This week is Children's Mental Health Week and the theme is 'my voice matters'. We watched an online assembly about this and then completed an activity called the swirl. On our swirl, we put everything that is important to us in everyday life and then added things that are important to us in the wider world.

Here are pictures of a few from Willow Class.

Some of the things that are important to us are: our pets, our family, sunshine, exercise, learning, countries where we are from and games that we enjoy playing. 

Today is Safer Internet Day so we have been taking part in some activities linked to this. To start with, we watching a video that was sharing how to stay safe whilst using AI. We then completed a range of tasks and finished by creating a poster all about how to stay safe online. 
Here is how the children in Willow Class stay safe online: 

"I don't click on random links."

"You can make sure that photos aren't fake by looking closely at them."

"Respect each other."

"Don't talk to strangers because they may be older or younger than you think."

This half term, in our Jigsaw lessons, we have been discussing dreams and goals. We started by thinking about our own dreams and goals before setting steps to achieve these. We then moved onto discussing our dreams for the world and we wanted to share some of these. 
Here are the dreams of some of the children in Willow Class: 

"My dream for the world is for bullying to cease to exist."

"My dream for the world is for everyone to have a home and food."

"My dream is for the world to go to school to learn and study hard. I want them to always focus on their studies so that they can have a great future."

A new week brings with it a new Maths topic: angles! Today's lesson consisted of recognising and naming different types of angle. We discussed key language such as interior, exterior, obtuse, acute and reflex. Once we had all become angle experts, we created our own information pages. These will help us with our revision and they will also be used to support the Year 5s with their learning! 

Our objective in yesterday's Science lesson was to learn about the four components of blood and their functions. To support this, we made our very own blood! We used: marshmallows for white blood cells; oats for platelets; rice crispies and red food colouring for red blood cells and water and yellow food colouring for plasma. 
It was a fantastic lesson! 

This term, we have introduced a new, simpler way for the children to remember our school rules.

Fairlands Achieves, Includes and Respects - We are FAIR

To support children remembering these rules and understanding them, a child in Willow Class has created a wonderful poster at home in her own time! This poster is now displayed in class to remind children of our school rules.

In Willow Class, we follow FAIR!  

This half term, our topic is Heartbeat. This week, we have begun to learn all about the different parts of our circulatory system and how they all work. Our first Art lesson was to follow a step by step guide that demonstrated how to draw an anatomically accurate heart. We started with the outline, added in some detail and finished off with texture and shading. Here are some of our examples - we are sure you will agree that they look incredible!

Our last writing unit before we break up for Christmas has been cinquain poems - something that we have absolutely loved writing! Our final piece is a poem all about World War 1. We spent some lessons building up vocabulary and then we had to ensure that these phrases adhered to the strict syllable rules for cinquain poems: 2, 4, 6, 8, 2. We then had to write our poems in that classic diamond shape. Here are some of our finished pieces! 

This half term, our Science topic has been: Electricity! Each half term, once all our learning is finished, we complete a double page spread to present our learning. We always ensure that these are detailed, informative and eye-catching. Here are some of our examples!

Our topic for this half term has been natural disasters - a topic that many of us have found incredibly interesting! Our homework task was to create a project on a natural disaster of our choice. Here of two of the examples that were handed in - these children did an amazing job presenting their learning and it is clear that they have worked incredibly hard!