Rockstars

A fantastic week in Coconut for Rockstars 12 times-tables. Most children achieved 100% all week or made progress from Monday to Friday!

Congratulations to all the children below:

Kids Space

Coconut class smashed the attendance last term and won the trip to Kids Space! They had a fantastic time and enjoyed a relaxing afternoon off work!

Keep up with getting to school time Coconut! We want to win again!

Coconut star writer

Well done to Mitchell Stapleton, who used a range of sentence types in the opening to his narrative story, and achieved Star Writer this week!

Year 5 Random Acts Of Kindness

Our lovely Year 5s teamed up with Reverend Rich to perform some random acts of kindness today. Maple travelled to Hilldene Shops to hand out sweets to passers by, all in the name of being kind. Year 5 will also be thinking about how to be kind around school and at home and the sense of happiness it gives to everyone involved. 

Year 5 Spellings Week 2

Here are the spellings for this week. The spelling test will be on Friday as normal. Please encourage your child to look up definitions of the words as some are trickier than expected. A reminder that children are expected to bring in their spelling book and reading record to school every Friday. 

5, 4, 3, 2, 1... We have blast off!

Year 6 had a fantastic time setting off their water rockets today in science - many thanks to those parental contirbutions of plastic bottles!

Although getting soaked, they had a thrilling time pumping the air into the bottle rockets and watching them whizz away.

Each set of children worked with a different volume of water in their bottle so as to establish which volume of water would project the rocket the furthest length.

We are still crunching the number, however, in these early stages we realised that the rockets with the lesser water travelled the furthest. This is because those with more water are heavier and so found it a struggle to take off. Also, these bottles have less space for air inside; the air being pumped into the bottle causes a build up of pressure, when there is no space left for air, the bottles are projected forward with the release of pressure in the bottle.

Athletics... The big throw.

Coconut and Palm have joined forces. In their PE lesson this week, they started practicing their arm strokes with the athletic throwing equipment.

There were javelins: 

The discus: 

And shot putt (did you know those balls are actually rather heavy!) modelled well by Mrs Johnston:

Well done Year 6, everyone else... Watch out for Sports Day! We are coming for you...