Living and Learning: Physical Health and Fitness
5/6A are very excited to show off our brand new WUSU dance!
Wake Up, Shake Up is a very important and exciting part of our school routine. To ensure we are keeping physically active and healthy for 60 minutes every day, children participate in 10 minutes of dancing and movement to music.
A few were slightly apprehensive about learning a new routine, but their dance moves have sent shockwaves of positivity through school – even the teachers are wanting to join in!
Take a look at our brand new WUSU video here – we hope you enjoy it!
1,2B Christmas party
There was dancing, games, snacks and lots of fun!
It’s Christmas
Christmas spirit has definitively been in full swing this week!
In Literacy, we have been reading the Christmas story. This has deepened our knowledge of how people celebrate traditions and special times.
The wise men followed the star.
Baby Jesus was born.
There were shepherds. They look after the sheep.
In Maths, we have used part, whole models to partition numbers up to five. We created number stories and represented them in a part whole model.
In Phonics, we have focused on reading words.
We have all enjoyed the Christmas themed areas. There has been dressing up, playing in fake snow, creating candy canes and many more. Just take a look…
We had a special visit from Professor Myers. She had a very special Christmas investigation for us.
How strong is a candy cane?
First, we made predictions. Then, we tested them out using lots of objects around the classroom.
We had an exciting video to watch. It was Santa! He had been in our classroom whilst we were all at home. Santa left a sack full of presents for us to share.
Our last day has been full of dancing and fun (and a little bit of sugar).
Have a wonderful Christmas break. We look forward to seeing you all in the new year.
We have sent home your child’s change of clothes to check and restock for next half term.
Merry Christmas!
We’ve had a brilliant week filled with lots of festive fun! Here are a few photos from our Christmas party, our secret visit from Father Christmas and some of the other festive activities that we enjoyed.
As you will no doubt have already heard, we received a letter in Nursery this week. It was from… Father Christmas! He’d been to visit school and to play in Nursery with us, but as we’d all gone home, he sent us a video message instead. He told us that he’d put his sack down somewhere but couldn’t remember where. He also said, that if we managed to locate his missing sack, then we could have a little early Christmas treat. Luckily for Father Christmas, we are good detectives and found his missing sack under our Christmas tree! We hope that you all enjoyed reading your new story from Santa.
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We’ll see you in January.
Festive Fun!
It has been fabulously festive this week!
Show time!…
We’ve recorded our Very First Christmas Play! The children all looked amazing in their costumes. Thank you to parents/carers for providing costumes and to those who helped their child/ren to learn their lines. We really hope you enjoy it!
The journey of a letter…
This week, we read The Jolly Christmas Postman by Allan and Janet Ahlberg. We’ve been learning what happens to our post after we put it in the letterbox and what we need to do to our letters, to make sure they get to their destination. We may have even created our own special post to be delivered to our homes (shhh!) Let us know if you receive anything special in the post!
Would your child like to watch The Journey of a Letter again? Click here to be taken to the video.
Christmas dinner…
On Thursday, Reception had their special Christmas dinner and got to visit a very magical Christmas wonderland in our school hall:
Maths…
In maths this week, we’ve been learning about the parts that make a whole. We started by thinking about the parts that go together to make a whole toy and the parts of us that make our whole body. Later in the week, we thought about the parts that make a whole number (the numbers within numbers) We will continue this learning into next week.
More festive fun…
Here are some more snapshots of our learning this week:
Next week, we will be learning why Christians celebrate Christmas, through the story of The Nativity.
Home-Link Challenge…
We’ve been learning about how some other countries around the world celebrate Christmas. See what your child can remember from our learning, by asking the following questions:
-Which country that we looked at, use paper lanterns as decorations at Christmas time?
-In Denmark, why is it so great if you find the almond in the rice pudding dessert? What does it mean?
-Which country have the legend of ‘La Befana’, the old, kind witch who helped the Three Wise Men on the way to find the baby Jesus?
-In Australia, what does Santa wear and what pulls his sleigh instead of the Reindeers?
Diary dates…
Monday 13 December- Links to Nursery & Reception’s production emailed.
Friday 17 December- Non-uniform and Reception Christmas party day.
Christmas dinner day
Yum, yum! We loved our Christmas dinner and had a great time celebrating with our friends. Thank you to the lunch staff for cooking such a delicious dinner for us to enjoy with all of the trimmings.
Also, thank you to Mrs Pennock for creating our very own Christmas light show. We loved looking at all of the giant characters in the hall.
As well as recording ‘Our First Christmas Play’, we’ve been learning about the Nativity story this week and writing letters to Father Christmas. If you’d like to continue this learning at home, there are some short videos that you can watch on the CBeebies website. They’re all about how Christians prepare for Christmas and the Christmas story.
Our Christmas performance will be ready to watch next week… watch this space and check your inbox early next week for more details.
Party day – Don’t forget it’s our Nursery Christmas party on Monday 13 December. Please read our previous post for more details. Also, if you haven’t already, please don’t forget to add your £1 donation to the party pot. This will go towards the cost of some treats at our party. Thank you.
Christmas fun in the hall
A massive thank you to Mrs Pennock and all the lunchtime staff who created a fabulous atmosphere for Christmas dinner day today. The children and staff had a lovely time!
Living and Learning – I make healthy choices.
Our Living and Learning statement this week is – I can make healthy choices. Do you know what choices we can make?
In Year 3/4 we know what it means to make healthy choices!
We talked today about what choices we can make to keep us healthy. We asked ourselves these questions:
- What do we eat?
- When do we eat?
- How much sleep do we get?
- How much exercise do we get?
- Do we laugh enough?
Final piece of art work
Wake Up Shake Up (WUSU) Club
WUSU Club have had a successful series of sessions after school this half term. They have made two new dances for you to enjoy and learn:
Dance Monkey and and Christmas Special, One More Sleep
WUSU club will be continuing after Christmas. Keep an eye out for letters about after school clubs so you can decide if you’d like to join in with any.
