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Welcome to Poplars Class!
2019-2020
Dear Poplars.
What a strange end to the Spring term that was! Thank you to all of you who have sent in photos of your learning and activities you have done at home over the last week. It has been great to share your experiences.
As the email from Mr Monger explained, we will have a slightly more structured approach to your home learning from the start of next term. I will set tasks for English and Maths for 5 days, a Science and topic task and of course you can continue with reading, exercising and playing your recorder. At the moment, we are still working out how I can give more structured feedback for the work you are doing.
As advance notice, I am going to base the first fortnight's English on the book Wind in the Willows. As we will focus on the language can I ask that you don't watch the film but read or listen to the story. There are different versions on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oANsN5AnVEs) if you don't have the book, make sure you ask an adults permission before finding it though. There is no expectation to do this over the holiday unless you want to.
I will continue to upload any photos sent in to the Pupils@ email address but won't set you any home learning tasks. If you are working on Prodigy, don't forget to login using the class code so that I can see what you are doing. Enjoy the Easter holiday together.
Best Wishes
Mrs Moss
Our first photograph as Poplars, September 2019
The Egyptian Level
We finished our afternoon, and Egyptian topic with a mini concert.
20.3.20 We took advantage of the appearance of the sun on Friday afternoon and went outside for a skipping session.
Sport Relief. It was great to have the sunshine for our 10 minute run this morning. Poplars enjoyed a half hour skipping session and a few children bravely demonstrated skills in assembly too.
We made Magnetic maze games as part of our Science topic. With a magnet underneath the box, they moved their magnetic character around the maze.
Fairtrade. As part of some work for Fairtrade fortnight the children used the atlases to find countries where fairtrade foods are grown.
World Book Day
3.3.20. Poplars enjoyed a very energetic but fun skipping workshop with Dan this morning. I hope they have showed you some of their skills.
We decided to join in with Mrs King's 'Extreme reading' challenge.
Our English lessons this half term will focus on stories including dragons. The children have been given the challenge of finding books that have dragons as characters.
25.2.20 We investigated magnetic poles in Science today. They made their own compass with a magnet, plastic pot and tray of water. Then had fun creating speedboats and discovered how fast they could make their 'boat' move around in the water without touching it.
11.2.20 The children enjoyed dressing up in Egyptian clothes this afternoon and writing their name in hieroglyphs on real papyrus paper.
4.2.20 Magnetic mazes. We spent the morning testing the strength of different magnets and then designed and created our own magnetic maze games.
28.1.20 We had a fun and information-packed day with Sabef, the Ancient Egyptian visitor. They helped build an Egyptian boat and a house, looked at different artefacts and discussed what that showed us, helped mummify Tutankhamun's body and even dissected Egyptian poo.
27.1.20 We had a great morning at Okehampton College for the dance and gym event. The bounce track photos are a little bit blurry due to how fast they bounced down the inflatable track but I'm sure the children will tell you all about it.
24.1.20. Playing board games as part of our sequence on learning to tell the time.
7.1.20 'There's a Pharaoh in our Bath'. We created freeze frames for part of the story where the family first meet the Pharaoh. They were surprisingly good at acting out the brother and sisier who were arguing.
9.1.20. We have started our Egyptian topic and spent the afternoon looking at Egyptian painting. We used paint and black fine liners to create our own. Ask the children how Egyptian people were drawn.
Mrs ST James helped the children create a chocolate Christmas tree or bauble.
Poplars have been joined again by 2 cheeky elves. Keep checking back to see what they are getting up to.
Well done for all of your hard work leading up to our production. We were very proud of you all.
6.12.19 This week's certificate winners.
Tricky Triangle Task. I challenged the children to make different triangles (equilateral, right angle, scalene and isosceles) and to be able to identify the angles (acute, obtuse and right angle).
30.11.19 Certificate winners for this week. Well done everyone.
25.11.19 Body Maths. We had a go at making different lines with our bodies. Can you see who made parallel lines, perpendicular lines, vertical, diagonal and horizontal lines?
22.11.19 Our Class assembly
15.11.19 Children in Need
12.11.19. Odd socks for the start of anti-bullying week.
The disabled toilet was a great place to go to investigate making different shadows. They discovered they could make their shadow bigger than them or change its position behind them, they could have more than one shadow and they could make lighter and darker shadows all by moving the torch or by changing how many torches they used.
Recorders Brake Ben, Brake
After a few weeks of learning to play the recorder they are doing quite well.
A is for Annie's Animals
We investigated how we could make more than one shadow and what happened when we moved the object nearer or further away from a flat surface.
13.9.19 The Boy with the Bronze Axe freeze frames. So far in our class text... Kali and Brockan had gone to a little rocky island to collect limpets and crabs. The tide came in without them realising and they were stranded. As they started to panic, Tenko managed to row his boat alongside them and get them safely back to Skara Brae.
Our certificate winners so far.
5.9.19 Stone Age Painting. We used power paints, charcoal and our fingers to create a stone age painting.
2018-2019
Poplars February 2019
Scroll to the bottom of the page for Poplars' Termly Newsletter and ideas for Home learning.
24.7.19. We enjoyed an end of term treat, a dance games and workshop with Jess. Despite the heat they had the energy for musical games, a team river game and learnt a dance. Thank you to the PTFA who funded our treat.
