The Big Bounce! On Tuesday morning the Nursery children enjoyed bouncing on the castle, going through the maze and sliding down the very big slide! Thank you PTA for organising this wonderful event!
23.05.2023
Thank you, Year 2 from Mrs Hayes xxx
I certainly enjoyed my time away with the Year Six children as we had our PGL adventure together, but it was wonderful to return to the lovely Year Two class this week and be greeted with a thoughtful welcome back message. Thank you very much, Year 2 – I missed you!
Reception – Building a castle
19.05.23
Hello everyone,
This week we were super creative and actually builded a real castle using cardboard boxes paint and bricked wallpaper!!! What a big project it was, but guess what… we did well and our special magical writing place is ready to be used next week. In our castle the children will be able to write a short story/ sentence and dress up as a princess or knight. We have everything needed to make a book and at the end of each day the children will be able to celebrate their story writing with their friends. Can’t wait to see all the amazing books. Stay tuned and check the blog every week to see it too.
On Wednesday we celebrated National numeracy day. The children had access to many fun activities like making a number block crown and number block fan. They also printed numicons on a playdough and did number bonds to 10 while eating cheese biscuits:
We can’t be more excited to tell you that 4 out of 5 butterflies emerged and they are healthy and eating juicy fruit already. Hopefully the fifth one will emerge too, so we can release them all next week.
In Little Wandle we’ve read super long words like ‘lunchbox’ and ‘handstand’ and again practised chunking them up ‘lunch’ and ‘box’. Chunking long words is really useful and helps us read with ease. We’ve learned 4 new tricky words too:
Please practice reading them at home.
In Maths this week we practised thinking about pairs of numbers that make 10 using our double dice frame. The stem sentence we used was: ” I can see 4 counters, so I could say: “4 needs 6 to make 10”, or I could say “6 needs 4 to make 10”. You can practise the stem sentence at home too. We also played with 10 frames and had yellow and red tokens to make 10 in different ways.
In RE we talked about Judaism. Mrs Ruffell was very kind to come and tell us all about her family traditions and she explained what Seder meal means. We talked about the meaning of each food on the plate. The children could wear the special Jewish hat called kippah.
Things to remember:
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 2:15 pm – Pentecost party
We will encourage children to wear red to school on the day; red being the liturgical color of Pentecost.
Any voluntary contributions towards the food (which will be limited to red items) should be provided by Monday 22 May.
Have a lovely weekend!
Looking forward seeing you all on Monday!
Mrs Solakova
Year 3
Science Investigation
This week we have conducted our science experiment which was to investigate the changes in the shadow throughout the day. We drew around our shadow at different points of the day. After that we wrote about our findings.
Maths
In Maths we have been working on equivalent fractions. Here are some photos of our work.
RE
In our RE lesson we were learning about Judaism, we looked at the importance of the synagogue. We explored the Holy text and we tried on some Kippahs.
May 19th
Today we have been talking about Judaism. We looked at the Torah and made our own version.
Nursery – 19.05.2023
This week we have been reading the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. The children have been enjoying playing with the characters and acting out the story in our tuff tray.
Our new role play is now open, we now have a Garden Centre. The children are enjoying using their basket to buy different items, scanning the items on the till and having a cup of tea and a cake in the garden centre cafe.
In PE we are continuing with our movement development unit, this week we played a game called ‘Rob the nest’. The children had to collect the correct colour beanbag from one nest and take it back to their own.
The caterpillars are still in their cocoons and the children are keeping a watchful eye on them.
Other photos this week:
We hope you can join us for our Pentecost party on Wednesday 24th May at 2:15pm, it looks like the weather will be nice. Children can wear red to school that day; red being the liturgical colour of Pentecost.
Friday mornings are reading morning – Please join us from 8:45 – 9:00 to read a story with your child.
Next Friday is Nursery and Reception Cake Sale after school – we would welcome any donations of cakes.
As the weather start to improve children will need sun cream applied before they come to school. Children might like to wear a hat too as we will be spending more time outside during the Summer term.
Have a great weekend and hopefully next week we will have some butterflies.
Miss Taylor
Reception – Butterfly life cycle
12.05.2023
This week in reception we’ve had a pleasant surprise!!! Our caterpillars are not caterpillars anymore. They were very busy eating and growing and then building a cocoon around themselves. We placed them into the net and can’t wait to see how are they turning into butterflies. We hope that they will do that during the school day, so we can see it!!!
Next week we will be writing about how caterpillars turn into butterflies and also will be creating models. Stay tuned for that!
In English this week we’ve read the final part of ‘Weirdo’. The children were thinking about how Maud is feeling at the beginning and end of the story, is it OK to be like the others, what makes a good friend. The children were writing sentences about these feelings and they did so well. This is the story if you want to have a look:
In Little Wandle this week we’ve been reading and writing very tricky words like ‘strong’ , ‘string’ and ‘dress’. Having so many consonants in one word can be very difficult, but we are determined to succeed. We also learned 4 new tricky words:
In RE we continued talking about good news and the joy they bring. Thank you very much for sharing your good news with us. Next week we will think about the Holy Spirit and the good news that Jesus is sending the Holy Spirit to keep us all safe.
In Maths this week, the children reviewed the composition of the numbers 6 to 9 using the ‘5 and a bit’ structure, and then explored how 10 can be composed. The children also developed a sense of the ‘ten-ness of 10’ by making their own collections of 10 objects. We used the 10 frame to support us and made different arrangements with different objects:
Things to remember:
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 2:15 pm – Pentecost party
Friday 8:45am – Reading morning
Have a lovely weekend!
Looking forward seeing you all on Monday!
Mrs Solakova
May 12th 2023
Another short and busy week with some hints of what is to come.
Year 3 Persuasive writers!
Nursery – 12.05.2023
On Tuesday we did some planting…
On Tuesday when we came back to school after a lovely Bank Holiday weekend, we were very interested to see what the caterpillars were up to, and wow! Three of them were hanging from the top of the pot! Today we transferred them to the net and now we are waiting very patiently to see what happens next!!
Other photos from this week:
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Taylor