3,4O: History
Today, we spent our afternoon being historians – in fact, we were being archaeologists.
We had to find the pictures of artefacts from the time of Ancient Greece and predict what we thought they were used for.
Then, we found out – it turns out, our predictions were extremely accurate!
Primary school applications
Primary school applications are now open. If your child is due to start school in September 2021, you can find out how to apply On the Leeds City Council website. The deadline for applications is 15 January 2021.
3,4O: Library
We love going to the library every Wednesday to choose a new book and spend a bit of time relaxing and reading. Here’s a few pictures from our session today (we all gave our consent to being photographed and displaying it on the website – ask your child why this is important).
Enjoying reading…
Some more of us enjoying reading…
Searching for a new book…
‘Dipping into’ a picture for a nice change…
Desperately searching for a book about Ancient Greece…
We keep these books in school and ‘dip in’ to them as often as we can.
Ask your child what book they chose and why they chose it.
How do we know so much about the Ancient Greeks?
Today we have asked and answered questions about the Ancient Greeks. We were able to suggest what different artefacts were used for and what this tells us about life in Ancient Greece.
Remembrance Day
Today we shared our knowledge and experiences of Remembrance Day and learnt some new facts too.
The people who died in the war. That’s why we are doing poppy day. Louie
Remembering the soldiers that died in the war. Emelia
After our 2 minute silence, we reflected on what we were thinking about.
I was thinking about the soldiers. Ruby
I was thinking about the war and what could have happened. Toby
To celebrate the day we planted some poppy seeds outside, painted poppies using our fingers, made hand print poppies with real poppy seeds and made tissue paper poppies.
Pyramid Mathematicians
This week, in Topic, we have combined our knowledge of maths with our knowledge of how the pyramids were built in Ancient Egyptian times. The children had to predict how many blocks would be needed to make pyramids of different sizes. We use some cubes to help us. We also had a go at measuring ourselves using palms and cubits – Ancient Egyptian measuring units. This was great fun!
New playground equipment
Playtimes have got even more active with our new playground equipment. The new breaktime resources arrived last weekend and are having a great impact on our play.
There’s cup-stacking …
Skipping ropes ….
Skipping is a great way to practice timing, agility and coordination …
Beanbags…
Target practice and balls …
Throwing bean bags and calculating our scores …
And generally keeping fit.
Just another way of keeping active and staying healthy at Scholes!
English – all about nouns
This week, we have be learning about how different words can have different ‘jobs’. We have talked about nouns this week. We learnt a song to help us.
NOUNS
Every person, place or thing,
Needs a name and so we sing,
Nouns means names.
We went on a noun hunt around our classrooms – there are nouns everywhere!
Children in Need
We are going to be celebrating BBC Children in Need on Friday 13 November.
The Junior Leadership Team voted for a ‘dress as you like day.’ Children can come to Nursery in their own clothes; you might choose to wear something ‘spotty’ like Pudsey’s bandana! Remember, children enjoy messy play in Nursery and we also play outside in all weather! Please make sure that children wear suitable clothing and footwear.
We would like to raise as much money as possible for Children in Need and are therefore asking for a voluntary donation. On the morning of the 13th, there will be a bucket near the Nursery playground for you to drop off your donations.
Thank you in advance for your support and co-operation.
The Junior Leadership Team
Art – a type of therapy as well as a lesson?
We have being doing lots of art since we returned to school in September. It has been proven to help us relax, is enjoyable, gives us time to talk to each other and helps us express ourselves. Here are some examples of some of our artwork.
