World Book Day!

We celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as our favourite characters from beloved books. Throughout the day, we engaged in group reading activities and shared our favourite stories with one another.


On birthdays we encourage children to donate a book to our class library. As a token of our appreciation they get to wear a non- school uniform on their birthday.  Our class wish list can be found on Amazon. Year Three wish-listhttps://amzn.eu/bXpVAyq

World Book Day

The class came dressed as their favourite “book” characters and we shared books with Year 5 and took part in other fun related book activities, like quizzes.

I have started to refresh the book corner to reflect the changing needs of the class and remind the children of the power of our imagination.

Nursery – 08.03.24

In RHE this week we thought how how we could be more like Jesus – caring and sharing with our friends. We learnt that Jesus washed people’s feet so we role played this.

In Maths this week we looked at ways we could make 5, Sammy the Snail and Number 5 helped us how to do this.

Thank you for coming to the Mother’s Day Assembly today, the children enjoyed making their cards. They chose the colours they know you love the most. Have a wonderful Mother’s Day on Sunday.

Other photos this week:

Important Dates

Reading morning – Friday 15th and 22nd March, 8:45 – 9:00AM in the Nursery classroom.

Friday 22nd March – EYFS cake sale after school. Donations of cakes can come in on the day via the office/classroom.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Taylor

World Book Day in Year Six

Every year, World Book Day promotes the power of reading. There are so many ways to enjoy reading and it is important that you find your way to read:

  • Take books home to read.
  • Listen to books being read aloud (or listen to audiobooks)
  • Choose the books you want to read.
  • Ask for ideas on what to read next.
  • Make time to read.
  • Find ways to make reading fun!

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.

It was great to see Year Six getting into the spirit of the event, sharing their joy of reading through their costumes and pairing up with children in Year Two to read stories to the younger children. We are currently writing our own stories for our friends in this class and we are looking forward to meeting up again in a few weeks to share these special stories.

Reception – Welcome back to Spring 2

01.03.24

I really hope that you’ve enjoyed your half term break and spent quality time with family and friends.
In Little Wandle this term we will focus on phase 4 phonics. That means that we will be learning how to read even longer words like swimming, fantastic and plurals like queens and boxes. We will not be learning any new digraphs or trigraphs, and we will only revisit phase 2 and phase 3 tricky words. In your orange books you will find some of the sentences we read at school. Please practice them for building fluency.

In Maths we learned how to use simple strategies to discuss time and then progress to ordering and sequencing simple events. Next week we will be using calendars to mark off the days leading up to special events and that will help us understand the passing of time. In learning through play the children measured the time by counting how many times they can write their name in 1 min, 3 min and 5 min.

In order to understand what sequencing means the children made honey sandwiches, following one step at a time.

We are also very busy preparing for our Mothers day assembly next Friday. Would be lovely to see you all there at 9am.

And finally, it was lovely to see you all and discuss your children’s progress. As ever your support is much appreciated and valued. We’ve come a long way and it is absolutely fantastic to see the massive progress the children have made.

Dates to remember:
Thursday 7th – World book day
Friday 8th – Mothers day assembly (therefore there will be no reading morning on Friday 8th)

Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Solakova

Our new book isn’t odd at all…

Two chapters in and everyone in class 4 is desperate to know who the creatures are and what adventure is going to happen next in “Odd and The Frost Giants”. We have travelled to a different time and place to meet some very interesting characters… More will be revealed next week…

The book is by Neil Gaiman, an author I’ve been mentioning at consultations. He writes fantastic books – novels and picture books – for children which appeal to many ages and girls and boys. If your child enjoys this book, or even if s/he wouldn’t choose reading as the first thing to do, this author could be for them. Your child doesn’t have to read every word – you could read a page each, or you could chip in when it gets tricky. Any way into reading is really worth it, for so many reasons, not the least being as inspiration for writing. There are Neil Gaiman books in the school library for anyone to borrow. This website is American and shows some of the titles, for all ages he has written- https://www.mousecircus.com/books

Have a great weekend and I look forward to seeing the parents I haven’t seen yet on Monday morning.

Nursery – 01.03.2024

This week the children have loved exploring the story ‘Goldilocks at the Three Bears’. We have read different versions of the story which the children have been joining in with. This is the video we have watched in class if the children would like to watch it again.

The new role play opened today so the children have been making porridge and spending time in The Three Bears Cottage.

We have also loved playing with the porridge oats; tipping, pouring and scooping.

We acted out the story during yoga.

The children have enjoyed being back together this week after the break.

Thank you for returning your Lenten Promises. Hopefully the weather will be drier next week so we can go out and pick a branch to hang them on.

There will be no reading morning on Friday 8th as we will be going to the Mothers Day assembly. We have been practising the song we will be singing so it would be lovely if you could join us.

Important Dates

Thursday 7th March – World Book Day – Children can come dressed up as their favourite book character.

Friday 22nd March – EYFS Cake sale after school. Donations of cakes can come in on the day via office/classroom.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Taylor

Year Six get programming

This week, we have started our new computing topic: programming.

Although we have written programs before using scratch, this was our first lesson in programming for the Microb:t computers, using an emulator before downloading our algorithms to the microb:t computers. We are looking forward to extending our skills and knowledge further next week.

Reception – Beginning of Lent

16.02.24

Dear children, parents and carers
I can’t believe we are halfway  through the Reception year! The time has flown by….
The children have made massive progress not only in their reading, writing and maths, but also in their social skills, interacting with peers and adults and understanding rules and expectations.

As usual, the week was full of experiences and the children were very keen on trying and participating in different activities. On Tuesday we cooked our own pancakes. We did them from scratch and carefully followed a recipe. They turned out absolutely scrumptious and everyone had not one, but two pancakes. The children even helped wash the plates after 🙂

We were also creating beautiful Valentines cards for our loved ones. The children spend lots of time decorating them and writing lovely messages:

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 Gallaher brought back ashes from the service.

On Friday we visited St Bartholomew church and looked around to spot significant artefacts and things we are familiar with. I am absolutely impressed of the exceptional behaviour of the children who represented St Adrians in the best possible way:

Have a wonderful half term break!
Mrs Solakova

Year 3 Authors

In English, we were inspired by the book ‘A River’ by Marc Martin to create our own version of the story. We used descriptive language to describe the journey of the river. Here are some photos of our English display.

Maths

In maths, we explored the perimeter of various shapes. Here are a few snapshots from our lesson.