This week in Year One are having a Pirate Week! We have had lots of fun making treasure maps and creating our own pirate flags! Everyone even has their own pirate names!
We are hoping to find some treasure!
Year 1 have loved being back at school this week and we have had a brilliant time seeing our friends. This week we have been looking at the artist Kandinsky. We made our own circles paintings just like his. Well Done Year 1!
A super duper first day back. We’ve had lots of fun! 😀
We’ve had lots of game playing on Spelling Shed this week with some new names climbing high up the leaderboard! It’s been great to see.
Our leading class this week is … Year 4. Fantastic work! Who will it be next week?
Our super spellers this week are:
Y2- Matthew, Dylan, Anais
Y3/4- Izzy, Jayden R, Anya
Y5/6- Jack S, Oscar S, Alex
Well done everyone! A honey pot reward will be added to your account. Who will get the rewards next week?
Keep on spelling!
Well it been busy on Spelling Shed this week with some very determined children aiming for the leading places. Great work everyone!
Our top spelling class this week is … Year 3. Well done! Will you be able to keep that top spot next week?
Our super spellers are:
Y2 – Dylan, Matthew, Woody
Y3/4- Kaiden, Lucas, Anya
Y5/6 – Alex, Jack S, Oscar S
Well done! A honey pot reward will be added to your account. It’s great to see some familiar and some new names on the leader boards. Will your name be there next week?
We all know that we have some talented writers at Marsden who love to write their own stories. If this is you, I’m here to tell you that a new writing competition has been launched with a winning prize of £200 worth of National Book tokens!
This competition is open for all writers aged 6-18 and will be judged by six of the UK’s most exciting children’s authors. Three winners will be chosen for the £200 winning prize and further smaller prizes of National Book tokens will also be up for grabs. For this competition, simply write a short story of no more than 300 words, using the theme ‘BIG DREAMS‘. You can interpret this anyway you like: an epic fantasy inspired by a dream, an amazing adventure that takes place in another world, or a true-to-life story set in an imaginary dream place.
Now more than ever is a time for imagination with magical encounters and extraordinary adventures. While our world changes, stories still spread joy, give people comfort and allow people to dream!
If you would like to enter, please send your story to me: [email protected] before Thursday 28th May and I will enter it for you.
It would be lovely to read some of your big dreams stories so … get writing!
It has been a tight battle between classes this week on Spelling Shed but this week’s top spelling class is … Year 6. Fantastic work Year 6! Which class will lead the way next week?
Our individual super spellers this week are:
Y2- Dylan, Scarlett, and Woody
Y3/4- Jayden R, Harvey, and Anya
Y5/6- Alex, Oscar S, and Jack S
Well done, super spellers. You will find a honeypot reward in your account. Who will get the next reward?
This week I set Year One a challenge to make the ultimate sandwich. There has been some lovely ideas and it will be tricky to pick the winner. Have you made your sandwich yet?
I thought I would add in my own entry. I went for a fish finger and chip sandwich topped with lots of tomato ketchup! It was delicious. 🙂
Katherine Rundell has launched ‘The Book of Hopes’.
Completely free for all children and families, the extraordinary collection of short stories, poems, essays and pictures has contributions from more than 110 children’s writers and illustrators, including Lauren Child, Anthony Horowitz, Greg James and Chris Smith, Michael Morpurgo, Liz Pichon, Axel Scheffler, Francesca Simon, Jacqueline Wilson – and Katherine herself.
The Book of Hopes aims to comfort, inspire and encourage children during lockdown through delight, new ideas, ridiculous jokes and heroic tales. There are true accounts of cats and hares and plastic-devouring caterpillars; there are doodles and flowers; revolting poems and beautiful poems; and there are stories of space travel and new shoes and dragons.
To read and download the e-book, click on the link below.
https://issuu.com/bloomsburypublishing/docs/thebookofhopes_interactivepdf
We have had some great game playing again this week on Spelling Shed.
The school’s leading class for amount of game playing continues to be Year 3. Well done Year 3. You are proving tricky to overtake!
This week’s super spellers are:
Y2 – Dylan, Scarlett, and Layla-Grace
Y3/4 – Jayden R, James, and Riley D
Y5/6 – Oscar D, Oscar S, and Jack S
Great spelling! Our super spellers will all receive a honeypot reward on their account.
Who will get the reward next weekend?
