Key days:

Travel training is on a Monday afternoon. Pupils can bring in money and leave it in school or bring some each week, however depending on the task we may not always purchase items.

PE is on a Wednesday. Pupils need school kit each week or can leave it on their peg in school.

On Thursdays, Careers day is a rotation starting with The Acre so students need a packed lunch please.

Friday is homework day to be returned on Monday. There will be homework set every Friday.

We had a fantastic trip to Morrisons this week. Some of the children are entering a cooking competition on Friday so needed to get their ingredients ready. Some would rather go to the disco so they had a lovely time in the cafe instead. 

This week we joined Rufford Class on a trip to the National Justice Museum in Nottingham to support our RE topic of Crime and Punishment. Everyone was given a part to act out in court and were amazing. The case was that of a teenage girl accused of cyber bullying another girl at her school. In real life the girl was found guilty, but our jury decided she was not guilty and let her walk free.

After lunch we took a tour around the museum, looking at the exercise yard / execution yard, the debtors’ prison, the pits, prison cells and even the laundry where the female prisoners worked. 

Overall, everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day and learnt a lot about punishments of the past.

This week we used our plan of how to get to Asda on the bus where we had to go on a price hunt. We looked at the different brands, recorded prices and decided on which items were the best value for money. 

Welcome back to Sherwood Class! We got straight into it this week with our visits to the radio station where lots of children chose to go live on air to talk about their interests!

Josh and Nick blew us away with their Stags update whilst Maisie, Ella and Caitlin brought us all into the wonderful world of Taylor Swift! We are very proud of all of our researchers and presenters. Well done!

W/C: 10/2/25 - Poetry in the style of 'The British'

Sherwood have been reading and writing poetry this half term. The poem we focused on was 'The British' by Benjamin Zephaniah which covers the themes of tolerance and acceptance for the broad range of peoples who make up the country. The style of the poetry is pros, written like a recipe. The class then thought about their own family qualities as a microcosm of the British population and created a recipe for their family. Here is a small sample for you to enjoy.

Week Commencing 16th December 

We have had a busy last week of term. We’ve done some Christmas themed Maths and English. In the afternoon on Wednesday we all went to the hall for our Christmas Dinner, after all that food we then relaxed in the classroom. On Thursday we had a meal at the Archer in Rainworth for a celebratory end of year treat. We hope you all have a very happy Christmas and we shall see you at the start 2025 for a new term.

We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

We look forward to seeing you all back on 6th January

The Sherwood Team. 

Sherwood learned about the chemical properties of baking soda when making bath bombs.

Week commencing 02/12/24

This week in Sherwood class we have been preparing to sell our enterprise products at the school Christmas fayre on Friday 6th and at Idlewells shopping centre in Sutton.

We have also finished our reading our book 'Holes' in English and we worked in small groups to act out parts of the story. This helped the children discover and understand different forms of text and find ways to use expressive language to portray different characters from the story. 

Last week we visited Patchings Art Centre in Calverton, the children enjoyed looking at all of the different pieces of art that were on display in the outdoor environment, we also took the opportunity to visit the cafe and work on the classes independence by allowing them to order and pay for their own drinks. 

This week we were looking at Enterprise and we went into Sutton-Ashfield on the bus on Monday morning to look at packaging for our projects. We decided that we were making brownies, shortbread, and Christmas stickers. Throughout the week we made and tested the products. We did some surveys to ask classes their opinions about our products. We made some packaging. On Friday we had the 'Dragons' come in to listen to our presentations about our products.

Week Commencing 7/10/24: Holes by Louis Sachar

Sherwood have been reading this since the start of term and we are now about half way through. This week to develop our skimming / scanning skills and summary writing skills we have created a 'rogues gallery' about all the characters.

Week commencing 16th September 

On Thursday we went to Harvey Haddon for a sports competition, we had a go at dodgeball, kurling and handball. We won a few games at each sport. We all took part and had fun meeting teams from other schools.

This Wednesday sees the launch of the upper school Dragon's Den. Local entrepreneurs will be in school to introduce this challenge to the pupils. In each class, pupils will divide into groups to compete against one another to plan, research, produce and evaluate an enterprise project of their own. Products developed previously include dog biscuits, seed cards, personalised jewellery and homemade soap. Look out for items at this year's Christmas Fayre.

Week commencing 22nd July 2024

We have had a good last week of term. We all went down to the Acre on Thursday and made various desserts.

We wish that you all have a good holiday and we will see you on Wednesday 3rd September.