We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 21st May at 6.30 pm at our briefing meeting for High Ashurst. 

See below for the kit list!  

A suggested list for High Ashurst. Please ensure everything is named! 

• Waterproof coats are a must (if raining). 

• Reusable water bottle 

• Pants, vests, socks – enough for 2 days and maybe extra just in case  

• T-shirts, enough for 2 days and an extra one just in case 

• Nightwear –extra layers needed in bed as we are camping 

• Trousers/jeans/shorts 

• Warm jumper, fleece or sweatshirt (essential for evening) 

• 2 pairs of sensible outdoor shoes (trainers and an alternative) 

• 1 towel and washing kit including toothbrush and toothpaste 

• Tissues 

• Plastic bags (for wet/dirty clothes and shoes) 

• Sun cream 

• Sunhat/baseball cap 

• Sleeping bag 

• Blanket 

• Small cushion or pillow 

• Roll mat for sleeping 

• Torch 

• Book to read 

• Compulsory teddy bear! Don’t bring your favourite though!

No electrical equipment should be brought, including tablets, games and phones.

Please, please no sweets or other food – it attracts unwanted wildlife to our tents! 

We have begun reading ‘There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom’ by Louis Sachar this week.  You may know this author from his superb novel ‘Holes’.  The children are using the plot to find synonyms to describe the main character, Bradley, as well as interpreting the text to draw a ‘Bradley self-portrait’.  Clearly, a troubled child, the children have been putting themselves in his shoes, trying to imagine life as he sees and feels it. 

Our spellings this week have the ‘z’ phoneme: 

positive, compose, deposit, zephyr, azure, blizzard, puzzled, used, confused, refused 

We will check these on 6th May. 

The children have enjoyed learning about decimals this week.  We have looked at tenths as decimals on place value charts and number lines.  We have also practised using our times tables and would encourage you to support them in logging on to these great resources:

 

We continued our learning of plants by moving on to seeds and germination.  Working scientifically, we set up an investigation to predict what conditions are needed for a plant to grown healthily.  We have planted 8 bean seeds that we will observe over the next 4 weeks.  Ask your child to tell you how they organised the ‘independent variables’.  Today we dissected flowers and looked for the male and female parts that help them reproduce. 

As an early introduction to our ‘Go with the Flow’ topic later this term when we will learn about rivers, we were delighted to welcome Alistair from the River Wey Trust in on Monday.  He brought an Augmented Reality sand box that allowed the children to shape landscapes and then observe what effect this has on the flow and flood of rivers. 

This week we began our study of the Sikh religion. We learned about the first Guru (Nanak Ji), how Sikhs believe in equality and how the Sikhi began in Punjab in North West India. Having talked about the 5 most important things in their lives, the children learned about what is important to Sikhs.  More to come!