Class News

Let’s talk numbers!

It’s been great to talk to some of you about your child’s progress during parents’ evening. A few parents have been asking about how to support their child at home with numbers.

In Foundation 2, we focus on numbers to twenty throughout the year to get a depth of understanding of what the numbers really mean. For example:

During the past couple of weeks we have been focusing on the number 3.

Finding 3

The children have been finding 3 by looking at their environment and at pictures. For example: 3 pigs, 3 houses, 3 noses, 3 hats…

Number stories

Once the children had looked for three around them, they have begun to tell number stories. We use the language first, then and now to tell the stories and have developed some actions to support us.

First there was one flower in the garden. Then two more flowers grew in the garden. Now there are three flowers altogether.

First there were three ice-creams. Then I ate one. Now there are two ice-creams left.

These number stories support your child’s understanding of number in real-life experiences. Looking at numbers in the environment and number stories support your child in developing a deep understanding of what ‘3’ really means.

Can your child tell you a number story that makes 3? Can your child find 3 in the environment? Please let us know what your child has done using a wow sheet – we can then celebrate their learning at school.

Judo taster session

Balazs from The British Judo Association came into school today. Children enjoyed competing against each other. They learned how to move around the mat and how to pin their opponent.

Home Link – Room on the Broom

Our Home link activity this week is to enjoy reading ‘Room on the Broom’ together at home.

If you don’t have a copy, you could visit the library or watch an on-line version of the story here.

There are some fun activities and colouring sheets available to download on Julia Donaldson’s website. We’re going to try and make some mini broomsticks in Nursery this week. You could also print off some of the animal masks and try re-telling the story together at home using them.

Spooky spectacular!

The annual Halloween-themed disco was a great success. There were some amazing costumes!

3/4F Class assembly

All the children’s hard work, rehearsals and preparations paid off on Friday afternoon for our class assembly. The children all remembered what to say. The poem recital was fantastic. It was loud, clear and confident. Well done, children!

Thank you to all the parents and family members who came to watch and encourage the children.

3/4F – Fantastic homework showing the 8Rs!

Last week, our homework was to think of a way to help us remember our 8Rs. Everyone was asked to record how they did that.

I was absolutely bowled away when the children shared the vast array of creativity in their thinking. They created poems, stories, posters, explanation texts and drawings. Amazing!

Living and Learning – Rights and Responsibilities.

KS1 have been discussing ‘Rights and Responsilities’. We have the right to be educated (by coming to school). We also have the responsibility to learn (through our attention and effort).

We mimed different responsibilities that we might have at home or at school. The class enjoyed guessing what the miming represented. The children are proud of being responsible for various things.

Trip to The National Science and Media Museum

What a brilliant day! 5/6NK thoroughly enjoyed learning about how entertainment has changed through time. At the museum, we explored different galleries showcasing how television, computing and photography have evolved and developed  over the past 100 years.

Pumpkins

Children have loved exploring the pumpkins this week; we’ve rolled pumpkins, weighed pumpkins, drawn and painted on pumpkins, made pumpkins in the playdough and explored patterns on pumpkins in the maths area. At the end of the week, we especially enjoyed cutting them open to explore their slippery, slimy contents. What a lot of pumpkin-themed learning!

Thank you to everyone who completed our ‘Autumn bag’ Homelink activity. Children enjoyed sharing the contents of their bags with their friends during group time.  This is a great way to encourage children to speak in front of their peers and to build their confidence. Children love to talk about things that they have done at home with friends and family and they especially like to show items that they have found.

If you’d like to do something creative at home over half-term, we’re sure that children would love to have a go at making a pumpkin bowl. They’d love tearing up the paper (which is good for developing finger strength) and getting messy joining in with the papier mache part of this art project. Some parts are trickier and would need an adult to help. 

There’s a fun CBeebies ‘Peter Rabbit and the Giant Pumpkin’ story available to read on the Storytime app too.

Swimming dates (November – December 2018)

Please see the table below for the dates your child will be swimming after half term.