Welcome to Carroll Class!

Teacher

Miss Henderson

Teaching Assistants

Miss Doherty

Mrs Alcock

Miss Gott

Miss Bak

Carroll class is made up of 12 amazing children from Year 4, 5 and 6. We are a formal learning class and we follow the national curriculum at different levels and work daily towards achieving our IEP targets.

Useful information

Our PE lessons are on a Monday afternoon. Please can all children come to school in their PE kit. Our class goes swimming on Wednesday alternative half terms; we will be going swimming Autumn One, Spring One and Summer One. All children will need a swimming costume and a towel. If appropriate, they will also need a swim nappy. 

If you have any questions, please do email or contact us on SeeSaw. We will be more than happy to help!

Thanks for all the support, 

Carroll Team. 

Spring 2: Week 6 (Week Commencing 31/3/25)

English:

This week, we created our own setting description where our magical object would be found! We also described a problem that would occur with our object. We had some fantastic imaginative ideas from magical boots to magical trees that appeared when you need help!

Maths:

This week in Maths, we have been measuring and comparing capacity. Some of us have been looking and ordering capacity, some of us have been measuring in millilitres and litres. We ended the week looking at temperature and how temperature is measured. This was really fun especially in the sunshine!

Topic:

This week, we looked at how Vikings changed Britian. We watched a news report and discussed the findings. We then worked in groups to create our own news reports about what we have learnt during our topic. 

 Other news:

We have had lots of Easter fun ready for half term! Making cards, Easter crafts and Easter hunts!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to:

Pupil of the Week – Matthew

Phonics Award – Zhi

Science Award - Abdullah 

Well done ☺

Have a lovely Easter break and we will see you in the Summer Term!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak 

Spring 2: Week 5 (Week Commencing 24/3/25)

English:

This week, we designed our own magical item for Arthur bringing our ideas to life!

Maths:

This week in Maths, we looked at the four operations and solved our own problems using mass. We used the balance scales using weights counting in our 2s, 10s and 5s. 

Topic:

This week, we looked at viking homes including pictures from Mere Tunn. We compared our homes with viking homes including materials used to build and looked at different things within our home. We decided we like our homes because we have all our favorite things in them.

 Other news:

We made lots of lovely things for important people in our lives for Mothers Day. We talked about why people are important and who helps us. 

Our Pupil Awards this week went to:

Pupil of the Week – Thomas D

Kindness Award – Hassan 

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak 

Spring 2: Week 4 (Week Commencing 17/3/25)

This week has been a very difficult week in Carroll Class, we have moved to our new classroom. We have all settled in very well and love our new classroom.

On Tuesday we went on a trip to Imagine that! We had a fantastic time, we loved running our own pizza shop and becoming news round presenters. We also loved using all the science equipment!

The rest of we week, we have enjoyed settling in and doing lots of team activities! Next week, we look forward to lots of learning and Easter fun in our new room!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to:

Pupil of the Week – Caidi

Kindness Award – Joshua

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak 

Spring 2: Week 4 (Week Commencing 17/3/25)

English:

This week, we have been interpreting the information we have learnt from our class book and produced information booklets for other children to read. We have also started looking at what our magic object would be if we were Arthur.

Maths:

This week, we introduced mass. We started the week looking at heavier and lighter before looking at g. We have enjoyed using the balance scales to understand mass. We have also looked at kilograms this week and compared those to grams.

Topic:

This week, we reflected back to our trip to Mere Tun. We talked about what a Viking does in a day. We then looked at Viking children and what there job roles were. We compared our own lives to the lives of Viking Children. We then wrote a diary entry remembering what we learnt at Mere Tun.

 Other news:

On Friday this week, we celebrated comic relief. Our challenge was to dress a potato! We loved getting crafty and creating our own character potatoes. We had everything from the evil pea to Harry Potter!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to:

Pupil of the Week – Hassan

Phonics Award – Thomas D

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak 

Spring 2: Week 3 (Week Commencing 10/3/25)

English:

This week, we have been looking through our class book for adjectives that the writer has used to describe the nouns found in the story. We have also  been looking at the adjectives used to describe the characters actions.

Maths:

This week, we introduced perimeter and enjoyed finding perimeter of different shapes using squared paper. We also spent some time outside measuring perimeter of our own chalk draw shapes on the yard.

