Slang through the decades

Y5/6C have been looking at different slang through the decades as part of their 'Back to the future' project. We were surprised to see several words we use today are actually old slang words. We enjoyed discussing the words and created some new slang words of our own.

Here are some examples:

1950's
Boss = Great
Cat = Cool
Eyeball = To look around
Pad = Home
Split = Leave

1960's
Fat = Good or best
Jet = To move quickly
Pop = Popular or trendy
Shades = Sunglasses
Tube = Television

1970's
Ace = Great, really good
Awesome = Cool, great
Dig = To understand, to like
Totally = Sure, that's right
Word = I agree

1980's
Brill = Great, wonderful
Deadly = Cool, wicked
Gamer = Video game player
Sick = Cool
Trendy = Someone who follows fashion

1990's
Back in the day = Remember when?
Blood = Friend
Crib = House, apartment
Fresh = Cool, original, nice
My bad! = My mistake
Old school = Old fashioned


Some of our own we created
Tasty fruit = Nice phone, smart phones -Blackberry, Apple i-phone
Shadow = Sad
Bait = Food
Goal Post = Close
Vine = Classic
Twinkle = Bright
Cold = Mean
Drop off = Go away

Read Write starts today

Today children in years 1-3 started their ReadWrite classes. This is really exciting as last year the children made amazing progress in their reading and we know they will all do really well this year.

Back to the future

This week Y5/6C started their topic 'Back to the future'. In this topic we will be looking at the past and thinking about what the future may hold.

First Days in a New School

Amazing project work from Y6B

Year 6 are learning about the Jewish faith and have created some amazing project work over the summer holidays. Here are some examples -

Year 6 Learning about Moses

Year 6 have been using Ict to find different paintings of Moses. They have then been explaining to their class why the depictions are different and what they teach us about Moses' life.

Estimating and Counting

Yesterday Y1S went to the ICT suite to learn about counting and estimating. They played a game from the iboard website which helped them to improve their estimating skills. Some children were estimating a number fo marbles up to ten and some were able to estimate up to twenty! Click on the link above and see how good you are at estimating and counting the marbles.