Ladybirds and bees
Our ladybird and bee activities were popular last week; children especially enjoyed sampling different types of honey and looking at real honeycomb. We talked about how bees make honey and how it is collected from hives. It was lovely to see lots of creative activities throughout the week. Children painted and drew some great pictures of ladybirds with spotty wings and stripy bees. Outside, we used some large rollers to explore painting with different colours and textures. This led to lots of talk about colour mixing as children used the rollers to paint over existing patterns with different colours. At the end of the week, children enjoyed creating a giant race track down the hill using pipes and guttering.
Week 3 – What are we learning this week?
Hopefully, children will have told you that we have some caterpillar visitors in Nursery. Well, we did last week! We’re hoping that they will have been busy making their cocoons over the weekend. This week, we will read one of our favourite stories – ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.
In the maths area, we will make caterpillars with repeating colour patterns and will use loose parts to create caterpillars of different lengths. We’ll learn about symmetry and experiment in the art area with ‘butterfly’ printing and colour mixing to make different shades of green. Our letter sound this week is ‘b’ for butterfly. Please listen to the Jolly Phonics song on-line and sing a long at home together.
Visit this website for a fun caterpillar counting and ordering game or this website for a simple game about symmetry.
Transition to Foundation Two
For those children that will join Foundation Two at Scholes, we have begun our transition activities to help to prepare them for September. Children are getting to know the staff, visiting the classrooms and playground and are beginning to go to assemblies in the hall with the older children. At lunch time, children are learning how to carry their tray carefully to the table without spilling their lunch or dropping their cutlery! They’re doing very well. We’re talking to children positively about the changes ahead and we hope that this will help them to feel happy and secure about the move to ‘Big School’.
Gold Star
Well done to our very proud gold star this week. 
1 potato, 2 potato, 3 potato MORE!
We enjoyed harvesting and eating the potatoes we planted back in Spring. They we delicious! 😋
Celebration assembly
Well done to all the Key Stage Two children who received a certificate today. The teachers have all seen great attitudes to learning and enthusiasm in class this week.
Living and Learning-Friends and Family
For the past two weeks, in KS1, we have been discussing our unique families and friends. Children spoke about their favourite family traditions and who is the best cook in their house!
The story of ‘Elmer’ helped us to think about how to be a good friend. Are you a good friend? 
Living and Learning – Relationships
15 June 2018
In Living and Learning this week, Year 3/4 have been looking at ‘Who’s in our family?’ Children have been learning about the way they grow and change throughout the human life cycle.
We discussed the ages of our own family members and at what stages of the life cycles they were.
Living and Learning – recognising feelings in others
We used our MindMate resources to talk about recognising feelings in our friends and families. It is not always easy for children to recognise how other people are feeling. Help at home by talking about how you are feeling and helping your child to recognise facial expressions and look for body language clues.
Living and Learning: I see things from other people’s point of view.
Over the week, there have been many occasions for our children to think about someone else’s point of view. We have encouraged this and would like it to continue at home.
This might include helping others to resolve an issue, listening to a brother or sister’s point of view or even asking mum or dad about their day.
We have two ears and one mouth; we need to listen twice as much as we speak.
Enterprise Project
Year 6 held meetings today to discuss fundraising ideas for their end of year celebration. We can’t wait to announce the events in the next few days.
Green fingers? Help needed!
Scholes in Bloom judging day is Monday 6 August this year. If you are available and would like to join the effort for gold, please come and collect a plant from Mrs Myers or Mrs Latham. All you need to do is look after it and meet us at the flower bed outside school on judging day at 10am. If you prefer, you could make a ‘scarecrow’ and bring it on the same day. The theme is ‘all creatures great and small’. Hope to see you there!
