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LAMBETH ROAD – KEY ACTIVITIES

Year 5

The theme for Year 5 this spring term is

‘Movement and Change’, based on the following

topics coming up.

Science: changing materials.

Geography: how the earth changes,

discovering more about earthquakes and

volcanoes.

Reading and Spelling: changing words

using prefixes and suffixes.

Writing: Exploring the movement and flow of mystery stories and persuasive letters.

P.E. and Games: dance and rugby, looking

at how we move our bodies for a particular

purpose.

Art: changing clay to make a purposeful

container, as well as looking at and using the

changing patterns in nature to create art

work.

Design and Technology: designing,

creating and evaluating a moving toy.

R.E.: investigating stories of change and transformation, such as the Easter Story.

History: looking at the changes in crime

and punishment through the ages.

Last Friday we spent time introducing the theme

and topics, before engaging in a range of change

and movement activities, such as ‘Swap if

you…’, where we formed a circle and then

someone called out a sentence starting with

‘Swap if you…’ If the sentence applied to you

then you had to move and change places with

someone else who was also moving. You had to

do this quickly and without going back to a spot

where you had previously stood!

Once we had become masters at doing this, the

parachute was then introduced and we had to

change places by running under the parachute

before it came down.

We also played ‘Follow the Leader’. In this

activity one person was sent out to be the

Detective. Whilst they were out of the room a

leader was then chosen. The leader had to

demonstrate a movement, which we all copied.

Every time they changed the movement

everyone else had to change and copy them too.

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The detective came back in and it was their job

to find out who was in charge of leading the

band! It was lots of fun and we had many great

change detectives! We are looking forward to a

great term, exploring these topics even more.

Year 4

The year 4 theme this term is ‘Journeys’. We

went on a journey by plane to a remote island

and had to complete 5 tasks in different parts of

the island such as the Rushing River, Slimy

Swamp, Rainy Rainforest, Mighty Mountain and

Balmy Beach.

By the end, we understood the word journey,

we discussed journeys that we have taken and

we learned how to work together as a team

through listening and co-operating to solve

problems.

Year 3

Year 3 are learning about dragons this term and

we were amazed to watch a report on the news

today revealing that dragons have been spotted

in and around London! We looked closely at

some photos that have been taken as evidence,

and found out quite a lot about dragons, such as

where they could be living, and what their eggs,

nests and baby dragons could look like. We

even found evidence that dragons have been in

our local park and the garden area of Fairley

House School! While we were walking around

the garden, we noticed giant footprints.

There were also dragon eggs, glitter that must

have rubbed off the dragons' scales, what looked

like a huge dragons nest in the park, and even

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the fish were missing from the pond in our

garden!

Miss Green has a twin sister who studies

dragonology, and she kindly visited us to answer

the questions we prepared to find out more

information about dragons and the job that she

does. The dragonologist was fascinated to hear

of the evidence we had collected and is relying

on us to write a report for her, detailing any

further information and evidence we learn of

over the course of the term!

Year1/2

For Bell’s class key activity the children

investigated what would happen if their house

was made of chocolate.

They wondered and predicted what would

happen if it rained and what would happen if it

was sunny. To find out the children made their

own chocolate house.

The children then performed a test to see if

their houses were waterproof.

They found out what would happen if it was a

sunny day by putting their chocolate houses on

the radiator.

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When their chocolate houses melted the

children decided it was best to live in a brick

house.

MATHS – MRS COOK

Mrs Cook's maths group did an experiment in

maths to determine the outcome of tossing a

coin. Before they started everyone agreed that

the probability of the coin landing on heads was

50%.

While most people either had a result which

was 50/50 or very close, Luca's coin landed on

heads 64 times!

GEOGRAPHY - SPIELBERG

Year 6 are studying rain forests. Spielberg class

create some impressive climate graphs showing

information about the rainfall and the

temperature in Borneo. These are tricky to use

as there are two set of information of the graph.

Millimetres for the rainfall and degrees

centigrade for the temperature. Spielberg did

really well with these graphs.

SPELLING – MRS COOK

Mrs Cook's spelling group became plumbers for

the day when they installed a shower in her

class! Students were very busy writing their

‘ow’ words onto spurts of water and were

careful to include different endings on the

words. In addition to this, Dominic was keen to

add a drainpipe and spiders with synonyms of

the words climbed up this - great idea!

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SCIENCE – YEAR 6

Spielberg, Ford and Radcliffe Classes were very

busy making circuits. They worked and enjoyed

learning the symbols, making the diagrams and

studying the most important differences

between a series and parallel circuits. When

they were confident with the concepts, we did a

challenge to get three credit award. Most of

them achieved this and received extra credits in

the timed challenge. Congratulations everyone

and well done!

Here are some summaries of the challenge from

the students:

"This is how I got 3 credit award: I did 6 questions

and each question I get right I get 3 credits and it

was all about circuits. When I was doing it I found it

fun and exciting to do. It was quite easy and steady

and I am pleased to get 3 credit award because we

could win the class competition. First, I had to learn

all of the symbols for the diagrams. Then, I could

draw it and could see what I could make with the

wires, batteries, motors, bulbs, buzzers and

switches. At the start, I found it a bit hard but I did

not mind about the hardness."

