Class News

Remembrance Day

This year, due to Covid restrictions, Remembrance day is going to be a little bit different. Usually, on November 11th, there are church services and parades around the country. 5/6 S have had the privilege of holding a special service at the War Memorial in Scholes. The service was filmed and will be available to watch next month. Along with members of Scholes Church, the children laid crosses for each soldier that died during the World Wars. Some children read some poems- they did this very fluently and with feeling. The children behaved very respectfully and maturely – I’m very proud of them.

Self Isolating at Home?

Here is some home learning for when you can’t be with us at school with a welcome message from Miss Parling.

Maths

This week’s maths learning is linked to patterns and shapes.

This link will have all the sessions on for the week.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/week-3/

• Lesson 1 – Session 1 and challenge.
• Lesson 2  – Session 2 and challenge.
• Lesson 3 – Session 3 and challenge.
• Lesson 4 – Session 4 and challenge.
• Lesson 5 – Session 5 and challenge.

Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.

Phonics

This week we will be recapping the sounds we have learnt so far and some new ones too.

Watch and join in the Jolly Phonics songs. Listens to s,a,t,p,i,n,m,d,g.

(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.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VknD1I0Zc4

• Lesson 1: Screencast recapping satpin
• Lesson 2: Screencast new sound m
• Lesson 3: Screencast new sound d
• Lesson 4: Screencast new sound g

Literacy

This week we are reading the story – Room on the Broom.

• Lesson 1: Read or watch the story. Recap the main events. Discuss the order the characters appear.

Use the sheet or draw your own broomstick and characters. Put them in the same order as in the book.

• Lesson 2: Read or listen to the story again. Stop/Pause throughout the story to find rhyming words.
• Lesson 3: Match and find rhyming words.

• Lesson 4: Look at the picture strips. Spot the odd one out.

Challenge make your own.

Topic

Choose some of these activities to complete throughout the week. They may spark other interests and ideas that result in other learning opportunities. Let your child lead the learning!

Is there Room on the Broom?

This week, we’re reading ‘Room on the Broom’ by Julia Donaldson and some of our provision and activities will have a magical theme. We’re sure that this will be a popular story with children – they’ve already been casting spells on us last week. In fact, Mrs Long and Miss Backhouse were turned into frogs!

If you have a copy of the story, you might enjoy reading it together at bedtime this week. Some of our older children may remember the Friday story times that we enjoyed during Lockdown. Miss Morris chose this story to read for the final story in July. If you don’t have a copy of the book at home, you could listen to Miss Morris reading it instead.

The BBC adaptation of the story is also still available to watch on the BBC iPlayer. 

We’ll post some photos and a video at the end of the week to share our learning with you. It’ll definitely involve investigating what’s inside a pumpkin and looking for things to go in our cauldron.

Phonics Fun

We have been working hard to learn our sounds, correct letter formations and corresponding ‘alphabet’ names for s,a,t,p,i and n. As we are currently unable to sing indoors, we have been listening and moving to the following alphabet song.

(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.)

Using our new phonemes, we have been segmenting, blending and writing a mixture of CVC (consonant, vowel,consonant) words. Using the sounds we know, we have written: tap, pin, pat, pit, sat and sit on our phoneme framed whiteboards.

Our tricky word is ‘I’ so we have been finding it in books and rehearsing sentences with it in them. When talking to your child please encourage sentences that include this word.

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!