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PE Update

11/11/2019

The start of the new term has been a busy one for PE.
PE lessons will continue to take place outdoors throughout the winter term, so please ensure your child has enough warm clothing and a change of socks in their PE bags.

We’ve competed in 6 Thurrock Schools Sports Partnership competitions so far this year and completed our first of 6 inter house competitions; cross country. Those children who placed in the top 6 then went on to represent our school in the Thurrock Schools cross country competition. We had great success individually with 4 top 10 runners now qualified to compete in the Essex schools cross country competition later on this academic year.  The team results were as follows-
Year 3 girls- 6th place
Year 3 boys- 9th place
Year 4 girls- 10th place
Year 4 boys- 8th place
Year 5 girls- 11th place
Year 5 boys- 10th place
Year 6 girls- 8th place
Year 6 boys- 6th place

The year 5/6 boy’s football team placed 3rd place in the group stages of the Thurrock school's tournament with over 20 schools taking part. A huge well done to all involved!

The year 3/4 mixed football team placed 2nd overall. Again, over 20 schools competed, so this was a brilliant achievement. Mrs Russo is now organising another year 3 and 4 tournament within the borough, for more children to compete.

The year 5/6 girl’s netball team won all of their games at the start of season rally, so their future is set to be a competitive and successful one once again this year. Credit to Ms Coldwells and Mrs Thompson for their coaching.

The year 5/6 mixed tag rugby team placed 3rd in their group stage of the Thurrock schools tag rugby tournament. A brilliant result for the team.

Once again, the sports calendar is full of competitive and non-competitive events throughout the year. Keep an eye out on the newsletter, twitter and the school’s website to stay up to date on all sporting success and news.
If your child experiences any other sporting success outside of school, we’d love to hear about it and share their achievements in school.

Super 6VP

7/11/2019

6VP have been working very hard this week to get back into their school routines following the half-term break. In English we have been discussing and analysing poetry from both World War 1 and 2 in preparation for writing our own Remembrance poems – our poems will be displayed at next week’s remembrance service.
In maths, the year group have been exploring some complex calculations using the order of operations: BODMAS (sometimes otherwise known as BIDMAS). Initially, we all had a go of trying these calculations, without knowing the order, to discover our answers were not correct; we then had great fun in correcting our first result.
Throughout this week, we will be preparing for Remembrance. To commemorate this historical occasion, both Year 2 and Year 6 children will be taking part in a Remembrance service, which will be held at the BATA war memorial at 10:45am on Monday 11th November.
After the service, refreshments will be served in the school hall with performances from Year 6 children; 6VP will be presenting a wartime song called Au Revoir but Not Goodbye Soldier-Boy.

Year 2

5/11/2019

Before half term we were working hard to practise our harvest festival songs. We tried hard to impress the grandparents that joined us for our celebration service, overall the feedback was excellent. Harvest is important because it is the time where crops have been picked. This is called harvesting. We celebrate this by bringing in fruit and food and singing. Thank you to all the families that donated food to our Harvest collection. Donations have now been collected by the Trustle Trust food group and will be used in food banks across the borough.

Writing update

16/10/2019

Even though we are approaching half term, pupils across the school have still been working extremely hard in their English lessons. From Reception to Year Six, lots of writing has taken place, let’s take a look at what the children have been up to.
Reception:
Reception have been lucky enough to have a few visitors in this week and they have been helping with their writing. They had visits from people who work for the public: nurses, first responders and firefighters! They have received a talk from each of them, as well as even getting the chance to try on some different outfits – how lucky have they been! Pupils then had to write about different jobs people in our local community have.

Year 1:
Year One have transformed into poets this week and have been creating poems about old and new toys. They have explored different toys which could be appealing to them and then used these toys as the basis of their writing. Some amazing acrostic poems have been created by the year group and the pupils thoroughly enjoyed the sessions this week.

Year 3:
Pupils in Year Three have been exploring the story ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ this half term and they have been using that as the stimulus for their writing this week. Children had a grammar-orientated focus this week by adding a new part to the original story by making sure that they had accurately applied speech via the use of inverted commas. They were challenged to make sure that their speech progressed the story and was not just general conversations.

