Pupil Voice – Friendship Benches
School Council had a really tough time deciding which designs would be used to decorate our friendship benches.
There were some lovely messages and creative ideas used to make these benches feel a positive and inviting place to be.
These are the chosen designs.
I love the message – friends are like rainbows they brighten your day.
I think the colours will brighten up our playground.
It has a happy vibe.
It has nice vocabulary on it.
Toys topic – children’s feedback
We looked back on our toys topic last week and children talked about what they had learnt. Here are some quotes that the children said.
I enjoyed the Teddy Bear’s Picnic. It was a sunny day and I loved having my teddy with me to eat my picnic.
I felt most proud in Science. I got it right when we tested which toys floated and which ones sank.
We learnt about old and new bears. Old bears had joints and a pointed muzzle. They had sawdust inside so they were hard to cuddle.
I found it hard making our own toys game. We had to make a code to do it.
Scholes Gala – skippers and dancers
Thank you to our Y4 Skipping Crew and the Y1, Y2 and Y6 WUSU Crews who represented school so brilliantly at Scholes village gala.
2KL Join In afternoon
Thank you to everyone who attended the Join In afternoon today. Some wonderfully designed t-shirts were proudly paraded by the children. Remember to iron them under a tea towel to ‘seal’ the design in.
Terrific Triathlon – fancy another go?
The Year 5 children experienced a competitive triathlon last month when they took part in the Brownlee Triathlon event at John Smeaton Sports Centre. They reported back that it was challenging and that they had to draw upon their Living and Learning skills – particularly risk-taking and resilience. The professional photos have just arrived and are brilliant. If you fancy trying more, there are details of sessions below or visit https://www.thebrownleefoundation.org/
Home Link – L for ladybird
This week we are learning about the letter sound ‘Ll’.
What can you find around your house or outside that begins with ‘l’?
Please bring something into nursery that begins with L to put on our sound shelf. Remember to put your child’s name on it!
Minibeast madness!
Week 1 – Minibeast madness!
Welcome back to nursery. We hope that you all enjoyed the half term break. It was lovely to see everyone’s smiling faces on Monday morning; there was a real ‘buzz’ in nursery as children enjoyed chatting and playing with their friends again. This week, we enjoyed looking in the garden for minibeasts. Children spotted lots of different types of bugs. We made a list outside every time we found a new one and used the digital microscope to have a closer look.
Some children had remembered finding some tiny eggs and insects on the leaves before the holidays and went back to see if they could find them. They couldn’t see them, but they did find some ladybirds, including a black one, and lots of aphids. We talked about the lifecycle of a ladybird and how they change when they grow, just like the tadpoles did.
Week 2 – What are we learning this week?
Following on from our children’s interest in ladybirds, we will continue with this theme this week. In maths, we will count the spots on ladybirds and find ladybirds that have one more or one less number of spots. We’ll enjoy playing this ladybird counting game on the Smartboard.
Children have also been asking lots of questions about bees when they’ve seen them flying between flowers in the garden. We’ll enjoy finding out about how bees make honey; at snack time, we’re going to make toast and enjoy sampling some honey. If you don’t want your child to take part, please speak to a member of staff.
In the creative areas, we’ll experiment with different printing and drawing techniques to create spotty and stripy patterns. Can you make some spotty or stripy pictures at home? Please remember to encourage your child to mark make (draw) in lots of different ways. Children will enjoy listening to ‘The Flight of the Bumblebee’ – we’ll talk about what the music reminds us of.
In literacy, we’re going to read ‘The Bad Tempered Ladybird’ and use pictures and props to re-tell the story. Please continue to play eye-spy games with your child to help them to hear the initial sounds in words. This week’s letter sound will be ‘Ll’ for ladybirds. Click on the link to hear the Jolly Phonics song. What can you find around your house that begins with l?
Golden Star
Well done to our most recent golden star!
Celebration assembly
Congratulations to all the children who received a certificate this afternoon. We’ve seen some fantastic progress, ideas and attitudes in our learning this week.
3d Shapes
This week, we have been looking at a selection of 3d shapes: cylinder, sphere, cube, cuboid, cone and triangular prism. The children have learnt the names of these 3d shapes and how to describe them by talking about the number and the shape of the faces. They went on a 3d shape hunt to find them in the environment.
When shown a dice they were able to identify it as a cube. When asked how they knew it was a cube and not a cuboid, a child answered “because it has 6 square faces”. Another child later commented “…our head is like a sphere”.
Challenge
Can your child go on a 3d shape hunt at home? Are they able to find all the 3d shapes we have looked at this week? Can your child name the 3d shapes? Take a picture or bring in some objects for your child to share with the class.
Your child can earn 3 challenge cubes for taking part in the 3d shape challenge.