Burpham Foundation Primary School

Welcome to the Owls and Nightingales class page.  Please contact your teacher if you have any questions or concerns.   We will reply as soon as possible.  

News

We are learning to tell the time this term so please practise at home. We will send home a cardboard cut out clock you can practise with. The video on BBC bitesize should help you.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhk82hv/articles/zcmdwxs?scrlybrkr=fb8a39e2

We have started to find out about the sinking of the Titanic. You can see some of our fantastic writing if you come to visit on Welcome Wednesday. 

Summer Term Newsletter - see below

This term we will be working in house teams during our Friday P.E. lesson so please come to school wearing your house polo shirt on a Friday. Remember to bring your trainers to school as you will need them for our P.E. lessons. 

We are going to send home some reading comprehension activities for home learning this term. We will send them home on a Friday along with the weekly spellings. Please continue to visit Times Table Rockstars and practise your 2x,5x and 10x tables. You can find the link towards the end of this page.

English -The Green Ship

We are about to start our topic on The Titanic so we read The Green Ship by Quentin Blake in order to discover what a ship might look like and to learn some new vocabulary. What do you think of our pastel drawings and written descriptions?

Infant Art and Craft morning

Nower Wood

We had a fantastic day at Nower Wood exploring animal habitats. We did some pond dipping and went on a minibeast safari. 

Geography 

  This term we have been exploring another continent - South America. We took a look at the Favelas  in Brazil and made our own display showing what it would be like to live there.  

We also found out about the Amazon rainforest and created some pieces of art showing how animals use camouflage to hide themselves. We wrote descriptions of the jungle using the new vocabulary we learnt.

Science

Our bean plants are growing really well. They now have flowers on them. The bulbs we planted have started to grow. We drew diagrams of our bean plants using the sketching techniques we have learnt this term.  

D.T.

We have made moving dragon pictures to celebrate Chinese New Year. We have used a sliding mechanism to hide the dragon behind a cave.

Art

 This term we have been working on our sketching skills. We have learnt how important it is to look closely at the object we are drawing. We have experimented with  making  forwards and backwards movements to create outlines. We discovered the importance of making our sketches large.

We have studied the work of Matisse and investigated his collage technique "painting with scissors". 

Beans and Bulbs!

In September we will  plant some bean seeds and some tulip bulbs.  We will watch our bean seeds germinate and watch the shoot and root emerge. We will plant our seedlings in the  planters outside our classroom and wait for the beans to grow.  

Watch this space for photographs of our bean plants.

Photo Gallery

DT project - Making a new moving vehicle for Mrs Armitage

 We designed a new vehicle for Mrs Armitage. We experimented with different joining techniques before we made our vehicles. Have a look at the results!

Healthy Eating 

In Science we have been finding out about what we should eat to stay healthy. Here are some photographs of the plates of delicious food we designed and made. Which healthy meal would you like to eat?

Useful Documents

Home Learning

Weekly spellings and Maths Home Learning will be given out on a Friday.

If your child is self-isolating due to Covid-19, please find work uploaded to Google Classroom for them to complete at home.

Helpful Websites

Here are some useful websites to support children's learning at home.

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-5

https://www.scholastic.com/parents/school-success/home-learning-resources.html 

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase5Menu.htm

https://www.researchify.co.uk/audiobooks.html

Maths:

• TT Rockstars - https://ttrockstars.com/
• NRICH - https://nrich.maths.org/    
• Topmarks - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

• Oxford Owl - https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/kids-activities/fun-maths-games-and-activities/

• ICT games - www.ictgames.com
• BBC Bitesize - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

Computing:

• Purple Mash - https://purplemash.com/sch/burpham/

• Language Angels - https://www.languageangels.com/schools/ 

Supporting Learning at Home

Children are able to exchange their reading books every day and should try and read at home every evening.  Spellings and Maths Home Learning will be sent home on a Friday.  The children should stick them in their home learning book which is left at home.  The activities should be completed at some time during the week.  Please refer to the following guides for how to support your child with their reading and spellings.