ROSEACRES PRIMARY SCHOOL

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This is the page that you can visit to keep  updated on the children's learning. Make sure you come back each week to see the learning opportunities that the children have been taking part in.

Spring 2 week 3

w/c 11th March 2024

This week we have been celebrating British Science Week.  In order to mark this, we had a fabulous visitor who was an Energy Surveyor.  He explained all about his job which involves creating sustainable buildings which use less energy.  We researched a British scientist, a space scientist called Maggie Aderin-Pocock and we planned and conducted an investigation into light and shadows.  

Spring 2 week 2

w/c 4th March 2024

This week the children enjoyed Bikeability where they all learned how to keep themselves safe on the roads.  The children were well behaved and the instructors praised their efforts.

We also had fun on World Book Day this week.  We had a day which was inspired by nonsense poetry by Joshua Seigal.  During assembly, we announced our new Reading Ambassadors, who in year 6 are Jorgie and Joey.  We also were pleased to tell the school that we had raised £172 from our lip balm sale.  Each class will receive £20 to spend on books.

At the end of the day we all recited a poem by Joshua Seigal and we wrote our own verses to extend the poem.

Our headteachers award went to Samuel this week for his extra special efforts in maths.

Spring 2 Week 1

w/c 26th February 2024

It was a busy return from half term with our Dance Festival, Leventhorpe Book Award as well as all the learning we have to fit in!  All the children were superb at the dance festival.  Not that we're bias, but we were definitely up there with the best!! A fantastic time was had by all and all the parents were full of praise and pride for the children.

We continued our 'performing' theme in music where we performed our song of the week - You've got a Friend with glockenspiels!

A few of our super keen readers were invited to Leventhorpe School to be part of the Leventhorpe Book Award.   We had a lovely morning at Leventhorpe and the children are thoroughly looking forward to reading the fantastic selection of books.

Congratulations to Savannah for the Head Teachers award this week.  She has shown great initiative and an excellent attitude to her learning by doing extra work outside the classroom.  Well done Savannah!

Spring week 5

w/c 5th February 2024

It was great to speak to so many of you parents this week.  It is always a pleasure to discuss your children, particularly when they joined us too!  We've had a great week of learning: studying ratio in maths and writing about Theseus's adventures in the labyrinth in English.  We are also enjoying our class text, Percy Jackson and the LIghtning Thief. We have been using atlases to research Greece.  We are working on spreadsheets in computing and have started our unit on the weather in French.  We are looking forward to performing in the Dance Festival at Saffron Hall after half term and have been practicing our dance in preparation.

Congratulations to Savannah the Headteachers award this week.  She has worked so hard in her maths this week and it's a delight to see her confidence grow!  Well done Savannah!

Spring week 4

w/c 29th January 2024

Well what an amazing week of memories.  Clearly a huge highlight of Year 6 so far and, according to the children, 'memories to last a lifetime!'  Young voices at the O2 was a fabulous experience and all the children were impeccably behaved.  Thanks to all involved for all your support and I'm pleased that the parents enjoyed the experience as much as we all did. 

Congratulations to Lacey for the Headteachers award this week - what a fantastic attitude she has to her work - especially the 'grappling' to solve those maths problems.  Well done Lacey!

Spring week 3

w/c  22nd January 2024

The children have been enjoying their maths this week - we have finally been learning about ratio!  In English we have started our Ancient Greece topic and have been writing poems inspired by Pandora's curiosity and Mythical Beasts.  We have produced a class Anthology which the children are particularly proud of.  We also enjoyed reciting our poetry in the hall  - it was a great all round performance.

Congratulations to William for the Headteacher's award.  He has had an amazing week with a fantastic attitude and has produced some great work!  Well done William - keep it up!

Spring week 2

w/c 15th January 2024

 Another busy week in Year 6.  We were excited to learn that we will be performing in the USSP Dance Festival at Saffron Hall in February!  We have started to learn our dance and Kate has been putting us through our paces.  The children are showing some great talent and a lot of enjoyment.  Continuing the performance theme, we have been practising our songs for the Young Voices  Choir and learning the accompanying dance moves!

Huge congratulations to our swimming team who won the Year 5/6 event at HRS.  We are now going through to the finals!  Woohoo!!

Congratulations to Jamie for his Headteacher's Award this week.  He has shown a great attitude this week and been much more focused!  Keep it up Jamie!

