Porthill
Welcome to Porthill Class
This week in PSHE we have been learning about what it means to be a good neighbour. As a class we talked about what you can do to be a good neighbour. We worked together in pairs to think of positive solutions to different problems.
Well done to the children who received their reading prize. Great effort with reading at home!
This week we have been very busy in History. We have been learning all about the about the Royal Family. As a group we ordered a timeline and discussed important events about Queen Elizabeth II.
This half term our Darwin Value is Bouncebackability. Porthill class began 'Inventors' and created their own paper aeroplane! They had to use the ability to bounceback when investigating how their paper aeroplanes worked.
Last day before the Christmas holidays. Have a lovely Christmas everyone
Enjoying some Christmas challenges, opening the Christmas advent sack and our chocolate calendar
These children have got their next reading prize for lots of reading at home... amazing!
Lots of wonderful Christmas plates created, well done Porthill
Ready to film our nativity
Posting some Christmas cards at the post box
Christmas jumper day!
Porthill were amazing at the KS1 Carol Service
Our Elf has been busy having a house point bath and reading stories to our teddies.
This week we had a really special arrival! We have been sent an Elf to enjoy December with us, it arrived without a name so we had a vote to decide, his name is Buddy!
Porthill class have created some fantastic baubles for the school competition
This week in Science we have been learning about the weather and the seasons! We made our own sundial
Children in Need 2021
In English we went on a Autumn walk and then wrote some wonderful senses poems
Our wonderful Porthill bakers! Thank you for bringing in these for the bake off and the bake sale
In geography we did some fieldwork and explored our school surroundings
This week we have started to learn how to type on the laptops
Well done to these children who have received their reading prize! Great reading at home!
Porthill have enjoyed using our new listening centre!
In Geography we are studying our local area, today we made our own passports!
Porthill have enjoyed their rainbow challenges this week, lots of wonderful writing and creations, well done everyone!
Porthill have enjoyed the creative rainbow challenge this week - creating a firework!
A big thank you to two of our children who have helped sell the poppies to raise money for the poppy appeal
Remembrance Day 2021
On Tuesday Porthill class celebrated World Adoption Day
Our school project - this week we have been learning about compasses and directions!
In Maths we have been using coins to show amounts of money in different ways
We have enjoyed completing maths challenges this week
A mystery door has appear on our playground! Porthill have so many questions about it!
Well done to everyone who has received their first reading award for lots of reading at home
The Pumpkin Trail! Porthill class added some wonderful pumpkins and all enjoyed looking at the rest of the schools creations
We had another visitor to the book vending machine! Amazing home learning
Gymnastics with Passmaster
In science we have been learning about different groups of animals, we did some fantastic sorting and discussing
A visit to the book swap!
Porthill have enjoyed the recycling competition, lots of crisps packets have been contributed!
Harvest assembly and our harvest donations
Just some of the amazing work completed in our challenge time this week.
We had another visitor to the book vending machine! Well done for completing some amazing home learning in one of our borrow bags
Every morning we love completing some morning Maths!
Some more amazing home learning! Well done everyone.
Creating our own habitats!
In Science we became mini beast explorers! We searched for habitats and discussed why some habitats are more suited to different mini beasts than others.
Art Week - This week children have loved using paint, crayons and sketching to explore pattern, tone and texture in art! Great work everyone.
Another visit to the book swap!
Some more wonderful home learning this week! Well done everyone
Our COOL time challenges this week, we have completed lots of activities about Charles Darwin. These will continue next week.
We had our first visitor to the book vending machine for so many wonderful pieces of home learning
In English we have been researching and writing facts about Charles Darwin
In computing this week we have been learning about different technology, we went on a technology hunt around school to see what we can see.
In English we have been learning about features of a non chronological report, children were able to find lots in non fiction books.
Enjoying the adventure playground during our golden time this afternoon
In PE we have been doing some gymnastics, this week we focused on creating shapes with our body. Can you spot the letters and numbers we created?
This week our COOL time challenges have been ‘Friendship challenges’
In History we have been learning about Charles Darwin. Today we went off into the forest and became mini Darwins! We observed nature and sketched four different things.
In Music we have created a soundscape. We used our body parts to make music that represented the piece of music we listened to. Excellent partner work!
In English we have planned our own diary entry about a day on the moon inspired by the story “The Man on the Moon”
We have had some excellent home learning shared this week! Well done everyone!
We enjoyed using the iPad to take photos of each others creations
Our every day exercise and calm brain activities have been really great at helping our bodies get ready for learning
In Maths we have been thinking about partitioning numbers into tens and ones.
Well done to our School Councillor and Eco Councillor for attending their first meeting this week!
Our Darwin Value activity for Changeability was to create a flower, we made some wonderful ones!
Exploring our new library books!
Practicing our Maths in our challenge time
Hit the button! This is a fantastic Maths website to help recall lots of Maths facts. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Exploring Porthill Class
Termly Forecast and Knowledge Organisers
⭐️ PE will be on a Monday and Thursday, please ensure your child has their kit on a Monday and leave it in school until Thursday. ⭐️
⭐️ Reading books - children will receive school books on a Monday. Please encourage your child to read three times per week. ⭐️
⭐️ Water bottles - please ensure your child has a water bottle in school everyday. ⭐️
⭐️ Please contact me via email on staffporthill@mountpleasantsbmat.com if you have any questions, comments or concerns. Please remember to check your app messages as I regularly send home class messages. ⭐️
I’m really excited about the year ahead and I look forward to sharing lots of activities on here with you,
Thanks,
Miss Pharo
In our English lessons we are focusing on the skills that we need to help us read. Our reading dogs are helping us learn each of the following skills:-
Vocabulary Predicting Sequencing Inference Retrieval
The document below introduces the reading dogs and what their jobs are.
Access Espresso at Home!
Shared student username: student26744
password: mount123
Phonics Play:
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
Newsround:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/animals
BBC nature:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Animal