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.)
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.