We had so much fun running, jogging and walking the TCS mini schools marathon! We exceeded expectations with many of us running above and beyond the 2 mile target, or 6.5 laps of the school perimeter.  Our resilience, determination and sportsmanship was unbeatable!  

 In Science, we have been focusing on and learning more about the four seasons.  This week, we explored summer.  During our learning, we talked about the days being longer and that this is due to the Earth's tilt.  We talked a lot about the weather in Summer compared to the other three seasons and what we like to do in the summer.  Many of us said that summer was our favourite season because we like being outside and playing! Due to the questions we asked, we decided to explore our shadows and how they move depending on the time of day.  We understood that shows are created when an object blocks the sun. We drew around our shadows on Thursday afternoon.  On Friday morning, we revisited our shadow drawings and realised that our shadows had moved and this was because the sun was in a different position in the sky. We have been enjoying being able to take our learning outside!

 A fantastic match which saw the team not only pulling together and really thinking about their positions and marking,  but also a game which reflected the kindness, understanding and sportsmanship of our team.  A team where the competitiveness is healthy and where our girls are also fully supportive and understanding of the other team. This was Gosbeck's first match with a newly formed team.  We helped the team to understand their positions, allowed some footwork to be disregarded and spoke politely when contact occured. The match ended in a 10-4 win to Kelvedon!  No photo this time as Mrs Connelly and Mrs Brown were too excited! Player of the match, chosen by Gosbecks went to Chloe! Well done team!

 s tory focus : Little Red Riding Hood .  Literacy focus : we have daily Phonics and handwriting sessions.  We now have a Literacy session where we discuss a picture, compose sentences and then write them.  We also have individual reading sessions, practising our blue Phonics book or reading books.  Maths focus:   subitising and making arrangements of 6. We also practised counting and stopping at the 'stopping number'.  Here are some of our arrangements of 6: we noticed 3 and 3, 4 and 2 and 5 and 1.  "It;s a rainbow shape...there's 3 at that side and 3 at that side" "It's a flower! There's 1 in the middle, 3 at the top and 2 at the bottom" "It's like a face! 3 and 3". PE focus : we have started a new unit called  Crawl, Climb, Collect.  We have to practise our bear crawls which is fantastic for developing our core strength, as well as for crossing the midline.  We were not keen, but we persevered! Understanding the World focus:...

 Today in maths, the children were learning how to find half of a shape or object.  To find half of a shape or object, it has to be split into two equal parts. 

  We have had a busy few days in Year 4. On Monday, we were joined by The Two Johns who spoke to us all about internet safety and how we can make good choices online and when using our devices. Yesterday, we had the opportunity to make our way to the wildlife area to see where the trap camera and been placed. This camera has been loaned to us by Colchester Zoo. We then managed to look at some of the videos it had captured. It was really cool! Today, we have been keen to start our D&T project. We started by learning about the new project and then we started to collect and gather research about Roman catapults. 

 At the first sign of Summer Year 5 has started to learn cricketing skills. Today's initial session was dividwed into four discrete games aimed at developing different skills around retrieval, co-ordination, team work, reacting to changes, accurate throwing and bowling. Reaction and retrieval Teamwork and co-ordination Aiming, bowling, teamwork Accurate throwing, teamwork and competition Mr Hopegood :)