Living and Learning : I know who I am (identity)
As part of our themed Community Week, we have been thinking about our own identity. We wrote acrostic poems (where the title starts each line) about ourselves. There was some insightful self observation and reflection.
Welcome Miss McKechnie
We said goodbye to Mrs Drake last week and have a new member of the Key Stage 1 team to welcome now. Miss McKechnie will be working as a teaching assistant in Miss Parling’s class, 1K, most of the time, but she might be in other classes too.
Living and Learning: Community Week
To kick start our Community Week, we had some special visitors yesterday who work hard in the community to make our world a happy and healthy place to be.
Scholes in Bloom and local Police Officers came to talk to our children about their role in the community.
Living and Learning: Community Week
| Living and Learning statement – I respect my community and other communities. |
| Whole school events
Out about in the community photo competition Get out in the community in an active way on the way to and from school. Email (scholesoffice@spherefederation.org) a picture of their active travel, maybe by a landmark on their route to school, for the chance to win a voucher (2 x KS1 and 2 x KS2). Entries to be submitted by 29.11.19. New charity Whole school homework 22.11.19 Talk Time: Which charity should our school support? Review on Thursday 28 November and vote in class for one charity per class. School Council will discuss chosen charities from each class and vote on final choice (meeting 29 Nov AM) The winners will be announced in assembly Fri 29 Nov PM. Identity day – Friday 29 November Children are invited to dress in clothing that represents part of their identity, for example uniform from a club they attend, a team they are part of or support or something that represents them. |
Living and Learning: Identity
Our Living and Learning theme this half-term is Identity. Pupils will learn about what makes themselves and others special, valuing the similarities and differences between themselves and others and what is meant by community. This will be taught through our Living and Learning sessions and two focused weeks.
Anti-bullying week (11 November) ‘Change starts with us’
My Community themed week (25 November)
Our new school charity will be chosen as part of the My Community themed week. Every year, we nominate a new charity to support. This year, we have been supporting Cancer Research. We decide this on the basis of a Talk Time homework, and then school councillors make the final decision.
Our Living and Learning long term plan details the learning for each year group across the year and you can keep up to date with our weekly Living and Learning statements on the parent noticeboard in the playground and also on the school calendar. We will begin and end this half term with a focus on manners.
I apologise when I need to.
I say please and thank you.
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Next week, our Literacy focus will be the story We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen. If you have a copy, we’d like you to share it together this weekend. If you don’t have a copy of the book, perhaps you could visit the library or enjoy watching the story read by Michael Rosen online. He’s a brilliant story teller!
Home-link – 3 challenge cubes
Please email pictures and quotes from your child listening to, retelling or re-enacting the story. Please let us know what their favourite part is and why. This will support us in our assessment by providing evidence towards the Speaking and Reading strands of the EYFS.
Introduces a story line or narrative into their play.
Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.
World Nursery Rhyme Week
We’ve really enjoyed singing lots of Nursery Rhymes this week, so much so, that we’re going to continue with the theme next week too!
If you haven’t completed our Home Link activity yet, there’s still time. Please bring in a picture/prop/toy that reminds you of your favourite Nursery rhyme. Here are a few that we had from last week… a dish and a spoon (Hey Diddle Diddle), a rabbit (Sleeping Bunnies) and a monkey (5 Little Monkeys). What is your child’s favourite rhyme?
Some of our enhancements in Nursery this week were linked to popular rhymes, all of which can be found on the Nursery Rhyme booklet that we sent home at the beginning of the week.
In the water area, we sang ‘I’m a Little Teapot’ whilst investigating capacity and pouring, filling and emptying. If you look carefully, you can see we had teabags too. This was a good conversation starter. What happens to the colour of the water? What’s inside? Does it smell?
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In our sensory area, children had great fun building a wall for Humpty Dumpty. Sadly, he didn’t survive his fall and we couldn’t put him back together again! At the end of the week, we had some very sticky hands as children explored the texture and properties of jelly! Jelly on a plate, jelly on a plate, wibble wobble, wibble wobble…
We also enjoyed singing lots of other rhymes including ‘12345 Once I caught a fish alive’ and ‘Jack and Jill’.
Golden Stars
Well done to our most recent Golden Stars!
Goodbye Mrs Drake
It was Mrs Drake’s last day in Key Stage 1 today. We had a little party to say goodbye. We will miss you Mrs Drake (although you can still see her if you go to Out of School Club)!
Fabulous Flex dancers
We had a treat in assembly yesterday. The KS2 dance group, which is run by Flex dance on Thursdays after school, performed a dance compilation. They used many of their 8Rs for learning: remembering, risk-taking, resilience and resourcefulness. Well done!
Please contact the office if you would like to join – KS2 girls and boys all welcome! (KS1 dance club is on Fridays after school.)
