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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
PE- Monday (Spare shoes are still required)
​Swimming- Tuesday (Swimming kits- Don't forget your swimming hats!)
Our theme this term is 
'The Ancient Egyptians'​
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Let’s travel back 5000 years, to the dusty realms of ancient Egypt. Cruise along the Nile, entering a world of mysteries and curses, mummies and kings. Find out about life on the river’s fertile banks, discovering Egypt and its fascinating culture. Unravel the secrets of ancient tombs, using historical sources and ancient artefacts. Find out about powerful pharaohs and grandiose gods.
Please click on the icon below to open a printable version
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 

Spring Term (1)
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Spellings-
Week Commencing 30.01.23
​ Test 3.02.23
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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

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.