Celebration – Friday 8th May 2020

Take a look at the fantastic things our pupils have been getting up to!

Squirrels South

Acer South

This week in Squirrels class, Aiden has

been working hard practising his

common exception word spellings every

single day. Wow! He has also set Mrs

Coombes the challenge of following his

recipe for Spaghetti Bolognaise and to

his surprise, it is Mrs Coombes’ favourite

meal! Well done Aiden – you are a super

star!

Charlie has had another good week of

learning. He is making use of concrete

objects to support his maths skills. Well

done Charlie and family!

It has been another really busy week of

home learning in Acer class!

In Science this week, we have been

continuing our topic on light to learn

how to create rainbows. How beautiful is

Toby’s example?!

In English this week, Acer have been

creating characters ready for our stories

next week. Meet Barney the Brilliant

Basset! I can’t wait to read what he gets

up to next week. It has also been really

great to see the inventive ways that you

are all learning your spellings! Alfie has

making word searches while Greg is

making the words using Scrabble tiles!

Willow Class

Acer Class

Ahoy there shipmates- this week

Willow class have been learning all

about pirates. They have been busy

making pirates, pirate flag,

telescopes and pirate ships. They

have also produced some fantastic

descriptive writing about what they

can see through their telescopes. As

well as this, some of the class had a

chat on Microsoft teams and told us

about the meals they had been

cooking and the games they had

been playing. It was lovely to see

them and Mrs Murray. There has

been VE Day colouring, bike rides,

bird watching, learning about the

moon, deck building and playing

lego nicely with siblings. One of the

class even read Mrs Pagram a story

over the phone! An excellent week

Willow class- keep it up!

This week, Acer class have been busy thinking

about themselves – their likes and our dislikes!

They have thought about their favourite

foods, favourite animals, and their favourite

places to visit. They have written poems,

created recipes and done some baking. They

have made thaumatropes, created new

minecraft games and thought about ways to

help relieve stress and anxiety – they loved

doing Upside downs!! They particularly

enjoyed making family saltdough handprints

for 2020 and have been busy finding out

about V.E. Day ready for Friday 8th May (the

75th Anniversary). They have made bunting to

decorate their gardens, they have baked

cakes and other traditional British recipes and

thought about how they could celebrate the

day together as a family. Alfie has been

keeping busy by building himself a new

computer from scratch! We also have had our

2nd video call so we could see each other -

Miss Williams is so proud!

Maple Class

Hazel Class

This week, Maple class have been busy with

their virtual learning based around likes and

dislikes to help their new teacher (Mr

Coomber) get to know them a bit better.

They have danced, drawn, written about

food, animals, travels, hopes, families,

nature, sports and games amongst other

things.

All of the children have spoken to Mr

Coomber on the phone and been really

polite, friendly and welcoming. Children

have shared photos of a huge range of work

and also planned for VE day. Well done

Maple class you are wonderful and have

worked very hard this week

Mr Coomber would like to say a huge well

done to all of Maple and your parents for all

of your hard work and making him feel so

welcome as your new teacher.

Hazel class have had another

fantastic week! They have stepped

up a gear and have been sending

in some great work.

In Maths we have been looking at

shapes and have done some great

work on vertices, edges and faces.

Some of Hazel class have made

some great bird feeders as part of

their LOTC lesson. They were also

set a task to help out with

preparing a meal at home with

their families. We had, roasts,

sandwiches, hot dogs and more.

In English we have been learning

our class story and it has been

great seeing some of the actions

from the children using their story

maps

Squirrel class – Ahoy there me Hearites 🏴

This week’s learning has all been about Pirates. The children

have engaged with activities such as counting the treasure,

making maps, telescopes and lots of Pirate based writing

activities. Alongside the learning there has been Lego

building, cooking and outdoor exploring. A big well done from

Buccaneer Fishface, Long John Crab Cakes and Black Silver!

Pine Class

Acorn Class

Pine Class have been really busy this

week. In writing, we have been

looking at features of descriptive

writing. There has been wonderful

work from Ben, Jacob, Jake, Sophie,

Tom B and Tom F on powerful verbs,

adjectives, adverbs, alliteration and

similes. In Maths, we have been

learning about properties of shape.

Well done to Ben, Jacob, Jake,

Mason, Tom B and Tom F for their

work of patterns, faces, edges and

vertices of 2D and 3D shapes. There

has been some great work from Ben,

Jake and Mason looking after their

sunflower seeds for science. Tom B

has been very busy making the most

of the outside making a bird feeder,

cycle riding and learning to use a

camera. His photos are fantastic! Well

done all!

Acorns have been learning about

Pirates this week. Orders from

Captain Boatswain Redbrick!

🏴☠️Arrrrrrrrrr 🏴☠️ Donovan (or

should we say Shipmate Shiver-me-

timbers) has been busy scrubbing

the deck. Good job too, otherwise

Mrs Fawcitt might have made him

walk the plank! He did such a good

job that he can stay on board the

Jolly Roger.

Connor has been working very

hard at home. He has been

completing lots of maths work

and cooking a healthy meal. Well

done Connor

Edward enjoyed receiving his

pack of work through the post.

Well done for completing the

tasks.

Well done me shipmates!!

Beech Class

This week Beech Class have been very busy with their learning and have produced some

amazing work!

Finlay has been busy working through his padlet this week and has completed some brilliant

work! For ‘Minecraft Mondays’ he built his dream house on Minecraft and explained why this

house was his dream. He also helped Mum with making a pizza for his ‘Tasty Tuesdays’

learning! It looks so yummy! Well done Finlay!

