Good afternoon Cedar,

I just wanted to say a huge well done to you all!  It has been an amazing half term, you have worked so hard and I’m really proud of you.

To celebrate the end of term we normally hold our Star Merit Assembly with the parents invited and taking part in the assembly.  This has not been possible this half term, but we held the assembly in our School bubble and celebrated the children’s achievements just the same.

Our Star Merit winner was Keira. Over the course of the half term, Keira has worked really hard in all areas of her learning and she has shown great determination and perseverance to make sure that she gets her work done and she always gives 100%.  Well done Keira, the Star Merit is well deserved!

We also had Positive Postcards for Henry and Kamal, both of whom have a really enthusiastic and positive approach to their learning.  Well done!

I have set some homework over the half term break, most of it has been set over Seesaw, please log in and check to see the tasks set for you. In addition there is a times table challenge in the homework folder.

I hope that you have a good break, get some rest and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday 2nd November.

Mr Paxton

Dear Parents,

Good afternoon to you all, I hope that you have had a good week.

Another busy week has drawn to a close and the children in Cedar have been working as hard as ever.  We have just finished a maths topic, addition and subtraction which has involved some tricky worded problems and we have started a new English writing genre – we are now studying Suspense and Mystery writing.  The work is still based around our class book, Skellig and the children have started to produce some amazing work.  It is clear that they are going to love writing in this style.

This week, our merits were given to Ayisa, for her determination with her reading and to Valentina who has shown great perseverance with her maths work this week, as well as her positive approach to all of her learning.  Well done to Ayisa and Valentina for their achievements.  We must also say well done to Keira who received one of our special cards to say how well she had contributed during our collective worship and also to Arturo who got his special card for maintaining a really high standard in all of his work, but especially with his maths.  Well done to all of our merit recipients.

I would like to remind you that we have set up a homework task for the children to complete by Wednesday. on our new Seesaw platform.  The children have had a lesson using the app to familiarise themselves and they have been given their log ins today. We have included a parent guide, should you or they need it, but if you do need to contact me about this, please drop me an email to :

cedar20@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk

I hope you have a really enjoyable weekend.

Mr Paxton

Dear Parents.

It was good to catch up with you last Wednesday and chat about how your child has started the term.  I have been really impressed with how all of the children in Cedar class have settled into the new year and if I didn’t speak to you this week, I have scheduled in a time next Wednesday after to school to call you.

We have had a great week, finishing off our first English topic on diary writing and we have move onto addition and subtraction in maths.  We had an interesting science lesson looking at air resistance and planning an investigation where the children constructed parachutes to test out their ideas.  We had a wonderful Harvest celebration which, although not at the church, was still an inspiring and joyous occasion.

Friday is the day we celebrate the achievements of the children and our merit winners this week were Razia and Kamak.  Razia has had a wonderful week, working extremely hard and her contribution towards the Harvest prayer was amazing. Kamal has produced a wonderful piece of writing to round off our diary writing unit.  Well done Razia and Kamal for all of your hard work and efforts.

We also celebrated the achievements of Cassie and Simeon who have both had great weeks at school.

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There is a new Wandsworth Sumdog contest, so please get the children to log on and answer as many questions as possible and see if we can be the best performing school in Wandsworth.

I would also like to draw your attention to Cedar class being the school’s Eco Warriors and we will keep you posted on the children’s efforts to make St Anne’s a greener and more eco friendly place!

I hope you all have a good weekend.

Mr. Paxton

Good afternoon, I trust that you are well and looking forward to the weekend, although the weather this weekend doesn’t look so good.

It has been a really busy week as we have been doing a lot of assessments in Maths and English.  The children have been amazing, showing great resilience and focus to complete their work.  In between the assessments, we have continued with our English work on Skellig, we have finished our place value topic in Maths and the children have written a wonderful prayer for Harvest.

