Living and Learning: Rights and responsibilites
We have been learning that we have the right to learn but a responsibility to be great learners. Here is a list of top tips we came up with to be great learners:
- be in class on time
- be prepared for all lessons
- take good care of school property
- complete spelling, reading and talk time homework
- be ready
- respect ourselves and others
- listen and react well
- doing our best – every day!
We’re very proud of the effort the children are putting in to their learning this week.
Here’s a run down of our great learning:
Maths: Place Value – tens and ones, hundreds and thousands.
Writing: Must-dos and handwriting (capital letters, full stops and conjunctions)
Spelling: ay, a-e, eigh, ai sound (favourite, great, straight, wait, everyday, famous)
Topic: Ancient Greeks (we read Theseus and the Minotaur for our myth)
Science: Living things and their habitats
PE: accurate passing and moving into a space.
Living and Learning: how to be a good learner – why not ask your child their 8Rs for learning?
Here are a few pictures of our Wake Up Shake Up today where the children put lots of effort into their funky dance moves.
2C Settling in!
Well done to my class for settling so perfectly into their new classroom environment. We all know how to follow our school rules and remind one another of the importance of these rules daily. This term, we will continue to get to know each other, settle into our routines and continue our learning journey.
All of our children read every day at school and it is so important that the children also read at home.
Well done 2C!
Remembering the Queen through art
All the year 1 and 2 children too part in some collaborative art today. We did some finger painting using red, white and blue, on a silhouette of Queen Elizabeth II. We are going to create similar images using King Charles III too.
PE: volleyball
5,6B have been warming up their volleyball skills. They worked in pairs to learn and develop some basic serves and passes. They enjoyed being able to ‘bump’ the ball to their partner and then progressed further to an overhand serve. They had to think about the position of their feet, hands and the ball in order to project the ball accurately. The end of the sessions saw us trying our hand at some actual games of volleyball. The children set up a small court and created a point system to see who won. We will keep working on these skills over the next few weeks.
Living and Learning : Our school rules
Since we returned after the summer, we have been busy establishing our classroom routines and the school rules.
Talk to your child about our school rules and what they mean. They should be able to give you some examples of them in action!
Peace Flame in Scholes
Scholes will be celebrating The United Nations International Day of Peace on Saturday 17th September in the Peace Flame Garden at 11am. The children in year 5/6 were asked to create a banner to celebrate this special occasion. The theme needed to incorporate the end of racism. The children used an outline of their hands and added positive messages and images about the importance of ending racism. The banner will be displayed in the garden this week – go along and see if you can spot your child’s hand. The banner looks amazing and will look great in Scholes, showing the school’s commitment to our local community.
History topic – The Great Fire of London
We have started our topic and we are learning all about The Great Fire of London. We are using a book, Vlad and the Great Fire of London, to stimulate our learning. (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 started by talking about the topic vocabulary, which you can see below. Help your child at home by exploring the information on the BBC bitesize website.
First week
We’ve had a fabulous first week in Key Stage 1. There were a few nerves (from adults and children alike) but once we got back into the swing of things, it was all ok! Thank you for sending your children looking so smart in their uniform, following our uniform policy.
We have become familiar with our new classrooms, met the adults who work there, enjoyed the new playground area, started learning in new books and done Wake Up Shake Up (WUSU) and PE.
Swimming starts next week. 2C on Tuesday, 1A on Thursday and 1,2B on Friday.
Ferdie and Fern have been busy…
We’ve had a great week meeting some of our new children during their home visits. It was lovely to find out a little bit about you all and we’re looking forward to getting to know you more when we welcome you to Nursery next week.
Nursery is looking fantastic; there are lots of exciting areas to play in and we can’t wait to show you our new playground. Our Nursery foxes, Ferdie and Fern, are looking forward to having some more friends to play with. As you can see from the photos, they’ve already been busy testing out some of our toys, playing in the fairy garden and sliding down the slide!
Ferdie and Mrs Beesley loved using the diggers and crane in the construction small world area.
Mrs Long helped a fairy to whizz down the slide in the fairy garden with Fern the Fox.
Mrs Kilburn told Fern all about her holiday to the seaside as she built a sandcastle in the Sunshine Room.
Lots of you told us that you love to read ‘The Gruffalo’ when we visited you this week. Ferdie enjoyed listening to the story with Miss Thomas in the book corner.
It’s not just the fairies that like slides; Miss Morris and Fern loved testing out our new climbing frame and slide. Whhhhheeeeeeeeee!
Mrs Gosper has really missed singing and playing with the Nursery instruments in the holidays. She couldn’t wait to make some noise in the Nursery garden!
Here are a few reminders of some of the things that we talked about at our home visits.
- Please bring a full change of clothes in a drawstring bag and a pair of wellies that will stay in Nursery. Remember to write your child’s name on EVERYTHING!
- Children need to bring a water bottled (named) to Nursery. Please put it in your child’s coloured basket in the morning and collect it at the end of the day to be washed.
- Please return your ‘All about me’ information sheets next week and bring proof of your child’s date of birth, if we didn’t see it at your home visit.
Have a great weekend and we’ll look forward to seeing you next week.
A great start to the school year!
We are so proud of how 3,4 have settled/resettled back into their classes. There has been a lovely buzz within the classrooms as the children have been getting to know their new teacher/s and classmates. Here’s to a wonderful term!