Topic:

This week was our most exciting topic lesson! We went on our school trip to Martin Mere Viking Village. We met a time traveller named Finn who took us back to the Viking Era. Whilst we were there, we learnt about what Vikings did other than raiding. We learnt to use willow to make animal pens, we went foraging for food and we also completed Viking Training just in case we were attacked whilst at Mere Tun. The children loved this and can form a fantastic shield wall!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to:

Pupil of the Week – All the Class

They were all amazing on our class trip.

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak 

Spring 2: Week 2 (Week Commencing 3/3/25)

English:

This week, we have been thinking about how the characters in our story might be feeling throughout the book. We had a go at writing in the role of the character to help us understand character actions.

Maths:

This week, we have continued our length and height work this week including recapping centimetres, metres and millimetres. We have also solved number problems with length and height.

Topic:

This week, we looked at the Viking raid on Lindisfarne. We talked about what happened at Lindisfarne and why the Vikings raided there. We then wrote our News Paper Reports on the raid looking at feelings of the Monks and what happened.

 Other news:

On Thursday this week, we celebrated world book day. Our theme of the day was Myths and Legends. We had such an exciting day including word searches finding different words in our favourite books, we created our own book in a box and we went orienteering around school finding our favourite book characters to crack the code!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to:

Pupil of the Week - Kody

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak 

Spring 2: Week 1 (Week Commencing 24/2/25)

English:

This week, we have been looking at our new story for this half term, Arthur and the Golden Rope. We have retrieved information and new vocabulary from the story and found information on the new words using different resources.

Maths:

This week, we started our new maths topic of measure. We began the week looking at non standard units of measure before looking at cm and m. We have compared length and height, some of us have compared mm and cm.

Topic:

This week, we introduced our new Viking topic. We gathered information about who the Vikings were and where they came from. We all really enjoyed investigating the Vikings.

 Other news:

This week, we started our new Science topic of Sound. We went outside and around school to investigate sound. We thought about what we could hear and were sounds loud or quiet and where we think they are coming from. We also made our own string telephones. 

Our Pupil Awards this week went to:

Pupil of the Week - Elijah

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak 

Spring 1: Week 6 (Week Commencing 10/2/25)

English:

This week, we have been using all our poetry knowledge including using similes and alliteration. We drafted and planned our writing before writing our own animal shape poems. We even wrote them up neatly for showing off on our class wall.

Maths:

This week, we continued working on our division knowledge. We have been dividing by 2,5 and 10. We enjoyed becoming division detectives and working out the letter clues to decode a word.

Science:

This half term we have been looking at living things. This week we were looking at the life cycles of mammals and insects. We have been finding out the similarities and differences and comparing them. We looked at the life cycles of rainforest animals.

Well done on a fantastic half term Carroll Class. Have a lovely break!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak 

Spring 1: Week 5 (Week Commencing 3/2/25)

English:

This week, we have moved onto our poetry unit. We looked at alliteration based on animals in the rainforest and created our own similes.

Maths:

This week, we continued with multiplication and division and began recognising multiplication as repeated addition. We have then represented multiplication problems using both images and arrays.

Topic:

This week, we looked at what we might find in the rainforest. We looked at animals, plants and features. We created our own rainforest backdrops too!

 Other news:

This week, we celebrated number day! We enjoyed lots of fun number challenges including number bond flowers, numicon hunts and our class challenge of creating the number 10 in the most creative way!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to:

Pupil of the Week - Hassan

Writing Award – Thomas D

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott, Miss Bak & Miss Carroll 

Spring 1: Week 4 (Week Commencing 27/1/25)

English:

This week, we finished our story so we began to plan our own stories based on the rain forest. We changed the story The Great Kapok tree to suit our own adventures! We look at story beginnings and then wrote our drafts before doing our own full stories! Well done Carroll Class.

Maths:

This week, we started our new multiplication and division topic. We have been looking at equal groups and making our own equal groups using sweets! We move on to adding together equal groups. We loved doing this! We have been practicing our 2s, 5s and 10 times tables.

Topic:

This week,  we looked at maps of the world and located the equator line. We then found where the tropical rainforests are and named some of them.

