Diamond Class
The teacher in Diamond class is Mrs Rounce. In the morning Mrs Smith teaches Year 2 and 3 in Sapphire Class. Mrs Glover and Miss Wollington support teaching and learning in Diamond class.
Home learning tasks can be found on Google classroom
Recent Activities
We all wore odd socks to support Anti-Bullying week. We had assemblies and thought about bullying all week.
In RSHE, Year 5 and 6 have been considering their feelings and they made a mood bottle with different materials for each feeling.
In geography, we are learning about mountains. We studied Mount Everest looking at what mountain range it is located in, its features and then we researched and presented facts about it.
We chose who we would like to write a biology of and researched their life. We then drafted and wrote their biography.
We are reading Tim Berners-Lee’s biography which contains lots of subject specific language. We learned techniques to help us understand vocabulary we don’t know then matched words to their definitions.
We all celebrated World Mental Health Day with the charity Young Minds # Hello Yellow. We wore yellow and thought about how we can help ourselves and others promote positive mental health. Singing happy songs definitely helped!
Nine very determined children went to the Acle clusters cross country tournament. They all ran exceptionally well and we thank them for representing us so well.
Diamond Class are reading ‘Kiki Kallira breaks a kingdom’ and used the book as inspiration for their harvest festival service. It was set in Kiki’s sketched world of Mysore in India.
The class researched food in Mysore, wrote a piece for the harvest service and created a picture to illustrate the food. They really enjoyed making bondas’ an Indian potato snack and trying the sweets Mysore Pak and jalebis.
We read the book ‘The colours of us’ and each painted our own portraits using the book as inspiration. We are going to combine our portraits with Salhouse and Neatishead Primary schools to create a federation ‘The colour of us’.
Keep checking our class page to see the finished piece!
