Each week the school has a 'Word of the Week!'  This is chosen by the children and shared with the rest of the School every week in assembly.  Throughout each week, the children have the opportunity to add post-it notes with their definitions, antonyms, synonyms, sentences etc based on the Word of the Week to one of the many posters displayed around the school.  This word is then reviewed the following week and we begin again.

The current word of the week is

Dither

Don’t forget to email me at deputyhead@westcourt.Kent.sch.uk to let me know what you think this means and show me how you might use it in a sentence.

One of our previous words was

compunction

Here are some of the things the children said about this word...

 

"Compunction means the feeling of guilt following the doing of something bad." Ryan

 

One of our previous words was

castigate

 

"Castigate means you punish someone severely." Param

"He was castigated for not setting a good example." Jasmine

"Castigate = telling someone off." Freya

 

One of our previous words was

perplexed

Here are some of the things the children said about this word...

 

In Sarah-Ann's writing she used the phrase "Police officers are perplexed and bewildered."

 

"Perplexed means puzzled." Sienna

 

"Perplexed means puzzled or confused." Maisy

 

"I am perplexed because I am confused." Sara

 

"This is very perplexing!"  Akhram

 

 

 

One of our previous words was

procrastinate

Here are some of the things the children said about this word...

 

"It means that if you have got something to do you keep putting it off!" Curtis

 

"Procrastinate means to delay." Leon

 

"Procrastinate: to put off something until an opportunity is lost or to put it off until another day." Leonardas 

 

"It is a verb." Charlie 

 

"To postpone or delay needlessly." Katelyn