Other News: 

We made our own volcanoes using salt dough this week, we looked at shapes and artistic lines.

Our Pupil Awards this week went to:

Pupil of the Week - Eliza

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott, Miss Bak & Miss Carroll 

Spring 1: Week 3 (Week Commencing 20/1/25)

English:

This week, we introduced verbs and found our own verbs from our story The Great Kapok Tree. We looked at past tense and present tense verbs and changed verb tenses. We alo looked at the present perfect verb.

Maths:

This week, we have been calculating using money. We all got to visit Miss Henderson’s cake shop to buy some delicious cakes using our money. We worked together to work out the change. We also made 20p using different coins.  

Topic:

This week, we compared the difference between a temperate and a tropical rainforest. We recapped each forest and then decided how they differ. We also introduced the equator line and what the equator is.

 Other news:

This week we had our WOW Wednesday focusing on France. We had a wonderful day and learnt the French alphabet. We sung the song and learnt the first initial of our names. We also learnt some modes of transport.

Our Pupil Awards this week went to:

Pupil of the Week - Kody

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott, Miss Bak & Miss Carroll 

Spring 1: Week 2 (Week Commencing 13/1/25)

English:

This week, we looked more in-depth at the characters in the story, where the story was set and what was the main plot throughout the book. The children learnt that we can always change bad choices for good. We all wrote a book review and most of the children liked the book.

Maths:

This week, we continued to look at money. Some of us looked at recognising different bank notes and counting coins. Some of us compared values and record using pound and pence.

Topic:

This week, we looked at the temperate rainforests in the UK. We looked at the different climate to the tropical rainforest and the threats the rainforest faces. We also located where temperate rainforests are in the UK on maps.

 Other news:

This week, we all loved our cooking lesson. As we have been looking at the rainforest in topic, for our cooking lesson we used our cutting skills to slice vegetables and design tigers.

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Matthew

Maths Award - Zhi

Swimming Award - Kody

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

Spring 1: Week 1 (Week Commencing 6/1/25)

Welcome back and Happy New Year!!

English:

This week, started to read and look at a new book, The Great Kapok Tree. We began the week by understanding the events which happened in the story, we designed our own illustration for the book using the setting description and thought about how the characters in the story might be feeling.

Maths:

This week, we have started our unit on Money. We have looked at the coins and notes we have in the UK. Some of us have looked at the difference between the colours and some have looked at the difference in pounds and pence.

Topic:

This week, we introduced our new topic of the rainforest. We looked at the different layers of the rainforest and some features of the rainforest.

 Other news:

This week, we have had a fantastic first week back with lots of exciting activities going on. We went back swimming this week and wow the confidence the children have shown has been amazing! Well done Carroll class and we can’t wait to see this grow over the next term.

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Hasan

Communication Award – Thomas V

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

 Autumn 2: Week 3 (Week Commencing 18/11/24)

Another busy week in Carroll class:

English:

This week, we began looking at speech. We identified speech in sentences and practised performing speech in groups ready to perform the story The Prince and the Pauper. We also wrote our own dialogues for the story and will be beginning script writing. 

Maths:

This week, some of us have worked hard understanding column addition and subtraction. We will be continuing subtraction next week. Some of us continued finding the difference and some of us have been subtracting using numicon. 

 Other news:

This week, we have further explored the Tudor Era! We have learnt about Henry VIII and his SIX wives! We have really enjoyed this and understanding the monarch!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Kody

Maths Award - Abdullah

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

Autumn 2: Week 3 (Week Commencing 11/11/24)

This week we have had lots of fun activities going on: 

English:

This week, we began looking at preposition in writing. We discussed what preposition is and how it adds to a sentences. We used the story the prince and the pauper and found prepositions throughout. We then build our own sentences and included prepositions in our writing. 

Maths:

This week, some of us began adding 3 one digit numbers together and adding crossing 10. Some of us have been finding the difference between 2 numbers and some of us have been using numicon to help us find difference and compare numbers. 

