Key words/phrases for this half term are: Week 2 - Bienvenidos. Welcome Week 3 - Buenas días. Good morning. Week 4 - Buenas tardes. Good afternoon. Week 5 - Buenos noches. Goodnight. Week 6 - Adiós. Goodbye. Week 7 - Hasta mañana. See you tomorrow. This week the children at SJSJ celebrated the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival! Each class took a step away from...
In Year 6, the children have been reading and taking inspiration for their writing from key text: The Silver Sword by Ian Serralier. The week the children wrote setting descriptions of a prison camp in Zakyna, where the main character Joseph Balicki, is being held after being...
In science this week, Year 5 completed a carousel of activities to secure our new knowledge from our ‘Living Things’ topic. We defined key vocabulary, matched the parts of the flower to their function, sorted characteristics of animal life cycles in a Venn diagram, categorised...
Analyse of Sources – What caused the cholera epidemic? In History today, we worked in partners to look at a variety of different sources from the time of the cholera outbreak. We were able to use primary and secondary sources to create our own hypothesis about...
In Computing this week, Year 3 designed their very own digital devices! They needed to make sure the digital device had an input, such as a button, a process and an output. Some of our digital devices included helpful robots, laughing machines and disco lights! [gallery...
Today, Year 2 explored their local environment for their investigation. They looked for ants in different micro-habitats in their local environment and discussed, which micro-habitats had the most and least and why. Maybe you could go on an ant hunt this weekend and see where...
For our history lesson, Miss Thompson brought in a small case filled with all belongings from different stages of her life. The children used their prior learning to decide whether the items were from the past or present. Why not challenge yourself by trying to...
We are lucky to have such an amazing PE teacher at St John & St James. Every week we have lessons to help us strengthen our gross motor skills. This week we were developing our ability to move in different ways with obstacle courses and...
In maths this week we have been exploring what is different and what is the same about collections, linked to colour and pattern. At the beginning of the week, we sorted pairs of socks, thinking about colours and patterns. At the end of the week...