Elm have had a fantastic week back.

We have been learning all about the Empire Windrush and the history of the Caribbean as well as practising our written methods for division. Please ask us all about it! 🙂

This week Celina received a merit for her thoughtful and mature contributions to collective worship and PHSE. Well done Celina.

Nour was also celebrated for winning an award from the Young Writer’s 2020.

Nour’s creative writing piece ‘The pie’, written during her time learning form home, will be published in The Young Writer’s Anthology and a copy of it will live in the British library for ever!!

St Anne’s are so proud of you Nour, Well done 🙂

Have a fantastic weekend 🙂

Miss Thorn 🙂

Happy Friday everyone 🙂

Today we celebrated the end of the first half term with our ‘Star Merit’ collective worship.

Mrs Steward was there to mark the special occasion and although it wasn’t the same with out all of the parents, we still had a fantastic time celebrating the wonderful achievements of everyone in UKS2.

Well done to everyone who received merits this half term:

Oliver, Michael, Louis, Remell, Nour, Jack, Rashida, Leyla, Rashaun and Najeed.

Our ‘Star Merit’ this half term was: Leyla, for always showing resilience and determination in all areas of her learning and being an amazing role model to others! Well done Leyla.

This half term homework has been set via our Seesaw app. Please log on to view and respond to the half term home work tasks.

Thank you for a fab half term Elm class. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday. Rest and have fun 🙂

Happy Friday everyone,

We’ve had some very interesting lessons this week . On Wednesday, the children had a creative session with our new set of class iPads . We discussed our new remote learning platform, Seesaw, and explored creative ways to share our ideas and hard work. Today, we even had a remote learning tutorial session for maths and English. The children are now set for any eventuality and are confident with accessing learning online.

We have also had a great time learning about electricity this week, creating circuits and conducting experiments to explore the effects of voltage.

A huge well done to Nour and Oliver; who both received merits this week. Oliver received for his merit for his mature and insightful contributions to our ‘Black History Month’ Pupil led collective worship and Nour was awarded her merit for her consistent effort and focus in all of her lessons. Well done to you both.

Leyla was also celebrated this week for showing courage and improved confidence when performing her lines in our pupil led collective worship. She made us all very proud.

A big ‘well done’ to Louis; who is the first member of Elm to receive a Bronze award in the KS2 reading challenge this year! Keep it up Louis.

Remember, homework this week has been set via Seesaw. Instructions for how to log on, along with your text code is in the homework folders.

Have a great weekend 🙂

Miss Thorn

Hi everyone,

it’s been another fantastic week in Elm class. We have been working hard in English to write persuasive letters to both Mrs Steward, to be elected as team captain, as well as Miss Rice, to become a sports leader. We wrote our author at work piece this morning and everyone amazed me with their effort, enthusiasm and amazing presentation. We have also been recapping addition and subtraction using the formal written method in Maths- so busy!

Celebrations

This week both Najeed and Remell were awarded merits.

Najeed received his merit for his thoughtful and compassionate harvest prayer and Remell was celebrated for demonstrating his skills within reasoning and problem solving in maths. Well done to you both!

Today was also a cause for celebration as Mrs Steward announced this year’s team captains!!!

St George team captains: Alfie and Celina

St Nicholas team captains: Oliver and Nour

St Elizabeth team captains: Olivia and Alejandro

St Francis team captain: Louis

Well done to you all. Mrs Steward was blown away with your persuasive letters and I know that you will do an amazing job in your new roles- Your teams are lucky to have such wonderful leaders! 🙂

Leadership is one of St Anne’s learning behaviours that all children are encouraged to demonstrate. All children at St Anne’s are part of a leadership group and are considered Young Leaders.Each class is given a leadership area that they are responsible for promoting and nurturing over the year. This helps them to feel a sense of empowerment as they work together to inspire, develop and lead.

Elm are the Diversity Champions

We will be working to promote and celebrate diversity throughout the school.

Have a fabulous weekend 🙂

Miss Thorn 🙂

Happy Friday everyone 🙂

Elm class have made me so proud this week with their resilience and positivity. We have had a week of independent work in reading, maths and SPAG- the children have been brilliant!

In our ‘Celebrations’ collective worship this week, both Rashaun and Michael were awarded merits.

Rashaun was awarded his merit for improved focus and concentration in all of his lessons this week and his wonderful efforts in English. Well done Rashaun!

Michael has been working so hard on mastering rounding within 10 million and has shown true perseverance. Keep it up Michael!

Nour and Celina were also celebrated this week for demonstrating sportsmanship and team work in PE. Fantastic!

Also, a big congratulations to Alejandro for collecting the most team points!!!

Keep it up Elm Class!

Hope you all have an amazing weekend 🙂

Miss Thorn

Hi everyone,

We have had another amazing week in Elm class. In English, we are mastering all of the features needed to write a persuasive letter to Mrs Steward, explaining why we would be the perfect candidate for team captain. The children have been wowing us with their excellent use of parenthesis and emotive language. In Maths, we have recapped rounding  and are now thinking about negative numbers in context. We are still in awe of how well the children have settled back into school life and how quickly they have adapted to  all of the new provisions we have put in place.

Celebrations

Well done to Leyla and Jack, who received Merits this week.

Leyla has been aiming high in English, using all of her writer’s tools in her sentences and being a fantastic role model to others.

This week, Jack has been showing resilience and independence during guided reading and has been challenging himself with free reader texts.

Najeed was also celebrated for persevering with parenthesis and writing some brilliant sentences using a range of clauses this week. Keep it up!

Harvest

Just a reminder that we are still collecting items for our Harvest festival to be donated to the Ace Of Clubs charity. Even a small item would be greatly appreciated by those who rely on the help from Ace of Clubs. Thank you to those that have already donated 🙂

Have a lovely weekend and do email me with any worries or questions

elm20@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk

Miss Thorn 🙂

Hi everyone,

it has been amazing having all of the children back at school and all of Elm have had a fantastic start to the school year!

Today was our first Merit assembly. Although it was different to our usual Merit assembly, as we held it in our Key stage bubble, it was still fantastic to be celebrating all of our wonderful achievements again 🙂

Congratulations to Rashida and Louis for receiving our Merit certificates this week. Rashida has really impressed me with her confident contributions in collective worship, as well as in our whole class teaching. Well done Rashida!

Throughout the week, Louis has consistently shown his passion and enthusiasm for learning through active participation, focus and attention. keep it up Louis!

Today, Youssef and Celina were also celebrated for their fantastic work in art; aiming high and persevering to create amazing self portraits.

Check out all of Elm’s self portraits below:

As I’m not able to see you at the end of the day, I will be sending out small celebration postcards and stickers throughout the week to share the everyday achievements the children have made. Please keep an eye out for these and make sure you ask the children all about it 🙂

Elm class have definitely shown me that they are ready for all of the learning that we will be doing this term. Have a look at our topic map to explore some of our subjects;

Aut 1 topic map

Remember, if you have any questions for me, please contact me via email at elm20@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk

Have a great weekend 🙂

Miss Thorn