 Other news:

What a busy week we have had. We had our class cinema trip to Bolton Vue, we watched Ozi Voice of the Forest. All of the children behaved beautifully and were a credit to our school! On Friday, we celebrated Children in Need - we especially loved our morning Joe Wicks workout!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Zhi

Reading Award - Eliza

Staff Award - Miss Doherty

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

Autumn 2: Week 2 (Week Commencing 4/11/24)

Another busy week in Carroll Class: 

English:

This week, we have created our own character maps on the pauper Tom Canty. Discussing how his life changed when he became the king for a day. We then looked through the story identifying interesting words that capture the readers interest. The children all chose their own words, some acted the word out and some identified the meanings. 

Maths:

This week, some of us have explored inverse operation of addition and subtraction and we have used inverse to check our calculations. Some of us have focused on subtracting by taking away and word problems and some of us have been using numicon to recognise one more and one less. 

Topic:

This week we introduced our topic of Tudors. We investigated artifacts that were scattered around the room. Children hunted for evidence and made their own predictions on what the artifact was and who might have used it. This was lots of fun and a great hook to our new topic!

 Other news:

This week we have our first exhibition day and welcomed parents into our classroom to spend the afternoon with us, we had lots of fun focusing on bonfire activities. We made our own edible fireworks. We did some spaghetti firework painting and made our own bonfire art work! We ended the afternoon with some dancing. We all had so much fun and can't wait for our next exhibition day!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Joshua

Phonics Award - Abdullah 

Communication Award - Matthew

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

Autumn 2: Week 1 (Week Commencing 28/10/24)

Welcome back Carroll class! What a lovely first week back we have had and we loved hearing about your half term adventures. Here is what we have been up to: 

English:

We have introduced our new story The Prince and The Pauper by Michael Twain. We brought the story to life with a fanatastic role play to identify differences. Miss Henderson was the pauper and Miss Gott was the prince! All the children compared the differences between both adults. We then explored the word pauper and some of us used dictionaries to find out the meaning. 

Maths:

This week, we have all been recalling number facts to 5, 10 and 20. Some of us have then explored the commutative law of addition whilst some of us have been recognising +, - and = symbols and others comparing numicon shapes. 

 Other news:

Science was very exciting this week, introducing electricity and how does electricity work. The children loved learning about power stations and pylons. We also looked at electrical safety and identified dangers. 

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Thomas

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

Autumn 1: Week 6 (Week Commencing 14/10/24)

As we come to the end of our first half term in Carroll Class, this week we have spent a lot of time reflecting and discussing what has went well this half term. We set our rules for next half term. We engaged in lots of PSHE sessions this week taking about our friendships and school values. We also have had time to complete motional activities which the children loved unwinding after a busy half term. 

To end the week, we celebrated the Harvest with our harvest assembly. The children all performed beautifully, well done Carroll Class! We then went on a walk to deliver some food hampers made from donations to neighbors of Applebee Wood. The manners were remarkable and we are very proud of you Carroll Class!

Have a lovely half term, we are exciting for our next half term together!

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

Autumn 1: Week 6 (Week Commencing 7/10/24)

Another busy week in Carroll Class; here is what we got up to:

English:

This week, we review the story Paddington Bear and shared our own stories with our peers. Paddington was very popular will all children this half term and we were able to discuss our favorite parts. 

Maths:

This week, we have focused on partitioning and the part whole model. We used different resources such as numicon and base 10 to help us partition numbers. We then ended the week focusing on number bonds to 10 and 20. 

Topic:

This week we created our own fact files based on everything we have learnt about London. We looked at different Landmarks, how you can travel around and our senses. We then looked at images of Tower Bridge and recreated the images using potato shapes and identifying them in the images. 

 Other news:

We have a very fun science lesson this week understanding the digestive system. We made a life size digestive system and took food on the journey through the body. We especially enjoyed pulling the nutrients from the intestines using tweezers!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Caidi

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend  

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

Autumn 1: Week 5 (Week Commencing 30/9/24)

This week has been extremely busy all across school, here is what we have been up to: 

English:

This week, we finished off the Paddington Bear story and read some of them out loud to our friends. We had a handwriting focus this week and completed lots of SPAG activities to help us enhance our literacy skills.  

Maths:

This week, we have worked hard representing numbers in different ways. We looked at numbers up to 20 and some of us up to 50. We have been looking at estimating numbers up to 1000 by using our place value knowledge and also using number lines correctly. 

Topic:

This week we looked at human features. We looked at parts of London and discussed whether they are natural or made by humans. Carroll Class decided London is a very man made city! We then created our own sculptures of Tower Bridge looking at the structure.

