Welcome back!
We hope that you’ve had a great holiday and are looking forward to returning to Nursery.
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be learning about Spring time. It would be beneficial for your child if you could consolidate this learning at home too.
There are lots of things you could do:
- Talk about any signs of spring that you can see when you go for a walk to the park or visit a farm. Can you hear the birds singing?
- E-mail us some photographs of flowers, buds on trees or baby animals that you see.
- Draw/paint a picture or create a collage of some spring flowers.
- Learn the names of some farm animals and their babies (eg sheep/lamb)
As always, we’d love to hear about your holiday adventures. Please e-mail or bring in a leaflet to show us where you have visited during the holidays.
scholesf1@spherefederation.org
Living and Learning : Body Image
We have been learning about body image over the last few weeks in our Living and Learning lessons. We have discussed how we view ourselves and what makes us ‘us’. This also led to conversations about protected characteristics and equality.
Gold Stars
Well done to our recent golden stars!
Super skippers
Skipping School have visited again today. Jodi ran two sessions this morning for the year 2 children to prepare for an upcoming competition. The whole school are still enjoying skipping and we have some more ropes for sale in the office.
The Year 1 children were also working on their skipping skills, counting how many skips they could do and recording it on the 100 square outside.
Living and Learning – knowing the difference between being proud and showing off
The Year 3 and 4 children were feeling very proud of their fabulous performance of ‘Eddie and the penguins save the world’.
They were committed to their performance by learning scripts, songs and dances.
Well done for all your hard work and effort.
We had a wonderful discussion about the difference between showing off and feeling proud of your achievements.
Here’s what the children said about showing off:
“Don’t show off and steal someone else’s happiness.” Charlie
“Showing off is like boasting and that’s not good.” Abi
Pop-up art gallery – celebrating the end of our arty Big Topic
Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to the pop-up art gallery. The children have been working really hard over the last few weeks and were very excited about seeing their work on display. We asked for donations to our school charity, Cancer Research, in exchange for the children’s art work, raising £41.56. Lots of adults commented on how much they enjoyed the event.
What a lovely idea!
Thank you. It is great being able to come into school and see the children’s work.
Sharing our learning – Topic Review session
Thank you to all our parents and carers who came to the Topic Review session this afternoon. The children love sharing their learning with adults and enjoyed showing what they have learnt in our Topic Review Quiz.
If you were unable to attend this afternoon, why not try the quiz at home?
RSPB Wild Words Workshop
This week we had fun exploring the outdoors and using wild words during the RSPB workshop.
Who has left that glistening trail and how would it get up there? Is it raining today and where would an animal shelter? The session encouraged the use of wonderful wild words and aimed to develop language and vocabulary as we travelled around the outdoor area, considering our walk from the perspective of an animal. We collected the natural objects that we found to become prompts for sequencing a story to retell our outdoor experience.
While out exploring, the children were encouraged to use adventurous words. For example, instead of using the word big the children came up with some more exciting words to describe what they had found.
- ginormous
- massive
- gigantic
- enormous
Home link – 3 challenge cubes
Can you go on a bug hunt? Can you use your imagination to think of adventurous words to describe what you find?
Please email us any quotes from your child. This will support us in our assessment by providing evidence towards the communication and language and understanding the world strands of the EYFS.
Children express themselves effectively and develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas and events.
Children make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
Living and learning : I recognise my talents
What a wonderful homework review we enjoyed this week! We were treated to gymnastics, dance, bike riding, athletics, basketball, football, fitness skills, dog training, art, music, singing, book-making and skating – to name just a few. The children were excited to show off their talents in our usual homework review session. Thank you for the video emails and music CDs. We cannot access memory sticks on school computers. Please use the email addresses below for any future digital homework.
Y1scholeshomework@spherefederation.org
Y2scholeshomework@spherefederation.org
Living and learning – democracy in action
We have recently finished reading Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton, which the children all enjoyed immensely. We have been enjoying picture books and poetry at storytime recently but several children have asked when we are starting our next class novel.
I like a chapter book because then you can look forward to hearing the next part every day!
To ensure the book was chosen democratically, every child could vote for the one they would like next. We have ordered the books and will be starting Dear Teddy Robinson after the Easter holidays.
