Celebration – Friday 14th May 2020

Take a look at the fantastic things our pupils have been getting up to!

Squirrels

Squirrel South

This week Squirrel class have

engaged with lots of activities based

around Angry birds and we have

seen some fantastic wriitng and

counting.

Squirrel class have also been

continuing with their own child led

activities and we have seen some

super baking of cakes, having fun on

spinning toys and exploring the

outdoors. Jacob found a slingshot

stick and Pheonyx has been helping

feed the birds. Cayden also learned

how to ride a bike without stabilisers!

This week in Squirrels south, Daniel has

been working super hard! He has been

practising his letter formation, shape

matching and the most fabulous

colouring in! That pizza looks scrumptious

Daniel!

WOW! Thomas – has done some tasty

cooking this! Chocolate is Mrs

Coombes’s favourite thing – you will

enjoy next week’s Padlet which is all

about Chocolate!

Bubble bubble…..goodness, Charlie that

Volcano looks ferocious! Charlie has

been very creative during this week’s

Padlet learning all about Volcanoes. It

looks super messy but lots of fun!

Willow Class

Acer Class

Willow class have been busy learning

about Volcanoes this week. They

have ordered top trump cards based

on the height of the volcanoes,

written acrostic poems, labelled

maps, baked a volcano cake and

created posters all about volcanoes.

They have also enjoyed playing with

the resource packs that were sent

home.

This week, Acer class have been having fun

doing all things scientific! They have been

busy growing bean seeds, taking care of

them and watching them grow. They have

been collecting data by making careful

observations, taking measurements and also

having fun doing lots of other interesting

science experiments.

As well as this, they have been doing some

maths (measuring and learning timetables),

writing bean diaries, doing arty crafty activities

and exploring and taking photographs of our

natural environment. Some have been busy

finding out about where the food we eat

comes from and using atlases and maps to

locate countries from around the World, and

others have been researching and playing

games with their family!

Maple Class

Hazel South Class

This week, Maple class have taken part in

some incredible learning at home. It’s been

a science based Environment week, with

variation between research and practical

activities. Children have made observational

drawings, flower paint printing, taken part in

nature treasure and minibeast hunts, built

bug hotels, photographed nature on daily

walks, made stick mazes, found out about

recycling at home as well as looking after

the planet and much more!

Such a diverse and creative week again Maple

class well done for keeping up all of the hard

work. I’m really looking forward to seeing what

you do next week in our coding/computer

themed week.

Well done and have a lovely weekend

Hazel Class have continued to

work hard this week in their

home learning They have

completed a range of

activities including cooking,

drawing dragons, designing

posters linked to friendships,

exercising in lots of different

ways and developing their

maths skills.

Pine Class

Acer South Class

Pine Class have produced lots of fantastic

work this week. In Maths, we have been

learning about dividing into equal parts and

fractions. In our writing, we have been

innovating our class stories and it already

looks like we have some exciting stories

planned. Ben produced a lovely picture of

the Alien landing. We have been continuing

reading our class book, “How to train your

dragon” and Tom B drew a great picture of

his own dragon. All through this term, we

have been growing sunflower seeds for

science and Jake’s looks like it is growing

much better than Mr Thomas’. In Creative

Arts this term, we have been looking at

people we admire and Jacob has been

researching Colin Furze, a Youtuber who

makes incredible inventions. Finally, Mason

made lovely bunting to celebrate VE Day

This week, Stanley has been

putting measuring, design and

problem solving skills together to

build his own climbing wall!

In Life Skills this week, Acer were

asked to plan a movie day for

their family, taking into account

their family’s likes/dislikes for films

and snacks. Igor’s family watched

Sonic with some popcorn, while

Toby made Biscuits and Alfie

prepared Sunday lunc h for his

family!

This week, a special mention goes

to Alfie, who has been helping to

deliver food parcels to the

vulnerable members of his

community. What an amazing

thing to do, Alfie, we are so proud

of you?!

Beech Class

Oak Class

Palm and Juniper Class

We have had another week of super learning in Beech class, with lots of

Maths, Reading and Writing being completed at home!

Leo has been doing fantastic work with his Maths this week and has been

lots of fraction work, including counting in fractions. Well done Leo!

Logan has also completed Maths learning on Fractions and has been

learning about unit and non-unit fractions. Logan has a good understanding

if this and has demonstrated it in his Maths learning, which is great!

Logan has also been completing some brilliant writing work, where he has

been learning about verbs and how to make verbs more powerful in his

writing.

I would now particularly like to draw attention to Logan’s reading work this

week. In relation to our book this term ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, Logan has

been busy thinking up his own initiation process similarly to what Hiccup is

currently having to complete in the story.

I will rewrite his steps here in case the picture is too small to read properly.

“Step 1: Break into a museum for a ruby and escape.

Step 2: Lift up an elephant to show how strong you are.

Step 3: Run to donate and raise money for the NHS to show kindness.”

All brilliant steps for an initiation, but I was blown away with the kindness and

thoughtfulness of step 3 of Logan’s initiation process. What a superstar!

I would also like to wish Sam a happy birthday this week! I have heard that

he had a great day and lots of fun jumping around on his new pogo stick!

Happy Birthday Sam!

This week in Juniper and Palm class,

some of the pupils learning has

been based on the theme of

Monkey madness! We have been

learning to share equally, write

breaking news reports, and make

good language choices in writing.

