Hansel and Gretel show
The children who won the free tickets to see Hansel and Gretel had a lovely time today. Watching a live performance is so special and memorable. Luckily, all the children had the opportunity to enjoy Sleeping Beauty last week too!
Yorkshire Cricket
We had another visit from Tom Bates from Yorkshire Cricket this week. He worked with teachers last week, sharing coaching tips for us to use in lessons. He shared an assembly with us this week, talking to the children about cricket, upcoming coaching and competitions we will be entering.
Christmas has arrived in Nursery!
December has arrived and children came to Nursery on Monday morning full of excitement and with tales of decorating Christmas trees and visits to see Santa.
We’re sure you’ll have already noticed the Christmas themed enhancements in Nursery this week. Here are a few of the areas that we have adapted to promote learning though different areas of play.
In our Maths area, we have a selection of baubles, bells and pom poms. Children can use tweezers to pick up the objects and sort them onto the Christmas tree shapes. This is an open ended activity to promote counting and sorting. It also doubles up as a fiddly finger challenge too, helping to strengthen children’s hand muscles as they squeeze the tweezers. We have a similar activity in our water tray, but on a larger scale. Children are enjoying catching the floating baubles using larger tongs and both hands.
In our small world areas, children have been learning about the Nativity story and delivering presents in Santa’s sleigh. Children have even started to tell their own stories involving Santa’s sleigh getting stuck in the snow!
Many children have been talking about writing a letter to Santa. In our mark making area, we have been practising our scissor skills by cutting out toys that we would like. There are some very long lists! Some children wrote their name next to their chosen toy and others practised writing the first letter of their name.
In our new North Pole role play area, children, or should we say elves, were very busy wrapping presents ready to put in Santa’s sack. We’ve seen some great team work as children used the bricks to make a sleigh for Santa. We counted how many elves there were and worked out how many seats the sleigh would need to have.
Science with sweets!
Our science lessons this week involved children peforming a simple test.
What effect will water have on Skittles?
The children had lots of ideas about what might happen and why.
It might go soggy.
The colour might come off.
The shell will disintegrate.
The shell will vapourise.
The colour will make a pattern in the water.
The water will be coloured.
The colour will come off.
There were gasps as we watched what happened. Why not have a go at home?
Living and Learning : Community week with Scholes in Bloom
Scholes in Bloom came to talk to us about their fabulous achievements this year. They work so hard to make our village look beautiful and have been recognised for their wonderful work!
Living and Learning : ‘out and about in the community’ competition winners
Well done to the winners of the ‘out and about in the community’ competition!
Living and Learning : Takeover Day
The final day of our ‘Community’ themed week ended with children running Golden Assembly. They did a great job!
Home Link – Christmas story
We love to listen to stories in Nursery, whether they are stories that we have heard lots of times or new ones.
Do you have a favourite Christmas story?
We’d love to hear it in Nursery. Please bring your favourite Christmas story book into Nursery and we’ll enjoy reading it at story time throughout the week. (Please remember to write your name in it.)
Living and Learning: Community Week
This week our Living and Learning statement was I respect my community and other communities.
As part of our community week, we have learned more about the World Peace Flame being in Scholes village and have helped raise funds to keep the flame burning by producing cards that could be sold in the village.
We all read The Rainbow Fish By Marcus Pfister. We thought about our identity in the community and how it is important to always be kind. We learned that by sharing we can be part of the community and not feel sad and lonely like The Rainbow Fish.
Finally, today we let the children take over parts of our school day. Some children did a wonderful job of leading dancing in our PE lesson. Others led the assembly to read out who had earned a certificate in golden assembly.
It was lovely to see all the children dressed in clothes that represented their identity today. We saw outfits ranging from go-kart racers to princesses.
Takeover Day
Year 5/6S did an amazing job during Takeover Day. We enjoyed a range of lessons including reading, writing and maths. Some children took on the role of the teacher. They made their own resources and slides for the Clevertouch screen- I was very impressed! Other children took on responsibilities such as taking the register, being a teaching assistant and giving out rewards. Well done to all the children who have spent the week planning their lessons- they’ve put a lot of effort in and worked through their lunchtimes. I am very proud of them. It was also great to see the children dress in clothes that reflect who they are as a person.
