Theydon Bois Primary School

Practising our compass skills drawing flowers

Long Jump for the Colin Hooker Challenge

Sprinting for the Colin Hooker Challenge

DT Anderson Shelters

Drawing leaves in the sun and learning a text by heart with actions

Creating and writing information pages about monsters

Lockdown week 1 Woburn - yoga whilst finishing their poetry  - thumbs up for a great week

World Book Day

Monologues written and performed by the children

World Book Day

Week 1 - Henry and Austin 

Work

Pancake Races on Shrove Tuesday

Netball

Making Pancakes

Fitness

Week 6 Charlie and Matthew - Revision

Week 5 Ollie and Charlie

English Newspaper Reports

English with Pakes

Gunpowder Mills World War II Trip

Maths

Netball

WOBURN WEEKLY

Monday 27^th January 2020

Maths

In Maths, we did some algebra problem solving questions. Finding the unknown letter using bar models and lots of working out such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Assessed writing

In Assessed Writing, we wrote out our newspaper report about evacuation from the city in World War two. We also edited our work and made sure it was to the best standard we could present.

R.E Assembly

In R.E Assembly, we learnt about the meaning of life, non-Existence of Gods, Reason and Ethical Decisions. We also found out the definition of Atheist and that most Humanist thinkers were Atheist but not all.

Topic

In Topic, we finished of our letter to our family as if we were in World War two being Evacuated.

Revision

In Revision, we did our practise tests for SATs for the year 6s and end of year tests for the year 5s. 

Tuesday 29^th January 2020

Maths

First of all, we started off with fluency and finding 10% of a number and 1%. Next we continued with yesterday’s maths (bar models involving algebra).

Topic

We are learning about WWII and we started rationing, we did a comprehension on what foods were rationed and a man who helped and encouraged people his name was Lord Woolton.

P.E

We did tobata and exercises to help our muscles and keep fit. We had to do eight exercises for 30 seconds each.

English

In English we did a cold write about a scary story.

Wednesday 29^th January 2020

Maths

Before maths we did some fluency on finding 1% of a number. Then we did some algebra.

English

In English we used coordinating conjunctions and wrote sentences using them.

Revision

In revision, we did factors and multiples and then prime numbers. A prime number is a number where it can only be divided by one and itself., a factor is 2 numbers that multiply to get a multiple. A multiple is a number in a times table for example multiples of 10 are 10 20 30 40 etc…

Science

In Science, we learnt about light and how it works. Also, we did a little experiment with light.

Thursday 30^th January 2020

Maths 

In Maths, we did some algebra equations and finding the value of two letters.

English

In, English, we learnt some of our story and then we wrote some sentences using subordinating conjunctions.

Art/DT

In, art/DT we have been building Anderson shelters out of scrapped materials: card, card board, tissue paper, sticks, paint and more materials. We also finished them of as much as we could. Lottie said, “It was fun experimenting with new materials!”

Friday 31^st January 2020   

Year 2

In the morning, we all went down to the hall and helped Pakes class with their English (expanded noun phrases) and then they helped us with our work. We also read with them.

Maths

In maths, we learnt some mathematical language used to describe 2D shapes E.G Polygon means that all the sides are straight and connected. We played a game like guess who where you have to guess your partners shape by asking yes and no questions.

English

In English we planned our newspaper report on a fairy tale for assessed writing and our second version.

Spellings

We did our spellings on Friday as usual and the type of words were ei and ey: vein, prey, they, alley and some more.

P.E

In P.E at the moment we are playing netball and we started off with a simple game and each week we are adding a new position into the game and soon we will play with all seven players in a match.

Assembly

Our assembly was a star of the week assembly and Woburn’s star of the weeks were Raffelle Ash and Harry Brendon-Levine.

By Lottie Stephenson and Raffelle Ash.

Ahren and Luke G week 3

Woburn Weekly

6^th January – 10^th January 2020

We took pictures about the early morning work. After that in Maths we did a slide about fractions and took a couple pictures. Then it was break and after that we did some English about punctuation. During English we did mentor sentences and analysing a sentence. Next we did a reading comprehension called A Sweet Escape and tried to identify the parts of the texts. Then we had lunch. After that we had Topic and we did a storyline about the main events in WW2.We then had assembly and after that we went home.

7^th January 2020

First we did some early morning work and described a picture then we did maths on adding and subtracting mixed numbers. Next we did a reading comprehension called Insects on summer staycation. Then we did PE after lunch then we had an assembly. We finished off the day with a secret student and they were successful then it was home time.

8^th January 2020

We started the day by doing early morning work then we did maths about dividing decimal numbers in the bus stop method after maths. we did English structuring a newspaper report and finding the 5 w’s (who, were, when, why, and what). In the afternoon we did Science about how light travels and how we see it. We also did a paragraph about demonstrating how light works. We than had a singing assembly and learnt a new song and that was the end of the day.

9^th January 2020

We started up the day by doing early morning work then we did maths and in maths we did dividing decimal numbers and did a maths challenge. In English we did finding punctuation and writing what it is used for and it was about a newspaper report called SHELL-SHOCK then we did a mentor sentence and changed it up a bit. In the afternoon we did a research about WW2 Anderson Shelters and wrote what they were used and what they were made out of. To finish off the day we had a singing assembly.

10^th January 2020

To start the day, we did early morning work and had some maths sums to do and then make our own sentence by using a certain sentence structure. In maths we did short division and made a fraction into a decimal number and divide it by the denominator. In English we did indirect speech v’s direct speech and had to write one sentence for direct speech and one for indirect speech. In the afternoon we did a reading comprehension about Bulu Mata an orang-utan and the comprehension is called The orang-utan nursery. At the end of the day we had a celebration assembly and some people had lots of medals and trophies to bring in.

By Charlie and Austin

Maths and History

Netball

December and January

Curling, bean bag throw and Bowling

Sportshall Athletics with Mrs Hayes