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In Sputnik we follow the three school rules:

- Respect Yourself

- Respect Others

- Respect the Environment

Work of the week

This week work of the week went to Nate and Isaac. Both boys wrote a fantastic description of a longboat during English this week. Their work was full of creativity and imagination.

Well done boys!

Figurehead Artwork

This week in English we have been learning all about Viking longboats or dragonships as they were otherwise known. Did you know that there are 6 key features of a longboat? These are the stern, the oars, the shields, the mast, the sail and the figurehead. In art, we studied the figurehead in close up detail and then used what we noticed about them to innovate our own designs. Did you know that figureheads were traditionally made to look like dragons in order to scare the enemy?!

Thank you

A big thank you for all the thoughtful cards and gifts we have been given for Christmas, they are truly appreciated. We wish you all a wonderful Christmas and look forward to seeing you back in the new year.

Mrs Allsopp, Mrs Counsell, Mrs Elms, Mrs Collis and Mrs Cobley 🎄🎅🏻

Year 3/4 Christmas Party 🎅🎄

Thank you for all the contributions to our Christmas party food. We all had a great time playing games in the hall before we went back to our classes to feast and listen to festive tunes!

Christmas Jumper Day

Thank you for supporting us with our Christmas jumper day and for any donations you made towards us raising money for Save the Children.

All about the digestive system...

As part of our project, we have been learning all about what happens to the food that we eat and how it travels through our body. We had a turn at becoming 'live models' as we drew on each other to show where the different parts of the digestive system are found!

Visit from The British Hen Trust

We were visited today by two hens, Honey and Treacle from the British Hen Trust. We learned lots of interesting facts about hens:

Hens can see ultra-violet light but humans cannot see this - Nate

Hens eat tiny stones which are used in their gizzard to help them digest the seeds and tiny bugs they eat - Charlie H

Hens have lots of air in their bones which makes them really light - Grace

Hens cannot fly very well even though their bones are very light - Kerys

Hens only have one hole where their eggs and poo comes out - William

Hens have 120 bones in their body (humans have 206) - Emilia

Some hens lay blue eggs. The colour of their eggs can differ depending on their breed - Robert

Hens have different coloured eyes and can see different colours depending on which colour eyes they have - Ruby

Hens can lay one egg every 24/25hrs - Alicja

Those of us who wanted to, had a stroke of the hens. Their feathers were really soft and felt like a dress made out of silk! We had to be careful which way we stroked their feathers because they might peck us if we did it the wrong way. We loved meeting the hens, they were really funny and very cute!

Why is my body amazing?

Term 2 and we have started our new project - why is my body amazing? Olivia and Emilia have already been inspired by the work we have been doing to find out about our skeletons and have brought in books from home to share with the rest of the class. Thank you girls! Sputnik have enjoyed reading both these books; it has helped launch our project with an enthusiastic start!

Rhino Poetry Slam!

Sputnik finished off our Rhino project with a poetry slam today. All the children have written their own rhyming poems and haiku's this week. They choose their favourite piece and performed it to the rest of the class. They all showed 'performance courage' and did a great job - well done everyone!

Fantastic Home Learning!

WOW!

We have been seriously blown away this week by the enthusiasm some of our fellow classmates have shown for their learning. They have been inspired by what we have been learning in school so much that they have carried on working on it at home.

Daisy has been practicing her 3 and 4 timetables that we are currently learning in class. However she has also challenged herself to learn her 9, 11 and 12 times tables too - great stuff Daisy!

Alicja has written a story about a rhino who lost both her parents because of poachers killing them for their horns. The little rhino makes friends with a young girl and together they try to get the message out to all humans to stop hunting and poaching so that we can prevent the rhino from becoming extinct. Well done Alicja!

Billie has worked hard to produce a fantastic and informative powerpoint about the Pangolin, an animal that is critically endangered. She was encouraged to find out more after watching a program on TV about pangolins. As we have been looking at endangered and extinct animals her presentation supported our learning brilliantly and the rest of the class were really impressed when she shared it with us today!

More examples of fantastic extra learning from our talented Sputnik team...

Space themed team building workshop...

Finding out facts about animals that have become extinct...

Finding out facts about animals that have become extinct... 3

As part of our project we have found out that rhinos are endangered. There are five different species of rhino and we have been looking particularly at the two species found in Africa; the black rhino and the white rhino. Through our work we have discovered that the northern white rhino is facing extinction in the very near future as their numbers are so few with only two known to be left in the wild. This had led us to think about other animals that become extinct and what the reasons are for this. Some of the animals we have been finding out facts about the dodo, the great auk, the woolly mammoth, the sabre tooth tiger and the Irish elk. Here are some examples of our work:

Sumdog

Sumdog logins were given out to children this afternoon and we spent some time practicing using them to login and explore it. All children have their own username and password details on the inside cover of their home/school diaries. There is no homework set at the moment but if children can have a go at home to familiarise themselves with the games and how it works that would be really helpful!

Plate spinning...

Sputnik class had a go at learning a new skill this week - plate spinning. We had to use our perseverance and determination to succeed! It wasn't easy but we had a lot of fun.