We’ve also had some lovely live

classroom meet ups!

Hazel Class

This week Hazel class have been super busy with all their learning. In Maths we have just

started fractions and they have started this topic really well. In English we have started

innovating our class story by changing the class story map. This has been great fun and they

have come up with some amazing ideas for their own stories. I am super excited to see what

their stories will like in the end.

Cae has been really busy making pizzas again. He really enjoyed making them last time so

asked to make them again. He used his measuring skills to make sure he had the right

ingredients. He has also been practicing his first aid skills by doing a primary survey and

putting someone in the recovery position. Cae has been doing some great exercise with his

dad trying is best to keep up!

Owen this week has been really motivated to do his work. He has also been practicing his first

aid doing really well. Owen also decided to make his own lunch this week doing it all on his

own and then cleaning up after himself.

Edmund has been eager to do his work this week and chose to do his work when it was his

play time. Edmund also read me the first bit of his own story which was AMAZING! Edmund

has also been keeping up with Joe Wicks this week.

James has been brilliant this week and has taken part in the drawing challenges proving that

he is a great artist. The pictures he has been drawing are amazing. James flower is pictured

here. James has also been trying really hard with his story, already writing the opening.

Sam, Jamie and Harry have been doing work every day sending me some great Maths,

English and Reading. I was really proud of Harry who didn’t like the story we were reading but

gave it a go anyway. Sam and Jamie have been doing really well are independently doing

their work.

Samuel has been doing lots of gardening this week. Reagan gave some of the maths a go

and Charlie has been reading in the garden!

Well done Hazel class, what a great week!

Acorns celebration news

This week the class received a surprise pack containing some craft bits and

pieces. They also received a huge balloon which Harry and Donovan have

loved playing with.

The class have produced some fantastic work this week related to the topic of

Volcanoes, which has included some work using Angry Birds and Minecraft

Here is a small selection from the many photos I have received from Connor,

Donovan and Harry:

Donovan

Harry

Connor

KS4 Celebration news

Apple Class

Olivia has been out and about with her brother this week on the bike and go-kart. Looks like fun!

Leo has been working hard this week on his timetables and using money.

Elm class

Ben doing his bit for the community and painting his neighbours fence…whilst they were safe inside

of course!

Catering

Owen has been working extra hard this week and has made a lemon meringue pie

Leo has produced this amazing research project on the Maillard reaction

Maths

Since Lockdown started 6 students have managed to level-up in Sparx maths; a genuinely incredible

achievement. Sparx rewards hard work and effort so congratulations go to: Alfie C, Corey T-M, Jamie

D, Raife I, Ciaran H and Jayden H. Well done all of you! And well done to all the students who are

continuing to work hard at their maths every single week.

Science

Elm

Ben had produced a wonderful PowerPoint on Edwin Hubble, one of the most important

astronomers in providing evidence for the Big Bang. Thank you Ben!

Elm have been dutifully listening to Miss Ben-Ali’s amateur podcasts and completing the attached

quizzes, and scoring well! This shows excellent listening skills- well done team!

Sycamore

Sycamore have taken on the home learning challenge of beginning their GCSE Science with a suitably

apt topic, Immunity, Infection and Response. Miss Ben- Ali is extremely impressed with the levels of

completed work, and how thoroughly it’s being completed.

Raife has not just taught Miss Ben-Ali about comments on google slides, but has completed

everything asked from him, and completed all work to the best of his ability.

Sophie has produced a wonderful storyboard on how white blood cells defend the body against

invading microbes- Miss Ben-Ali also aspires to have as much stylus control as Sophie, as Miss B is

still writing in some kind of ancient scrawl…

Rowan

Rowan have also been set to task with GCSE work. Their current topic is Quantitative Chemistry, not

one for the faint hearted, but in true Rowan style they rise to the challenge.

Harley has been identifying the chemical nomenclature, relative atomic mass and atomic structure

of the elements in the periodic table. This is a key concept in this particular topic, and he smashed it.

Thank you Harley!

Ralph, a Triple Science student, has had the pleasure of completing double the work for science, and

has done absolutely tremendously on the more in-depth and challenging concepts of science. Ralph

really must be commended for his efforts, which show great problem-solving skills and the fantastic

ability to work independently.

ICT

Aaron has made the Eiffel tower out of cheese as part of his ICT presentation about France

English

Big shout out to Toby who has been smashing his Nessy work this week. Even continuing to work on

it past his set time. Well done Toby!

Humanities

Cody has produced an amazing PowerPoint presentation about the Amazon Rainforest

The Therapy Blog – Therapy Padlet’s!

Padlet’s are being used widely across the school for learning! The therapy team have also

developed Padlet’s which will benefit students, parents and staff!

Here are snapshots of the Padlet pages and links to access them!

Speech and Language Therapy

https://springfieldsacademy.padlet.org/rebeccalland2/ndevz0c22fdz

Occupational Therapy

https://springfieldsacademy.padlet.org/lizburns1/kkrpre4lm0b3yi29

Wellbeing Padlet

https://springfieldsacademy.padlet.org/rebeccalland2/j0z9kb9uc1uz

If you would like further information or any help with the Padlet’s please contact Liz by email

– lburns@springfields.wilts.sch.uk.

Stay safe and have a lovely weekend