Hobletts Manor Junior School
Hobletts Manor Junior School
Learning and Achieving Together
Topaz
Team Topaz 2024/25
Your Class teacher is Ms Reid
Your Teaching Assistants are Mrs Sides and
Mrs Kellaway
It has been lovely to see everyone back after half-term!
We have been busy revising prior learning in English and Maths and completing practice tests for GPS (grammar, punctuation and spelling), Reading and Maths (arithmetic and reasoning).
We did really well and are feeling very confident!
We also began our new Science topic of 'The Human Body' and found out the major organs of the human body and what they do. We also thought about what would happen if these organs don't work properly. In History, we started our new topic of 'The Ancient Maya' and found out where they fit in on a timeline of other civilisations and major events in History. In French, we started our new topic of a 'French Town' and in RE, we thought about how we feel about God and wrote kenning poems to reflect our thoughts.
Next week in Maths, we will revisit angles and fractions! In English, we will be revising perfect and progressive forms of verbs and also how to write in depth answers to comprehension questions when evidence is required! We will also be carrying on with our other topics.
Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday!
Summer Term Optional Home Learning - The Ancient Maya
Matus, Andre, Kamari, Ella, Poppy, Hollie & Chloe |
Jazmine, Ronnie, Grace & Rozena |
Ella |
Harry & Jack | Top Ten Rockers
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Well done for the completing the times table rock star challenge and rocking 7 times this week:
Eunice
Well done for completing the times table rock star homework and rocking 5 or 6 times this week:
6 times: Isla-Mae & Antonia
Well done for completing the Reading Challenge this week
and reading 7 times:
Chloe
Well done for completing the reading homework this week
and reading 5 or 6 times this week:
5 times: Antonia, Freya, Jessica & Mason
A quick reminder that PE days are Mondays and Thursdays.
wc 22.4.25: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 22.4.25: This week, the boys and girls' football teams were victorious at their respective football tournaments. Well done! We enjoyed hearing about your success when you came back to school and showed us your winners' medals!
wc 22.4.25: History - this week we started our new topic - The Ancient Maya. We started ordering different ancient civilisations and key historical events and found ut where the Maya were in the timeline!
wc 31.3.25: This week's certificate winners and half-term value winners! Well done!
wc 31.3.25: PSHE - this week we made cubes to remind of strategies to help us manage stress.
wc 31.3.25: Science - this week we studied human variation and agreed that unless people were identical twins, everyone is different. We collected data to prove that we were correct!
wc 31.3.25: Science - this week we became fossil hunters and dug out our fossils from their clay home! We did this to recreate the 'mold and cast' process that is one of the ways in which fossils are formed over millions of years - ours were a bit quicker!
wc 24.03.25: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 24.03.25: Science & Geography: As part of our Living Things and Rainforest topics, we were visited by Jonathan's rainforest roadshow and got to meet and hold lots of animals from the rainforest!
wc 17.03.25: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 17.03.25: Wearing red and bringing in a donation for Comic Relief!
wc 17.03.25: Science - this week we learnt how fossils are made and looked at some fossil samples!
wc 10.03.25: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 10.03.25: Science - as part of Science week we found out what you should and should not flush down the loo! We found out by testing what happens when you shake different materials in water. We found out that only toilet paper breaks down in water so we should only put toilet paper down the toilet!
wc 03.03.25: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 03.03.25: Chloe, Ella & Poppy took part in the National League regional tournament and came third! Well done girls!
wc 03.03.25: As part of world book day, Grace, Matus and Ella found golden and silver tickets and won prizes!
wc 03.03.25: World book day - some of us dressed up as our favourite book characters and we all went to the hall to have a good read - some of us were joined by our parents!
wc 24.02.25: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 24.2.25: Maths revision poster - metric measures!
wc 24.2.25: Science - this week we designed a butterfly and then decided that it would not survive in our playground habitat! We then designed another that would camouflage and therefore survive! Evolution by natural selection!
wc 24.2.25: DT & Computing - this week we have a robot workshop where we designed, built and programmed robots ready for robot wars!
wc 10.02.25: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 10.02.25: DT - Fabric cut out; now we are ready to sew!
wc 10.02.25: This week in DT, we used our paper templates to cut our fabric pieces for our rainforest cushions!
wc 10.02.25: PSHE - following on from our lesson about world issues, we chose an issue that concerns us and created a charity to try and help. We presented our ideas to the class.
wc 10.02.25: Science - this week we found out about plant classification and then went into the school grounds and collected samples of as many different plants as possible! We then turned them into a plant sample poster and tried to identify what they were using a branching diagram.
wc 03.02.25: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 03.02.25: Maths - this week we have been finding out about imperial measures and we sorted measures into metric and imperial as well as into measures of mass, capacity and length.
wc 03.02.25: Science - this week in Science, we learnt how to create a branching diagram to identify living things. We tested each others' diagrams to check if they worked!
wc 27.01.25: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 27.01.25: Maths - this week we made a pie chart by counting how many shakes in Taylor Swift's 'Shake it Off'.
wc 27.01.25: RE - this week we created prayer flags with messages of positivity.
wc 27.01.25: Geography - this week we found out about the biodiversity of the rainforests and the adaptations that the plants and animals have that enable them to survive!
wc 27.01.25: Some of us had a crazy hair afternoon!
