Merry Christmas Everyone!
We have had a wonderful and very busy last week of term. From sing a longs to a visit from Santa we have had it all! We were all so proud of the children this week, they sang and performed so well on Monday and Tuesday. We hope you enjoyed it.
Here are some photographs of all of our Christmas celebrations – what a week it has been!
Please don’t forget to send us some photographs of your Christmas celebrations with family or of an exciting day out that you enjoy. We will share these photos during group time in the first week back in January; they’ll be a great way of starting our conversations. Here is a reminder of the email address for your photos
scholesnursery@spherefederation.org
We return to Nursery on Monday 06 January.
We hope that you all have a Happy and Healthy Christmas, see you all in the New Year!
Merry Christmas from Reception!
What a busy week of festive fun!
The Christmas story
We’ve been learning about the story of the first Christmas- The Nativity. We learnt that this is why Christians celebrate Christmas and we enjoyed using story props to re-tell the story.
Christmas around the world
Children were really interested in learning about how different countries celebrate Christmas around the world. We looked at the difference between Santa in the UK and Santa in Australia.
We heard about the good witch, La Befana, who brings presents to children in Italy and we went hunting for (a picture of) the lucky almond! In Denmark, it’s a Christmas tradition to hide an almond in pudding. The finder has good luck for the year!
In the Netherlands, Sinterklaas leaves gifts in children’s shoes. We added drawings of presents and sweets to a picture of shoes. At playtime, our shoes were magic and turned into real treats!
Phonics
This week, we’ve been revisiting and consolidating everything that we have learnt across phase 2. The children have been brilliant in their reading groups and independent writing activities. It is fantastic to see them confidently using all of the skills that they have developed this term.
Help at home: Over the holidays, please keep reading and practising all of the graphemes and tricky words that we have learnt so far. It’ll help children to consolidate them before the next phase of our phonics learning begins in January.
EYFS Christmas Sing-along
Thank you to everyone that came to watch our Christmas Sing-along. We hope you enjoyed all of the singing, dancing and poetry. We were really proud of the children – it’s quite daunting to stand on a stage in front of so many people! Well done, Reception.
Someone special visited our classrooms…
On Wednesday, the children received a special video. Santa had been to visit and play in our classrooms and he’d left us all a present! We were so impressed that he came to see our school.
Christmas Dinner and party time!
Reception had a yummy Christmas dinner on Thursday and enjoyed exploring the Christmas inflatables which were kindly organised by Mrs Pennock. This is always a Christmas highlight at Scholes (Elmet) Primary School! On Friday, we had lots of fun dancing, playing games and being with our friends.
A message from the Reception Team
The Reception team would like to thank everyone for your kind Christmas greetings, cards and presents. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Enjoy spending time with family and friends this festive season. We’ll see you all again on Monday 06 January.
Merry Christmas from 1,2B!
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from 1,2B.
We had a blast at our party today. See you all in 2025!
Merry Christmas!
What a fantastic week we’ve had in 2C! We started the week off with some brilliant learning and then we moved into Christmas mode at the end of the week! See what we’ve been up to below!
Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Miss Young and Mrs Rennison! Thank you so much for all the lovely cards and gifts xxx
Class News Year 3,4
Well done, everyone – a great term of learning!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas
Season’s Greetings from 56C. It’s been a loooong term in which we’ve learned, laughed and listened. Now, it’s time to take a well deserved rest as we look forward to the Spring term.
Christmas inflatables!
Before our delicious Christmas lunch today, we went to the winter wonderland Christmas inflatable display created by Mrs Pennock and her crew. Thank you so much for this amazing spectacle for Christmas! We loved it.
Christmas Disco
We all had a blast at the Christmas Disco last week.
Please consider joining FOSP (Friends of Scholes Primary) – they’re always looking for new recruits to help organise special events like this!
Christmas is coming!
We had such a busy week learning the songs and rehearsing for our Christmas sing a long. We can’t wait to share it with you on Monday and Tuesday and hope you enjoy watching.
We’ve enhanced many of our areas of provision to provide lots of opportunities to learn about Christmas and talk about the traditions that some families join in with at this time of year. Here are a few photos from this week. You can see that we have been very busy…
- Using our fine motor skills to decorate the Christmas trees using tweezers.
- Using our number skills to count the decorations on the trees.
- Making paper chains, it took lots of concentration to thread the paper carefully.
- Wrapping presents in the Elf workshop.
- Making Christmas cards for our families.
- Exploring our sensory Christmas scene.
Next week:
We will consolidate the letter sounds that we have learnt so far – s, a, t, p, i and n.
Help at home: In group time, our sound bag had lots of ‘n’ objects including a nest, a net and a nurse. What can you find around the house that begins with the ‘n’ sound? What other ‘n’ objects could we have put in our sound bag?
Reminders:
- Our Early Years Christmas Sing a Long will take place on Monday 16 December at 1.30 – 2.15pm and on Tuesday 19 December at 9.45 – 10.30am.
- Our ‘Stay and Decorate‘ sessions take place next week on Wednesday 18 December 9.00- 9.45am or 2.00 -2.45 pm and Thursday 19 December 9.00-9.45am. We can’t wait to welcome you all.
- Our Nursery Party is on Friday 20 December from 10-11.15am. Children can attend Nursery wearing their party clothes. Please remember that we will still take part in Nursery activities (which can be messy) and we’ll also be outside so footwear needs to be sensible.
The Jolly Christmas Postman
Literacy
This week we enjoyed the story, The Jolly Christmas Postman.
The children loved seeing the different letters, gifts and cards inside each envelope.
Inspired by the book, we wrote our own postcards with special messages. We learned about the journey of a letter from the post box to our front door and can’t wait for our own letters to be delivered!
Maths
We have named and described 2D shapes. We enjoyed searching for these shapes around our classroom. In provision, we created shape pictures by rotating and manipulating shapes to match a picture.
Art
The children developed their observational skills by carefully looking at a Poinsettia before drawing it with wax crayons. As they examined the plant, they noticed details like the veins running through the leaves. Using these observations, they coloured with intention and choose colours purposefully.
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