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Year 1 will be making their third attempt to complete their 11B411 Book Fairies walk this Friday! Hopefully the weather is on our side this time!

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In our final science lesson, we created Bug Hotels to support the bugs in our forest school.

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To celebrate 10 year of FSA, Year 1 conducted a Scavenger Hunt around school. They read the riddles and worked them out themselves to follow the trail around school. You'll never guess where the end of the trail was...

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Yesterday, we celebrated 10 years of Five Spires Academy! We worked together as a whole class to create a banner to celebrate the occasion. Well done Year 1!

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A few children asked for this game at home. We played the o'clock and mixed o'clock and half past options.

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Telling the Time in Words

Scan to open this game on a mobile device. Right-click to copy and paste it onto a homework sheet.

Game Objectives

New Maths Curriculum: Year 2: Tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times Year 3: Tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24- hour clocks Year 4: Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24-hour clocks Year 5: Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of units of measure (e.g. length, mass, volume, money) using decimal notation
Year 6: Measures

Primary Framework:
Primary Framework:
Year 2:
Use units of time (seconds, minutes, hours, days) and know the relationships between them; read the time to the quarter hour; identify time intervals, including those that cross the hours (Block D)
Year 3:
Read the time on a 12-hour digital clock and to the nearest 5 minutes on an analogue clock (Block D)
Year 4:
Read time to the nearest minute; use am, pm and 12-hour clock notation; choose units of time to measure time intervals; calculate time intervals from clocks and timetables(Block D)
Year 5:
Read timetables and time using 24-hour clock notation (Block D)

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Our Maths lesson today was 1 more and 1 less to 100. To help us, we build numbers using base 10 and took away or added 1 to find less and more.

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Today, we went to Sudbury toy Museum where we explored old and new toys!

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In RE today, we learnt that Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish new year celebration. We learnt about their family meals where they like to eat sweet food to have a sweet year. Then, we tried honey and apples!

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On Wednesday, we will be going to Sudbury Toy Museum. Although a lot of the day will be inside, we may be required to transition between buildings outside and it is forecast to rain. Please send children with a light waterproof jacket, packed lunch and a drink. Children are required to be in their usual school uniform and footwear. A text reminder will be sent tomorrow.

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Those who are present have completed their Phonics Screening Checks today - the whole Five Spires team are incredibly proud of them. Their effort in Phonics lessons and interventions as well as extra practice at home has been admirable. Well done Year 1!

Those who are unwell will complete their test as soon as they return to school (before this Friday).

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Here is our Summer 2 Colourful Semantics Word Mat which we will use in English and History lessons.

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Please see attached the Time Knowledge Organiser for Summer 2.

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Please see attached the Money Knowledge Organiser for Summer 2.

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Please see attached the Place Value to 100 Knowledge Organiser for Summer 2.

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R2 Year 1 Place Value to 100 Knowledge Organiser

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Please see attached the Position and Direction Knowledge Organiser for Summer 2.

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R2 Year 1 Position and Direction Knowledge Organiser

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Please see attached the REKnowledge Organiser for Summer 2.

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Please see attached the DT Knowledge Organiser for Summer 2.

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Please see attached the Science Knowledge Organiser for Summer 2.

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Please see attached the History Knowledge Organiser for Summer 2.

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Y1 Toy Story History Knowledge Organiser

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As the hall was busy and Year 1 gathered lots of stars in their reward jar, we spent some afternoon in forest school! We found lots of different bugs and types of plants.

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Today, we are learning about Belgium to celebrate the background of some of the children in our class. We would love to thank the parent that came in to teach us about the country, languages and food! We enjoyed this and learnt a lot! THANK YOU.

Thank you also to the person who made a poster about their life in Belgium and brought us in some Euro coins to look at. Thank you!

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Year 1 and 2 are excited to break the Reach2 record of the biggest PE lesson in the UK live with Joe Wicks!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!

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This afternoon, Year 1, 2 and 3 teamed up in the hall to celebrate Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday! first, we explored nature and took our favourite photo. Then, we returned to the hall to sketch, colour, paint or collage our own art piece based on our favourite photo.

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Lots of children asked for our counting by 5 games at home so here they are! https://www.mindlygames.com/math/skip-counting-by-5

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Experience skip counting by 5 with the hilarious and wacky characters in Mindly's math games for kids! Your kids will have fun practicing and developing a foundation for repeated addition and counting up to 100. Start playing skip counting games today!

All Skip Counting by 5 Games

© Mindly Games, Inc. 2024

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Skip count by 5 with the wacky characters of Mindly Games! Kids will enjoy practicing repeated addition and counting up to 100 with Mindly's games. Play now

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Today, we learnt about evergreen and deciduous trees and then searches the school grounds for different types of trees.

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In maths today, we found some nature and split them into equal groups. Then, we counted the groups to make a statement such as ‘There are 3 equal groups of 4’.

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After learning about the parts of plants and wildflowers, we went outside to find plants. Our checklist included a plant short and taller than you, a yellow flower, bark, a brown leaf and more.

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After learning about Christianity up until now to consolidate our understanding of what a religion is, we are expanding our knowledge to learn about Judaism. We will learn about special days in their religion, what life is like for a Jewish child and how this compares to the life of a Christian child.

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We are now moving onto our next Maths topic, Mass and Capacity, which is another short topic. We will learn the difference between capacity and volume and how to measure these. We will also learn about mass and how to compare differing weights. If you would like to explore further at home, you could fill many containers with water and discuss the differing capacities and volumes or compare the weight of two objects!

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Today, we will explore our very short Maths topic about Length and Height. We will compare short and tall objects and begin to use rulers to measure everyday items in cm.

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Our topic this half term explores Cancun and its similarities and differences in human and physical features to Lichfield. In Science, we will be learning all about plants which will also allow us to consider the environments that different plants grow in.

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Our Art lesson today involved experimenting with paint brushes and watercolours to create different paint brush techniques. Next, we will create our own colour wheel, create shades of yellow, orange and red and then finally paint our own painting of the Great Fire of London.