 Other news:

This week in school, we have had two very exciting days. We had our first Wow Wednesday of the year which was themed 'France'. We looked at Le Cirque and practiced talking about the circus in French and made our own circus acts. 

We also had World Poetry Day; we focused on the poet Michael Rosen and his poem Chocolate Cake. We explored who Michael Rosen is and listened to his poem before trying chocolate cake and writing our own poems. 

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Joshua

Maths Award - Thomas D

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend  

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

Autumn 1: Week 4 (Week Commencing 23/9/24)

We have had another busy week in Carroll class this week: 

English:

This week, we finished off the Paddington Bear story. We looked at the structure of the story beginning, problem and solution. We then planned our own wonderful adventure for Paddington and began to write our own stories which we will continue next week. 

Maths:

This week, we have worked hard recognising place value of 2 digit and 3 digit numbers. We looked at hundreds, tens and ones and used this to help us recognise numbers up to 1000! 

Topic:

This week we looked at the arial view images of London and identified landmarks from them. We then used shapes to build outlines and create our own landscapes of London Bridge. 

 Other news:

In Science this week we looked at the digestive system and how food travels through our body. We really enjoyed looking at different organs and how they work!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Zhi

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend  

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

Autumn 1: Week 3 (Week Commencing 16/9/24)

We have been as busy as ever this week in Carroll Class: 

English:

This week, we wrote setting descriptions using all the amazing adjectives we have learnt. We then wrote our own letters and postcards to Aunt Lucy in Peru to let her know all the exciting things Paddington has been up to in London. 

Maths:

This week, some of us have been looking at recognising counting 10 more and less from any number. We then created a flip graph to help us count in hundreds. Some of us worked on recognising one more, one less and equal to. 

 Other news:

This week we had British Values morning. We really enjoyed hosting our own election for school council. We all used a ballot box to cast our votes. We also made our own rosettes and learnt about the current prime minister. 

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Thomas

Maths - Abdulla

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend  

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

Autumn 1: Week 2 (Week Commencing 9/9/24)

We have had a very busy week in Carroll class this week, here is what we have been upto

English:

This week, we have continued looking at the story Paddington Bear by Michael Bond. We used all the adjectives we learnt last week to create our own character profile of Paddington. We then wrote our own character descriptions using some fantastic words!

Maths:

This week, we have been looking greater than, less than and equal to. We looked at different amounts using our counting skills and decided if they were greater than, less than and equal to. We also have ordered numbers up to 100 using this!

 Other news:

On Friday, we had Roald Dahl day. We celebrated by having a Charlie and The Chocolate Factory themed day. We designed our own chocolate bars and gave them a name. We then created our own Wonka bars and decided to get mess playing in chocolate gloop! We ended the day watching a little bit of the movie, it was a very fun day!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Elijah 

Writing Award - Thomas 

Swimming Award - Hasan

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend  

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak

Autumn 1: Week 1 (Week Commencing 2/9/24)

We have had a fantastic first week back at school. We have already settled back in and building fantastic relationships within our new classroom.

English:

This week, we started off the week getting to know each other sharing our interests, favorite things and all about our families. We then moved into our unit of work this half term. We will be looking at the story Paddington Bear by Michael Bond. We predicted what we thought the story could be about before reading. We then looked at adjectives and came up with our own adjectives to describe Miss Henderson and Paddington Bear. 

Maths:

This week, we have been looking at counting forwards and backwards. We enjoyed lots of counting songs and learning to understand a hundred square. We have filled in missing parts of a hundreds square and counted both forwards and backwards from any given number. 

Topic: 

This term our topic is Bright Lights, Big City. We introduced our topic this week by recognising the four countries that make up the United Kingdom and what are the 'big cities'. We learnt about the capital cities and we also combined the 4 flags to create the union jack. 

 Other news:

We have loved settling into our new room and learning about each other, we are very excited for the year ahead!

Our Pupil Awards this week went to: 

Pupil of the Week - Matthew 

Pupil of the Week - All of Carroll Class

Independence Award - Joshua

Well done ☺

Have a lovely weekend  

Miss Henderson, Miss Doherty, Mrs Alcock, Miss Gott & Miss Bak