Autumn
We’ve continued learning about autumn time this week and talked about the changes that we can see all around us. In the creative area, children loved using their pincer fingers to pick up lentils and tiny pasta pieces to collage autumn leaves.
Outside, we noticed that several children were enjoying role playing ‘shops’ with the apples that they collected from our Nursery garden. To extend this play, we’ve created a vegetable shop with the children and there has been lots of conversations and turn taking as children take on the role of customer or shop keeper. We also used the apples to create a ‘refreshment trolley’ on our train!
Here are some other activities we enjoyed.
- Building towers and comparing heights with our friend’s towers.
- Singing and using the ‘5 Little Ducks’ nursery rhyme props .
- Transporting animals in the small world farm area.
- Working together to safely build with the large wooden bricks.
- Creating stories using the Peter Rabbit characters in our woodland small world area.
- Practising our hand-eye coordination using mini fishing rods.
5/6B Certificate Celebration
Here are the winners of our certificates this week…
For great living and learning skills…
Chelsea – You have shown a mature, responsible and caring nature towards your class mates. You have taken time to aid the learning of a friend in our class, by making sure they are happy, comfortable and on task. You are a brilliant role model, Chelsea – well done!
For sport and physical activity…
Joseph – You show a fantastic awareness during physical activity. You are always ready and a very active learner – well done!
For great learning…
Daisy Mae – You have come back to school this week as if you’ve never been away. Your attitude to learning is outstanding, you are one of the first with your hand up and you are always a responsible and active learner. Great stuff, Daisy!
5/6 S Certificate Celebration
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
Lucas- for great learning in Topic. You demonstrated enthusiasm and a great use of historical vocabulary. Well done.
For sport and physical activity…
William W- for demonstrating enthusiasm and teamwork in PE this week – well done.
For living and learning…
William H- you always have a great attitude to your learning and you’re a great role model. Thank you.
Well done everyone!
Celebration certificates
It has been a very busy week. We have settled into our routines well and our learning is zooming along!
For great learning…
George – for great learning in reading. You are becoming a super fluent reader.
For sport and physical activity…
Oliver – for great resilience when skipping using the big rope. You smashed your personal best this week!
For living and learning…
Ava A– for being an active learner. You share your ideas with the class happily.
5/6m certificate celebration
For Living and Learning skills… Harry you have been supportive to your peers.
For sport and physical activity… Elliot you demonstrated great team working skills by passing and communicating effectively.
For great learning… Thomas your reading fluency has improved immensely. Your hard work is really paying off.
IKN Certificate celebration
IKN have had another great week.
As we can’t have our usual celebration assembly on a Friday at the moment, we will be posting the certificate winners on here each week for each class.
For great learning:
Mihai – for composing and writing sentences independently.
For living and learning:
Kylan – being resilient in phonics.
For sport and physical activity:
Edith – exceptional effort in Wake Up Shake Up every day!
Poems
This week in Year 3/4 reading sessions, we have been reading a range of poetry. There have been some good discussions about what they mean, the themes and the effect on the reader (us!).
Here is one which is linked to our topic book, Here We Are.
It’s called …
‘A Love Letter to the Stars’
We enjoyed spotting rhyming words- can you spot the rhyming pattern?
One of our pupils felt inspired to write her own poem. It’s wonderful! Thank you for sharing it, Tallulah!
Hi! My name is June
and I love the moon,
I love how it is so big
That I can never dig it,
I love how the stars can move to each place,
Like they are so close to space.
By Tallulah
Happy Historians!
Year 5 and 6 began their new History topic this week – Stone Age to Iron Age and Ancient Egypt. The children used photographs of historical objects to learn more about the past. They specifically looked at images of tools from the Stone Age, Bronze Age and the Iron Age. They discussed the advancements in the making of tools, such as the use of metal. Some children were also able to identify which time period an unknown tool was from and they applied what they’d learnt very well. They placed it in the Bronze Age.
Certificate stars!
My super certificate winners from last week were:
For great learning…
Ava – for a fabulous learning attitude and working hard across all subjects.
For sport and physical activity…
Hope – for showing great team work and skills in PE.
For living and learning…
Sam – well done for showing resilience in Maths.
Well done!
Phonics and the phonic screen check
The phonics screening check determines how well a child can use the phonics skills they have learned in year 1, ensuring that they are on track to become fluent readers.
Next half term, the phonics screening check will be taken by all children in year 2. Year 2 pupils who do not meet the expected standard in the autumn check will take the statutory check in June 2021, alongside year 1 pupils.
The phonics screening check contains 40 words divided into two sections. Both sections contain a mixture of real words and alien words.
The children are encouraged to add sound buttons or use phoneme fingers to read a word. Here is a video showing how we do this.
You can help your child at home by reading anything and everything!