This week, Elm class have been thinking of our value of service. They have though about the soldiers and home front, who served  during WW2 and also all of the people who work to support  Children in Need.

To commemorate Remembrance Day, Elm class created these beautiful paintings. First, they used colour blending skills to create a moonlit background and added a poppy in the middle ground to represent the soldiers, who sacrificed their lives to keep us safe. They then added the Chaconia, which is the national flower of Trinidad. This is to represent the soldiers from the Caribbean islands, who also fought and gave their lives to protect others.

Oliver also decorated a stone with a thoughtful Remembrance tribute. Thank you Oliver.

To support local charities, all of the children at St Anne’s donated £1 to BBC’s ‘Children in Need’ campaign. The were able to dress up in bright and colourful clothes to celebrate.

This week, we also held a special collective worship to celebrate Diwali and designed our own Diva lamps to light up our prayer area.

Well done to Youssef and Jackie for receiving merits this week. Youssef has been celebrated for his improved focus and effort in all of his tasks and Jackie has been showing resilience in maths and a positive attitude in all areas of her learning.

Well done to you both!

Rashaun also received a special note home, for his wonderful independent art this week.

I hope you all have a restful weekend.

Miss Thorn 🙂

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 🙂