SPRING TERM

Spring week 1

w/c 8th January 2024

Happy New Year .... and what a start to 2024 we have had in Year 6!  We had deadlines to meet with our newspaper reports and so the newsroom opened for business and all our young reporters were busily typing up their scoops!  We danced the afternoon away on Wednesday with Kate and our superstar swimming team smashed the gala and finished 1st in the Y6 age groups.  Well done to all who took part - a fantastic team effort!  We also made new year reading resolutions which we will check in on as we go through the year.

Our Headteacher's award went to Emmie-Ray for her fabulous attitude to learning - what a great start to the New Year Emmie!

Autumn week 15

w/c 18th December 2023

Well Christmas has certainly arrived at Roseacres this week!  Years 4/5 and 6 all performed fantastically at the Christmas Concert.  Well done to all the classes for their lovely singing - and a particularly big thank you to Ayeva (Y6) and Daisy-Mai (Y5) for their wonderful piano recitals.

Christmas continued with Christmas lunch on Wednesday (with glittered hats for the occasion), a visit from Santa and a Christmas Talent show on Thursday.  

Well done to Ayeva for being awarded the Head Teachers award this week.

Merry Christmas to you all :-)

Autumn week 14

w/c 11th December 2023

A busy week of fractions, newspaper reports and rehearsals this week.  All getting ready for our Christmas concert next week!  The weather kept us inside for much of the week so we decided to burn some energy with a Just Dance workout in our classroom.  The children loved it ..... but were exhausted!!

Autumn Week 13

w/c 4th December 2023

This week we were lucky to be able to look at and handle a rifle used in WW1 (obviously deactivated so all safe!).  It was important for the children to empathise with the young soldiers of WW1 who had to carry and use such weapons - they were surprised by the size and the weight of the weapon.  Thank you to Mr Wilton, a school governor, who kindly brought it in to share with Year 6.

Swimming finished for Year 6 last week so the children were all invited to bring in clothes to swim in as part of their water safety training.  Mrs Barron kindly took some photos of the session which are included in the slide show.

We had an exciting afternoon at Charter Hall in Colchester on Wednesday afternoon when we all had a musical treat listening to the Essex Youth Orchestra play the score while we watched the animation of Peter and the Wolf.  It was a delightful afternoon and the children all behaved impeccably.

Congratulations to Marie for the Head Teacher's award this week.  She has excelled in lessons this week and she has also shown herself to be a kind and empathetic friend to her peers.  Well done Marie - what a great week.

Autumn Week 12

w/c 27th November 2023

A great week of exploring this week.  In Science we carried out an investigation into how exercise affects our heart rate.  We also dissected and explored pig's hearts.  The children were amazing - I'm sure we have a few budding heart surgeons of the future; they all handled the hearts and identified the aorta, the vena cava, the atria and the ventricles.

Congratulations to Tucker who earned the Head Teacher's award for his excellent explanations in fractions.

***Just a warning regarding the slideshow - it shows explicit photos of the pig's heart - not for the faint hearted!!***

Autumn Week 11

w/c 20th November 2023

Another immersive week into World War I in Year 6.  We studied the war poem Dulce et Decorum est in English.  The children showed a great understanding of the poem and we had a rich discussion which illustrated their understanding of the war.  In maths we were learning how to add and subtract fractions. We had a lovely end to the week when we teamed up with our Year 1 Reading Buddies. 

Congratulations to Mati for being awarded the Head Teacher's award this week.

Autumn Week 10

w/c 13th November 2023

We've had such a busy and sporty week in Year 6.  We started our cricket lessons on Wednesday morning followed by our tennis ball catch challenge.  We enjoyed our regular swimming lesson on Thursday and then kept active for Children in Need on Friday!  Thankfully we also managed to fit some excellent learning in too!  We started learning fractions in maths, we were writing letters home from the WW1 trenches in English and we researched all about Walter Tull, a WW1 soldier, in history.

Congratulations to Susanna for being awarded the Headteacher's award.  She has had a fabulous couple of weeks showing an excellent attitude and enthusiasm for learning -  particularly in her sewing and writing.

Autumn week 9

w/c 6th November 2023

We have had a fabulous week of Remembrance this week.  We started our week with DT when we designed and made our poppies,  The children created a template, cut out the material and used running stitch to attach the petals together.  We then studied a poem called Flanders Fields by John McCrae who was a Canadian Medical Officer in WW1 who lost his good friend in battle.  We have been practicing the poem ready for our recital in our Remembrance Assembly today.  The assembly was super; the children did you (and us) proud.  In assembly, we also read out some soundbites we have written about the war.  The soundbites were 3 sentences long - each with 11 syllables to commemorate the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.  The writing was fantastic and reflected the depth of their understanding of the war as well as all the vocabulary they have learned along the way.