We have had a lot to celebrate this week.  For our Merit Assembly, Iona and Kirill were awarded merits; Iona for her amazing work and focus all week,  while  Kirill received his, for his enthusiasm for learning and improved concentration.  Well done to Iona and Kirill, they are both, well deserved.  We have also sent home some postcards celebrating the work that Ayisa did during our PE lesson, whilst Alex received one for his amazing focus during the assessment week.

Well done to all of our proud students who received awards this week.

I have not set homework following the assessments but I would expect the children to read everyday and practice their times tables.

I wish you a happy weekend and I will be in touch next week.

Mr Paxton

Good afternoon, I hope you are well.  As we draw towards the end of the second full week back at school, this one has been just as busy at the first!  We have pushed ahead with our English work based on Skellig and the children have really got to grips with the characters and have written some amazing pieces based upon one of the main characters, Michael.  We have almost covered our first maths topic, place value, and again the children have produced some great maths work all week.

The new school regime with the classes in bubbles has continued to go well and the regular hand-washing has become second nature.

For our second Merit Assembly, celebrating the children’s achievements, merits were given to Keira and Arturo.  Keira received hers for some amazing work, writing in character and Arturo received his for producing consistently good work across the whole week.

We were also able to celebrate some great work from Kamal and Cassie.  Kamal has made real progress this week with his writing and Cassie has produced some really insightful writing.  Henry was also awarded his pen licence so well done Henry and well done to all 4 of our winners this week.

Please do make sure that your children are reading each day and remember to “sign off” their reading records each time you hear them read.

I have emailed you to say that our Harvest food collection, for donation to the Ace of Clubs charity, is going ahead and would like to say thank you to those of you who have made a donation.  If you are able to donate, even a small amount, it does make a big difference to those who are reliant on the charity.

The emails seem to be working well, so please contact me if there is anything of concern.

Thank you and I wish you all an enjoyable weekend.

Mr. Paxton

Good afternoon, I hope that you are all well and looking forward to a restful weekend.  We have completed our first full week back at school and it has been a busy week, full of exciting learning, hard work and some fun!  This week we have started our new English book and the children had fun exploring old Chinese takeaway cartons, brown ale bottles, bugs, feathers and an old loo (don’t worry it was only a picture!). All of these objects link to the book Skellig by David Almond and the class enjoyed thinking about how the objects fitted into the story.  Maybe now that we have started the book, they can tell you a bit more about it.

The children have responded to the new regime really well and have embraced the regular hand washing and new protocols for moving around the school in their “bubbles”.

Given the new school situation we find ourselves in, we have changed the weekly Merit Assembly.  We now celebrate the children’s achievements in class and our first recipients were Henry and Cassie.  Well done to you both!  Cassie and Henry showed great focus, determination and hard work, all week, across all areas of the curriculum.

We are also celebrating any fantastic work produced during the week and this week Iona’s science work on forces was amazing.  She recognised forces as pushes and pulls and identified pairs of forces acting upon an object.  Well done Iona.

We have also recognised that those quick chats at the school gate are no longer possible, so we are sending out cards and stickers to celebrate your child’s successes, as an alternative to letting you know in person.  Look out for any cards and stickers your child brings home.  Maxwell showed great determination and perseverance with his times tables  so he got the first card of the term for this success.

I will update this blog every Friday, so please have a look and be a part of celebrating our class successes.

Have a great weekend

Mr Paxton

Dear Cedars,

Good morning, I hope that you are well and had a wonderful weekend!

Did you manage to do anything really exciting?  I had a long car trip to Manchester, part of which was in pouring rain!  However, I was glad to be back and enjoying the sunshine in London.

Thanks for sending in your work, over the last week.  Well done Oli, Nour, Youssef and Kye who have all been really busy completing their home learning tasks. Also, a huge well done to Melissa. who was the winner of the Sumdog challenge this week with Louis in second place.