Leo has been doing lots of Maths, including learning about lines of symmetry and fractions of

shapes. Leo has also been doing some Humanities work and has been comparing the

Ancient and Modern day Olympics games!

Leo has also been really helpful at home. He helped Mum to make birthdays cakes for his

Nany and Great Grampy. He has been planting lots of seeds, done some water play and

helped with the Food shopping and made sure everything was ticked off of the list!

Logan has done some lovely descriptive writing about his environment and has also shown a

great understanding of his shape work in Maths, this includes parallel and perpendicular lines

which is very tricky!

Evan has been doing lots of learning as well this week! He has produced some amazing

writing work based on alliteration and similes! Evan has worked hard to complete some

brilliant Maths shape work, and Evan has also been observing his sunflowers for growth in

Science. I am also very impressed that Evan used scientific language in his Science

predictions by starting which plant he thinks will germinate!

Oak Class

In Oak class pupils have been completing maths challenges, reviewing films, recommending

music, cooking Sunday roast to name a few.

Here is Kai’s film review!

Bloodshot

At first it was a bit dull but when the fighting started it got alot better after he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray

Garrison is brought back to life by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman

biotech killing machine Bloodshot. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his past

life. But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of

the facility to get payback, only to discover that there's more to the conspiracy than he thought.

The team of scientists were kinda on his side and not on his side because they were trying to program his

nanotechnology in his blood stream to kill the guy who he thought killed him but the guy who killed Ray Garrison in his

past life was already dead, leading to a dramatic entrance in a science lab to kill the guy who he thought killed him and

all the guards that were protecting him after this event in the film Ray Garrison goes to london to see his wife but Rays

was a bit shocked at what happened in london. His wife was alive but had a different family now. Ray was confused. Ray

was killed by the guy who made him but Wilfred Wagins reserected back to life and killed the guy who made him with a

grenade. After that scene everything was calm on a cliff facing the sunset living in a trailer.

In genral the movie was thrilling ,hands sweating when ray was fighting, but at the end it was calm.

A special mention has to be given to Jamie, who has been showing of his range of talents as well as his

kindness and generosity. Jamie has been working really well and completing lots of his school work, which has

been great to see. He has also been very busy helping out at home and the community.

Palm and Juniper Class

It’s been another wonderful week in Palm and Juniper class.

All of the students and staff have been working hard and keeping busy!

David has been enjoying the myths and legends topic and has designed his very

own mythical setting. Well done David!

Jake has been engaging positively with his Padlet and has been busy finding the

mean, median and mode heights of his family. He will have to find the mean and

median heights of the High Need teams once we’re back at school!

Connor has been enjoying provision at school. He finally made it all the way around

on the BMX track on his bike without. He was very pleased with himself! He showed

great team work and super listening.

Sam Ritchie wowed all of the onsite team with his amazing algebra skills and won his

reward of watermelon for all his hard work at home. Josh has been in school too and

put Miss Gosling through her paces with a 2 mile run around school.

Once again, we are very proud of the High Needs team. A big thank you to

everyone involved!

Joshua created a fantastic Superhero Peg person – Mr Peggy Pants to the rescue!

He also made a beautiful background for Mr Peggy Pants to fly against.

Tyler joined in a video call with Miss Gosling, Miss Mayo-Ward and Miss Groffman.

They talked about lots of interesting things and even put some secret plans in place!

Tyler also created a super funny action movie involving a Superhero called Super

Tyler and baddie called General Kid.

Apple Class

Leo has been busy this week making scones and learning about money. Well done

Leo, the scones look delicious.

Olivia has also been in the kitchen this week, whipping up these amazing looking

donuts!

Catering

Jayden and Leo have been learning about how Vikings used to cook and eat.

Owen made Chicken Katsu curry with savoury rice. Yummy!

Elm class

Ben has made scotch eggs and donuts this week. I think we are going to have to

sample some of the delights made by KS4 when we are back at school – who knew

we had such talented chefs!?

English

Ralph has been practicing answering GCSE English Language story writing questions

this week and his use of language is excellent.

Tobi has also been writing a story with a practice Entry Level question. We love the

tension he builds up with the twist at the end!

Corey has produced this amazing newspaper report about the events in ‘The

Curious Incident

Therapy Blog - How visuals helps us?

Think about when you have ‘too much’ to do, what helps you? Usually we write lists.

Getting it all down visually in front of us means:

we can put it in order of most

important/easiest to achieve

make a plan of what to do in what order

we can cross off things we’ve done (feeling

a sense of achievement)

remind ourselves what we still need to do

Children are no different, visuals help them too!

Instead of a list, they might need pictures as well as words.

Visuals help them:

organise themselves for the activity and

get what materials they need

know how many activities they are

expected to do in a given task

be prepared for what’s coming next in an

activity

keep focused on the activity at hand

recognise when they’re finished

remind them of what reward they’ll get when they’ve finished

The types of visuals children use can be very different. To see some examples of

visuals, have a look at our wellbeing Padlet, there is a tab called ‘visuals’ –

https://springfieldsacademy.padlet.org/rebeccalland2/j0z9kb9uc1uz

If you have any questions, get in touch with Rebecca our Speech and Language

Therapist or your tutor.

A message from Olly:

Don’t forget to try to look after your physical health – eat healthily, do some daily exercise or

read a book for 10 minutes! Send Olly your pictures of your healthy activities!