Living and Learning: School Charity
Thank you to our Cancer research representative who came to accept our cheque for a staggering £1986.24 this week.
A huge “Well done!” to everybody who helped fund raise the money last year, whether it was buying an ice-pop, baking buns or donating to sponsored events.
We are very proud of our achievements! We look forward to finding out who will be our new school charity for this year.
Living and Learning- Community Week
This week we have been learning all about our community. The children have produced identity circles in which they identified things that are important to them, such as family and friends. They drew maps of important places, and places they regularly visit. We had visits from local police officers and Stella Walsh from the Parish Council, who explained their work in the local community.
More rhyming fun!
Has your child been singing more rhymes this week? We hope so!
‘The Wheels on the Bus’ has been very popular and has provided lots of mathematical opportunities too. Children have been counting people on to the bus, taking them off again and working out how many spaces were left and how many more passengers could get on.
In our creative area, we’ve continued to explore printing and patterns that we can make. We used Duplo bricks to make a wall for Humpty Dumpty to sit on. We talked about the shapes that the bricks made when we printed with them. Is it a rectangle, square or lots of little circles?
In our maths area, we sang ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ and talked about the different stars. Children lined them up to count them and were also able to sort them by size (big, small), colour (gold, silver) and appearance (shiny, dull).
‘Incy Wincy Spider’ had a great time in the water tray. There was lots of problem solving going on as children worked out how to get the spiders to move down the guttering. They used different containers to re-create the rain to help ‘wash the spider out’.
Christmas costumes
Please send in your child’s costume by Friday 29 November. Remember to write your child’s name on all items and on the outside of the bag. Thank you for your support. We’re looking forward to seeing all of the children in their costumes!
Trip to the theatre : Sleeping Beauty
What a fantastic day out we had today! The children represented school brilliantly and had a whale of a time. Oh yes we did! We will be using our experiences to do lots of writing. Thank you to all the adults who volunteered to help – we can’t do things like this without you.
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.