22.7.19 Our whole school walk adventure. Hills to hike up and down, stiles to climb, trees to limbo and a beautiful spot for lunch. Thank you to all the adults who joined us.
19.7.19. A few weeks ago art club entered an art competition called My Outdoors run by CPRE (Campaign to Protect Rural England). We were delighted to hear that out of all the entries from schools round Devon, 3 of our children received Highly Commended awards. Penny came to give them their certificates in assembly today and goody bags for the children who took part.
19.7.19. Today's certificate winners.
18.7.19 Sports Day. Poplars performed brilliantly at the cricket club this afternoon.
World War 1 day. Impressive costumes again.
16.7.19. French Day. The children looked fantastic dressed up today. We had a fun day designing and making a tie inspired by France. It was a lovely celebration down at the Community Centre and an opportunity for all the classes to demonstrate the French songs they have learnt over the year.
After learning how to make a paper boat at the Summer Fair, the skill was shared with Art club this afternoon.
After looking at different bridge designs the children had a morning to design and make their own bridge. This time it had to reach across a gap of 20cm and be able to support the weight of a small toy car.
How strong can you make a bridge. that crosses a 10cm gap, using just 1 sheet of A4 paper and 30cm of sellatape? This was their challenge for this morning. We had great fun testing them.
As part of our Rivers topic we wrote Tanka poems today.
28.6.19 A beautiful day for a 10 minute run on the field. We then went maths outside for part of maths and were estimating what we could do in one minute.
21.6.19 Hatherleigh's Got Talent auditions. We were treated to an afternoon of talent for our class auditions. There was a real variety from dances, magic tricks and musical performances.
21.6.19 The sun was shining for our Friday 10 minute run, skip or walk. Quite a few of the children are interested in aiming for the OCRA 13 half marathon Challenge.
14.6.19. Poplars played a few of the tunes in assembly that they have been learning on their recorders.
14.6.19 Poplars class have been busy learning their times tables and related division facts this week. Congratulations to all our certificate achievers.
12.6.19 What a fantastic visit we had from Ranger Russ. We learnt so much about rivers and the different animals that he brought with him. Everyone was super brave and touched at least creature. Mrs Emery and Mrs Moss even had the opportunity to hold the snakes. Thank you so much to the PTFA for funding his visit.
24.5.19 This week's certificate winners.
20.5.19 We joined year 4 for another orienteering activity. This time they had to use the map to find the station that had an anagram to solve. It was quite tricky.
What a successful week! Lots of children have learnt times tables and received their certificates in assembly, as well as other achievements to recognised in and out of school.
16.5.19 Out in the sunshine sketching the school.
13.5.9 A beautiful sunny afternoon for an orienteering activity.
Certificate winners for this week and our Friday run. Several children managed to keep jogging or skipping for the full 10 minutes this week.
This week's certificate winners.
First week back and look how many of us earned certificates.
5.4.19 Last photo with Mrs Boother.
2.4.19. Poplars performing at the Spring Concert,
'Faith' choreographed by Ellodie Stott.
2.4.19. Poplars and Willows performing the Haka
29.3.19. As part of their topic on dragons, Poplars have written stories about the dragon they designed and painted, then wrote poems. This week's challenge was to create a dragon, write a Dragonolgy report and then in D.T. create their dragons using newspaper.
25.3.19. We had a visit from Ann-Marie to let us know about the cricket opportunities at Hatherleigh Cricket Club this summer. We enjoyed a fun-packed workshop of cricket skills.
22.3.19. Road Safety
Learning all about mummification as part of our Ancient Egyptian topic with Miss Radbourne involved being brave enough to put their hand into a bag to work out which body part had been removed before being put into a canopic jar. They also had fun mummifying each other.
7.3.19 World Book Day. Can you recognize our book characters?
5.3.19. We had a visit from Jane to talk to us about what it is like living in Egypt. We also got to try on Egyptian clothes and eat a traditional Egyptian breakfast. The eggs, bread and tomatoes went down well- the ful ( a mixture of beans that was slightly spicy) was less popular! Jane started to teach us how to count to 10 in Arabic and the Egyptian alphabet.
14.2.19. Poplars were given the challenge of making a boat out of plastercine that would float. They then had to investigate the maximum number of 'passengers' it could carry.
February 2019. Poplars have been having lots of fun in Science. They investigated the permeability of different soils and investigated the size of 'craters' created by dropping balls in sand.
4.2.19 We had a fantastic afternoon at Okehampton College for the Year 3 dance, trampoline and movement workshops. They had the opportunity to use the air-track, double trampoline, learn a dance.
25.1.19 Very proud of the children who could attend the Wellbeing event after school on Friday. They sang, played recorder and demonstrated the ukuleles brilliantly.
9th January 2019 Line and shape investigations. I know it looks like we were having a quick kip first week back but we were investigating parallel, perpendicular and adjacent lines.
18.12.18 Christmas jumper Day and Christmas Dinner
December 2018. Poplars have been joined by 2 cheeky elves in the run up to Christmas. Look at what they have been up to so far.
11.12.18. Poplars and Oaks performed brilliantly in their Science production.
Children in Need 2018
Freeze frames showing an event at the end of our class text, 'The Boy with a Bronze Axe'.
Our Friday 10 minute run!
Poplars really enjoyed their visit to Merrivale as part of our topic 'Stone Age to Iron Age.'
Poplars Class 2018. Our first class photograph of the year.
