Class News

Living and Learning : Community Week

We have had a great start to community week.

Yesterday, we have had a special visitor- a guide dog!

The children were fantastic at asking questions about the guide dog and its duties.  Here is an example of a few of them:

“What does he do when you are on holiday?”

“Does he have to eat special food?”

“How does he know where a road is?”

The children were also able to try on glasses that altered their eyesight. This meant  they could experience what it would be like to be visually impaired and see how it would effect everyday tasks.

Topic: art

This week, we have started our new art topic – printing. The first lesson focused on the history of art and we were introduced to William Morris who was an artist and designer. The children had the opportunity to look at some examples of wallpaper designs by Morris and explain their likes and dislikes. The children had to comment on the use of colour and shade. Was there a repeated pattern or any symmetry? The children all identified that William Morris took his inspiration from nature and his wallpapers depict flowers, leaves and birds. They did a great job of applying some artistic vocabulary such as figurative and abstract.

Wonderful writing

Everyone came back to school rested and full of news. We enjoyed sharing our holiday news with each other so much that we decided to write some sentences too. We use phonics to help spell words we are not sure of, a word bank (a list of useful words) and tricky word mats too.

Help at home by encouraging your child to write for a purpose (a diary entry, a sign or poster, a menu or recipe or letters and cards to friends and family).

Year 1

Year 2

New lunch menus

Here are the new lunch menus starting this week.

New Junior Leadership Team

During the last week of term, our classes cast their votes for who they would like to represent their class on the JLT. I was absolutely overwhelmed by the number of children that wrote speeches – these were well written, full of ideas and very persuasive!

The votes were counted and the new members were announced in assembly – each child received their shiny JLT badge.

Here are our new members:

5,6A – Sam

5,6B – Olive

5,6C – Layla

3,4A – Archie

3,4B – Olivia

3,4C – Archie

2C – Abby

1,2B – Faith

1A – Eti

Well done to each of you. I’m looking forward to working with you this year and can’t wait to get started.

Room on the Broom

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Autumn Days

Thank you for all your autumn walk collections! The children have really loved sharing these with the class.

We spoke about why we often find lots of items on the ground and who might pick them up.

Squirrels collect them, bury them and hibernate. Grace

It’s autumn so they (leaves) were on the floor. Jack

The leaves are red, orange and green. Millie

Phonics

This week, the children have reviewed all the phonemes from the half term. They’ve also been practicing writing the graphemes (the written letters). We have been challenging the children by asking them to spell words using the letters that they know.  Can your child tell you what phonemes (the sound a letter makes) they can hear in these words?

Maths

This week, we have used language of comparison to describe sets of objects that we can see.  Using the vocabulary ‘more than’ and ‘fewer than’, we described how many objects were in each set.

Using these sentence stems, can your child compare these sets?

___ has more than___

___ has fewer than ___

Leaf Man

We have been listening to the story Leaf Man.

We enjoyed an autumn walk around our school field to explore signs of autumn. The children were inspired to create their own leaf man and artwork using leaves.

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

Poetry Picnic

Each week, we will be learning a new poem. We will recite this poem each day. By saying the poem out loud we can focus on the sounds and rhythm of each word or line.

This week’s poem is Five Little Pumpkins.

Ask your child to say the poem to you at home! The words were sent home with your child on Friday. Can they remember it?

Class News 5/6A

Well, that is the first half-term of the new school year over with!  It doesn’t feel like two minutes since children were arriving on the first day of term, bursting of stories about their holidays.  Let’s take a look at what we have been up to this week.

Our writing focus has been on creating our own recount of visiting an Ancient Egyptian tomb, and retelling all of the adventures along the way.  We have used a variety of resources to help us plan our writing, to ensure we could get the reader hooked on our Egyptian adventure.

Tuesday saw us host a Drop-Down Morning, where we recapped our Geography learnings from the previous year.  Hemispheres, Biomes, Grid references and fact files on Venice were just some of the topics we looked at.  Year 5 particularly enjoyed using Ordinance Survey maps to try and locate our school.

Ancient Egypt was our Topic focus again this week, and this time it was looking at pyramids.  Our pupils could not believe just how big they were.  Each stone weighed 2.5 tonnes (that’s the equivalent of 765 chickens!)  We measured objects out in the playground to compare how these measured up against the size of the tallest pyramid (146m high).

A huge well done to the 17 pupils who put themselves forward to be the class representative on the Junior Leadership Team.  I was blown away by the quality and maturity of the speeches you gave.  After a very tight vote, I can confirm that Samuel Beevers has been elected as our Class Representative.  Well done Sam!

There’s just time to catch up on our certificate winners.

Living and Learning – Freddie.  Gave an excellent candidate speech to be class representative.  Honest, humorous and genuine, his speech was representative of who he is as a person!

Sports – Bethenny.  Always comes up with ways to make games imaginative and fun. A great partner to be teamed up with, she always puts others first before herself.

Learning – Archie.  A superb attitude all week across all subjects.  Your commitment to producing a detailed recount in Writing has been great to see!

The very best of luck to Hope who is sadly leaving us to join a new school. She will be a big miss to the class, and we wish her all of the best.

Have a happy and healthy half-term holiday!

Mr. Robson

Ordering numbers

This week in KS1 we have been ordering numbers from 0-100. We have been practising recognising and using the greater than (>), less than (<) and equal to (=) signs. We came up with some actions to help us remember these.

Help at home by using Go Noodle and practising this dance:

Hallabaloo – Learn Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To | Math | GoNoodle – YouTube

(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.)

3,4 A Class News

It’s been another busy week here at Scholes.

Alongside our usual learning, we completed quizzes to end our units in Science and Topic. We also had some ‘dropdown’ sessions on Wednesday where we recapped some of our Geography work from last year.

Yesterday, many of the class put themselves forward for JLT and gave speeches, before taking part in a democratic vote. A worthy winner was elected, though it has to be said that there were lots of fantastic candidates so well done to everyone who gave it a go.

We ended a successful week by winning the choice chip trophy once more! Have a lovely half-term break everyone.