Class News

Monday – Story time and song

It was lovely to see you all on our first Zoom meetings this morning. Don’t forget to look at your home learning activities all about ‘Keith the Cat with a Magic Hat’ and send us an email to let us know which ones you enjoy.

We will post a song for you to sing along to at home and a story for you to listen to, every afternoon this week.

Today’s song is ‘Row, row, row your boat’, you might be able to sit with someone in your family and pretend to be in a rowing boat, just like we do at Nursery.

Story time

Miss Morris is reading today’s story, ‘Go, Go, Pirate Boat‘. We love to draw treasure maps at Nursery and pretend to be in pirate ships, maybe you could have a go at home.

Home learning for 21.06

We hope that you’re all well and managing to stay busy at home.  Please check your emails for the isolation home learning activities and the information regarding Zoom Key Worker group times.

As Nursery is closed next week (21.06 – 25.06) whilst staff and children self-isolate, we will continue our Key Worker group times on Zoom. We know that many of you also have work commitments, so please don’t worry if you’re not able to join in with all of them. We’ll be hosting a Zoom session for each group every morning, at the same time.  Please join in for the sessions when your child would usually attend Nursery.

 The Key Worker Zoom invite is for one long Zoom session, please join at the correct time for your child’s colour group. You will enter a waiting room and will be accepted, once the previous group’s session has finished. Each session will last approximately 15 minutes. Please try to join promptly so that we can start the session as close to the start time as possible.

Key Worker group time

Red group – 10am daily

Yellow group – 10.30am daily

Blue group – 11.00am daily

Green group – 11.30am daily

For some of the Zoom sessions, you may need to gather a few things to take part. Hopefully, we’ve chosen things that you’ll all have at home.

Monday – Pens and paper

Tuesday – You’ll be looking for things around your house.

Wednesday – Playdough

Thursday – You’ll need to draw a 5 frame and get 5 small objects to count (e.g duplo bricks, coins, pebbles)

Friday –Two tea towels, pens and paper

Before you join the Zoom, please change your Zoom username to your child’s name. These sessions will be recorded. If you need a reminder of our policy regarding the use of Zoom, it is available to read using this link or in the safeguarding section of the website.

Finally, you will have received an email with a selection of isolation home learning activities for you to choose from. Next week, they are linked to the story of ‘Keith the Cat with a Magic Hat’. We’ll also post some songs and story videos on the website every afternoon next week, so please don’t forget to visit this page daily.

We look forward to seeing you all next week in Zoom Land!

Sunshine and smiles…

We’ve been feeling as sunny, bright and full of energy as the weather this week!

Following on from last week’s learning about our past; ‘When I was a baby’, this week we have looked at the present and the skills we have now that we are four or five.

Can you guess what we will be thinking about next week?

We are so lucky to have amazing outdoor spaces here at Scholes. The fabulous weather has enabled the children to enjoy more much-loved time in nature. We have been finding and looking closely at minibeasts and our plants in Foundation’s garden have been growing rapidly. We have taken learning outside as much as possible and kept safe by choosing shaded areas.

Here are some snapshots of our learning this week, in Reception:

Home Link Challenges

1. This weekend is The Big Wild Weekend. The Wildlife Trust’s #30dayswild campaign is running across the month of June and encourages people to explore nature. We have sent home a nature sheet to continue wild explorations with your family, at home.
2. You may have guessed at the top of the post, that next week we will looking at the future. We will be taking a fun look at the jobs people do and what the children might like to be when they grow up! Interest in jobs, occupations and the lives of others is an important part of ‘Understanding the World’. In preparation for the week, we are asking parents/carers to talk to your child about your own job. Discuss what you do at work or at home.

Finally, you may have noticed your child has taken home a special top-secret creation! 🤫 To all of the daddies, grandads, uncles and others you are choosing to celebrate this Sunday, Reception would like to wish you a very happy Father’s Day.

5/6 S Certificate Celebration

This weeks certificate winners are…

For great learning…

Maisie – your attitude to your learning had been great this week and you’ve also worked well in a group. Well done!

For sport and physical activity…

Jude – you always demonstrate enthusiasm and great teamwork in whatever sport we are doing in PE. Well done.

For living and learning…

Charlie H – you contributed well in discussions about body image and gave sensible answers – you challenged your own self-confidence.

Well done everyone!

Sinking Ships!

We’ve continued to investigate the idea of density this week in Science. The children were asked to design a boat that would hold the most weight without sinking. They were only given plasticine and tin foil. They got their creative hats on and built some great boat designs. They had to think about the weight of their boat – they knew their boat had to be less dense than water density. Some groups increased the surface area of their boats too as they realised this helped with buoyancy. First we tested which boats floated – some boats were eliminated straight away as they promptly sank. I won’t be booking a cruise on any of those boats!

The successful boats went onto the next round where we added cubes to test how much weight they held before sinking. The majority of boats held between 3 and 9 cubes. The winner held 110 before sinking! This was amazing. I think there is a career in boat building on the cards for the winning group!

Living and learning: I know what consent is

As part of our living and learning this week, we have been discussing body image and body confidence. We began by looking at the definition of body image – our idea of how our body looks and how we think it looks to others. This can include feelings and thoughts. Body confidence is about how we feel about the way we look. Our society tells us that there is an ideal way to look. This is called an ‘appearance ideal.’ With that in mind, we need to remember that these ideals are:

• impossible to achieve
• always changing
• unrealistic

We talked about how the media leads to detrimental ways in which we look at our bodies – we make comparisons  We need to remember that the majority of images we see through the media have been ‘touched up’ and edited in some way.

The children had to think about how they personally feel about body image and what their confidence levels are like. The task in the lesson was each person had to think about positive things about themselves and which body parts they liked and why?

Where can you go for help?

Talk to your teacher or another trusted adult, in or out of school.

Put your worry in the class worry box.

Talk to your friends.

Contact ChildLine – 0800 1111

Books, Glorious Books

We are very lucky at our school to have a library full of wonderful books to borrow and enjoy. Over the past few weeks, we have been re-stocking our library with some lovely new books. We now have 300 new books on the shelves in the library. Every child has a library session each week where they can select any book they want to borrow and enjoy at home. Happy reading!

Structures

The children have enjoyed looking at different structures. We discussed what a structure is and looked at some famous structures.

We discussed that structures are a combination of materials and/or parts to create  a 3D shape.

The children in 1KN have enjoyed exploring making structures using different materials.

This week, ask your child what a structure is. You could also discuss some of our topic key vocabulary: freestanding, base and stable

Design & Technology

In our topic lessons this half-term, we’ll be learning all about design and technology. We’ll follow the process that people working in DT complete in the real world: we’ll research and design our product, we’ll make our product and, finally, we’ll evaluate it.

We’ll making a small prototype of a go-kart using tech card – so we’ll get plenty of opportunities to be creative and practical.

Help at home by asking your child what they’ve been learning about school. Encourage them to use the vocabulary they’ve learnt, too (shown in the below table).

Super Scientists!

This half-term, in our science lessons, we’re studying biology. We’ll be learning all about animals (including humans) with a specific focus on teeth and eating.

Help at home by regularly asking your child what they’ve learnt in their science lessons recently. When discussing their learning, encourage your child to use the correct scientific vocabulary. The below table shows you what words we’ll be using alongside the definition we’ll be using in class.