Year 4:
Pupils in Year Four have become poets this week; they have been creating poems about how to annoy their teachers. They spent a lesson reading poems from ‘The Secret Lives of Teachers’ anthology and explored various ways in which they could annoy teachers. After sharing their poems, they had to create their own poem exploring how teacher could become irritated during a school day. Here is a stanza which 4CP created:
Pushing each other, pulling hair,
Mucking around like they don’t care.
Cartwheeling whilst entering the door,
Leaving all of their belongings on the floor.

Year 6:
Year Six have been focussing on diaries this week and they have been using their foundation topic: WWII as inspiration for their written work during English. Pupils had to complete a diary entry as a Jewish person during WWII – when persecution of people of the Jewish faith was rife. The students were challenged to make sure that they kept their writing in the correct genre; they had to try to prevent their dairies sounding like narratives. They worked out that reflective thoughts through the use of rhetorical questions was the most effective was to keep their diary a diary.

MFL

11/10/2019

MFL stands for Modern Foreign Languages and at East Tilbury Primary School and Nursery we make sure that children are enthusiastic about learning languages, particularly French.

On 26th September, we celebrated European Language Day. Each class chose their own foreign language and learnt new, interesting facts about a chosen country. To make it fun, we listened to songs and solved quizzes. Also, we created artwork related to a country and filled in language passports.

Our aim was to raise awareness of Europe’s rich linguistic diversity, which must be preserved and enhanced.

Well done all of you for all your hard work! Please remember:
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” – Frank Smith

4CP Update!

9/10/2019

4CP have been working exceptionally hard this week. In English we have been creating blueprints for robots; the pupils will be creating newspaper reports based on 4CP’s Amazing Creation! Each group of pupils focussed on a different part of the body and we managed to combine all the pieces to create a giant robot!

In maths, the year group have been exploring various methods of addition, we explored: partitioning, column, using practical equipment and contextualising problems.

Year 3

7/10/2019

Year have been busy reading Where The Wild Things Are. We have used the story to support our learning across the curriculum, including geography, DT and English. In our DT lessons we are currently making wild thing cup puppets. We are hoping to use these to create our own Where The Wild Things Are puppet show.
In our computer lessons, Year 3 have learned how to stay safe online through an e-safety lesson. We have also created a powerpoint file about making a Jam Sandwich and saved it in our own personal folders. Year 3 are currently editing the powerpoint, creating a page for each instruction, demonstrating their animation skills to create a sequence.

2SS

7/10/2019

In Year Two, we have started our rehearsals for our Harvest Festival assembly. We have been learning our lines and songs ready for our upcoming performance. In English and Geography, we have enjoyed learning all about Nairobi in Africa. We have been making comparisons between Nairobi and East Tilbury by writing setting descriptions and exploring different features including physical and human. In Maths, we have been revisiting place value and using number lines to help us to add two-digit numbers together. After half term we will be taking part in the school’s Remembrance service. We invite parents and carers to join us alongside Year 6 in the memorial park in front of the school.

6JM Update

2/10/2019

This week we made ‘sweet potato chocolate spread’ in DT when we were learning about rationing in WWII through History. We found out they used readily available food like potatoes as substitutes for other ingredients. To make the spread we were in groups of three and we had to mix sugar, vanilla extract, cocoa powder and… mash potato! We got to try it afterwards on a slice of bread. Some of us really liked it but others preferred the chocolate spread we can buy today.

Science at ETPS

27/9/2019

Children have already been getting excited by science this year as they began their topics for this half term.
Year 1 have been learning about animals and humans and have identified animals based on their footprint. Children have also been using artistry to draw the other half of an animal when given an image of one half. They have also been identifying and labelling human body parts.
In Year 2 they have been learning about what makes a healthy diet. They have been discussing how we can have a little bit of everything that we love and have designed their own healthy meal plans.
The children have been learning about plants in Year 3, including functions of different parts of a plant. This week, they have explored two kinds of roots and their functions. 
Year 4 have been exploring different sounds and how sounds can be produced. They have been listening to various aural stimuli and had to work out what the sound could be and how it might have been formed. The children planned an experiment for this week whereby they will be testing how far sound can travel.
In Year 5 they have been exploring living things and recently discovered the inner-workings of plants by dissecting a lily, in order to identify the various reproductive parts and explain what each does at certain stages.
Year 6 have been investigating electricity and how to make a working circuit. They have created their own circuits and experimented with how different voltages affect the brightness of a bulb.

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