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Nursery – 24.02.2023

This week we looked at the story ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’. One day Mr Wolf decided he wanted to make some pancakes but was unsure how, he asked his neighbours to help him read the recipe book, write a shopping list but they all said no so Mr Wolf had a go at making them all by himself and the neighbours all thought they smelt yummy. Ask your child what happened at the end of the story.

This week we thought about pancakes and why we have them and discussed some of the things we are giving up for Lent. On Tuesday we had pancakes for snack and also had the chance to make a pancake at our pancake station.

This half term we will be reading a variety of fairy tales including Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. Our role play has changed into the 3 Bears cottage, the children have enjoyed playing in there, taking on a role and making porridge.

For snack today we made a sandwich! The children had a go at cutting their bread in half – well done.

Other photos from this week:

Thank you parents and carers for coming to parent consultations this week.

Don’t forget Fridays are reading mornings (expect Friday 17th March as we will be going to the Mothers Day assembly in the hall – parents welcome).

Please bring in your Lentern Promise by Friday 3rd March so we can talk about them and put them up on our tree.

Friday 3rd March is World Book Day, children can dress up as their favourite book character if they would like too.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Taylor

Year 4 this week

This half-term has got off to a flying start.

The children are concluding learning about states of matter and had good ideas as to why the ice with the salt on it melted faster than without salt.

With Mrs Gallaher, the children composed music for the “flying car” scene in “Harry Potter”.

The children thought carefully about what they could do in Lent to be closer to God , whether their promise was to do with giving, praying or giving something up. Their behaviour in the Ash Wednesday service was impeccable and they enjoyed learning about the symbolism involved. We are doing activities from The Mission Together Lenten Calendar – https://missiontogether.org.uk/calendar/lent/ which has some lovely things to do. I sent one home earlier this week. It wasn’t compulsory home learning – I just thought it was a really nice, engaging activity you might enjoy. We’ve reflected on the significance of 40 during Lent and why Jesus went into the desert.

The children are really enjoying our new book – “The Lion and The Unicorn”, which is providing inspiration for writing. In Reading sessions we are reading “The Firework-Maker’s Daughter”, which I’m mentioning at consultations. These books are online in various ways. It’s always useful to read the books at home to share what your children are learning, discuss vocabulary and themes in the book. Like the other books we read, they are beautiful and full of lovely language and ideas. They could give you an idea of what to wear for World Book Day next Friday!

It’s been lovely to speak to all the parents about your wonderful children, their achievements and progress.

I hope you all have great weekends.

Year Six begin their journey through Lent

We are now in the church season of Lent. For Christians, Lent is a time of solemn reflection as we seek the Lord in prayer; we serve by giving alms; and we practice self-control through fasting. We joined the wider church family at Mass on Wednesday for the imposition of the ashes: a sign of our penance and a reminder of our own mortality.

Back in school, we reflected on how we can bring our lives closer to God during the season of Lent, ready to share in the joy of the promise of new life at Easter.

We made Lenten promises, remembering that we are called, not only to give up luxuries, but to make our lives better by following Christ more faithfully. We wrote our promises and sealed them in golden envelopes on our RE display.

Year 1 – Feb.24th

We have had a busy week back from Half-term.

In maths we have been looking at 2d and 3D shapes. We have labelled everything in the class and played I spy using the properties of shape.

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We have been singing this lovely shape song.

On Ash Wednesday we received Ashes and made a simple cross. We talked about what we could give up for the period of Lent.

As it gets nearer to Easter we will decorate these in recognition of a more joyful celebration.

Reception – Children’s mental health week

10.02.2023

And just like that it’s the end of another half term. A very good end indeed. With lots of interesting activities, thinking about wellbeing and staying healthy not just physically, but mentally too.
We were very excited to take part in the special Taskmaster education challenge week and every day we had to do the different activities. On a Monday we made THE BEST rainbow. We only had the prime colours and as an extra challenge had to think about how to make all of the colours:

Well…It is the best!
On Tuesday we designed a game and played a different version of Duck, duck goose and on Wednesday we had to go out and make a self-portraits only with things that we found on the playground. The portraits are absolutely brilliant and super creative!!!

