Run, run as fast as you can…
In literacy, we have had a brilliant week rehearsing and retelling the story of The Gingerbread Man. Please ask your child to retell it to you complete with actions. Can they use the story map to help them?
In Maths, the children have enjoyed matching numerals to quantities of buttons to decorate the gingerbread men. We have also concentrated on the number two and forming this correctly.
We created ginger dough to role play making and baking our own gingerbread men.
Conkers galore!
You’ll have no doubt found a few conkers in your child’s pockets this week! We’ve enjoyed talking about Autumn time and exploring all of the different Autumn treasures that you can find whilst out and about on a walk at the moment.
In our maths area, we have a selection of open ended resources including apples, conkers, acorns and sticks. Children enjoyed weighing the apples, ordering the sticks by length and counting conkers. There were lots of great opportunities to develop and extend children’s vocabulary.
We also enjoyed rolling conkers down tubes and through paint! Children loved dipping the conkers in paint and getting their fingers messy.
And here are a few other highlights from the week…
- Re-telling ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’ and looking for the bear outside and listening to the ‘Owl Babies’ story.
- Lots of singing, dancing and playing musical instruments.
- Playing with our new small world playground and jumping along a hopscotch track.
- Drawing ‘big’ pictures on the floor (and hiding inside giant boxes!), building train tracks and creating Duplo safari parks and peg patterns. What a busy week!
EYFS – Communication and Language
You may wonder what children are ‘learning’ at Nursery each day. We learn through play in Early Years and there are lots of areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) that we focus on during the Autumn term. One of our main focuses at the moment, is the ‘Communication and Language’ area of the curriculum. This is a Prime area and is divided into 3 important strands which includes listening and attention, speaking and understanding. Every child’s development is different, but listed below are some of the typical things that we’d expect to see in a child aged between 22-36 months. If you’d like to find out more, the ‘What to Expect When‘ document may be of interest to you.
Listening and attention
- I join in with singing songs and rhymes.
- I stop what I am doing, look at you and listen to you when you say my name.
- I listen to stories when you make different noises or use different voices as you read to me.
Speaking
- I can use simple sentences with 3-4 words to talk about what I am doing or what is happening.
- When I am talking with you, I talk about lots of different things – what I am doing, what I like or what I have done.
- I can ask questions such as “what”, “where” and “who” when I am sharing a book or playing with toys.
- I am beginning to use word endings, such as “I am going” instead of “I go” and plurals, such as “babies” when talking about more than one object or person.
Understanding
- I understand longer instructions or questions such as “Put the bricks away and then we’ll read a book”.
- I can show you that I understand “who”, “what” and “where” when you use short questions such as “Who’s that?”, “What’s that?” or “Where is?” as we look at pictures in a book or play with toys.
Reminders
- All children have an extra snack time (eg toast) each morning. As this snack is in addition to the free fruit that the government provides, there is a charge for each child. If you would like your child to enjoy this snack and haven’t paid yet, please send payment to the office this week.
- Everyone should have received an email with details about Nursery Parent/Carer consultation appointments. Please book your slot and contact the office if you haven’t received the email.
Book club
We enjoyed our weekly ‘Book Club’ lesson today where we read and shared books. Well done to everyone who remembered their reading record.
1KN Certificate Celebration
It’s been another lovely week in 1KN. Well done to all the children for having a positive attitude to learning and being active learners this week.
For great learning:
Jack -You have produced some beautiful handwriting this week. You always give 100% in every lesson. Well done!
For living and learning:
Thea – You have used the 8Rs this week in your learning. In Phonics, you Reflected back on your learning and edited it to make it even better. A fantastic attitude!
For sport and physical activity:
Stanley – Your attitude in PE and WUSU is fantastic. You have given it your all this week! Well done!
5/6B Certificate Celebration
Here are the winners of our certificates this week:
For great living and learning skills…
Luke – You are always kind, considerate and respectful of other people’s feelings. You take time to ensure others are happy and healthy, and you are the first to express your feelings and opinions about something. A massive well done, Luke.
For sport and physical activity…
Daisy B – You always give 100% effort and commitment to any form of physical activity. You are a fantastic team player, effective leader and a fantastic role model for others to watch and copy your skills during physical activity. In a recent benchball lesson, you were a standout performer. Great job, Daisy!
For great learning…
Zoe – You are always looking to improve your learning in every way possible. You use extra learning time well by editing, improving and challenging yourself every day. You are the first to take a dictionary to make sure you all your spellings are correct. Well done, Zoe!
5/6 S Certificate Celebration
Year 5/6 S have had a great week. The children have worked hard at creating a persuasive piece of writing, they’ve created classification keys about leaves and they have completed some comparative work about the UK and Bolivia. What a busy week!
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
Maisie- you have worked so hard to improve the presentation of your handwriting – well done!
For sport and physical activity…
Charlie H- for demonstrating excellent fielding skills in kickball this week – well done.
For living and learning…
Lily- you are a dedicated and hard working member of Year 6 and you are a great role model. Super!
Well done everyone!
Living and learning : Mental health (recognising emotions)
We have begun a topic on mental health in our Living and Learning lessons. This week, we have talked about our feelings. Knowing that it is fine to have different emotions, that they change frequently and that they don’t last forever can help children manage their own feelings and behaviour.
Can you guess the emotions that the children were showing?
Certificate Celebration
Harry for demonstrating outstanding tactics in our team game.
Leiyah for a fantastic homework project promoting her brand new cereal.
Ella for dicussing her feelings maturely and showing gratitude to others.
School Photo Day- Wednesday 14th October
Thank you to one of our parents who has spotted that school photo day falls on a PE day!…
Please send your child to school in their school uniform not their PE Kit on Wednesday 14 October.
This will ensure we capture them looking super-smart in their first school photo 🙂
Living and Learning : Friends and family
In our Living and Learning lessons we have been talking about recognising how others are feeling. This includes spotting signs that show us that our friends are happy or sad. We watched this video about Elmer and his friends. We talked about how what we do can affect other people’s feelings. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)