1,2B are conker crazy!
We’ve started a little conker collection and it has grown rather large.
We have used the conkers for careful counting in Year 1 and counting in tens in Year 2.
We did a whole class count where everyone counted baskets of 10 until we counted the all – all 680 of them!
PE – ball skills and football
All Year 1 and 2 classes are focusing on ball skills and football this half term.
We’ve worked on keepy uppy and keeping close control of the ball as well as having free play with balls for extra fun!
Living and learning : manners
We have been talking about manners this week in our Living and Learning lessons, but we are always referring to good manners. Manners cost nothing but make a big difference and make our school a happy and healthy place to be!
This included talking about interrupting when someone else is speaking. We need to given everyone a chance to be heard.
Help at home by reinforcing and reminding about good manners.
Phase 3,4 Reading
Well done to everyone who has been reading regularly at home by accessing the e-books.
The work completed in the Reading Records looks great! Here are some good examples below.
Keep reading regularly at home and please contact us if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Team 3,4
1A class reward
Over the past few weeks, 1A have been working really hard on following our school rules and remembering 3-2-1-STOP.
3 – silent voices
2 – empty hands
1 – eyes on the speaker
Our class focus has been everyone having ’empty hands’ when an adult in the classroom says ‘3-2-1-STOP’. Today we managed to all do that for the tenth time, so we had some time on the adventure playground as a treat. We had a fantastic time and the children were very responsible and safe.
Well done 1A!
Writing: survivor diary
Chidren in Year 5/6 have been reading Survivors by David Long. We have been inspired to write as if we are survivors writing in our diary.
Help at home: discuss which of the 8Rs it takes to be a survivor:
- being ready
- being responsive
- being reflective
- being resourceful
- remembering
- risk-taking
- being resilient
- being responsible
Tackling Tenths in Maths!
This week in Year 5, we’ve been exploring tenths in both decimal and fraction form – and what a fantastic job the children have done! They’ve been learning how to add and subtract tenths, including how tenths can be combined to make numbers greater than one whole, or subtracted to go below one whole.
We’ve also been investigating the relationship between decimals and fractions – discovering how these two number forms can be equivalent. The children have impressed us with their growing confidence, clear explanations, and their use of models and number lines to support their thinking.
It’s been a brilliant week full of lightbulb moments and mathematical curiosity!
Help at Home: Ask your child to explain how 0.7 is the same as 7/10 – or challenge them to add 2.6 and 1.4!
Reading fluency
Each reading lesson, we incorporate some reading fluency. This allows the children to see the same short text all week and allows them to feel familiar and comfortable with it. Over a half term we provide a wide range of texts from poems to non-fiction. Fluency takes on the same structure each week. The teacher reads the text aloud on the first day whilst the children track the words. The following day we echo read. This is where the children echo back a line at a time. As the children become more familiar with the text, they read with a partner and then finally aloud to themselves. These sessions see children’s fluency increase and their knowledge of vocabulary also develop.
The text we’ve been reading this week links to topic and is all about interpolation.
Help at home: Get your child to read the text aloud to you. See how fluent they are!
Welcome to Reception meeting
It was great to see so many of you at the ‘Welcome to Reception‘ meeting this week. For those of you who were unable to attend, please find attached the PowerPoint shared at the meeting.
Writing – Must Dos
In Writing, we have been focusing on our ‘must dos’. These include making sure that each sentence we write has a capital letter at the start and punctuation at the end. We have also been making sure we use capital letters for proper nouns.
This has been important to remember in our Geography topic too when labelling our maps with the names of countries, cities and seas.
Help at home by writing a sentence with deliberate mistakes for your child to correct – playing teacher is always fun!
