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. 

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