Author: Mrs Latham

We played a joke with the lunches in 1,2B…worm bolognaise anyone?

 

We talked about what we are good at and what we are not so good at last week. Working on personal targets to improve something that you do is very important. It is also important to recognise what other people are good at. We wrote certificates for our friends to pay them a compliment (focusing on what other people do rather than what they look like is important). We loved giving and receiving the certificates.

You are a good friend.

You are good and football and colouring in the lines.

You are kind.

You are helpful.

This week in our Living and Learning lessons, we have been talking about solving problems (like when we fall out with friends) and also about being resilient (not giving up and keeping on trying).

We watched this song about not quitting.

We have enjoyed a bit of nice weather this week and taken some of our maths learning outside – counting in 5s.

Our PE lessons this half term are also going well. We have been playing ‘lions and hyenas’, first a whole class game and now mini-games. We can really feel the difference in our bodies when we exercise – increased heart rate, breathing harder and feeling warm!

Help at home by ensuring your child gets at least 60 minutes exercise per day (we do at least 30 mins in school each day).

We had a lovely time yesterday afternoon sharing books with children from different classes. 3,4C visited 1,2B and we partnered up to read to each other. There were lots of lovely conversations and some new friendships made whilst reading together.

We are using Ollie’s Magic Bunny by Nicola Killen as a focus for our reading and writing this half term. It’s helped us use our retrieval skills (answering questions about what happens in the book) and inference skills (thinking about character’s thoughts and feelings).

You can listen to the story here.

(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)

We watched this story called Beegu. It is all about an alien who

(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)

We have really enjoyed the fieldwork part of our geography topic this half term. We surveyed the village and our school grounds, thinking about litter, noise, traffic and plants. Our locality is really nice!

We did notice quite a bit of litter around school so we are going to pick it up.

Help at home by talking about how we can positively impact the environment (eg picking up litter, recycling, planting trees).

We are doing some yoga lessons to finish this half term. Being aware of our bodies, balancing and stretching were great exercise. We loved the paired poses!

As part of our  Living and Learning lesson this week we watched a virtual assembly.

Sometimes things make us happy and sometimes they can make us sad, worried or unhappy. It’s important to understand our feelings and not keep worries to ourselves and that’s what we would like children to know. We talked about trusted adults inside and outside of school.