Here is our school council 2018-19
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hank you to everyone who nominated themselves to be on the School Council this year. As always the results were very close and when they were announced in Friday’s celebration assembly, the response to those who had been successful was very supportive.
Every class in Key Stage 1 and 2 has one School Council member. They will work hard to ensure that all your ideas are listened to and will help to make the school an even better place to be.
In English this week, we are considering different viewpoints from our class novel ‘Wonder’. We will write arguments to compare different opinions on whether Auggie should go to school or not. In spellings, we are still practising homophones, but we…
In English this week, we are continuing to write a persuasive letter to Ivar the Boneless, hoping to convince him to seek new lands. In spellings, we are working on less common homophones. The children will soon have their first…
We were very glad of parent help to make our Welsh shields during Global Fortnight!
Parents of Year 6 children are advised to view schools on these evenings before making an application for a secondary school place, though the evenings are open to all parents/carers. The dates for 2018 are: All Saints’ RC School – Thursday 11…
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In maths this week, we are exploring place value up to 10,000,000 using practical equipment, games and reasoning activities. We are learning to count in powers of 10. In English, we are looking at the features of persuasive writing, linked…
Mrs Wilson’s class have had a day of “cool stuff”, according to pupils! Xander H invited Dr Martin Bateman, a lecturer at UCLAN who previously visited Y5/6 last year, to spend the day in the class as an end of term treat – with lots of fantastic learning – and he was delighted to come back to Fishergate for a second time, this time bringing with him some young assistants. Xander’s big brother – a former Fishergate student himself – also came along to lend a hand supporting the children’s learning.
This morning we wrote Minecraft mods using a programming language called Python, running on Raspberry Pi computers. This afternoon we have been exploring Virtual Reality using the HTC Vive and taking on a whole range of coding and problem-solving challenges on the laptops as well as continuing with Minecraft, creating new worlds and writing mods. It was particularly fantastic to see the support and mentoring given to the pupils by our young volunteer helpers, who were excellent role models as well as wonderful STEM ambassadors!
A MASSIVE thank you to Dr Bateman, from the School of Physical Sciences and Computing at the University of Central Lancashire, who drove all the way from Preston, together with his two marvellous assistants, to spend the day working with the class.
If you’d like to have a go at some of the coding and problem solving challenges, you can click on the links below!
