Class News

3,4A Class News

Posted on Thursday 07 March 2024 by Mrs Paterson

This week has looked a little different as we started rehearsing for our phase production, learning the songs and who says which bits from the script! Alongside this, we have been working hard across the curriculum and a highlight has been the fantastic narratives the class have written over the last few days about ‘The Dragon Slayer’. Please ask us about this at home! We have also enjoyed our learning about computing and creating our own ‘unplugged’ games, writing code for a sprite to follow.

For Word Book Day, we were treated to a show of our own – The Secret Garden. The children were a brilliant audience and seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves.

We continue to focus on our times tables and are ‘going for gold’ with our times table facts, recalling them at speed.

Help at home by continuing to help your child access TT Rockstars and read regularly to you. Thank you for your continued support.World Book Day

World Book Day in KS1

Posted on Thursday 07 March 2024 by Mrs Latham

We had a fabulous World Book Day today.

The children looked fantastic as their book characters and we shared stories and talked about why we loved certain characters. Thank you for all the costumes!

Staff all dressed as a crayon from The Day The Crayons Quit.

  

We also watched a fantastic theatre performance of The Secret Garden by M&M Productions. We were mesmerised.

  

We just loved celebrating how much we love reading, poems and books!

Maths – divide

Posted on Wednesday 06 March 2024 by Miss Young

This week, Year 2 have been learning how to divide.

‘Divide means to share into equally groups.’ 

We are focussing on dividing by 2, 5 and 10. We know that divide is in the same fact family as multiply. This means that there is a link between the numbers we use in each equation.

Today, 2C focussed on dividing by 5.

10 divided by 2 = 5

10 divided by 5 = 2

2 x 5 = 10

5 x 2 = 10

See some of our fantastic work below!

PE – yoga

Posted on Wednesday 06 March 2024 by Mrs Hogarth

Tuesday saw 5,6B having a go at yoga. We began the session with some breathing exercises to some relaxing music. We then began to learn some yoga poses such as river and tree. These are based on stretching and balancing and were actually very tricky. We also did some poses that involved working with a partner and it was great to see the children working together. By the end of the session we were very relaxed and chilled!

PE in 1,2B – yoga

Posted on Monday 04 March 2024 by Mrs Latham

We have been learning some yoga poses in PE lessons. Focusing on breathing, balance, movement and coordination are all essential in yoga. Working with a partner was also rather fun!

Help at home by doing some yoga together. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)

 

 

3,4C Class News

Posted on Friday 01 March 2024 by Mrs Wadsworth

This week, we have enjoyed starting out new computing topic. We have created algorithms for off line games. Next week, we will be designing our own games and writing algorithms to solve them.

We have successfully completed the ‘Sponsored Times Table Challenge’ on Wednesday to raise money for the PTA and our school charity, Children’s Heart Surgery Fund. The scores were amazing; the children did a great job maintaining or improving their own personal score. Thank you to everyone who has raised some money so far!

Exciting news… we have started to learn the songs for our Spring production. Next week, we will start to look at the scripts and rehearse.

Help at home by continuing to help your child read regularly and access TTRS and/or Numbots.

Have a great weekend.

All about me!

Posted on Friday 01 March 2024 by Nursery Team

Children enjoyed learning about how they’ve grown and changed from being a baby. We looked at our baby and toddler photos in group time; thank you for emailing them to us. We talked about some of the things that children can do now, that they couldn’t do when they were a baby such as talking, riding a bike and eating food.  In the Creative area, we looked at our faces in the mirrors and tried to draw a self portrait. It was quite tricky, but we used a circle shape for our face and then added two eyes, a nose and a mouth. Some children loved adding extra features including curly or spiky hair and long eye lashes!

To continue our learning about ‘growing up’, we helped to take care of the babies in the water tray, carefully giving them a bath and washing their hair. In the playdough area, we looked at the numerals on different birthday cards and put the correct number of candles on our chocolate playdough cakes.

As part of our ‘Understanding the World’ curriculum, we’re beginning to learn about different forces. Children loved exploring the magnets in the discovery area and taking them around Nursery to see what they were attracted to and which objects they would ‘stick’ to.  During story time, we talked about pushing and pulling forces when Fix-it Duck got his truck stuck in the muck. (Can you tell that we’re reading rhyming stories, too!)

Reminders:

Next week’s learning:

Next week, we’ll continue with our ‘growing theme’ and will listen to  ‘Oliver’s Vegetables‘ by Vivian French.  We’ll be talking about the different foods that we eat and where they come from.

Nursery rhyme of the week – I’m a Little Teapot

Sound of the week – ‘r’ for rainbow

Hundred Decker Rocket

Posted on Friday 01 March 2024 by Reception Team

This week, we have continued to explore our topic ‘Let go’.

We have been reading the book The Hundred Decker Rocket.

The Hundred Decker Rocket

This story is about a girl called Ivy who sets off on a mission to space. On the way, she meets some very messy aliens.  When her rocket breaks down, all the aliens help to fix it and make their own deck.

In provision, the children were challenged to write their own sentences about a picture from the book or use their knowledge of the story.

 

Maths

This week, we have continued to engage in activities to draw attention to the purpose of counting – to find out  ‘how many’ objects there are. We revisited the concept of cardinality – the last number in the count tell us how many things there are altogether.

Phonics

This week, the children have reviewed air, er and longer words that contain double letters.

Write these words on paper and ask your child to underline the double letters before reading.

hammer    shimmer   cannot   chatter   muffin

Tricky words can be just that-tricky! We’ve previously introduced a few fun games you can play at home to practice tricky words. Here’s another you could try.

Secret password

Write different tricky words on paper and stick them next to different doors around the house.

Each time your child enters or leaves a room they must press and say the tricky word password.

Poetry Picnic

Each week, we will be learning a new poem. We will recite this poem each day. By saying the poem out loud we can focus on the sounds and rhythm of each word or line. We talk to the children about how this can help us become better readers. Watch here

 

 

Music

We began our lesson this week by listening to Beyond the Sea by Robbie Williams.

The children were amazing at recognising  the instruments they could hear such as drums and the piano.

Then, they used xylophones to make low and high sounds.

 

Reminders and Messages

Monday 04 March- Class Trip to The National Railway Museum.

World Book Day 2024- Thursday 07 March Please join us in the classroom (9.00-10.00) where you can relax and read books with your child. We’d also like your child to share their favourite book with their friends. Please send your child into school with their favourite book and please ensure the book is named. As stated on the school calendar, this is a dressing up year. Dressing up is optional. Thank you.

These dates are also stuck to your child’s classroom door or window to view whenever needed. 

Living and Learning: I know we’re all the same and we’re all different

Posted on Thursday 29 February 2024 by Mrs Wilkins

In Key Stage One, we have read the book ‘Elmer’ by David McKee and considered things from another’s point of view. How might Elmer feel about being different from the other elephants? Why did Elmer want to look like the other elephants? How do the other elephants view Elmer?

Through this book, each class has been able to discuss how the elephants are the same and different. We have applied this to ourselves too.

 

Reading

Posted on Wednesday 28 February 2024 by Mrs Hogarth

We have linked our reading to writing this week and looked at the use of vocabulary. The children are noticing that authors make choices in their writing to help create a mood and effect on the reader. They have read lots of extracts over the last couple of lessons and identified the effect it has on them. Did it make them feel anxious? Elated? Petrified? They found evidence in the text to identify the deliberate word choices that the authors had used.