The Year 2 children all had a wonderful visit to RSPB Rye Meads. The rain kept away and we were rewarded with lots of minibeasts in a range of habitats including woodland, meadow and pond. The children had many questions and the air was filled with excited voices as the children found so many interesting creatures. A fabulous time was had by all and we are very grateful for all of the parents who accompanied us on the trip as we could not have gone without you! Scroll through the photos to see just how eager to learn we are!
Year 2 get active!
As part of our PE, Science and Maths, we have been learning about Time and how many different movements we can do in a minute. We had great fun using stopwatches to time ourselves and have got really good at press ups, star jumps, squats, jump rope as well as jumping and hopping. Scroll through the photos to see us in action …
Nursery – 24.05.2024
This week in maths we did some activities and used the words ‘more’ and ‘fewer’. We had our own teddy bears and had to give them cubes, one bear with more and one with fewer. We also played a game with our friends where we had to close our eyes and take bears from a bag, we then talked about who had more and who had fewer.
In RE we talked about the word ‘friend’ and made a list of how to be a good friend, the children came up with the following suggestions ‘share our toys’, ‘give our friends a cuddle if they are sad’ and ‘ask a friend to play’.
We also designed our own ‘teddy paperchain of friendship’.
Other photos this week
Friday 7th June – Reading Morning
Have a lovely half term and see you on Monday 3rd June.
Miss Taylor
Nursery – 10.05.2024
We have had a very busy week in Nursery. On Tuesday when we arrived at school we were excited to see all the caterpillars had transformed into cocoons so we moved them very carefully into the net. We will have to wait for about 2 weeks before they emerge as butterflies and we cannot wait!
We were able to get outside this week to fly our kites which the children really enjoyed.
In RHE we thought about being safe and unsafe. We looked at places to play that were safe e.g. the park and places that are not safe e.g a busy road. We also thought about things that are safe and unsafe in our houses. We each had a picture and had to decide if it was a ‘safe’ or ‘unsafe’ object or place to play.
Other pictures this week
Reminders
For safety, please can you ensure grapes are cut in half lengthways.
Suncream needs to be applied before school and all children need a sun hut – we will be spending a lot of time outside.
During the summer term please could children bring in a raincoat/jacket each day just in case we have a shower.
Thank you so much for donating and buying cakes for our EYFS Cake sale, we are going to use the money to buy resources for our playground. If you are having a spring clean at home we would welcome any donations for our mud kitchen – baking trays, cake tins, sauce pans etc.
Important Dates
Friday 17th May – No Reading Morning
Friday 17th May – Pentecost Party 09:15 – 10:15AM – Wear Red
Friday 24th May – Reading Morning
Friday 7th June – PTA Disco
Friday 14th June – No reading morning
Friday 14th June – Fathers Day Assembly 09:00 – Parents Invited
Wednesday 26th June – St Adrians Open Evening
Wednesday 26th June – New Parents Evening for EYFS – 18:00 – 19:00
Saturday 29th June – PTA Summer Fair
Tuesday 2nd July – EYFS Sports Day
Thursday 11th July – Transition Day
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Taylor
Mary Assumed into Heaven
Year 4 drew careful, beautiful pictures of Mary for our lovely service this morning for the Crowning of Mary.
Amongst other learning this week, the children have been working very hard on their persuasive writing about plastic pollution, a topic they feel strongly about. They made a great start with cricket and have been very interested to understand more about how the Internet works – it is not the same as the World Wide Web is the key message!
I hope you all have a lovely, relaxing Bank Holiday weekend together with your families.
Nursery – 03.05.2024
The caterpillars have grown over the course of the week and this morning when the children came in, they were excited to see that one caterpillar is now in full cocoon stage so we just need to wait for the others to do the same. Hopefully by the time we come back after the Bank Holiday we will have 5 cocoons and we can move them into the net.
In maths this week we have been looking at capacity and using the words such as ‘full’. ’empty’, ‘nearly full’ and ‘nearly empty’.
At the beginning of the week enjoyed playing outside in the sunshine.
On Wednesday in RE we continued to think about how Jesus sent his new friend, the Holy Spirit who is our friend who helps and guides us. We cannot see the wind but we can feel it, in the same way we cannot see the Holy spirit. We made our own flags to and talked about how the wind will lift the kite and will help it to fly. We will try and get outside next week to fly them when we have a windy day.
Other photos this week
Important Dates
Monday 6th May – Bank Holiday, School closed.
Wednesday 8th May – Class Photos
Friday 17th May – no reading morning
Friday 17th May – Pentecost Party 9:15 – 10:15
Half term – Monday 27th May – Friday 31st May
Friday 14th June – No reading morning
Friday 14th June – Fathers Day Assembly 09:00 – Parents invited
Friday 21st June – No reading morning
Friday 21st June – Reception Class Assembly
Saturday 29th June – PTA Summer Fair
Tuesday 2nd July – EYFS Sports Day
Thursday 11th July – Transition Day
Have a lovely long weekend
Miss Taylor
Year 2 care for their environment
We have been learning about the impact of plastic pollution on the environment as part of our learning in science and geography this year. We read a very interesting book called A Planet Full of Plastic by Neal Layton and you can find out more by watching his great video.
We are all stewards of the world around us and we have enjoyed litter picking in the school playground to ensure that it is safe for us and the animals that we share it with. We have learned a great song reminding us ‘Don’t drop litter, put it in the bin. Let’s keep our playground tidy, neat and clean so don’t drop litter, put it in the bin’. If you see one of us in passing, we will be very happy to sing it to you.
As part of our learning about plastic pollution, we have learned that the most important thing to do is to try and reduce the amount of plastic that we use, especially single use plastic and we are very pleased to use a refillable drinks bottle everyday and make sure that our daily snack comes in a plastic re-useable pot, rather a new plastic wrapper or bag every day. We can all do our own bit to help this precious planet. Remember …
Nursery – 26.04.2024
As part of Geography week this week we looked at and talked about what happens when plastic (and of course all rubbish) ends up in the rivers, lakes and oceans and what can happen to the sea life that live there. We took part in an activity where we had to remove all the plastic from the water tray.
We went back into the hall this week for PE and had a great time playing parachute games.
We continued our work on the hungry caterpillar this week and are keeping an eye on the caterpillars as they get bigger. We made some smoothies using the food from the book.
In RE we learnt that the word ‘Alleluia’ is the Church’s special Easter word meaning ‘Praise God!’ and we made a flag using the Pentecostal colours.
Other photos this week:
Important Dates
Friday 3rd May – No Reading Morning – Crowning of Mary Assembly at 09:05 – Parents Welcome
Bank Holiday, school closed – Monday 6th May
Friday 17th May – No Reading Morning
Pentecost Party – Friday 17th May 9:15 – 10:15
Half term – Monday 27th May – Friday 31st May
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Taylor
Year 3: Geography Week
At the beginning of the week, we celebrated Earth day, reflecting on the things we’re grateful for on our planet. We also created pledges to protect it.
We began our new geography topic, which explores Europe and North America. We have linked this to our English work, where we have been developing our speeches about plastic consumption and how we can preserve our planet. We used our geography skills to analyse data to find out which country had the highest plastic usage.
Discussing Online Life with Your Child
Sent home with the school bulletin on Friday 26th April.
This video gives good advice about discussing online life with your child in a constructive way.