Hobletts Manor Junior School
Hobletts Manor Junior School
Learning and Achieving Together
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Team Turquoise 2024/25.
Your class teachers are Mrs Vipond and Mrs Short.
Your teaching assistants are Mrs Buck and Mrs Brewster
It has been lovely to see everyone back after half-term!
In our Maths and English lessons, we have revisited prior learning as we prepare for the SATs completing past papers for GPS (grammar, punctuation and spelling), Reading and Maths (arithmetic and reasoning).
We did really well and are feeling very confident!
We have also begun 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 where 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!
Quick Reminders.
Our PE Days are Mondays and Thursdays in the Spring Term.
Thank you for letting us know via your child's Reading Log or Marvellous Me about their reading at home by 9am each Friday.
****Half Termly Values Certificate Winners 2024/25****
Respect: Lily, Stanley, Emmie, Frankie and Charlie B
Determination: Layla, Frankie, Niall, Issaynae and Arun
Honesty: Max, Charlie B, Charlie E, Eva-Mai and Lexie
****Weekly Certificates****
Values (Enthusiasm) - Kai and Evie
Mathematics - Penny and Zac
English - Mark and Layla
Curriculum - Penny and Layla
****Friendly Leaf****
Well done to Penny and Emmie
**** Spring 2 Half Termly Reading Challenge****
Well done to Lily, Emmie and Zac who all read at least seven times each and every week during Spring 2 ****Spring 2 Half Termly Rocking Challenge****
Well done to Penny and Lexie who all read at least seven times each and every week during Spring 2
****Weekly Rocking and Reading****
Well done to Zac, Harper, Lily, Noah, Emmie and Stanley for attaining the Reading Challenge by reading at least seven times this week. Congratulations also to Penny for attaining the Rocking Challenge this week.
****Our Top Ten Rockers****
Noah
Lexie
Penny
Emmie
Iga
Niall
Eva
Mark
Charlie
Spring Term Optional Home Learning
wc 22nd April - Re-Visiting timelines as we look to pinpoint where the Maya were in relation to now and the other periods of History we have learnt about.
wc 31st March - Investigating variation in humans.
wc 31st March - Designing secular and non secular cards.
wc 24th March - Well done to our Weekly stars, rockers and readers!
wc 17th March - Improvising to ‘Let’s Rock!’
wc 17th March - Practising our needlework skills in preparation for our cushions.
wc 17th March - Catch! Refining our throwing and catching skills on the first day of Spring.
wc 10th March - To Flush or not to flush! - 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 3rd March - Designing butterflies to survive in the wild - how effective were we in designing them to blend into a natural environment?
wc 3rd March - Enjoying our Books and Blankets event on World Book Day.
wc 24th February- Designing, building and programming robots ready for battle!
wc 24th February - Using our geographical knowledge to classify human and physical features.
wc 10th February - Well done to this week’s Rockers and Readers!
wc 10th February - Well done to this week’s certificate winners!
wc 10th February- Moving from paper templates to felt as we continue with our rainforest inspired cushions.
wc 3rd February - creating branching diagrams to sort living things.
wc 3rd February- strike a pose!
wc 3rd February - celebrating the year of the snake.
wc 27th January - super proud of our writing, and justifiably so!
wc 27th January - returning to our science investigation and reviewing how successful, or not, we were at cultivating micro organisms
wc 27th January - honing our gymnastic skills.
wc 27th January - As geographers this week we found out about the biodiversity of the rainforests and the adaptations made by plants and animals to enable them to survive!
wc 20th January - creating templates for our rainforest inspired cushions.
wc 20th January - as Geographers we have learnt a little more about the layers of a rainforest and researched what creatures live in each layer and why.
wc 20th January - as Scientists we have been learning about micro-organisms and finding out which are helpful and which are harmful. We also set up our investigation as we look to find out the best conditions In which to grow them.
wc 13th January - we had a wonderful time at the Mathematics Games afternoon.
wc 13th January - identifying the scientific names for living things and classifying them.
wc 13th January - identifying similarities and differences between temperate and tropical rainforests.
wc 13th January - exploring and calculating the volume of cubes and cuboids.
wc 13th January - exploring cuboids with a volume of 24. Have we missed any?
wc 16th December - Using co-ordinates in the first and second quadrant, even Father Christmas got involved!
wc 16th December - Working as Geographers and refining our map reading skills.
wc commencing 9th December - Identifying 3D shapes and exploring some of their properties.
wc commencing 9th December -Don’t touch the molten lava!
wc 9th December - Locating 4 digit grid references on Ordnance Survey maps.
wc 9th December - Christmas and Special Jumper Day.
wc 2nd December - well done to this weeks certificate winners!
wc 2nd December - Well done to our weekly Rockers and Readers!
wc 2nd December - Thank you for such a fascinating insight into Electrical Engineering Mr Pullen
wc 2nd December - Understanding the effects of increasing voltage and adding components to a circuit.
wc 2nd December- Learning that Christmas is both a secular and sacred celebration, and a festival celebrated by Christians and non Christians.
wc 25th November - Step 2 with our wire sculptures! We are looking forward to adding paint next week!
wc 18th November - Bert and Joe have new homes for the weekend!
wc 18th November - Super Home Learning by Eva-Mai!
wc 18th November - Well done to our Rockers and Readers!
wc 18th November - Well done to this week’s certificate winners!
wc 18th November - Sculpting with Wire.
wc 11th November - creating 2d sculptures using wire.
wc 11th November - Researching land use in England and different types of settlement.
wc 4th November 2024
wc 21st October - Just an illusion!
wc 21st October- Enhancing our understanding of the significance of the Buddha.
wc 21st October - Remembrance Poetry.
wc 21st October - Cross Country at Adeyfield Academy.
18th October - Showing Racism the Red Card
wc 14th October - Using artefacts to deepen our understanding of The Blitz.
wc 14th October - Taking the opportunity to learn a little more about each other on Cultural Day
wc 14th October - Learning a little more about light and shadow
wc 7th October - Bert and Joe go home with Summer and Arun this week. Great resilience and positivity for learning, well done!
wc 7th October - Well done to this week’s Rockers and Readers.
wc 7th October - Well done to our certificate winners this week.
wc 7th October - Reading music and playing the glockenspiel; it’s not as easy as it looks!
wc 30th September - Camelot Rugby Festival
we 30th September - Well done Eva-Mai for producing a very informative poster and making a brilliant periscope at home having been inspired by learning in school.
wc 30th September - Learning about light and shadow.
wc 30th September - Measuring in Mathematics.
wc 23.09.24: This week's certificate winners! Well done!
wc 23.09.24: Art - This week in school we made spectacular dragons from clay. They are amazing!
wc 23.09.24: This week in school we made board games linked to our curriculum topics!
wc 16th September- honing our shooting skills in PE
wc 16th September- World War 2 Workshop
wc 16th September - investigating light and materials using data loggers to identify which blocks light most.
wc 8th September - colour mixing and matching.
wc 8th September- learning and describing key features of Christianity and Buddhism and identifying similarities and difference.
wc 8th September - up periscope! Investigating how light travels.
wc 8th September - honing our rugby skills.
wc 8th September - looking at the United Nations Convention of the Human Rights of the Child and discussing and identifying what we thought were the 9 most important articles.
wc 1st September - ordering key events in History
