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Each Peach Pear Plum
Our book ‘Each Peach Pear Plum’ has helped us to focus on many different nursery rhymes.
We have had nursery rhyme stations set up throughout our classrooms and it has been brilliant watching and listening to the children’s interactions with the resources. Can you spot the nursery rhymes?
Anti-Bullying Week
‘Odd Socks Monday’ was a great opportunity to think about and discuss the brilliant ways that we are different from each other. We have been thinking about being kind and celebrating the many ways that we can do ‘One Kind Thing’. (The theme for this year’s Anti-Bullying Week). ‘One Kind Thing’ can make the difference to someone’s day, week, year or life!
Children In Need
Today we have learnt about the charity Children In Need. The children were empathetic and had many questions. We spent time making Pudsey Bear necklaces, ears and pictures. Thankyou so much for your donations!
Home-Link
Can you recreate a nursery rhyme with your toys at home? Please send your photographs to our usual email address. We enjoy showing them to all of the children.
Living and Learning: Anti-Bullying Week
Our Living and Learning Statement this week has been ‘I know how to STOP bullying‘.
On Monday, we started Anti-Bullying Week by wearing odd socks to celebrate how unique we all are.
During our Living and Learning lessons, we have talked about what bullying is and how to stop it.
We have talked about STOP as an acronym which provides us with a clear definition of bullying:
Several Times On Purpose
We have discussed how to STOP bullying by:
Start Telling Other People
The theme of this week has been ‘One Kind Word’. We have talked about how being KIND can make a difference by making other people feel happy.
Children in Need
Thank you for donating to our Children in Need fundraising non-uniform day. In Nursery, we talked about what ‘Children in Need’ is and why people get involved in lots of spotty themed, fun activities.
Here are a few photos from today. You might be able to spot (haha) that we even managed to incorporate Pudsey Bear into our maths learning at group time this morning! We’ve been learning how to complete a simple repeating pattern so we practised this, adding a repeating colour spotty pattern to Pudsey’s bandana.
We been busy in the creative area, decorating and making our own spotty Pudsey Bear ears.
We’ve practised our pencil control by joining Pudsey’s spots in the mark making area.
We also got a little bit messy with foam and spots in the sensory area! Here are the before photographs…
World Nursery Rhyme Week
As you’ll have read in our previous post, this week we joined in with World Nursery Rhyme Week. Ask your child to sing their favourite rhyme and see if you can find a new nursery rhyme to learn this weekend.
In group time, we tested our memory with a nursery rhyme themed Kim’s game and drew Incy Wincy spider with 8 hairy legs.
Can you guess the nursery rhyme linked to each activity? Ask your child to give you some clues!
(Baa Baa Black Sheep – printing, I’m a Little Teapot – Water area, Little Miss Muffet – sensory tray and 5 Currant Buns -playdough)
Outside, children have shown an interest in ‘telescopes’ which reminded us of a character from a popular children’s story book – Timothy Pope! We enjoyed reading ‘Shark in the Park‘ and children have begun to retell the story in our new small world area.
Reminders
- Don’t forget to join Mrs Beesley or Mrs Long for your Parent Consultation meeting next week. Look out for an email with more information and Zoom details on before your appointment. If you don’t receive this by 9am Monday morning, please let us know.
Living and Learning: Anti-Bullying Week
Years 5 and 6 have been very during our Anti-Bullying Week this week. We make sure that we all know what classifies as bullying and the steps we can take to help ourselves, and others, if bullying ever occurs.
As you know, we have a zero-tolerance policy to bullying at Scholes Primary School. Here are a few things that Year 5/6 have done this week to support our anti-bullying campaign:
- We have written a letter to the main character in our class novel (Holes), who was sadly being bullied in school. We suggested ways to help Stanley reach out to others and overcome the situation.
- When it comes to bullying in our school, we say STOP. STOP stands for… Several Times On Purpose / Start Telling Other People. We have ensured all of our classmates know this and know the steps to take, whether you are the victim or a bystander.
- We have designed our own odd socks as part of our anti-bullying campaign! We have had some fantastic, colourful designs with information and advice spread all over the odd pairs. Well done, Year 5/6!
Art learning
We have been continuing our history of art learning this week and explored the idea of the chronology of art. The children sorted art into time order starting with the oldest. They successfully identified that the cave paintings and classical art were the oldest. We discussed the invention of the camera and how this impacted and changed art. Artists moved onto creating more abstract art and become more experimental in their ideas. The children created a timeline of the artwork and added the different art movements over time. Some children took there learning even further and added key historical events to their timeline
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Digger Day in 3,4C
Last Wednesday, we were extremely lucky to have Flannery Engineers come into our class and talk to our class about construction and the ELOR road development.
They even brought a simulation digger into our classroom. Each child had a chance to use the hi-spec simulation observatory, for either a dumptruck or digger – it was amazing!
Our children were very privileged to have this experience – thank you, Flannery engineers. they talked to us about the development and how they are improving our community.
In the classroom, the children were also challenged to make the longest bridge, tallest tower and strongest bridge out of a single piece of A4 paper.
More photos to come …
Odd Socks Day – Anti-bullying week 2021
If you do just one thing today, choose “one kind word”. What could you say?
On Monday, we wore odd socks! This is to start our Anti-Bullying Week which is all about saying One Kind Word.
“It’s to show we’re all the same because we all wear socks but we’re all different because they all have different patterns!”
Here are our odd socks!
Topic – practical art (printing)
As part of our art topic, we have been learning some of the processes and skills involved in printing. So far, we have designed our picture, transferred it onto a polystyrene tile and printed in blank ink on white paper. It has been very exciting and satisfying to see our prints coming out.