Thursday was a super fun day as we choreographed a dance. We used the music from our previous PE lesson ‘He is a pirate’ from Pirates of the Caribbean. Please check your Tapestry account for a special surprise!
Friday was a design a hat day… Well we made some hats using junk modelling:

As this year’s theme was Let’s connect we connected with Nursery and had a special yoga session and then made stress balls.

Later that week we connected with the rest of the school by making a piece of a puzzle. We only used our fingertips to create the different shades.

Little Wandle
As already mentioned we are not going to learn any new sounds or tricky words, but instead we are concentrating on how to read longer words like FARMYARD or CARPARK.
So when we read those super long words we have to chunk them up first. For example
C-A-R car, P-AR-K park; CAR – PARK, CARPARK.

The rest of the week we spent on reading books about emotions, building cosy dens and spending quality time playing with our friends. It was a lovely week 🙂

Have a wonderful half term and a restful one too 🙂
Mrs Solakova

This week in year 4

Year 4 are delighted with the books and wet play activities the cake sale money has bought. They now have their own chess set, card game and play doh for when the weather isn’t good enough to go outside. Reading sessions are much better with brand-new copies of “The Firework Maker’s Daughter” to share, too. We’ve been looking at the similarities between this book and the one we are using for writing inspiration – “Cinnamon”.

We’ve been having a great time thinking about mental health, including safer internet use. The themes of these are “let’s connect” and Want to talk about it?”, so we’ve all been thinking about the benefits of communication in all its forms.

We stretched and breathed like superheroes during a “yoga bugs” session, which is an online site you might want to use yourself as a calming down activity during half-term holiday!

We made paper hats together and then made tweaked them to make them our own.

Have a happy, safe half-term break!

Year 2 get connected

As part of this week’s Mental Health Week, we have been thinking carefully about all the different things that we can do to maintain our wellbeing. We did some of these great activities as a class and some with our friends in Year 1. Click on the slide presentation below to see all the wonderful things that we have done this week.

Singing together is great fun.
Let’s get connected …
by making paper chains.
We joined our paper chains together …
until they stretched around the whole class.
We enjoyed the open air when we planted marigold seeds.
We will care for our seeds and watch them grow over the next few months.
We challenged ourselves by solving problems together.
Each class has decorated a jigsaw piece and we are looking forward to joining the pieces together to create a whole school picture.
We have added our finger prints using bright and cheerful paint.
Listening to a lovely story is a great way to relax and take yourself into another world.
Smile at someone and cheer them up!
We showed our creative side when we painted our clay pots.
We designed concentric circles patterns.
We solved problems when we created our own nativity animations.
To end the week, we got our jigsaw piece ready …
to connect with everyone elses.
Just look at our great school jigsaw!
We love to sing Children United …
so much so that when the assembly ended, we came back to class and just kept on singing!

Well being week in Year 6

Looking after ourselves is really important. It is also important to remember that we are surrounded by a network of people who are always looking out for us: our families, friends and adults at school.

This week, we have had a great time taking part in the Taskmaster Education Treasure Hunt. Each day we have completed different challenges and worked together to solve the clues: we’ve invented new games, created portraits from things found outside and fashioned inspirational hats.

We also took part in a carousel of activities working with our house teams: Mr Hayes taught us a morris dance. Everyone has good days and less-good days, but we learnt that there are lots of things we can do to make us feel good and that we are surrounded by people who we can talk to and ask for help.

Mental Health Awareness Week

This week in Year I, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week we have talked about connections and worked with different people in our class and other classes. We have taken part in daily Yoga sessions and learnt about being safe when connecting with people on the internet.

We have been drawing our feelings using different media. Mostly we have been learning how to share our feelings in a positive way and help ourselves feel better when we are sad.

Nursery – 10.02.2023

This week we looked at the story ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ as part of Mental Health week and Valentines next week. We talked about the people we love and why they are special. The children also had the chance to make a valentines day card for someone they love.