Road Safety Roadshow

Today we had a road safety talk to help us to stay safe whilst out and about. The children were really engaged and we were really impressed with their understanding of the key rules for road safety.

We had our Road Safety Roadshow come into school today!  The children were taught a song that said "Stop, Look and Listen".  The session was highly engaging and the children learned many things about Road Safety.

Please can you continue these conversations about Road Safety to keep our children safe :)

Clive from Emazdad came to school today to give us a Safety Roadshow came to see us today. The children learned all about road safety and the things to watch out for whilst out and about.

He mentioned the benefits of wearing an item that reflects on our clothing as the evenings draw in and the mornings are darker for longer.

He will be visiting us again to help us celebrate our 40th birthday. Watch out for the magic show!

Wednesday 25th September

We have had another lovely week!  In English, the children wrote a letter to Grandma from the Wolf, apologising for all of the crimes that he had committed!!

In maths, we are on our last leg of the place value unit and learning the number line to 100 (YR2) and the number line to 1000 (YR3).  

For science, Year 3 pupils learned about Endoskeletons and Exoskeletons and which animals have no skeleton at all!  They sorted them into groups!

For Art, the children have been learning all about the famous artist Jasper Johns and recreated his art piece "Numbers in Color" which was painted in 1958!  They really enjoyed this today!

For History, the children learned all about a Victorian classroom and made comparisons to our classroom now.  They will be going back in time and writing a letter to a Victorian child to tell them all of the things that will change in the future!

What we've been doing!

We have had another great week in Foundation / Year 1!

In English, we have continued our learning on ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt.’ The children have loved learning this book and we know the story very well now! We have been sequencing the story with pictures. Foundation have been writing a sound they have learnt in phonics to match the picture and Year 1 have started writing words to match.

In Maths, Foundation have been sorting and matching objects. They have been making sets and thought about what objects match in each set. Year 1 have been continuing their place value unit of numbers up to 10. We are also continuing to practise counting in 2s in the classroom.

In the wider curriculum, Year 1 have been learning about their bodies in science. This week, we learnt about our ears and hearing. We have thought about how we hear and what it would be like if we couldn’t. We did this through learning a little bit of sign language, including the first letter of our names. Foundation have been exploring all about themselves in our provision inside and outside. They have been finger painting faces, mark making and using blocks to build.

Raffle tickets have gone home for our celebration on the 4th October. We are really looking forward to this and will begin making preparations for this in the next week!

Have a great week.

Foundation / Year 1 Team

Friday 9th September

Wow! What another wonderful week of learning we have had!

This week the children have learnt the sounds i/n/m/and d/ in phonics and have worked hard to continue holding their pencils correctly and write these letters daily.

We completed dough disco daily too as this helps strengthen the children’s hands so they can grip their pencils correctly.

This week the children worked in teams with Mrs Gregory and Mrs Lyden and sequenced the story of Were Going on a Bear Hunt! The children then started their first bit of formal English activity and sat with an adult to sequence the story themselves, they then thought of words to match the story and tried to write the initial sounds of that word! WOW!

In maths this week the children have been exploring the topic of Match, Sort and Compare! They have worked amazingly well at matching objects, sorting them and comparing them with lots of different resources. We even went out to the big playground and sorted items in big circles!

The foundation children have also used their cutting skills to cut parts of a bear out to make the Bear from our book, they have been making their homes from Lego, using natural resources to make faces, read books, made tracks for the bikes and so much more!

It's been a wonderful week of exploring and learning!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

In our Science lessons this week, Year 3 and 4 have been learning about digestion and the journey that food takes from being eaten to being a waste product of our body.

Photo of Elyza-Mae's work in (Y3)

We are planning and beginning to write our own stories about Stone Age Boy in English and are challenging ourself to use some of the skills we have learned in lessons independently in our writing. 

Quick note to all
Please can you sign the Arbor permissions as soon as possible.

Wednesday 18th September

This week we have been continuing our place value unit in maths by partitioning numbers into 100's, 10's and 1's. We really enjoyed using the base ten practical resources to help us with our learning!

We are continuing our English unit "Little Red Riding Hood" and made a WANTED poster which offers a high reward if you find the wolf!  Have you seen him?

The children were very excited to begin their French lessons too.  They learned all about France and the countries that also speak French!  They learned about the Eiffel Tower too!

In art, the children learned that the primary colours are yellow, red and blue and that secondary colours can be mixed using them.  We had a practise mixing in our books - look how we did!

In science, Year Two sorted statements into "want" and "need (shown) and Year Three read food labels on the back of food to note whether they are healthy choices or not!  They also suggested alternatives that we could eat instead!

Artefacts to support our writing

We have been looking at some artefacts that give more of an insight into the lives of evacuees to support us with our diary entries linked to the fantastic book, Letters from the Lighthouse.

Alongside our writing projects, we have been exploring the first world war and the events that acted as a catalyst. We explored the different alliances of the time and also looked into the tensions that were forming in the lead up.

A busy week! 

We have been very busy in week 2! We have started our English learning journey and it is based around the Michael Rosen book, We are Going on a Bear Hunt. We have been loving learning the story and the actions to go along with it. Year 1 children have started writing captions and adding labels to a picture of the bear, and Foundation children have been making puppets to practise their role play skills and start to retell the story.

We have started our Music learning and have been trying to find the steady beat in a song. We have done this through clapping, stomping our feet and tapping our heads. In Geography, Year 1 have been thinking about the different seasons. This week, we thought about the appropriate clothes for each season. We did agree that it is quite warm outside for Autumn!

We have also been doing some outdoor learning linked in with our question ‘Who am I?’ We have been building houses out of bricks and using natural materials to make portraits.

We have loved exploring and learning. I look forward to seeing what we get up to next week!

Foundation/ Year 1 Team

We started our new academic year by remembering the important British Value of respect.  We are so very polite and respectful to each other throughout the day at school, but do we really value and understand respect as the British Value of Mutual Respect and how this affects everything we do; not just open doors for each other, saying thank you and generally being polite?  

We came up with so many examples of mutual respect in action at school and in our community.  Some of the things we thought about were how we respect each other when adults are not looking, showing kindness, helping each other, disagreeing in a friendly and polite way, respecting the feelings of others, looking after things and animals, following the school rules etc.  We had so much to talk about and we are now working on some sentences that we can display around the school to remind us that mutual respect is such an important value and one that can help us to have safe and happy lives.

We can't wait to see what we come up with!

Friday 13th September

We have reached the end of our first full week in school, and it has been a very busy one! The children are all tired, but because they have had so much fun exploring!

Some of this weeks learning has included:

Learning phonemes s/a/t/and p. We have also practiced holding our pencils with a tripod grip and learning to write these sounds! All the children have worked so hard! The phonics sheets have been sent home via email today! 

We have been making our hands and fingers strong by completing doh disco activities, threading, making small peg patterns and using scissors to make wonderful creations!

This week the children started to explore the story Were Goin on a Bear Hunt. They listened to the story and recited the tory so well. They went on a bear  hunt around our outside area using lost of different words. We then learnt the story using a story map and made-up actions to imbed our knowledge of the story. Next week we explore sequencing a story.

In maths this week we have been exploring counting to 5. The children have been helping ‘Bruno’ our puppet to count, match and make numbers to 5!

We have also made ourselves from playdough, explored building blocks and Lego, made sandcastles, practiced our name writing, riding the balance bikes and SO MUCH MORE!

We really have had the best week.

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team