Welcome Back to Reception!
Welcome Back!
What an absolute JOY it has been to have everyone back together this week in Reception. The children have been amazing and have really enjoyed being back in the classroom with their friends. Here are some pictures of what we have been up to:
We’ve spoken lots this week about our feelings and how it is normal to miss people at home after being with them for such a long time. We also introduced our new ‘Mood Monsters’ areas, where the children can sit, talk or bring a picture fan to an adult to express how they are feeling. At the start of the week, Rainbow class made ‘Hands of Positivity’ to display in the window. We focused on why we are happy to be back at school. Here are what some of the children said:
“I can play with everyone”- Charlie
“I’m looking forward to stories”- Alice
“It feels like a party!”- Max
“I like the writing area”- Archie
“Cause it’s great here!”- Toby
“I missed school”- Bella
“There is more people to play with”-Abby
British Science Week
We’re celebrating British Science Week 2021 ! We have been so lucky in Reception, as Professor Myers has visited us with an experiment every day this week! We’ve observed:
-The ingredients needed to make an egg bounce!
-How plants (daffodils in this case) absorb water; using food colouring to see the slow process of it dying the stem and petals from the inside as water is transported around the flower.
-The density of water, oil and honey; how they separate when combined together.
-How to get a skewer through a balloon without it popping!
We know lots of you have enjoyed taking part in Professor Myers’ experiments during lockdown. For this week’s Home-Link Challenge we’d like you to re-create one of the experiments we have done in class this week or choose one of your own from the British Science Week website.
Mother’s Day
Rainbow Class have recorded a song to wish you all a lovely Mothering Sunday.
(Tune: Jingle Bells)
Mother’s Day, Mother’s Day, Happy Mother’s Day,
Here’s a gift, just for you, On this Mother’s Day,
I’ll clean my room, I’ll make my bed, I’ll pick up all my toys,
I’ll be good, just for you, on this Mother’s Day!
Reminders
Red Nose Day- Friday 19 March 2021
For Red Nose Day we will be having a non-uniform day. Children are invited to wear something red. There will be buckets to collect voluntary donations as you enter school.
5/6 Certificate Celebration
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
Freddie – you were so active during Topic this week and you participated in discussions about WWII. Well done.
For sport and physical activity…
Poppy – for demonstrating control and skill during hockey this week. A big improvement – well done!
For living and learning…
William W – you were attentive and participated well in the discussion about lockdown and self-belief. Well done.
Well done everyone!
5/6 Certificate Celebration
A great first week back at school in 5/6B!
Here are our certificate winners for the week…
For great living and learning skills…
Eli – You have done a fantastic job at keeping everyone safe by regularly washing your hands – well done!
For sport and physical activity…
Ellis – You have settled back into school very quickly. You are always a fantastic role model during PE lessons, break times and lunch times. Keep it up, Ellis!
For great learning…
Olivia – It’s like you never left! You have returned to school with the fantastic, responsible and resilient learning attitude you’ve always had. Well done, Olivia!
Maths – place value and counting
For the next few weeks we will be focusing on place value and counting. Knowing your way around a 100 square is an important part of this area of maths. The Top Marks website has some great games and this interactive 100 square is perfect for counting in 1s, 2s, 5s, 10, odd, even and one more/less.
Welcome back!
It has been an amazing week in which we welcomed back all our year 5 and 6 children. It’s been lovely to have our classrooms full of learning, chatting and giggling again. The children have returned to school with a brilliant attitude and have got stuck straight into their learning, so well done everyone. Below is a little overview of some of the learning that we’ve done this week.
We’ve continued with our topic on WWII and have moved onto looking at how people’s lives changed during this period. We have used historical information such as: photographs, newspaper reports and diary entries to find out what it was like to be evacuated.
The children have continued to learn and use the vocabulary for this topic. If you would like to see the vocabulary we are using, click on the link below.
In reading we have been working on our retrieval and inference skills. The children have used a range of sources including radio clips and photographs. To develop their fluency skills we have been looking at ‘The Photograph‘ by Roger Stevens. This is a poem based on WWII and looks at the memories of a child who is experiencing the war. It focuses on positive emotions and also feelings of loss.
In writing, the children have been practising their ‘must dos’ including using capital letters, full stops and squashed sentences. We will continue with this learning next week.
Keep an eye out tomorrow for our certificate winners. As usual, there will be a learning, physical activity and living and learning certificate for those children who have really stood out to their class teachers.
Again, well done year 5 and 6 for a great first week back.
Period product scheme
- have forgotten their products
- cannot afford products
- have started or come on their period unexpectedly
Science – all about plants
We are learning all about plants in our science lessons this half term. Below is the key vocabulary that we will be focusing on.
New topic and vocabulary
We’re back!
It’s hard to put into words how amazing it has been to have almost all of our school community back together this week. Everyone returned on Monday eager to learn and even more eager to catch up with everyone. If your child is anxious or worried, please let their class teacher now.
We got cracking straight away and have dived into our ‘new’ topic – we started this topic two weeks ago through our home learning but have recapped lots of learning today to make sure none of our learners miss out.
Our topic this half term is history driven – in particular, we’re focussing on local history. We’ll be learning about lots of interesting knowledge through our main focus: The Leeds West Indian Carnival.
Here’s some of the learning we’ll be completing…
We’ll also be reading Loidis Ledes Leeds by Tom Palmer – it’s set in Leeds and will give us lots of local history knowledge.
Help at home by asking your child questions from the ‘knowledge and other learning’ section in the document above – this document is taken from our curriculum statement.
Remote Learning
We’ve had a fantastic first two days back at Nursery! We’ll share some photographs at the end of the week, once everyone has returned.
Whilst we hope that you won’t need to use it, we’ll continue to plan for remote learning should anyone need to isolate at home over the next few weeks. This learning will be linked to the theme in Nursery so that you can join in with some of the activities at home. Everyone will receive an e-mail on Friday each week, so that you have access to the activities should you unexpectedly find yourselves isolating at home.
Let’s talk about feelings
There was lots of feelings flying around at school today! The overwhelming feeling communicated and seen today was ‘happy’. The children we happy to be back with their class, happy to play, happy to have some face-to-face learning, happy to talk and just feeling happy.
Other feelings mentioned…
glad…excited…confused…fine…weird…shocked
It’s ok to feel all these things! Encourage your child to talk about how they are feeling and reassure them it is ok.
