Author: Mrs Latham

How many?

As part of our topic, we combined science and maths to find out how many times we could perform certain tasks in one minute. We noticed the effect this had on our bodies – increasing heartbeat and breathing faster.

26 January 2018

Write your spellings using two colours; one for vowels and another for the consonants.

push        someone

Year 1 list

  • you
  • your
  • put
  • push
  • pull

Year 2 list

  • every
  • everyone
  • everybody
  • everything
  • everywhere
  • some
  • someone
  • somebody
  • something
  • somewhere

Life Forces

We began our Life Forces big topic this week. Each class has talked about what they would like to find out. There were some very insightful questions including, “How to zebras get their stripes?”

We are looking forward to answering the questions and the children are particularly excited about all the Science this will involve. The BBC Bitesize website has some excellent resources that we’ll be using to support our learning.

Maths, NSPCC and Golden Stars

We’ve been continuing our addition and subtraction focus in maths. There are some examples below of how children use concrete resources and pictorial representations in their books. The Top Marks website is great for fun ways to work on maths skills at home and we particularly like Hit the Button to help with rapid recall of maths facts.

  

The children listened and contributed well during the visit from the NSPCC with their mascot, Buddy. They told us all about the Speak Out Stay Safe campaign. Ask your child what they learnt.

We also learnt about how there is always someone to talk to at Childline and were shown how to remember the number, 0800 1111, using our hands.

Well done to our Golden Stars from the last two weeks.

 

Scholes Pool – one year on…

A year ago today, Save Scholes Pool won £10,000 from the Aviva Community fund to reach the target to start work on the pool. Now the pool is being used by over 130 children from Scholes Primary during the afternoons and a variety of children, including babies, in the mornings, evenings and weekends.

Children in school have made superb progress with the help of our swimming instructor, Nicole. Check out the videos showing children swimming under water and demonstrating excellent breast stroke legs.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to getting the pool back up and running!

SATs Information Evening – 09 January 2018

Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended our Key Stage 1 SATs information evening. The presentation can be found here for those who were unable to attend.

We also talked about a useful guide to the tests on You Tube.

Other useful information can be found on this website. A guide to phonics, addition facts guide and calculations can be found by following the links above or looking in the Learn More section.

Dinosaur Stomp

Each class has been working hard to achieve their 30 active minutes during the school day. Remember the challenge includes weekends – but all 60 minutes have to be done at home! Have a look at the Change for Life ideas or sign up to Go Noodle at home for fun ideas to keep active.

We used the end of Golden Assembly to do the Dinosaur Stomp (from Go Noodle) and a jungle animal dance to complete our 30 active minutes today. It was a great way to round off our week!