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.
Welcome back!
We would like to say a huge WELCOME BACK to all the children. We have missed being with our classes and are all glad to get back a little bit of normality in our lives!
Remember you can email your child’s class teacher if you have any questions, comments or concerns.
1KN Miss Lowry and Mrs Lake : kaylowry@spherefederation.org and natalielake@spherefederation.org
1,2V Mrs Latham : vickylatham@spherefederation.org
2C Mr Gathercole : carlgathercole@spherefederation.org
Nursery Tour – March
We promised that we’d make a little video to show you all what Nursery will look like on Monday. We hope that you enjoy watching the video and that it helps to familiarise your child with Nursery before we all return next week.
We can’t wait to see you all! Don’t forget to read our previous post with some reminders and important information about drop off and collection times.
We can’t wait to see you all!
ALL of the staff in Rainbow and Sunshine are so excited to welcome you back through our doors on Monday! We are going to have a brilliant week enjoying so many things about being together again. Here is a video of some of your teachers in the classrooms for you to watch.
Click here to view the video.
Please remember to bring your water bottle, a spare change of clothes and maybe your wellies (if you didn’t leave them in school).
See you on Monday!
World Book Day
We hope you are all having a great World Book Day and doing lots of reading. Here is a great song to celebrate!
Return to Nursery
We’re so excited that we can all be back together again and return to Nursery from next Monday (08 March).
We know that most children will be feeling very happy about returning to Nursery and being reunited with their friends and teachers again. However, some children may be feeling a little nervous and might need a little bit of extra support to get back into the swing of things; that’s fine. We’ll be spending lots of time settling back into our Nursery routines and getting to know each other again. This is just as important for those children that have continued to attend Nursery throughout Lockdown, as their ‘bubble’ will be different and Nursery will be much busier than it has been.
If your child has been attending Nursery during Lockdown, but for different sessions, their usual Nursery days will resume from Monday 08 March.
We’re also looking forward to meeting our new children and their families who will be joining us for their first sessions over the next few weeks. These children will be joining Green group.
Here are a few reminders before you return.
- Hopefully your child has two spare sets of clothes already in a drawstring bag on their peg. If you took this home before Christmas, please ensure you return it. Remember to NAME everything.
- Please provide a water bottle that is clearly NAMED.
- Remember to send your child with a coat and some wellies (if they’re not at Nursery still).
Nursery drop off and collection
- We will now be using the main Nursery entrance (blue door). Please put lunch boxes and water bottles on the trolley and bags in the coloured boxes as usual.
- Please wait in the area outside Nursery, socially distanced from others. School requests that all adults wear masks on school premises (unless exempt). A member of staff will call you to the doorway to sign your child in, one at a time.
- All children will be collected from this entrance at home time too. Children will be ready at their collection time and we will open the door to dismiss them at the appropriate time.
- Please help us by being prompt for your child’s drop off/pick up times.
Blue and Green group
Monday – 8.30am – 2.10pm Tuesday-Friday 8.30am – 2.55pm
Red group
Monday – 8.40am – 2.20pm Tuesday-Friday 8.40am – 3.05pm
Yellow group
Monday – 8.50am – 2.30pm Tuesday-Friday 8.50am – 3.15pm
We can’t wait to see you all next week! Please get in touch if you have any questions.
World Book Day Thursday 04 March – Zoom sessions
It’s World Book Day on Thursday 04 March and we thought that children might like to join in with the celebrations on our Zoom calls by getting dressed up as one of their favourite story characters, or you might want to bring your favourite book instead. You might have a costume already at home, or a t-shirt with a picture of your favourite character on the front.
Please DO NOT purchase anything special for the Zoom call, we’re sure that everyone has something at home that you could use.
If you’re struggling to find something or your child doesn’t want to dress up, that’s fine as well. Again, please don’t worry or feel you need to buy something.
Year 3/4 are very much looking forward to sharing some stories, books and characters this week.