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.)
Writing Instructions – How to have a happy and healthy class!
We’ve been working on writing instructions in Year 3/4 this week.
In pairs, we worked collaboratively to write a set of instructions on ‘How to have a happy and healthy class’.
To improve our sentences, we have used adverbs.
We are very proud of our writing – here are some examples:
Science – leaf classifying
Year 5 and 6 have continued to work on classification keys this week. They were looking at a range of leaves from British trees and plants and initially had to identify them. Following their discussion work, they then created their own classification keys using scientific questions, that other children could use to sort and identify leaves. The children did a great job of using their scientific vocabulary. We are now leaf experts!
Welly Walk
As part of their Nature Study time with Mrs Myers, the children went on a muddy welly walk yesterday! The texture of the mud was described as “squelching”…
There was great excitement:
“We’re going on a scavenger hunt!”- Faith
“We’re going on a bear hunt”
Some fantastic discussion around the changes that happen in the season of Autumn:
“Leaves changing colour”- Reyansh
“They’ll blow off the trees!”
“They turn yellow”
Reception enjoyed listening to the story of The Gruffalo, before talking about what kind of animals they might see on the walk. There was super excitement at the discovery of a mole hill!
“We don’t want to wake them up or they’ll get frightened!”- Alice
Ask your child what their favourite part of the ‘welly walk’ was. Perhaps you have been on a welly walk recently at home? Don’t forget to share your news and photos with us:
scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Parent Partners
We know our parent partners are missing being able to come into the classroom and share learning with your child- we are missing having you in the classroom too!
We really value home-school communication and have been thinking of ways to share more of the classroom with you, given the current restrictions.
Here are the ways we will be ‘keeping in touch’ or sharing with you :
- The last week of each half term you will receive a collage of pictures of your child playing and learning.
- During the school year, your child will become a ‘focus child’ for a week. We ask for current interests and an up-to-date view of your child and we have a ‘catch up’ meeting at the end of the week to talk about progress and what we have noticed. The dates of your child’s focus week will be sent in advance. There will be more information on this in our upcoming Parent Partners presentation.
- Parent presentations which would usually be face-to-face throughout the school year, will be provided through either a screencast or powerpoint slides for you to read at home. These will be posted to the class news page.
- Class News will be posted regularly, to help you keep up-to-date on classroom learning.
- Our Parent Partnership board in the classroom holds a postcard for each child, with notes on current interests both in school and those you share with us from home. We also display emails and photos from home on this board.
We are available to talk to about concerns or questions via email, telephone or in person at the end of the school day and we really love it when you send WOW moments of learning at home or photos of interests, trips or days out. Thank you to those who have already sent emails in.
We look forward to continued partnership with you, throughout the school year.
The Reception Team.
Words, words, words
We have been spending lots of time teaching reading : story time, reading together (reading fluency), daily phonics lessons, vocabulary lessons, RIC (comprehension), individual reading, discussing books we have read, giving star ratings and lots more!
Being able to read and write the year 1 and year 2 common exception words is important to develop fluency. These words do not follow the usual spelling rules and so are sometimes tricky to read or write. They need to be learnt as whole words and just remembered.
We try to make learning them fun – chalking them on the playground for example!
Living and Learning: Friends and Family
In our Living and Learning lessons this week, we discussed being kind and the impact it has on others. We read a lovely book called The Rainbow Fish.
The book is best known for its message about selfishness and sharing and for the distinctive shiny foil scales of the Rainbow Fish.
We talked about the feelings of the different characters and made new scales for them
Week Commencing 05.10.20
We are all set up and ready to enjoy learning related to ‘The Gingerbread Man’. This week, we will also be looking at our phonic sounds s,a,t, p and the number 2.