Congratulations to Jacob for Headteacher's award this week.  He has had a great week and always shows a fabulous attitude to his learning.  Well done Jacob! 

Autumn week 8

w/c 30th October 2023

We all enjoyed a spooky return to school this week with the children bringing in their fantastically carved pumpkins.  Well done to everyone who made the effort to bring one it - the creativity was amazing!  Congratulations to Ayeva who was a winner in year 6.

In Science we looked at the short-term and long-term effects of drugs on our bodies.  In English the children produced some excellent and emotional flashbacks to WW1 and in maths we have been solving multi-step problems.

Headteacher's award this week went to Lucy for her excellent attitude towards work.  She has shown real focus and a love of learning this week which has been lovely to see.  Well done Lucy.

Autumn week 7

w/c 16th October 2023

In Science this week we explored blood.  We identified the main components of blood and the role they play.  We made our own blood and explained the components and functions.  

I hope everyone enjoys their thoroughly well deserved half term break and look forward to seeing you all refreshed next week!

Autumn Week 6

w/c 9th October 2023

Another busy week in Year 6!  This week we have been writing flashbacks in English; learning about WW1 trenches in history and looking at prime numbers, factors and multiples in maths.  In Science, we were learning about the anatomy of the heart.  We modelled our own hearts and identified the main features.  

Out Headteacher's award went to Jimmy this week.  He worked super hard on his independent writing using some lovely descriptive vocabulary and prepositional phrases.  Well done Jimmy!

Autumn Week 5

w/c 2nd October 2023

It was a lovely sunny week to celebrate Harvest Festival at Takeley Church.  The children were a credit to the school and performed their songs beautifully.  Well done to Hattie, Leo, William and Lucy for their lovely clear readings and a big thank you to parents for supporting us in the walking to the church and supporting your children.  Thanks also to Reverend Colin for leading the Harvest Service.

Huge congratulations to Joey this week.  She received the Headteacher's award for being an all round superstar, always doing the right thing and producing great work!  Well done Joey - it doesn't go unnoticed!! 

Autumn Week 4

w/c 25th September 2023

In Science, we became blood cells and travelled around bodies drawn on the playground to learn about the circulatory system.  The children were able to explain what was happening as they were 'circulating'.  We explored how the blood cells are oxygenated, how our bodies expel carbon dioxide and discussed the functions of the heart and the lungs.

We had a delightful end to the week sharing our books in the sun with our 'Reading Buddies' in Year 1. 

Autumn Week 3

w/c 18th September 2023

This week the children showed off their coding skills in Computing, we continued with out class text of War Horse and, in our topic, we looked at the long and short term causes of WW1.  Our fabulous poets produced some emotive poems of the battlefields of the war and we started our prep for our Harvest Service at the church.

We were spoiled rotten on Thursday with an exciting BMX workshop and demonstration.  Our professional BMXer Mike, encouraged the children -  explaining the virtues of having a growth mindset.  He introduced us to his word, 'Flearn' - every time you fail you learn something!  A very inspiring morning - although I was rather concerned when the children 'volunteered' Mrs Hards, Mrs Watson and myself to be 'jumped over' by Mike on his BMX.  Check out the super skills of the children in the photos below.

Autumn Week 2

w/c 11th September 2023

It was lovely to see so many of you at Meet the Teacher this week.  If you were unable to make the meeting, please find all the information on the Powerpoint on our Year 6 Curriculum page.

We embarked at full speed into our Year 6 learning - place value in Maths; a war poem in English and our circulatory system in Science.  We also became history detectives delving into life in 1914 to prepare us for our World War 1 topic.

All our efforts were rewarded with fun on the bouncy castle on Friday!  A well deserved end to the week.

Congratulations to Tucker who received the Headteacher's award for his attitude towards his learning and his contributions/ participation in lessons.

Autumn Week 1

What a fabulous (and hot) start to the new school year!  The children have embarked on Year 6 with enthusiasm and have been busy across the curriculum.  We have started our Pop Art portraits so that we can display a gallery in the classroom.  We have been looking at Odes in English and have been revisiting Place Value in maths.  With swimming not starting until next week, we braved the heat and enjoyed some rounders on the field as a 'one-off' PE lesson.  We sheltered in the shade and made sure we had plenty of water; much fun was had by all..... and a healthy dose of competition was evident!!

Congratulations to Mie for the Head Head Teacher's award this week.  I have been impressed by her positive attitude this week - she has contributed and participated well across all lessons.  It's a delight to see such enthusiasm.  Well done MIe!