Heartsease Primary Academy Newsletter - 9th October 2023

Office update

Lost Property

We have sorted through the lost property and any labelled / named items have been returned to the child's class. There is a large quantity of clothing which have no names in them. Please can we ask that all belongings are clearly labelled with the child's name. We will be having another sort through towards the end of term and any unclaimed / unnamed items of uniform will be added to our pre loved rail kept in the reception foyer.

Diarrhoea/Vomiting

Please be reminded that if you child has an episode of diarrhoea / vomiting they need to be at least 48 hours clear from the last episode before returning to school.

Weekly class updates

Nursery

This week we have been thinking about our final two senses - smell and taste. The children had the opportunity to smell different things and guess what they were. They also tasted sweet, salty, sour and bitter foods. We have talked a lot about fruit and the children were able to do some fruit printing.

Ruby Class

This week, Ruby class thought about our homes. In English, we wrote captions for a book about homes, and asked and answered questions about homes in the past. In Maths, KS1 continued adding and Reception continued comparing amounts, up to 6. In DT, we made and tasted more healthy food. We created shelters in the forest. In Geography, we learnt the difference between a house, bungalow and flat. We sorted pictures of them, to discover that in Norfolk the most popular home is a house. We then interviewed a Year 5 class to find out where they live, we tallied and graphed their answers, to discover that most of them live in houses.

Moonstone Class

This week we have been busy learning about all the things that begin with the letter S. We have been enjoying our class book 'I like honey but I don't like Bees' and creating our own artwork about our favourite things. We have really enjoyed exploring the woods during forest schools. We have done some fantastic maths around matching and sorting.

Reception - Jasper/Jade Classes

This week Reception are reading 'The very busy spider' and will be trying to remember the sequence of events in the story. We will be looking at different spiders and describing them, while making and creating spider related things. Maths this week is thinking about 'fewer' compared to more and we will also be talking about how we can be a good friend.

Year 1 - Onyx / Opal Classes

This week in year 1 we have been learning our number bonds up to 10, we have been doing this through the use of numicon, cubes, counters and songs. We have been continuing to explore the story Where the wild things are, learning how to sequence events in a story and learning all about authors and illustrators. 

Year 2 - Aqua / Amber classes

In English this week we have started a new text, Mrs Noah's Pockets, we are learning to summarise key events and create story maps.

In Maths, we have been learning to count in 3s, we completed our end of unit check on place value, consolidating our new skills and doing our weekly arithmetic test.

In History, we discussed how far the Great Fire of London had spread on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th of September 1666. 

In Science, we are learning about food chains and how they are connected.

In PSHE, we learnt about acts of kindness.

In R.E, we are finishing our unit on 'light' and what 'light' symbolises in different religions.

In Art this week, we are starting our final piece of work and recreating the famous 'waves' painting by Beth Krommes, incorporating cross-hatching, hatching, smudging and stippling.

What a wonderful week we've had, full of fun, laughter and learning!

Year 3 - Coral / Crystal classes

Year Three have continued their journey into printing. This week we tried monoprinting with something behind the paper to see how that changed the texture of the paper. In Science, we learnt about how fossils are formed - we are bringing some extra reading home this weekend to help us write about fossils next week. In writing, we have been studying non-chronoligical reports about extinct animals. We wrote about our hobbies to practise ready for next week. In French, we have begun using instruction words. Ask us to 'Ecoutez' next time you want to ask us something.

Year 5 - Emerald / Sapphire classes

Throughout the week Year 5 have been writing persuasive letters to convince Sir Ernest Shackleton to take them on his expedition to the Antarctic. In maths we have been looking at missing number and word problems including addition and subtraction. In Science we have been exploring materials and what makes a reversible and irreversible reaction. 

Year 6 - Diamond / Quartz classes

Year 6 has begun to learn about writing speeches in English this week. We are using the formal register and passive voice. In maths we are using formal methods for long multiplication and long division - tricky but we are all trying hard.

In the afternoons we have learnt about Martin Luther King (in RE) and how he fought racial inequality in America. 

In art we are studying Cubism and producing our own still life paintings, limiting ourselves to shades and tints of only one colour.

Science has been a bit gory as we start our study of the circulatory system with what is blood and why do we need it?

Computing has been challenging - we are working together to write slideshows about different countries - but we are not allowed to speak. Luckily we are all experts at instant messaging.

We enjoyed The Great Big Assembly to introduce Black History Month and wore yellow for Mental Health Day. Mindfulness, colouring and chatting to our friends was a relaxing break from our lessons.



• Ruby Class - Peter - For fantastic progress with adding.
• Moonstone Class -
• Jade Class - Luna and Samuel - who have been successful in using their knowledge of letter-sound relationships in their writing. Keep it up!
• Jasper Class - Cody - For wanting to be helpful in class.
• Onyx Class - Tyler - For being a super star reader in the morning coming in ready to learn.
• Aqua Class - Isaac - For being able to solve family fact calculations. Fantastic work!
• Amber Class -Blake - For his excellent work in writing this week. Blake wrote many sentences in third person and was able to use the conjunction 'because' independently.
• Coral Class - Lola - She has been demonstrating how we can be different and all get on well. She made positive suggestions and similarities and differences between people and how to find out more about each other. Well done!
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• Topaz Class - Chloe - For her wonderful participation and attention this week. I was very impressed with her eagerness and effort. Brilliant!
• Emerald Class - Bailey - Throughout the week Bailey has offered up thoughtful answers and has discussed with confidence a wide range of topics from Science to PSHE.
• Sapphire Class - Mohamed - For an excellent piece of formal letter writing. Well done!
• Quartz Class -  Samiyah -  For her positive attitude towards learning and making contributions to the learning across all subjects. Well done!
• Diamond Class - Lexi - For being determined to improve her presentation and handwriting this week. Her work is looking amazing. Well done!
• PE - Zoe - Year 5 - For her football skills in PE this week. She had great control off the ball, she managed to intercept the ball when she was an attacker but also was a good defender by keeping possession of the ball. Her confidence in football has grown over the past few weeks. Well done Zoe!