By Noah Trotzig-Ruddick

"I have gotten this 3 credit award today because in

Science we were doing a circuit challenge and I had

to do all of the circuits very fast to get this 3 credit

award. Firstly, we had to draw a diagram of the

circuit. After that, we had to collect the material

needed and complete the circuit. I am happy that I

have gotten this 3 credit award because I am sure

that we can win the class competition."

By Gabriel Bell

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SCIENCE – YEAR 7

In the Hawking Science Class we have studied

the fascinating world of cells. We learnt what a

cell is, their parts, functions and the differences

between animal and plant cells. We travelled

back in time to find out more about a brilliant

scientist who did a ground breaking piece of

work in Biology: Robert Hooke.

In 1665, Hooke published Micrographia, a book

describing observations made with microscopes

and telescopes. He was the first to apply the

word “cell” to the basic unit of life. Perhaps his

most famous observations were the study of

thin slices of cork, describing the pores, or

"cells" he viewed. They reminded him of the

cells of a monastery.

As a youth, Robert Hooke was fascinated by

what he observed with his microscopes, often

drawing what he saw. So, in Science lessons we

tried to do the same as Hooke: preparing,

observing and drawing slides and finally, thinking

about what we observed.

This week, pupils have been practising with

microscopes, examining onion tissue. We have

learnt what is the purpose of the stain we used,

how a tissue is organized, drawing at different

magnifications, explaining if we agree with

Hooke’s argument of name cells to the identical

structures and labelling the parts that we can

identify in our onion cells. Pupils enjoyed the

lesson and put into practice everything they

were taught last term. Very well done Hawking

scientists!

CLUBS

After School Clubs start on Tuesday 20th

January until Thursday 12th March. Clubs run on

Tuesdays and Thursdays at both sites from 3.45-

4.30.

Martial Arts club will finish on Tuesday

24th March.

Here are the clubs that are on offer this term:

Senior School:

Tuesday Thursday

Martial Arts Racquet Sports

Cooking RC Club

Crafts Lego

Science Maths

War Hammer & AirFix Homework

Homework

Junior School:

Tuesday Thursday

Cooking Cooking

Netball Singing/music

Lego Craft

At CS: Cooking, Martial Arts and RC Club

are now full.

Please be reminded that if your child would like

to take part in a club and goes home by bus or

taxi you will need to seek alternate

arrangements for collection at 4.30 as the buses

will not wait.

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WORLD BOOK DAY – MUFTI DAY

This year World Book Day is Thursday 5th

March, On Friday 6th March, pupils and staff

are encouraged to come to school dressed as a

character from a book.

ARE YOU PARKING AT LR?

Thank you to those parents who have let us

know that parking at the Novotel Car Park

(opposite FHS) is a lot cheaper than using the

pay and display on the road.

PARENTS’ SOCIAL GATHERING

Invitation to parents

Fairley House School

Reception

Wednesday 25th February 2015

7pm-9pm

The Garden Museum, 5 Lambeth Palace

Road, SE1 7LB

As part of the Fairley House Community, we

would like to invite you to join us for a

reception which will give you the opportunity to

meet other parents informally.

There will also be a short welcome at 7:15 by

Mr Taylor.

As this is an external venue - it will be a

ticketed event – please RSVP to

sf@fairleyhouse.org.uk by 4th February 2015

with the number of tickets you would like. (We

are unable to admit children to this event. Tickets will be allocated on a first come first

served basis).

Junior Department Star Badges:

Redgrave

Star of the Week – Rodrigo Souza

Ali

Star of the Week – Sophia Christodoulou

Bloom

Star of the Week – Louis Venni

Bailey

Star of the Week – Katharina Thune

Branson

Star of the Week – Elizabeth Hayley

Carroll

Star of the Week – Kitty Barnett

Knightly

Star of the Week – Bradley Bennett

Wright

Star of the Week – Rex Murrell

Bell

Star of the Week – Hal Foster

Senior Department Top Credit Scorers

This week’s top credit scorers are:

1. Felix Hickmott

2. Sean O’Sullivan

3. Gabriel Bell

4. Joshua Bunce

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Reminder for Absence/Lates.

If your child is absent for any reason please

remember to let the school know by 8:15AM,

each morning of your child’s absence. Form

Group Registers will be taken by 8:40AM and

absences will need to be known by this time.

Lambeth Road: 020 7630 3789

Causton Street: 020 7976 5456

You can also email if you prefer:

Pat at LR: pa@fairleyhouse.org.uk

Alison at CS: aw@fairleyhouse.org.uk

Children arriving late at Causton Street must

report to the Main Entrance door, not the

pupils’ entrance, where Alison will receive them.

Clubs begin

Tuesday 20th January.

Clubs will run until Thursday 19th March.

(Martial Arts club will finish on Tuesday 24th

March)

Yr.7 Trip to the Natural History Museum

Wednesday 28th January

Year 7 will be visiting the Natural History

Museum. A packed lunch is required (no

nuts) for this trip. They will arrive back to

school in time for dismissal.

Break up for Half Term

Friday 13th February

School will finish at the normal time of 3PM.

Pupils Return

Monday 23rd February

School re-opens at 8.20AM

FHS World Book Day

Friday 6th March

Staff and pupils are to come to school dressed

as a character from a book.