Living and Learning- I take part in democratic decisions
Voting for our class Junior Leadership Member is always an exciting part of the school year. KS1 had a fantastic time listening to candidate speeches and voting via secret ballot. Congratulations to our winners. We anticipate great things from our Junior Leadership Team this year!
Is there room on the broom?
We’ve enjoyed re-telling the story in the book corner using props and puppets, joining in with the repeated refrains “…and whoosh they were gone!” In group time, we drew patterns on the witch’s hat and we had to use our listening ears to listen carefully to the description and animal noises to work out who was hiding from the story. Was it the cat, dog, frog or bird?
In the sensory area, we loved exploring the inside of some pumpkins. We added some sticky spaghetti worms too, they were ” gooey”
Outside, children loved searching around the garden to find all of the hidden characters and props from the story. Where was the broomstick hiding?
Have a look at some of the other activities from this week.
When we return to Nursery on Monday 04 November, we’ll re-cap on the story before we begin to think about Bonfire night.
Reminders
Please send any photos of your half term adventures to our email address scholesnursery@spherefederation.org. We can share them at group time.
Our Nursery coffee morning is on Tuesday 05 November at 9am.Come and join us to meet other nursery parents In the Hub.
Have a happy and healthy half term.
Potion Commotion
Potion Commotion
We’ve been reading Potion Commotion by Peter Bently and Sernur Isik.
We’ve been writing our own potion recipes and making potions in the water tray. Using our growing phonic knowledge and skills, we have been able to represent the sounds (phonemes) we could hear in words with the letters (graphemes).
We’ve enjoyed themed activities, with a focus on developing important skills.
Phonics
This week has been a revision week.
In provision, we’ve been making our own flashcards.
Poetry Picnic
Each week we will be learning a new poem. We will recite this poem each day. By saying the poem out loud, we can focus on the sounds and rhythm of each word or line. We talk to the children about how this can help us become better readers. This week’s poem is called Pointy Hat
Help at home; light and dark
If you go to any light shows, see any illuminations or go to a firework display over the half term break, we’d love to share your photos in class. We’ll use the pictures to support our next topic on light and dark.
3,4 DT – egg pots
Over the last couple of weeks, the children have had a great time making an egg pot.
The children practised cracking eggs and using a knife safely to cut the tomatoes. The children also discussed the importance of food hygiene.
At home, why not make this recipe!
Well done for a fabulous half term of learning!
Enjoy the holidays and see you soon!
Team 3,4
Living and Learning – Democracy
In Living and Learning, we have been learning about the British value of democracy. We put this into practice this week by all having a vote in our Junior Leadership Team election. We listened to speeches from the candidates and posted our ballot papers into the box. Please see the post lower down for the results.
New Junior Leadership Team
Democracy is a key part of British Values and during this week, our classes have cast their votes for who they would like to represent their class on the JLT. We were absolutely overwhelmed by the number of children that wrote speeches. These were well written, full of ideas and showed off their best qualities such as leadership, good listening skills and initiative.
The votes were counted and the new members have been announced!
Here are our new members:
5,6A – Ben
5,6B – Lilly
5,6C – Jeevan
3,4A – Bradley
3,4B – Violet
3,4C – Adam
2C – Ted
1,2B – Mollie
1A – Rupert
Well done to each of you. I’m looking forward to working with you this year and can’t wait to get started.
Maths – fun online games
We use a website called Top Marks in maths. There are lots of fun games that help children use the maths they are learning at school. To help with place value this half term, we have played Place Value Basketball and used Paint the Squares, which is an interactive 100 square to count in different ways.
Help at home by going on Numbots for maths facts or Top Marks for other maths games.
Year 2 Football
Well done to the fantastic Scholes A and B football teams for taking part in their first tournament at Fives, Seacroft yesterday! Both teams represented Scholes Primary School brilliantly and played excellent games.
Here are some photographs of the teams. in action.
Thank you to the parents that allowed their children to take part and for coming along to support both teams.
Look how smart we looked, too! We’d like to thank FOSP for their incredibly generous contributions to our new kits. They’ve invested significantly to ensure that children across school can represent our school looking the part. Thanks again to everyone at FOSP.
Our next game will be Monday 25th November 2024.
Nursery Coffee Morning
Please join us at 9am on Tuesday 5 November for our Nursery coffee morning. It’s a great chance to chat to other Nursery parents and carers. After you’ve dropped your child off at Nursery, make your way to the Hub. We hope to see you there!
Applications for Reception 2025
Applications for a Reception place for September 2025 can be made from 01 November 2024 until 15 January 2025. Guidance on applications can be found on Leeds City Council’s You Tube video
A quick guide to school admissions
If you’d like to come and look around our school, the next open sessions are on Thursday 14 November at 1.30pm and Friday 29 November at 9.30am. No need to book just turn up!
Please remember that you still need to apply for a Reception place even if your child attends Scholes (Elmet) Nursery.