This week the children took part in Sports day and it was brilliant, the children were fantastic in the team games around the field and running on the track! Well done everyone!
Important Dates
Thursday 11th – Transition Morning. The nursery children will spend the morning in their new classroom with Mrs Solakova.
Friday 12th – Reading Morning
Wednesday 17th – Teddy Bears Picnic. Bring your favourite teddy to school. We will have a picnic out on the field.
Friday 19th – Last day of term – school finishes 11:45/13:30.
We love to spend time in worship and prayer and we were very pleased to celebrate the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul with Father Francis. We all had our own lines to say in this liturgy which reminded us of the important role that these saints played in the early church. Reading from the letter of Paul to the Colossians reminded us that we must try to show our love for one another in our actions and words and we filled the room with our beautiful singing when we joined in with our favourite hymns, A New Commandment, Follow Me and Magic Penny. Father Francis reflected on the lives of Saints Peter and Paul and led us in prayer.
The flowers on display describe how Jesus is alive in each and every one of us in the way that we treat one another, read the bible, go to church and say our prayers.
It has been a very sunny week and the children enjoyed spending more time outside playing with water and sand, drawing with crayons and making muddy pies! We were also busy getting ready for the sports day next week. We can’t wait to put our PE kits and show you what we’ve learnt.
In Little Wandle we read new words with -ed endings and discussed that sometimes we read the -ed end like ‘-id’ and sometimes like ‘-t’. Some of the new words this week are cloaked, scooped, croaked. The children are also very busy writing even longer sentences using their phonics knowledge. They are getting more confident in writing for different purposes and a very recent example is fathers day:
In Maths we were busy making simple maps of familiar places. We even used some scenarios or stories to enhance their map making, such as ‘Train ride’. To describe the maps the children used keywords and sentences like ‘First, I need to pass the bridge, then I go straight and after I turn around the park.’ Thank you very much for your lovely maps. They look lovely on our home learning board.
Dates to remember: Tuesday 2nd July at 10am – EYFS sports day (Children to come to school in their PE kits and school cap.) Friday 5th July – Reading morning
It was lovely to see so many parents and children on Wednesday after school, to enjoy the work done by your wonderful children, in a relaxed way. We shall starting sending things home now.
Thursday is sports day. Please send your child in with a T-shirt in their house colour and, of course, a full water bottle, school hat and wearing sun tan cream.
We spent an incredible day exploring life in the 16th century, focusing on the catastrophic event of the Great Fire of London. We learnt how the fire spread, examined maps to track its path, and used our archaeological skills to dig up and analyse artefacts, which provided us with valuable insights into what happened.
Throughout the day, we participated in a variety of engaging activities, such as candle making, sewing, creating our own ink, making perfume, and experimenting with herbs to craft medicine, among many others. A huge thank you to all the volunteers, your assistance was invaluable, and the day would not have been possible without you!
On Wednesday, we also hosted an open day to celebrate our achievements over the past year. Thank you to everyone who joined us and supported our work.
The term is racing by now and we are busy rehearsing for end of school production – the children have worked hard to learn lines, songs and dances and now we have taken our practices to the stage to try our hand at acting!
Despite all of this, we have still found time to complete the Bikeability course and bake biscuits in maths and set up our class to show off lots of our learning from the year so far. It was great to be able to welcome so many families to our class on Wednesday evening. If you weren’t able to make it, here are a couple of photographs of our class.
This week in maths we explored ‘what comes next’. We helped bunny work out what number comes next by using a dice and a number track. On Tuesday we played a game of missing number – the children had to work out which number was missing and find the missing number on their number fan. On Thursday we were given a number and had to work out which number came next to make a number line.
In RE this week we talked and thought about God’s Wonderful world. We remembered our RHE learning from autumn term and talked about the things God made during the 7 days of Creation. We listened to Louis Armstrong’s very lovely song ‘What a wonderful world’.
Important Dates
Tuesday 2nd July – EYFS Sports Day – 10:00AM. Please enter school via the KS2 gate. Nursery children will need to wear white polo shirt, blue/black shorts or leggings and trainers. Children will need to wear their school cap.
This week, we reinforced our learning in history with a day long series of activities focussing on the Great Fire of London. We all looked tremendous dressed up in our 17th century outfits and our teacher for the day, Mistress Sophie taught us many things about how people lived 350 years ago. As the day progressed, we learned more about how the fire developed and what the people of London would have done to try and stop the fire. During the afternoon, we explored artefacts collected from the fire, and considered what they told us about the owner and their life.
We-used-the-ink-we-made-to-write-our-own-messages
Leather working using leather, a nail and a hammer
Making our own bread
We had fun catching those pesky rats!
Using a hammer and nail was great fun when creating a pattern on a piece of leather.
Using a pestle and mortar to grind down dried flowers
Creating our own ink
We used the ink that we had created to write our own message.
Leather work
Weaving was tricky
In 1666, people thought that you could cure a headache if you put a rope on your head!
Collecting water from the River Thames
Passing buckets of water to put out the fire.
Using firehooks to pull down a building.
We looked at a huge map of London and tracked the movement of the fire.
We were archeologists and talked about our findings.
At the end of the day, even though we were tired, we were still ready to find out more about the Great Fire of London.
We could not have run the day without the support of ten tremendous adults from Year 2 and Year 3 and we are very grateful for their invaluable help and enthusiasm. Thank you!
Inspired by the story ‘The Journey Home’, about an orangutan, panda bear, elephant and polar bear who have sadly had to leave their own home because it has been destroyed by the actions of humans, we are exploring habitats around the world.
This research has continued at home, where the children have shown amazing creativity and ingenuity when designing and making a shoebox habitat that reflects their interest a particular habitat.
You are warmly invited to our Open Evening on Wednesday, when much of our learning will be on display for you all to see.
Well, what else can I say but what a performance!!! Well done children, you really smashed it today! So confident saying your lines, exceptional singing and fantastic artwork! What else could you ask for! You certainly made me and Mrs Reid super proud and grateful to be your teachers! You absolutely proved that hard work always pays off!
Thank you to all the children who built our ark!
Thank you to all children who chose an animal and clambered on!
Thank you to all children for creating a beautiful rainbow!
Thank you to all the children for their fantastic singing and the heavy rain!
And thank you all for the sunshine!
And thank you all for all your lovely writing. It was fantastic seeing all of you thinking about the story and writing amazing sentences!
Hope you all have an amazing weekend! Looking forward seeing you all next week!
