Year 4 looked wonderful in their costumes on Thursday as many different characters from different stories visited the school. I’m sorry that Mrs Finnie isn’t in the photo. You can see her as a fantastic “Cat in the Hat” in the bulletin photo.
Thank you for supporting your children in sending in the objects and pictures in their matchboxes. There were many beautiful and precious items and it was wonderful to hear their stories. The children really enjoyed using them in their writing and it is these sort of stimuli which bring out their creativity and desire to use writing to communicate ideas and feelings. Here they are talking about their objects with each other. They wrote about two objects. We analysed the first piece of writing for successful parts and to identify what could be changed and the second pieces of writing were all improved on the first ones. If anyone would has a use for the matches from 100 matchboxes, please let me know!
I hope you’re all enjoying the wonderful sunshine!
What a week we’ve had! Went on a trip, dressed up for book day and learnt all about Ash Wednesday!!!
Well, the trip was definitely the highlight of the week! The bus journey went very smoothly and the children were very sensible and kind. They all said ‘Thank you’ to the bus driver and ‘hello and goodbye’ to all passengers! Well done!
The performance was absolutely smashing!!! We danced, we sang and did all actions!
After the performance we enjoyed a delicious lunch in the park!
Next week we will continue with the story ‘Pirates love underpants’ and start creating different settings and characters. Ahoy pirates!!!
On Thursday we had a wonderful day celebrating love for books and reading. The children looked absolutely stunning in their outfits and they were very excited to talk about their favourite stories in class! We were thinking about all of the places we can read a book and came out with several ideas:
You can read alone or with a friend….
You can read sitting on a tire or bike…..
You can read on a bench or climbing frame…. The options are endless 🙂
There can be few things as powerful as regularly reading to a young child. It has astonishing benefits for children: comfort and reassurance, confidence and security, relaxation, happiness and fun. Giving a child time and full attention when reading them a story tells them they matter. It builds self-esteem, vocabulary, feeds imagination and even improves their sleeping patterns.
To celebrate their birthdays, children are encouraged to donate a book to our class library. The reward for doing this is to come to school in a favourite outfit. You can view our class wish-list on Amazon. Reception wish-listhttps://amzn.eu/3RN7MT3
Ash Wednesday was a very special day for us too. We discussed that Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent and that the ashes are made of palm trees. The children started to think about their Lent promises and how to be a bit more like Jesus. Mrs Porter brought back ashes from the service and made a cross on everyone’s forehead!
And finally but not least, congratulations for all your hard work and motivation! You truly deserve the awards, red sash and golden rosette!!!
This week we talked about Ash Wednesday and the things that happen on this day and the start of Lent. Mrs Porter came back from the church with the ashes and if the children wanted to, they could receive the ashes in the shape of the cross.
The children have enjoyed their work on Goldilocks this week. We began our story map and thought about the actions we wanted to use. The children have also had lots of fun in the Three Bears Cottage and playing in the small world area.
On Thursday we dressed up as our favourite book characters!
It was lovely to spend lots of time outside this week:
Library
Please remember to bring library books back every Tuesday so your child can pick a new one to take home to share.
Lenten Promises
Please return Lenten promises this week so we can talk about them and put them on our display.
Important Dates
Friday 14th March – Reading Morning
Friday 4th April – Last day of term 11:45am/13:30pm.
Have a good weekend, let’s hope the nice weather continues
On Wednesday, we attended Mass to celebrate Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of Lent. During our RE lesson, we reflected on the significance of this sacred season and shared our Lenten promises.
The school had fun dressing up as characters from stories and taking part in a book quiz. In Year 1 the children drew themselves in their costumes. I have my favourite….what do you think?
We have also planted some grass seed in response to our Literacy text “Dinosaurs and all that rubbish.”
Inspired by the amazing artist, Charles McGee, we have been exploring colours, patterns and shapes to create our own artwork using pens, charcoal and sculpture. Here is a selection of the tremendous artwork that we made during our art project.
Our next challenge was to create 3D sculptures using our amazing drawings. We are very proud of the end results!
Thank you for returning the matchboxes containing objects for memories. Please could you return the rest on Monday, when we will use them for writing. The children’s imagination has really been sparked by “The Matchbox Diary” and they have completed some thoughtful writing inspired by it.
It is was great to discuss your children’s successes and achievements with you on Thursday and I look forward to doing the same with the rest of you on Tuesday.
We’ve come to the end of learning about perimeter and area and the children enjoyed working with shapes. Next week we’ll move onto Fractions. Please complete the MyMaths home learning for this as this will help get everyone off to a good start. Thank you.
Loving to read, reading for pleasure, choosing reading as an occupation, etc is important and a great habit to get into. I’ve discussed this with a number of parents during these consultations and there is evidence that, worryingly, this love of reading for pleasure is fading in children. As one of our guided reading carousel sessions, children read one of the books from the class library, for pleasure. (By contract, choice from the school library is completely free, so a child may choose a picture book, or a fact book in small print, or anything else, as they choose.) Hopefully these sessions will help to encourage this and also introduce the children to authors they will want to read more of. Here is the whole class enjoying reading today.
I hope that you all have a relaxing weekend in sunshine!
We started our new book this week, Goldilocks and the three Bears. In the classroom we have a Goldilocks and the three bears small world and the three bear cottage will be our role play for this half term. This morning we watched Miss Taylor act out the story using the props. The children were very good at joining in and found it funny when Miss Taylor used different voices.
We have also watched this story:
This week the children have enjoyed being back together and today we could finally spend lots of time outside in the sunshine
Books from home
If the children would like to bring in their favourite story from home I would love to read it to the class at home time.
Important Dates
Thursday 6th March – World Book Day – Children can come to school dressed up as their favourite book character (please be mindful that the children will still be playing outside).
As part of our learning about how to be an active part of our community and support others, we were keen to raise money for the charity Pets as Therapy that helps children in many schools. Here we are showing off our amazing animal outfits and imaginative artwork!
