Photo time!
On Monday, a photographer will be taking class photos for the Yorkshire Evening Post.
A letter will be sent home with the opportunity to pre-order the newspaper.
Gold stars
Well done to our first 2 golden stars.
Where in the World – Longitude and latitude
After learning about longitude and latitude through playing an online game, we studied our local area using Ordnance Survey maps. Some children spent a long time looking for the PC symbol!
Second week back
Everyone is settling in well and we have been working really hard. There is still always time to get active though. We’ve all enjoyed getting back into our Go Noodle activities and also working on our mindfulness techniques. We’ve also been learning the names of the oceans and continents through song. Have a go at home…
Where in the … Yorkshire County?
Map Skills
As part of our Where in the World topic, the children are learning about cities in the UK. Today, we looked at large OS maps of cities local to us in Yorkshire – York and Leeds.
What can you find?
The children enjoyed finding many physical and human features on the maps. Children enjoyed being able to spot their village and street where they lived!
We’re currently working on a piece of artwork using OS map symbols, so watch this space!
Bringing our class novel to life!
Reading
We had lots of fun today acting out some scenes and situations from our class novel, Around the World in 80 Days. It is the children’s version of the classic by Jules Verne – and we’re loving it!
Role-play games really help the children understand the character’s thoughts and feelings. Today, we used ‘Conscience Alley’ technique, where the children helped our character, Passpartout, decide whether he should tell Phileas Fogg about the policeman who is trying to arrest him!
Will Fogg make it around the world in time? What a dilemma!
Lots of energy today when playing the role of our story characters.
You can try something similar at home. Ask your child to try and understand the thoughts and feelings of a character in one of their books. What would they do in a similar situation? What would the character say?
It really does help their understanding.
Welcome to Nursery
We had a busy time visiting all of our new children and their families at home last week. It was great to meet everybody and to begin to get to know each other. Ferdie, our Nursery fox, enjoyed making lots of new friends and is looking forward to seeing everybody again when they visit Nursery this week.
It was lovely to see our older Nursery children again on Monday and Tuesday; we think they’ve grown over the holidays! We’ve enjoyed finding out about their holiday adventures to farms and beaches (and even a trip to a hospital!)
All of the children noticed lots of changes in Nursery. They spotted our super, shiny new toilets and sinks straight away. They also enjoyed exploring the Rainbow room and finding out what new toys there were in each area.
As well as seeing our old friends again, we have also begun to make new friends in Nursery during the ‘Stay and play’ sessions this week. We’ll post some photographs soon.
Class 3/4F
I’m delighted to update you all with how well the children have settled into our routines and the new school year. Everyone knows just what to do and when!
Where in the World?
Children in year 5/6 had fun exploring Google Earth this week. After discussing holiday destinations, children discussed the human and physical features of different locations around the world. Perhaps you could continue exploring by researching some famous world landmarks.
Year 5 Maths
This half term in maths, we will be mainly focusing on place value. We will be comparing, ordering, and calculating with numbers up to 1 million. This week, the Year 5 children were very confident at reading and writing numbers to 1,000,000. They enjoyed an active maths lesson, where they moved around the classroom to find numbers represented with place value counters. At first, the children found it challenging writing the numbers in words but soon mastered it.
