We said goodbye to our current classes on Friday. We hope you all have a happy and healthy summer holidays.
We’re looking forward to welcoming new Year 1 children in September and our returning Year 2 children. The new staff for each class can be seen below.
What an amazing day – better than going to the actual beach. There were games, toys, snacks and an ice-cream van! Thank you so much to Mr Whippy Leeds who came to give us all an ice-cream – what a treat!
Team Norway was victorious at the Sports Roundabout but the main purpose was to enjoy ourselves, and we did that!
The weather was just about bearable while we jumped, ran kicked and threw our way around the field.
Thanks to all the families who came to support their children.
We’ve had a fabulous day as Temple Newsam supporting our Design and Technology learning.
We met Katie the pig who was mum to 9 piglets and decided which shapes would be strong and stable to make a shelter for her.
We made some great structures. We also met lots of other animals (mainly mammal but some birds too) where we talked about the names of offspring and how mammals feed their young with milk from their body.
Eating our packed lunch was also a highlight of the day!
We have be learning about healthy relationships and boundaries in our Living and Learning sessions over the last few weeks.
We read a story called ‘More than one friend’. It made us think about leaving people out, having more than one best friend and being ourselves in friendships.
Friendships should make us feel happy and safe. If children have worries about friends, we encourage them to Start Telling Other People. Talking to an adult they trust – at home, outside the family, or at school.
We have been reading Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel. It is teaching us all about recycling and looking after our planet.
We have also used it to spot rhyming words and write rhyming sentences.
The sky and the river are smelly and brown.
Soon fifty-foot bugs will take over over your town.
Help at home by involving your child in recycling your household rubbish.
We completed our Design Technology (Food) project for this term this week. We made fruit bars. We enjoyed the mashing, cutting, measuring and mixing.
Help at home by making the recipe (or a different one) at home with your child to help them develop these skills.
We have been learning all about real life heroes in our history topic this half term. We practised voicing beliefs, like Nelson Mandela and Leonora Cohen did. Have at look at some ‘speeches’ below.
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We also dressed up as real life heroes today – thanks for all the great costumes. There were sporting, emergency services, suffragettes and teacher heroes!
Over the next few weeks, year 1 children we will be focusing on place value and counting bigger numbers. Knowing your way around a 100 square is an important part of this area of maths. The Top Marks website has some great games and this interactive 100 square is perfect for counting in 1s (forwards and backwards), 2s, 5s, 10, odd and one more/less.
We are partitioning numbers into tens and ones.
Help at home by talking about numbers up to 100 in terms of how many 10s and 1s they have.
We are celebrating our ‘Heroes’ history topic by having a dress up day next week (if your child doesn’t want to dress up, they can come in school uniform).
We are going to dress as a real life hero (no superhero costumes, please). Here is the Heroes day letter and some ideas below.