wc 20.01.25: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 20.01.25: Music - this week, we started work on 'La Bamba'. We sang along and practiced singing the Spanish lyrics and played the beginning of the song on glockenspiels. We also danced along as we found out that it is a very good song to dance to!
wc 20.01.25: Science - this week we learnt about the world of micro-organisms and found out they can be helpful and harmful. We also started an investigation to see what conditions are best for growing micro-organisms!
wc 13.01.25: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 13.01.25: Maths - this week in Maths we learnt about the volume of 3D shapes and started off by using multilink to make cubes and cuboids to see how many cubes were in the, i.e. their volume!
wc 13.01.25: English - this week, we did role plays to help us with the dialogue section of our gargoyle story. One character is being chased by gargoyles and the other person does not believe them!
wc 06.01.25: This week's certificate winners - well done!
wc 06.01.25: Loz, Chloe & Jack did some fab posters this week and were chosen to have their work on the class boards!
wc 06.01.25: PSHE - this week we considered our strengths and then reviewed the targets we set ourselves in the Autumn Term.
wc 16.12.24: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Team Topaz!
wc 16.12.24: This half-terms values certificate winners for being respectful members of the school community. Well done!
wc 09.12.24: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 09.12.24: Christmas Jumper Day!
wc 09.12.24: Art - this week we painted our mod-roc models!
wc 09.12.24: Geography - this week we looked at Ordnance Survey maps and learned how to write and find 4-digit coordinates.
wc 02.12.24: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 02.12.24: Art - this week we used mod roc to cover our wire frames - we will be painting them next week!
wc 02.12.24: Science - this week we had a visit from Mr Pullen who is an electrical engineer and we found out how he uses circuits to keep our food safe!
wc 25.11.24: This week's certificate winners - well done!
wc 25.11.24: PSHE - this week we did role plays and freeze frames showing the power in different relationships and discussed whether the power was good power or bad power!
wc 25.11.24: English - we did role plays and freeze frames to show how different characters in a family feel when they know that the children are going to be evacuated.
wc 18.11.24: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 18.11.24: Art - this week we had a wire workshop with William, the creator of 'Chickenwired'. Here are our finished wire models that we decorated with tissue paper and us posing for a picture with William!
wc 18.11.24: Science - this week we made circuits with bulbs, buzzers and motors and investigated the affect of adding batteries to a circuit with a bulb!
wc 11.11.24 - This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 11.11.24: Music - this week we played a section of the song, 'Best Friend' on glockenspiels!
wc 11.11.24: Geography - this week we looked at land use in England and the different types of settlements there are: hamlet, village, town and city.
wc 11.11.24: This week Amelia brought in one of her amazing crochet her creations - this one is called, 'Budgie'.
wc 04.11.24: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 04.11.24: Science - we sorted statements about electricity into true and false!
wc 4.11.24: Science - this week we were a human circuit and passed tennis balls to represent the electrons moving in the wire!
wc 21.10.24: Art - our final London landscape picture! Well done!
wc 21.10.24: Art - this week we completed our London landscape pictures by adding buildings and reflections.
wc 21.10.24: English - this week we have written remembrance poems and did some art to go with it!
wc 21.10.24: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 21/10/24 Cross Country at Adeyfield Academy.
wc 14.10.24: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 14.10.24: Today we wore red to show racism the red card!
wc 14.10.24: English - this week we wrote reports about planets that we had invented. Then we wrote them up and made them look like fact books!
wc 14.10.24: Science - this week we investigated how reflective different surfaces our by seeing how well we could see our reflection in them!
wc 07.10.24: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 07.10.24: Art - this week did some colour matching by enlarging our favourite London picture. Some of us also tried to recreate our favourite background too!
wc 07.10.24: Maths - this week we have been learning about metric measures and done quite a bit of measuring!
wc 07.10.24: RE - this week we created dramas that show how Buddhists choose the live their lives.
wc 07.10.24: Science - this week we investigated what happens to the size of a shad when the light source is moved.
wc 30.09.24: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 30.09.24: English - this week looked at different non-fiction texts about space and labelled them with post-its with what we liked and might include in our own!
wc 30.09.24: Science - this week we learned how shadows are made and then made shadow puppets and shadow puppet shows!
wc 23.09.24: Certificate winners this week! Well done!
wc 23.09.24: This week in school, we also created board games linked to the topics we are learning about!
wc 23.09.24: Art - this week in school, year 6 created dragon faces with clay! They are amazing!
wc 16.09.24: World Dot Day - we made our mark by decorating our hands!
wc 16.09.24: Music - this week we played part of the song, 'Do what you want to do' on glockenspiels.
wc 16.09.24: History - we had our World War 2 workshop today and learnt lots of facts about the war and got to dress up in different outfits!
wc 16.09.24: Science - this week we investigated what material blocks light the best and measured light readings in Lux on a datalogger.
wc 09.09.24: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 09.09.24: Art - this week we looked at the work of Andre Devain and had a go at an Devain inspired picture!
wc 09.09.24: Science - more periscopes finished this week! Well done!
wc 09.09.24: This week Hollie brought in a crochet top that she made at home! Amazing!
wc 04.09.24: Dylan brought in his amazing lego creations to share with the rest of the class!
wc 04.09.24: Science - this week we found out how light travels and that a periscope allows us to see above or below us by changing the direction that light travels in. We then had a go at making a periscope!
wc 04.09.24: History - this week we had our first History lesson and find out about key events in the History of London and orderd them into a giant timeline!
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