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.
Maths and PE
We have been using the newly painted 100 square on our playground to warm up for PE lessons and reinforce our maths learning. 2KL can be seen here doing the ‘2s stride’. They were counting in 2s and linking it to the 2 times tables facts. Help at home by testing each other on counting in 2s, division and multiplication facts.
Read and Sing
What a fun way to hone your reading skills – through reading new songs! We’re going to be doing more of this.
Funky Street Dance at Scholes!
Year 3/4 children really showed off their dance moves this week in an afternoon of Street-dance. Led by Rhinestone Dance leader, Rebecca, the children oozed confidence, energy and rhythm.
For the next 6 weeks, the children will learn individual and group routines, with a group performance (including all 3 classes) by the end of the block.
Remember your dancing kit everyone!
The Enormous Crocodile
We will be reading and using Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile as a focus for our learning over the next 2 weeks. If you have a copy, you could read it at home or watch a video of the story.
Living and Learning – Friends and Family
This week we have been talking about relationships, families and friends. We quickly learnt that everyone’s are different! We enjoyed talking about who is in our family and what makes a good friend. We drew our family – there were mums, dads, dogs, fish and grumpy grampys! Help at home by talking about how everyone’s family is different.
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Yesterday, the Hobgoblin Theatre Company performed a play for us. There was trouble in Fairytale Land. The Evil Queen was doing away with all of the handsome Princes and it was up to the 3 Little Pigs to stop her!
During the production we recognised lots of characters from many fairytales but they were all mixed up into different stories. We saw the Big Bad Wolf, Snow White, Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, The Seven Dwarfs, Red Riding Hood and her grandma, the Magic Mirror and many more…
Scholes Gala and Scholes in Bloom
Please come and support our Skipping Crew and WUSU Crew at Scholes Gala this Saturday, 9 June 2018. We would also like as many children as possible to visit the planting stall. Children can take them home, look after them and then bring the plants and join us on judging day for Britain in Bloom on 6 August 2018 at 10am outside school. Scholes in Bloom are going for gold this year!
PE
This half term, F2 will be having their PE lesson on a Friday. Please ensure that your child has a PE kit in school (white t-shirt, navy shorts / tracksuit bottoms and pumps/trainers). We are hoping to get onto the field so please ensure your child has suitable footwear.