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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 
Please use this address to submit homework projects when school is open
Willow Class Reminders
Tuesdays and Fridays- Children to come into school wearing their PE kit. Please remember to bring in school shoes as well. 
Our theme this term is ​
'Road Trip to USA'
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Buckle up, sunglasses on. We’re going on a road trip across the good old US of A. Flying from London Gatwick, and landing at JFK airport New York, it’s time to explore the sights and sounds of the Big Apple.

Use your map skills to navigate your way around some of its most famous landmarks and send a postcard home to ask the question ‘Do you wish you were here?’ Learn how to send an email to book a day trip or reserve a room. Make sure you ask the important questions ‘Does your hotel have a pool? Is there 24-hour room service?’

Meet the Iroquois tribe; Native Americans with amazing customs and traditions. 

​ Put the roof down and let the wind blow through your hair. We’re off.
Enjoy our 'launch powerpoint'- LETS GO!
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Class Update

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Willow class information,

​homework and support 

Please click on the buttons below to help support your child/children with our weekly maths focus. 
Grid Method
Column Subtraction without exchanging
Column Subtraction with exchanging
Term 2 
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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.
We thought it would be helpful to share some photos of your 'new' classroom before you return to school so you can see how friendly and welcoming it looks and know what to expect.  We even have our own rainbow quiet room!
Our Class Photo Gallery
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Martial Arts Workshop, Sports Week 2020
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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.
We found out about all the different types of penguin that may be found in Antarctica.  We painted some of them and they look lovely displayed in our classroom.

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 !
Busy baking cakes for the Macmillan Coffee morning.  Fundraising can be great fun!

Topic work in Willow Class

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.