With more children in school, home learning on the blogs will be reduced. On your blog you will have a home learning grid providing a range of online resources for you to access.  There will also be another home school learning pack available for you to pick up from the school office, together with a summer holiday booklet for the children to complete over the summer holiday.
Packs will be available to be collected from Monday 29^th June.

Online packs for the next three weeks:

Home-Learning-Pack Week 15

Home-Learning-Pack Week 16

Home-Learning-Pack Week 17

In addition to the packs, the link to the grid can be found here:

Summer Term Home Learning Activities (1)

There is also a link here for for a Summer Diary, that you can keep over the Summer and record all the exciting things that you do.  One will be put into each of the work packs.

Summer diary pd

Wandsworth Summer Reading Challenge

As the summer holidays approach, Wandsworth library have set a new reading challenge which I know many of you love and take part in.  This year due to the pandemic, there will be no visits to the library, but it has all been put online.  Look at the link here for further information.

Summer Reading Challenge 2020 (1)

Finally, I look forward to welcoming some of you back to school on Monday.

Mr Paxton

Good morning Cedar Class I hope that you all had a great weekend!  Did any of you celebrate Father’s Day?  If you did I would like to know what you did so that I can train my own children up ready for next year!

I really enjoyed being able to talk to many of you last week and I look forward to catching up with the rest of the class this week.

I have attached the home learning tasks for this week;

Cedar Class Home Learning Week 14

Maths

Lesson 1 – Subtracting decimals with the same number of decimal places

Lesson 2 – Subtracting decimals with a different number of decimal places

Lesson 3 – Multiplying decimals by 10 100 and 1000

Lesson 4 – Dividing decimals by 10 100 and 1000

RE

This week we are looking at the value of Patience.

Summer term RE Patience

PE

Tuesday is International Olympic day.  To celebrate try one of the activities on the link found on the home learning document. As the Olympics were due to be held in Japan, why not try this short home workout?

https://www.getset.co.uk/resources/active-assemblies/radio-taiso

P4C

This week is a continuation of the community theme.  Work through the activities found on the Hometalk week 13 document.

In order to help with the discussion, here is a link to a document which I hope you find useful in raising the Black Lives Matter agenda.  It is also links well with the activities in the document.

Parent’s guide to black lives matter (1)

Hometalk-Week-13

Science

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Hi Cedars!

How are you doing?  I hope that you are all well.  It has been a busy week and it was really great to speak to some of you earlier in the week.  If I didn’t manage to get in touch with you, I will continue to try and hopefully will have spoken to you all by the end of next week.

A reminder, it is Father’s Day on Sunday in case you had forgotten!

Thanks to all the children who have sent in work this week.  I can see that some of you have been really busy.  I would like to say a big well done to Youssef who has been doing his Maths and English work as well as writing a lovely acrostic poem on our RE value of Humility.  I will try to get this copied and posted early next week.  Oliver as always, has had a busy schedule and he has been working everyday on his Maths and English.  Oli has also looked at Fair Trade issues and made his hand heart based upon our RE value, Love.  Well done Oliver, great work, keep it up!

Kye has been working hard this week on his Maths and English, well done Kye.  Keep up the hard work Kye!  Nour has also been busy with her Maths and English work, thanks for sending that in to me Nour and well done for keeping up with the work.  Louis has also had a busy week working on his Maths.  He has really been pushing himself and completing a lot of Maths challenges, well done Louis, keep it up. He has also been writing a diary, have a look below.

The dairy of Louis Lai

Louis, Olivia and Celina have also been busy on Sumdog, well done you three.

On the subject of which, I have set a Spelling challenge on Sumdog which will start at 5.00pm today and will close next Friday at midday.  If you complete the spelling challenge you will get 250 coins!  Good luck Cedars.

Please keep the work coming in, if you can send to:

admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk and in the subject line write Cedar.

Enjoy the weekend, take care and stay safe.

Mr. Paxton