Hobletts Manor Junior School
Hobletts Manor Junior School
Learning and Achieving Together
Turquoise
Team Turquoise 2024/25.
Your class teachers are Mrs Vipond and Mrs Short.
Your teaching assistants are Mrs Buck and Mrs Brewster
We have had a very busy half term!
In Geography we have looked at sustainability and how we can help our world by living as sustainably as possible. This could include having solar panels on our houses, turning off taps and lights when not using them, and recycling paper, cardboard and plastic. In addition, we had the best time when Jonathan and his amazing animals came to visit us and we had the opportunity to hold a snake, millipede and an incredible camouflaging katydid, as well as finding out so much about how these creatures have adapted to live in rainforests.
We have also started to create our own wonderful rainforest inspired cushions in DT! We’ve created designs and thought about the specification and who we intend our finished cushions to be used by. In addition, we have made templates for our designs to ensure that we get the size and shapes correct before moving on to cutting the pieces out of fabric. We very much look forward to starting to sew our cushions together!
In Computing we have been creating text based adventures giving choices to the user so they could decide what would happen in the game! In RE we have found out more about Jesus and looked in detail at the Easter story and its importance to Christians.
We have enjoyed our Science topic of ‘Evolution’ and have looked at how animals have evolved over time to suit their habitat. We also looked at how fossils are formed and had great fun making our own ‘fossils’! During Science Week, we investigated how we should only flush toilet paper down the toilet because flushing anything else, like wipes or paper towels, can block our pipes and be bad for the environment.
Next term we are looking forward to starting our History topic about the Mayans, looking in detail at who they were, where they lived and how they communicated. We also look forward to welcoming Mexicolore back to fully immerse us in Mayan life. In RE we will be looking at humans’ relationship with the environment and will discuss individual ideas about God, and of course, we can’t wait to get started on sewing our cushions for DT!
Have a wonderful Easter break and we’ll see you next term!
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 (Honesty) - Eva-Mai and John
Mathematics - Kai and Issaynae
English - Logan and Noah
Curriculum - Eva-Mai and Demi
****Friendly Leaf****
Well done to Niall and Stanley
**** 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 Penny, Charlie B, Kai, Arun and Iga for reading at least 5 times last week and to Zac, Niall, Lily, Max, Harper, Lexie, Noah, Emmie and Stanley for attaining the Reading Challenge by reading at least seven times this week. Congratulations also to Emmie and Niall who have rocked five times this week and to Penny for attaining the Rocking Challenge this week.
****Our Top Ten Rockers****
Noah
Penny
Lexie
Iga
Lily
Emmie
Summer
Charlie
Eva-Mai
Eva
Spring Term Optional Home Learning
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.
