by Mrs Thompson | Jan 16, 2017 | School News, Year 6
In class we have been looking at different spelling rules. The rule we looked at this week was adding a suffix beginning with a vowel to a word ending in ‘fer’. The rule was to decide whether to double the ‘r’ before adding the suffix. We practised the rule and then...
by Mrs Thompson | Dec 23, 2016 | Religious Life, School News, Year 6
What a fantastic end to a very busy term at St. Joseph’s with a wonderful liturgy led by the children in Year 6. Mr Hattam asked us all to remember the true meaning of Christmas and to spend a quiet minute during the busyness of Christmas Day to think about...
by Mrs Thompson | Dec 6, 2016 | School News, Year 6
As part of our Science topic on micro-organisms we investigated the conditions in which mould would grow the quickest. We set up and carried out a fair test. We placed slices of bread in different conditions and checked on the results after two weeks. Mould had...
by Mrs Thompson | Dec 6, 2016 | School News, Year 6
On Wednesday 30th November we held a reading inspire afternoon. We invited parents to come and work with us on different reading activities. We based our reading on The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis which we are reading in class. There were lots of...
by Mrs Thompson | Dec 6, 2016 | Events and Visits, School News, Year 6
The children from school had a visit from Martin Bailey, Animate 2 Educate, to talk to them about the importance of being safe when online on a tablet, phone or laptop. Then the children from Year 6 worked in small groups to think of other ways to remind us all of how...
