Living and learning : I can pay and receive compliments in a sensible way.
This week’s Living and learning statement is ‘I can pay compliments in a sensible way’.
We talked about how it is important to pay compliments about how the person is and how they behave, not just how they look.
I like your hair.
You are a good friend.
You make me laugh.
I like it when you are helpful.
We don’t like cricket…we love it!
We have Yorkshire Cricket coach, Jamie Sykes, coming into school over the next half term. All classes from Year 1 to Year 6 will receive some cricket coaching over the next 6 weeks. He set some very important ‘homework’…to watch some cricket, if you can! #chancetoshine #yorkshirecricket
Holiday tales and ice-creams
It was great to see so many happy faces return to Nursery and we loved hearing all about your family outings during our group time conversations. Lots of children enjoyed trips to the seaside and role play in our mud kitchen area soon turned into children selling ice-creams!
We developed this throughout the week, adding a few ice-cream themed enhancements to the mud kitchen. Children had been enjoying colour mixing before the holidays, so we followed this interest to make some ice-cream signs for our shop. We talked about the different flavours that children liked and tried to mix some colours to match them.
Children have enjoyed playing ring games and using our new castle small world area. As the weather was so hot at the start of the week, we moved lots of our provision into the shade and we even enjoyed having a ‘picnic’ snack time outside.
We’re going to continue with our learning about the coast next week. We’ll be exploring the texture, size and shape of shells, using sandy playdough and creating our own foam ice-creams with sprinkles in the sensory area.
If you’ve been to the seaside recently and have a photograph that you’d like to send us, please email it to scholesf1@spherefederation.org and we’ll display them in our seaside small world area for children to talk about their trip with their friends.
Oh baby, baby!
Thank-you so much for sending in your child’s baby photograph/s. We have ALL thoroughly enjoyed looking at them and talking about how we have changed since we were born. There have been so many changes and stages of development that are still ongoing for our amazing 4 and 5 year olds. We are really proud of how much Reception children have learnt in the past school year!
There is still time to send your child’s photograph into school if you haven’t already done so.
Just for fun, and because the children have enjoyed guessing who the baby photos are, we have made a ‘Who’s Who?’ baby montage of the adults in Reception. Can you match the adults to their baby photo? Answers are at the bottom of the post.
The weather has been glorious (finally) and of course we have been making the most of the outdoor area with a little less mud. Take a look at what we have been up to…
To name just a few, we have: explored tall grass on the large school field; pressed flowers that we picked; found rare mini-beasts; thrown a javelin; dressed babies; made ice-creams; found ways to make 16 using sticks; looked at dead bees and shown a seal bone to the class.
Enjoy your weekend. We look forward to our learning journey next week.
1-Miss Parling, 2- Mrs Wilkins, 3-Mrs Allen-Kelly, 4-Miss Logan, 5- Miss Booth 6-Mrs Myers.
5/6 S Certificate Celebration
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
Abi – you showed enthusiasm and resourcefulness in Design Technology this week. You discussed your ideas well with others.
For sport and physical activity…
James – you have worked hard to improve your rounders skills this week. Well done for persevering.
For living and learning…
Lleyton – You contributed well during the body image lesson and you showed a really responsible and mature attitude. Thank you.
Well done everyone!
Reading and writing
This week, we have been learning about Aesop’s Fables. Our reading fluency text has been The Tortoise and the Hare.
We talked about the message in the story and looked at some key vocabulary. Next week, the children will read and retell the story, draw a story map to help them remember the sequence of events and do some independent writing.
Help at home by asking your child if they can tell you the story of The Tortoise and the Hare.
Sunny days
We’ve had some beautiful, but very hot sunny weather this week. Please make sure that your child has a sun hat and water bottle in school every day. As always, please clearly label them with you child’s name.
We’ve also had lots of questions about sun cream. On sunny days, sun cream should be applied before children come to Nursery. If your child’s sun cream requires it to be re-applied after lunch, please put a NAMED bottle of sun cream in their group’s water bottle basket on the days that you would like it to be re-applied.
Living and Learning: Body Image
What is body image?
Body image describes our idea of how our body looks and how we think it is perceived by others. This can include our thoughts and feelings about our height, weight, shape, skin, colour, and our appearance and attractiveness more broadly.
We’ve been discussing this topic for this week’s Living and Learning session – and what a great discussion it was!
Overall, we decided that there art ways in which we are different from each other, like:
- different heights,
- weights,
- body builds,
- complexions,
- hair colours,
- eye colours,
- preferences,
- likes/dislikes,
- abilities,
- interests,
Some of these we, 1) can’t change, 2) can change with practice, 3) can change over time;
So, we thought about the things we are good at and compared them.
We may look very different but we often share similar strengths and weaknesses.
Designing ‘Egg’xperts!
Year 5 and 6 have begun our final topic of the year – design and technology! Our mission is to design, create and test a small buggy, fit for saving our good friend, Eggy.
This week, the children have been heavily engaged in analysing some existing products, to help generate ideas for our own designs next week.
Here are some examples of our work:
Design and Technology: Eggy needs help!
To kick off this last half term, Y5/6 are beginning a design and technology journey!
We had an urgent message from someone asking for our help…
We took a look at our new vocabulary and decided how confident we felt as a class.
- red = I’ve never heard this term before and have no clue what it means!
- amber = I’ve heard of it but wouldn’t be able to fully explain.
- green = I’m super confident about this word in a DT context!
Here are the definitions! Get practising!
