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​Welcome to our Willow Class page



​​Class Teacher: Miss Lauren Grantham
Linked Teaching Assistant: Mrs Shelli Williams 
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Our Notice Board 
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Our class email address is ​willow@sibford-gower.oxon.sch.uk 

Willow Class Reminders
Monday- Full PE  kits (Spare pair of shoes)
Tuesday- Swimming (First Swimming session, Tuesday 25th April) 

Upcoming Events

Our theme this term is 
Mountains, Rivers and Oceans​
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From humble beginnings, the river flows down the mountain and into the sea. Pull on your wellies and wade right in.
How deep does it go and how fast does it travel? What soil types can you find by the river? Which animals make their homes there?
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Let’s get down to the river banks and top of the mountains and find out. Now hop on an imaginary boat and travel some of the world’s most majestic rivers and oceans – the Ganges, the Thames, the Amazon and Nile – and keep a journal as you follow their course.
​Time to investigate. As part of the local news team, it’s your task to track down the source of some mystery pollution. Where did it come from and who is to blame? Let’s meander through the world of rivers, oceans and mountains, taking a dip into their watery world!
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Please click on the icon below for generic information about homework expectations for each year group.
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Below are some useful websites and ideas to support your child when learning their times tables.  
Multiplication Tables Check - 2022 - Timestables.co.uk 

Times tables collection - BBC Teach 

Purple Mash by 2Simple
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Class Update

Willow class information,

​homework and support 

Summer Term (1)
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Weekly Spellings
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Willow's Weekly Updates, Summer Term 
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Willow's Weekly Updates, Spring Term 
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Willow's Weekly Updates, Autumn Term 
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Please click on the buttons below to help support your child/children with our weekly maths focus. 
Helpful Maths Videos and resources 
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Grid Method
Column Subtraction without exchanging
Column Subtraction with exchanging

Our Class Photo Gallery


​Our Exciting Egyptian Day
The grand finale of our learning about the Ancient Egyptians, was a special dress-up day where we also took part in all sorts of activities linked to Ancient Egypt, including making pyramids, making Ancient Egyptian bread and a range of artefacts.  We revised a lot of the knowledge from out history lessons, applied learning from across the curriculum in different contexts, e.g maths when we were measuring ingredients.  And we had great fun!
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World Book Day 2023

Children's Mental Health Week- Connecting 

‘Children’s Mental Health Week’. The theme this year is ‘Lets Connect’. We discussed in great-detail about what this meant and how we can connect. As a class, we created our very own ‘paper chain’- this represented us, Willow Class, one big family connecting together. 
Tag Rugby in Willow Class
Perfect Pumpkins- We fully embraced Halloween and created the most wonderful ‘pumpkin sketches’. We looked at a range of sketching techniques and how to shade for effect! 
World Book Day- 2022
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To mark ‘Remembrance Day’, we created our own poppies using a range of different materials and textures. We then took pictures of our hands and edited the images into black and white- this was brilliant and really effective. To continue with ‘Remembrance Day’ we read a lovely narrative called ‘A Remembrance service’. We looked at the meaning of the story and discussed how it made us feel.  

Autumn  Day in Willow Class
Bannock- Iron Age Bread
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Forest School
​Stone Age-Iron Age
Sports Day 2021

Gods & Mortals

As part of our topic exploring Greek myths and legends, we made this amazing mixed-media masks of characters from the tales that we read.

Martial Arts Workshop, Sports Week 
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Marine Biologists come to visit! 

We were lucky enough to have three 'Marine Biologists' in to visit Willow Class. We were so excited to hear about their studies and adventures. They shared photos, videos and stories about their 'plastic pollution clean up' in the Indian Ocean!

We completed three wonderful activities: 
What plastics can be recycled?
The arts of the sea

Sea creature artefacts 

We had a fantastic morning full of stories, information and facts! 



VOLCANO DAY 
We are really enjoying our topic on Tremors and have found out all sorts of things about volcanoes.  As part of this, we had an amazing Volcano Day.  We had worked with a partner to design and plan our model volcanoes, thinking about the materials we would need and how we would structure it. On Volcano Day, we came to school in old clothes ready for busy, messy learning.  It was such great fun!
Once we had made our volcanoes, we went outside to construct our 'ring of fire'.  Out came the cola and the baking powder and we stood back to watch the 'eruptions'.  Fantastic!

Victorian Day

As part of their topic on The Victorians, Willow Class held a Victorian School Day.  Miss Grantham and her class dressed in Victorian clothes, the children sat in rows and worked on chalk boards.  And no Victorian school room is complete without a cane and that big cap with a D on it!  Everyone had great fun.

Cooking with a purpose

As part of their continuing work on our bodies - how they work and how to be healthy - a group of children from Willow Class cooked a meal to keep our bones healthy.  Their authentic cannelloni contained calcium in the form of milk in the béchamel sauce and two kinds of cheese - ricotta and parmesan, with additional vitamins from spinach, and energy from the pasta.  The children worked brilliantly together to cook a complex dish.  The finished product was really delicious and professional enough to serve at a dinner party.  Well done, Willow !
Turn taking and team work to prepare the ingredients
Adding nutmeg to the béchamel sauce
Placing the cannelloni rolls in the tomato sauce
Yum, yum, yum !
Creating our own cave paintings.  What would cave people have used to create images on the walls? 
What is in the images?  What do they tell us? What colours would they be?  How did they last so long?
Weaving in Willow - exploring  warp and weft.  Can you work methodically to weave neatly and correctly?

Exploring text types

The children in Willow Class discovered the success criteria for effective instructions in a very practical way.  They were given instructions to make a King Bog Baby and worked with a partner to see if their set of instructions was a WAGOLL (What a good one looks like) or a WABOLL (What a bad one looks like).  They then worked out what they needed to add to make their instructions work.