learning of what plants need to grow, and in RE we continued our focus on The Big Frieze, concentrating on Incarnation.  Finally, in PSHE we discussed healthy eating and the different food groups.  With this we then made wrap pizza, which the children have taken home today to cook and eat.

Our Star of the Week in Lawley is Kobie.  Kobie always has a smile on her face and enjoys sharing her knowledge and ideas in class.  She has helped us all in our fractions lessons this week, and has retained her learning from each lesson.  Well done Kobie!

We have had another brilliant week in Lawley, with the children working extremely hard in all lessons.  In Maths we have completed our Shapes unit and are now making a start on Fractions, with is looking at wholes and parts.  In English we have been using all our skills and learning from the last two weeks to write our own fictions stories based on The Tunnel by Anthony Browne.  The children have worked hard to ensure they use time connectives, expanded noun phrases, as well as full stops, capital letters, phonics and neat handwriting.  It has been a pleasure reading their fiction stories, with all the children using their fantastic imagination.

In Topic we have been learning about famous towers around the world, including using atlases to locate them, and in DT we planned our own tower and created them using Lego (unfortunately the ongoing rain stopped us visiting Forest School to build our towers in nature).  In Science we continued our learning on flowers and focused on the lifecycle of a sunflower, which included planting our own sunflower seeds.  We will be closely watching the seeds germinate!  In RE we continued our focus of the Big Frieze, concentrating on The Fall this week.  We discussed the Big Frieze picture and what we all thought sin meant.  We also thought carefully about why the word God is so important to Christians.

Our Star of the Week in Lawley this week is Miti T.  Miti has been working incredibly hard during our Shape unit in Maths, working practically and sharing his knowledge with the class.  He has developed confidence with counting the sides and vertices of 2D shapes, and the edges, faces and vertices of 3D shapes.  Well done Miti.

Please can I remind everyone that reading books must be returned to school every Friday.  We have seen numbers reduce dramatically over the last couple of weeks.  It is essential that all children are reading at least 5 times a week and that they have the opportunity to change their reading book once a week.  If your child did not come with their reading book on Friday, please can these been sent to school on Monday.  Thank you.

We have had another busy week in Lawley, where the children have been working so hard, put 100% effort into everything!  In English we have been learning about nouns, expanded noun phrases, creating a setting and creating our own characters in preparation for story writing next week.  In Maths we have focused on 3D shapes, learning how to count the faces, edges and vertices of a 3D shape.  In Topic we focused on History and learnt about castles through the ages, creating a timeline and looking at how castles have altered over the years.  We also had a DT lesson where the children designed, created and evaluated their own castle tiles – these were great fun to make.  In PSHE we focused on mental health, discussing different feelings we experience and the causes of these.  We finished the week off with our monthly birthday celebration party, where in Lawley we had a disco.

Our Star of the Week this week is Oskar.  Oskar has grown in confidence since returning to school after the Easter break, he is putting his hand up to answer questions, he shares his opinion and views, and discusses our work with his talking partner.  Oskar comes into class in the morning, sits down and starts his work straight away, he is working extremely hard.  Well done Oskar!

We have had a great first week back in Lawley class for the start of our Summer Term, all helped with the beautiful sunshine!  In class we have started our new topic of Towers, Tunnels and Turrets with our Stunning Starter – a virtual trip to Whittington Castle.  We made an imaginary bus to start with, before going back into class to watch myself and Mr Hughes at Whittington Castle.

In English we have been reading The Tunnel by Anthony Browne, learning about commas and the features of a fiction story.  In Maths we have continued our learning of shapes, focusing on sorting and making patterns with 2D shapes, as well as counting the vertices and sides.  In Science we have started our unit on Plants with a nature walk looking at the common plants and trees we have within the school grounds.  In RE we have looked at the Big Frieze, finding out what it means and represents to Christians, and focusing on Creation.  In PE we focused on catching a ball after one bounce and hitting it with a cricket bat in preparation for Kwik Cricket over the next half term.  In DT we made projectiles out of lollypop sticks and blue tak to see how far they would travel and if they would be suitable for a castle attack.

We welcomed a new Trainee Teacher in Lawley Class this week, Miss Earnshaw will be with us until July.

Just a reminder to everyone – our reading books and diaries need to be sent into school every Friday so we can change books.  There were quite a few forgotten this week, so please do make sure they are sent in weekly.  Due to Friday being a PD day, we will be changing them Thursday, 29th April.  Also, Lawley’s PE sessions are a Monday and Friday, children must come to school in their school PE kits on both of these days.

Finally, congratulations and well done to Mollie who was Lawley’s Star of the Week.  Mollie is working hard to improve her phonics and reading.  She is also such a kind and helpful member of Lawley class and we are all very impressed with her efforts.  Well done Mollie.