Forest Schools

Group 1 thoroughly enjoyed their first forest schools session!

Cheetahs have made an excellent start to the new academic year!  

We have been working very hard in Maths looking at place value in three, four and five digit numbers!  The children especially enjoyed competing against each other to make the biggest numbers using digit cards and place value charts!

So nice to see you all!

Hello Cheetahs!

I just wanted to say a massive well done to you all on your marvelous performance of The Lion King!  My family and I were so impressed by your very first performance on Tuesday- you did a fantastic job capturing each character's personality!  The songs you sang gave me goosebumps.  I hope you all enjoyed the acting as much as the audience enjoyed watching you at work.

It also looked like you had a superb time on Sports Day!  Thank you for cheering on our little boy on his very first Sports Day race- he could hardly wait to get going!  It was so great to see you all having so much fun and getting some good exercise at the same time- I hope you continue to enjoy using the track right up until the last day of school.  One of my favourite things I witnessed on Friday was how supportive all of the teams were of their teammates.  That was some admirable sportsmanship cheering each other on all afternoon and it makes me smile!  Of course, I also thoroughly enjoyed the Dad's race...  as my very own Mr. Pell crashed over the finish line! 

All in all, it was so nice to see you all having such a great time as the school year draws to a close!  Keep smiling & be the best friends you can be!

-Mrs. Pell

¡Adios Cheetahs!

Cheetahs, I can't believe my last day with you has come to an end!  We have been having a marvellous year, and because of you, I really don't want to go!  I hope you thoroughly enjoy your last half term of the year.  Work hard, play safely, be kind to each other!

I will be coming in to visit with Baby Pell as soon as we can.  I'd love to watch your big Lion King performance, and hopefully Baby Pell is agreeable to this (otherwise I'll have to watch the DVD).  Work hard on your lines and your songs & dances! You'll be great!

Thank you for all of the well wishes and for all of your hard work this year!  Year 4's, you will be missed as you move up to the top of the school (but I'll see you eventually for our Spanish & DT classes).  And Year 3's, I will see you a little later into your 4th year!  Be sure to teach our new Year 3's how to make our classroom so wonderful.

Goodbye for now Cheetahs!  Have a very happy summer!

-Mrs. Pell

Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions!

This week in Cheetahs Class, we have been creating explanations for some of Wallace's incredible inventions: the autochef, snoozatron and the 525 crackervac!  The children thought very carefully about what they needed to include in their explanations and devised a success criteria to follow.  The children then worked in small groups to prepare a presentation, giving a verbal explanation of how/why the machine worked.  We then used the Ipads to record these...

Success Criteria

1. Clear title of what is being explained

2. Opening statement to introduce the process

3. clear steps to show how or why something occurs

4. In order of events

5. Conjunctions used to link steps e.g After that, finally

6. Specific, technical vocabulary used

How did they do?  

Next week, the children will become inventors themselves - designing their own contraptions, creating blueprints and writing clear explanations!

A Marvellous Month of Maths!

Check out our Mathematical Magicians in Cheetahs class over the last month!  And this is just what they have been achieving on a Thursday and Friday!  Wowee!

Alfie can translate co-ordinates!

Connor has really advanced his time telling skills!

Ethan even amazed himself with his awesome area knowledge!

Gracie knows her fractions vocabulary!

And Gracie has a great sense of spacial awareness!

Mellissa is highly skilled at solving advanced co-ordinates problems!

Taylor can show all of his working out to solve perimeter problems!

Well done Cheetahs, you've really impressed me this month!  Keep up the hard work!
-Mrs. Pell

Splashing Around!

Cheetahs' Class had their first swimming session last week and impressed everyone with their talents!  All the children demonstrated that they could climb in and out of the pool safely and everyone was able to put their face in the water and blow bubbles - this might sound like an easy thing to do but is all part of building up your confidence in the water and is the first step in becoming a competent, skilled swimmer.

Mrs Mutimer (the swimming instructor) was thrilled with all the children and commented on how smiley and well-mannered the children of Catfield always are - well done Cheetahs!

Home Learning

I was absolutely blown away by the home learning tasks that were handed in after the Easter break - they were amazing!  As a class, we looked at everyone's books, sharing in each other's successes, which the children really enjoyed.  Afterwards each child chose his/her favourite piece to have photocopied and added to the home learning display board in the classroom - please feel free to come in and take a look!