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Welcome to Hawthorns

2023-2024

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Happy Easter from Hawthorn Class

In Maths we have been exploring measuring the length or height of objects and the mass of objects.

We have had fun in our art lessons making clay flowers.

In Science we have learnt about plants, how they grow, what each part of a plants job is and which parts we eat. We have grown our own peas, beans and funny Mr and Mrs Grasshead. We have also been on a trip to Rosemoor learning lots of names for common and wild plants.

Happy Mothers Day

For world book day we dressed up as some of our favourite book characters and also took part in acting out the story 'Arthur and the Golden Rope' by Joe Todd Stanton

In class we looked at a collage called 'The snail' by Henri Matisse, and used these skills to create our own collages of different types of transport.

In Maths we have been adding within 20 using number lines

In music we have been learning about the beat and rhythms within songs. We have improvised simple rhythms using three notes on the xylophone to add to the song.

We have been using tens frames and bar models to represent stories. For example, First there were 7 birds in a tree. Then 2 more birds flew into the tree. Now there are 9 birds in the tree.

In Geography we have been learning about the four countries that make up the United Kingdom. We learnt a traditional Scottish dance called 'The Highland Fling."

We have been learning about autumn and have made some animals from the things we found on our autumn walk around school.

Welcome to Hawthorns Class

2022-2023

Meet the class

Meet the staff

March 2023 - We went to Rosemoor to enhance our learning about plants.

World Book Day 2023

In Music, we listened to a piece of music by Edvard Grieg, which told a story involving trolls. So we made our own troll masks and then danced to the music.

In maths we have been thinking about place value within 20. We had a digit card each and had to place it on a blank number line explaining why we placed it where we did.

In Science we have been learning about the different seasons and the weather. We did an experiment to find out how cold it got over night in January. We left water out over night and it turned into ice decorations.

21.11.22 - In Art we have been learning how to draw eyes, noses and mouths. We have used these skills to draw our self portraits.

18.11.22 - Children in Need

15.11.22. In computing we have started to learn about coding. We gave the bee-bots a set of instructions to see if we could make them move to where we wanted!

10.11.22 - We made poppies for Remembrance Day.

3.11.22 - In History we have been learning about significant historical events in our local community. Hatherleigh Carnival is over 100 years old and this year we made some crepe paper bunting to decorate our school.

20.10.22 - In Creative Thursday today we made sculptures of autumn animals. Can you guess the animal?

19.10.22 - In Science today we helped Mrs Jacob identify the flavours of different crisps using our sense of smell and taste. We were very good at knowing which colour bag the crisps belonged to.

18.10.22 - In RE we have been thinking about the creation of Earth. We enjoyed going into the woodland and thinking about living in an amazing world.We also created some lovely art work back in class.

This half term in Geography we have been learning about where we live. We have learnt where Hatherleigh is on the map and can identify the four countries and their capital cities, that make up the United Kingdom.

13.10.22 - We have been learning about our number bonds in class using our part part whole model.

In DT this half term we have been learning about playgrounds and how to make play equipment. Below are some of our designs.

30.9.22 - The whole school went to Broomford Estate Manor house for a whole school walk. We had lots of fun exploring.

After hearing the sad news about Queen Elizabeth II, Hawthorns class talked about her life and remembered celebrating her Platinum Jubilee together in the summer. Below are some of the portraits drawn by Hawthorns of the Queen.

Welcome to Hawthorns Class!

2021-2022

Staff who work in Hawthorns

Well done Hawthorns for an amazing half term term.

Have a wonderful Half term holiday and we look forward to seeing you soon.

Mrs Jacob, Mrs Orbell, Mrs Perry and Mrs Bennett.

Our toilet roll book characters for World Book Day

World Book Day 3.3.22

Christmas play - Hey Ewe

Elf workshop and other Christmas activities.

For Children in Need we came to school dressed in spotty clothes and made some Pudsey Bears.

As part of Anti-Bullying Week, we came to school wearing odd socks.

Hawthorns class scarecrow - Room on the Broom.

In class we have been learning about Remembrance Day and why the poppy is so important. As groups we worked together to make a poppy wreath.

Well done Hawthorns for all joining in and completing our Mini Marathon. (20 laps of the playground). It was a great class effort and I certainly enjoyed completing it with you in between the showers!

We are learning about our local community in geography. We read a story about a little boy who lived in a town and went to visit Grandad who lived on a farm. The children were then given the challenge to create a feature of a town or farm.

Dance with Miss Squire.

Welcome to Hawthorns Class!

2020-2021

Meet Hawthorn class.

2020-2021

Hi Hawthorns,

We hope you have all had a lovely half term break enjoying the glorious sunshine. Please remember to bring your sun hat and suncream to school as we have many outdoor activities planned. Keep a look out on the website for updates of all these activities.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us.

