Year 6 Bikeability success!
Congratulations to all the year 6 pupils who took part in the Bikeability training over the past two weeks!
Road safety skills can be difficult to master! We’re all really proud of how you represented our school and conducted yourselves. You worked hard, persevered and had a great attitude (even in the pouring rain!).
PE
The children have enjoyed PE in the hall. Over the past couple of weeks we have experimented with different ways of moving – hoping, skipping, jumping and slithering along the floor.
Next week, the children will get changed for PE. Please can you make sure your child has their PE kit (white t-shirt and blue shorts) in school on Monday 16 October.
After half-term, we’ll have a gymnastics coach on a Tuesday afternoon. This will be for Rainbow and Sunshine children.
We will send PE kits home to be washed at the end of each half-term.
Baking, bear hunting and building apple runs.
Welcome
We’d like to begin by welcoming Mr Gledhill to our Foundation One team. He has already been joining us during the day and has been busy getting to know the children. Mr Gledhill is going to be covering Miss Logan’s maternity leave and whilst she isn’t leaving just yet, she will soon be moving to Key Stage One for the remainder of her time at school. Miss Logan and Mr Gledhill have been working together during group times as he will become the Key Person for green group.
What are we learning this week?
The children have continued to enjoy singing ‘Five currant buns in a baker’s shop’, so much so, that we’ve decided to make a bakery role play area. This will provide lots of opportunities for children to communicate with each other, write receipts and count pennies to pay for their currant buns. You may even notice a lovely aroma in the rainbow room next week… Can you guess what we’re going to bake?
Autumn is really upon us now; we’re always talking about the changes that children can see in our nursery garden. On Wednesday, we’ll be ‘going on a leaf hunt’ to search for more signs of autumn in our school grounds. Don’t forget to send wellies (named) and a waterproof coat!
Many children have shown an interest in rolling things recently, from balls to trucks and apples. As a result, we’ve introduced some ramps to our vehicle area and we’ve used apples that have fallen from our tree to create apple runs using the guttering and stands. We’ll also be rolling conkers next week to create some autumn art work. Look out for it in our art area soon!
Home Link
Thank you to everyone who enjoyed completing the Home Link activity last week – we can see a few stars starting to appear on children’s handprints but we’d love to see some more! This week’s activity, is to read one of our favourite stories, ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’. We have a small world area linked to this story in our outdoor area and children are enjoying re-telling the story using the props. Swishy swashy… Squelch, squerch… Hooo wooo…
If you don’t have a copy of the story, you could visit the library or watch Michael Rosen telling the story online- it’s great! www.jointhebearhunt.com
Interests
Hopefully, you will have noticed our current interest notice board as you come into nursery each morning. We’ve added some of the things that we have noticed that the children are interested in and we’d really love to find out more about what your child loves at home at the moment. Please take a post-it note from the board and tell us – don’t be shy! It’s there for all parents/carers to use and allows us to continue making learning fun and relevant to children.
Alternatively, you could e-mail us: scholesf1@spherefederation.org
Reminders
- Please ensure to collect your child on time from nursery. We finish at 3.00 on Mondays and 3.15 Tuesday to Friday. We always have a member of staff on the door 15 minutes before this time in order to allow a calm end to the day and to enable us to speak to you.
- Remember to check your child’s folder for accident letters, changing notes and other information each day.
Working together
Thank you to those who came to the parental partnership evening. We hope you found the evening informative and have lots of ideas on how to be involved in your child’s learning journey at school.
We value the importance of working together with you to gain a holistic view of your child’s learning. You can share your child’s learning moments with us by email (scholesf2@spherefederation.org), wow documents and time to talk sheets.
Home Link – We’re going on a bear hunt
Do you have a copy of one of our favourite stories, ‘We’re going on a bear hunt”? If so, we’d like you to share it together at bedtime.
If you don’t have a copy of the book, perhaps you could visit the library or enjoy watching Michael Rosen telling the story on-line. He’s a brilliant story teller!
We’ve a small world area linked to this story in our outdoor area and children are enjoying re-telling the story using the props.
Swishy swashy…Squelch, squerch… Hoooo wooo…
Remember to tell us about your favourite part in the story and you’ll get a star for your hand print.
Exploring our local area
Our current Big Topic is Explorers.
We ended our week with a walk exploring Scholes and it was a perfect sunny day for it. Thank you to all the parent and grandparent helpers – we wouldn’t have been able to do it without you. We walked three miles over nearly two hours so I imagine there will be some tired legs tonight. We mapped our route when we got back to school and will be talking more about what we saw next week. The highlights, according to one child, were eating our snack and jumping in muddy puddles!
Well done to our Golden Star this week.
Phonics fun
Your child may be coming home and singing lots of jolly phonics songs. We have learnt the sounds ‘s’, ‘a’ and ‘t’ this week. We are teaching the children to say the pure sound, for example, ‘ssss’ not ‘suh’ (try to avoid saying the ‘uh’ bit at the end).
We’re focusing on hearing the initial sound in words. We’ve sorted objects that began with ‘s’, ‘a’ and ‘t’. For example, ‘s’ for sock and ‘a’ for apple. Can you play ‘I spy’ with your child?
Please let us know about any WOW moments so we can celebrate them in class.
Thursday 12 October – exploring Brazil, Africa and Thailand
As part of our Big Topic on Explorers Y5 and Y6 will enjoy a morning of exploration, travelling around the world to experience music and physical activities from Brazil, Africa and Thailand.
The classes will rotate around three activities:
- Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and music. It was developed in Brazil mainly by Angolans
- International African drumming
- International Thai boxing
Please arrive in your PE kit on Thursday 12 October. Wear trainers, jogging bottoms and a long sleeve sweater as some of the activities may be outside. You’ll stay in your kit all day.
Year 5/6 are going to have an exciting and challenging morning!
Join In Monday! (02 October 2017)
Thank you to everyone who attended the first Join In Monday afternoon of the year. Class 1,2V hosted the Autumn-themed afternoon. Parents and carers joined in with children making leaf lanterns, leaf mobiles and leaf rubbings. There were also 933 conkers to count and play with!
Monday news
We love hearing about what your child has been up to at the weekend during Monday news. It’s a great chance for your child to build their self-confidence by speaking in front of their peers. It’s also a valuable time to develop their communication and language skills.
If your child brings a ‘time to talk’ sheet on a Monday, they’ll be able to share their Monday news with their key worker group. If your child makes you go WOW at home it would be fantastic if you could share these with us at school.