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.
First week fun!
The year 1 and 2 children have settled back in to school beautifully. We have done some great learning already, including maths, reading, writing, living and learning, geography, PE and music.
Living & Learning-Classroom Rules.
This week we have thought about rules that make our classrooms really happy places. Each class has made their unique rules, signed them and displayed them within the classroom.
Following our weekly ethos statement: we have been actively greeting people politely wherever we go.
We have also been ‘Ready to learn’ which is one of the eight ‘R’s’ we will be looking at this half term.
Well done KS1, a fabulous first week back!
Living and Learning – I greet people politely.
To start the year, we always establish our rules of Circle Time. Our Year 3/4 children decide on what’s important in our class Living and Learning sessions. Here’s what they came up with …
Our statement of the week -‘I greet people politely’, was a chance to discuss why it is important to be friendly. The children decided that a friendly school was a happy school. We collected our thoughts.
Poetry competition!
This Saturday is the annual Scholes Village Show.
All the children are entering the handwriting competition. They’ve tried their best – now it’s up to the judges!
Good luck everyone!
Welcome to Foundation!
We’ve been very busy getting the classroom and outdoor environment ready today. We’re excited for your child to see their new classroom environment in the next few weeks.
Miss Morris (Foundation 1) has been busy gardening and digging up some vegetables we have grown.
Mrs Beesley (Foundation 1) has been busy in the water area!
Mrs Long (Foundation 1) has been on the bikes!
Miss Backhouse (Foundation 1) has been with the dinosaurs!
Mrs Myers (Foundation 2) has been working hard trimming the den!
Mrs Flynn (Foundation 2) and Toffee have been on the slide!
Miss Daniels (Foundation 2) has been digging in the sand tray!
Miss Eckersley (Foundation 2) and Treacle have been busy in the mud kitchen!
We’re looking forward to welcoming some children into Foundation 2 tomorrow.
A new start in Years 1 and 2 – September 2018
There were a variety of emotions as we started back at school this week – apprehension, nerves and excitement to name a few! The Year 1 and 2 children were full of stories from the Summer holidays and settled in well to their new classes. There are some quotes below from children about their first day.
- ‘I like learning and writing at the table.’
- ‘I like my new table.’
- ‘I like seeing my friends from different classes in phonics.’
- ‘I like seeing everyone at playtime.’
- ‘This is fun maths game.’
- ‘What a great first day in Year 2!’
- ‘I loved the Five Star Sports PE lesson and my favourite bit was when I was nearly top banana.’