Mrs Jacob and Mrs Gibb

Summer Term 2021

Sports Day

12.7.21. We had a visit from Ranger Russ today bringing in some special guests.

9.07.21 Science week. The children looked for evidence to see which of the dogs had stolen the bone from Mrs Gibb's cupboard.

8.7.21 - Hawthorns have enjoyed a glorious day at Crooklets Beach, building sandcastles linked to our Victorian seaside topic, rock pooling looking for and identifying sealife and a safety talk from the coast guards. We ended the day with a yummy ice-cream!

28.5.21 As part of a joint project with the National Trust, to raise awareness of the importance of sand dunes, all the children got the opportunity to contribute towards painting our school cow. The theme for our cow was Wilderness and after looking through their initial designs we incorporated forest, Dartmoor and the beach. We helped to paint the base colours for either the forest, Dartmoor or the beach.

We have enjoyed planning and making fruit kebabs thinking about giving and writing clear instructions to help our teachers know what to do. We were very bossy!

Hawthorns enjoyed a fun time learning some running skills and a dance with OCRA.

We have enjoyed playing lots of games to help us learn our digraphs and trigraphs in phonics and our phase 2-5 tricky words.

We've been having lots of fun playing Miss Grey's game, linked to our traditional tales theme.

Our new learning sequence in English is all about instructions. We have been very bossy in class telling the adults how to make a jam sandwich!

We have been learning about traditional tales. Here are some pictures of what we think the giant might look like.

For St George's Day we learnt the story of George and the Dragon then imagined what a dragon would be like.

We have started learning how to use a tennis racket, in PE.

Autumn Term 2020

Hawthorns' Christmas song Click here to hear Hawthorns singing their Christmas song 'Merry Christmas Everyone.'

We had a lovely Christmas dinner with a surprise visitor.

We have had loads of fun in our Elf workshop making Christmas paper chains, stained glass windows and scratch art penguins. We also watched an Elf story.

We have learnt the First Christmas story and then we made puppets and performed it to the class.

In class we are trying to work out what our aliens are called. Can you help us by using your phonics to create names to see if we can guess their names by 2021.

We have been learning some dance moves in PE. The children have enjoyed freestyle to some Irish music!

Click on the link to see group 1:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CZiepEn1RmmpJqffkJ7BaeUplWqZnlQF/view?usp=sharing

Group 2 to follow...

More Christmas activities beautifully coloured and cut by the children.

Christmas activities

Our self portraits. Can you guess who's who?

Children in need in Hawthorns

In Computing we are learning about Algorithms. We had great fun telling our robot what to do to make a sandwich. We had to think really carefully and make sure our instructions were very clear.

Look at our wonderful firework pictures.

In Creative Thursdays we have been looking at sculptures. We linked our sculptures to our Autumn theme and man leaf men.

We were lucky enough to have OCRA come and do a multi skills session with us just before half term.

Here are some of our final playground equipment designs we created in DT.

In Creative Thursday Hawthorns have experimented using primary colours to make secondary colours, along with exploring different painting tools to create paintings of autumn trees and Van Gogh's 'Wheatfield with Crows.'

We have been exploring our sense of smell and taste in an experiment identifying the flavour of crisps.

Place value - We have found out which numbers are smaller or greater than others.

In DT we have been looking at playground equipment. Here are some photos of us exploring different joins.

We have been creating sentences using pictures and words.

Hi Hawthorns,

I hope you have all had a wonderful summer holiday and are ready for an exciting new term. Mrs Gibb and myself were lucky to meet some of you last term but I'm sure you are all feeling like us at the moment, excited to be all back together again but a little worried too. Our Hawthorn bubble is going to be really special and we will all be there for each other to help get used to the new routines within school life.

To begin with, we will be recapping on many skills learnt in Chestnuts to consolidate those skills before moving on. Our priority is to ensure everyone is happy within school and ready to learn from all the fun activities we have planned for you this year.

We are looking forward to seeing all your smiling faces again on Monday 7th September at 8.35am, where you will be met by Mrs Perry, Miss Hutton and myself in the playground.

See you soon.

Mrs Jacob.

2019- 2020

This is the last week of the Summer Term. What a lot of wonderful learning has been going on in the class and at home. Try to keep up your reading and phonics over the summer holiday. Phonics play is a good website to practice reading graphemes and for playing games to reinforce them to help you be more speedy with your reading.

Have lots of fun, take a look back over some of the activities from previous weeks, there are lots of suggestions if you get bored. I hope you all have a wonderful summer holiday and that I will see you some time in the Autumn term when I come in to help with reading.

Best wishes,

Mrs Fawcett