The Travelling Book Fair returns to Scholes Elmet Primary School
We have some exciting news. Our annual Book Fair returns to Scholes on Monday the 11th May.
It is a 3 for 2 event – buy 2 books and get the third (cheapest) for free. Books can be purchased either with cash or by following a QR code which we will have on display during the Book Fair. This event will run straight after school every day from Monday the 11th May until Thursday the 14th May. It will be held in the school reception office area. Please access school via the front doors.
All books sold during the Book Fair earn money for school to spend on new books for our library.
We hope to see you there! 🙂
Class novel
We have been continuing to enjoy our class novel which is Forest of Doom by Ian Livingstone. This is a great adventure story in which the children choose the path for the main character. They have to collect equipment, battle monsters and stay alive! The class appear to enjoy taking risks which leaves me cringing as we read! We are still alive though – for now!
Living and Learning – Being safe
In Living and Learning we’ve talked about the importance of consent – asking for permission. We discussed why we need to ask people for permission in different situations and how to use simple phrases to do this, as well as to give or not give permission when others ask us.
Below is one of the scenarios we talked through.
As part of our learning on being safe, we will also be having a ‘Staying Safe’ themed week later in the half term, which will include visitors from the NSPCC for Year 2 pupils.
Help at home by asking your child what they know about consent.
Reading Groups
Every morning, children in 3,4 have a group reading session for 15 minutes.
They read their group reading book then have chance to discuss what they have read afterwards.
Each group has their book changed every two weeks and these are available to read at home on the Collins E Book website/app!
What are we learning this week – Week 3
We hope you had a lovely bank holiday weekend. Next week may be shorter than usual but we still have lots of learning happening in Nursery.
Our Story of the week is ” Superworm” By Julia Donaldson
You can listen to the story here
Sound of the week:
v for volcano
Can you practise the sound at home?
Put your teeth against your
bottom lip and ma e a
buzzing vvvvv vvvvv
Nursery rhyme of the week:
Maths
We will looking at shapes in our environment. We will be talking about them and describing them using words like
straight, flat, curved, edges, corners and faces.
Help at home
Can you find any shapes at home? What shape is your window? Are the sides curved or straight? How many corners does the window have? How many edges does it have?
We will be hunting for worms outside and finding out where they like to live and why they are helpful in the garden.
We will also be watching our caterpillars very closely next week, as we think we may see some changes.
Outside we will be developing our own obstacle courses and talking about why exercise is important.
Check back later this week to find out how we got on.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The children have been excitedly watching the caterpillars grow bigger and bigger, learning all about the life cycle of a butterfly along the way. They’ve also been using their story maps to confidently retell The Very Hungry Caterpillar – it’s been lovely to see their enthusiasm!
PE
Continuing with our Very Hungry Caterpillar theme, we’ve been playing a fun multi-skills game. Children worked in pairs to throw beanbags to hit the cones, helping their caterpillar ‘grow’ longer. This activity supports Physical Development in the EYFS by developing coordination, control and aiming skills, while also encouraging turn-taking, teamwork and perseverance. We’re looking forward to developing this game over the next few weeks.
Phonics
This week, we continued to learn phase 4 words such as frog, shift, chimp and drum. We’ve also learnt more phase 4 tricky words; some, come, love and do.
Help at home- Continue to look at the ‘Learn at Home’ phonics sheets each week. This will help to reinforce your child’s phonics skills and build confidence in their reading and writing. Thank you for your continued support at home.
Poetry Basket
This week’s poem is called Under a stone. We’ve been focussing on the words earth (land eg soil, dirt) and firm (a solid surface).
Maths
This week, we’ve continued to develop our subitising skills (see the quantity without counting) in complex arrangements. We explored creating arrangements of 6 using different objects and children explained how they could see 6.
“I can see 3 and 3. I know that double 3 is 6.”
“I can see 4 in this pattern and 2 more. That’s 6.”
“There are 2 next to each other and 3 there. I know that 2 and 3 is 5, not 6.”
Gardening – donations welcome!
Over the next few weeks, we will be developing our EYFS garden as part of our learning, giving the children opportunities to plant and care for flowers while learning about the natural world.
We would really appreciate any donations of compost or plants (such as bedding plants, herbs and easy-to-care-for flowers) to support this.
Thank you for your continued support.
Living and Learning – Year 3,4
This week, the children have learned about the important message of ‘Speak Out, Stay Safe’ using the NSPCC resources.
We discussed that all children have the right to:
- speak out and have their views taken seriously
- be kept safe
- get help when they need it
As part of this session, children identified their trusted adults within school and out of school. We talked about the importance of speaking to a trusted adult with any worries and concerns they have. Our Living and Learning box and worry monsters are another way that children can record their worries or concerns.
Creepy Crawly Caterpillars
We started our week by welcoming some new friends to Green Group for a stay-and-play session with their grown-ups. They had great fun exploring the Nursery, and we enjoyed finding out where they liked to play.
We’ve been keeping a close eye on our caterpillars as they have been growing bigger and bigger. When we looked through a magnifying glass, we noticed “a web” in the pot and wondered what it could be.
” It looks like there’s a spider in there”
” I can see one”
We used our fiddly fingers to thread some small beads to make some caterpillars. It was quite difficult but it will help to strengthen our fingers for holding a pen.
In Maths, we told our own number stories.
First, there were five frogs on a log.
Next, two frogs jumped into the pond.
Then, there were three frogs left on the log.
We found the numeral 3 to match the number of frogs still on the log
We are still enjoying the story of ” The Very Hungry Caterpillar” We printed our own caterpillars using green and red paint.
What a busy weeks it’s been.
Reminders
Please remember that if you would like your child’s sun cream to be applied after lunch, it should be placed in their group basket in the morning. The sun cream must be clearly labelled—please check each day that the name is still visible.
1A
We’ve had another fantastic week in 1A!
Well done to our first ever handwriting trophy winner, who produced some beautiful, neat and accurately formed handwriting this week.
In Maths we have been focussing on numbers 11-19. We know these numbers are made up of ‘ten and a bit more’. Some numbers are trickier than others. Eleven, twelve, thirteen and fifteen don’t follow the same spelling rule as fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. I wonder if you can spot why that might be tricky.
Our Science learning has been very enjoyable this week. We have been identifying and classifying common garden and wildflowers. We spotted lots of wild flowers on our grass areas and are hoping to plant lots more garden flowers very soon.
In reading and writing learning, we are taking a trip through Africa. This is closely linked with our Geography explorers topic. Soon we will be writing some very special reports about Africa – watch this space!
A huge well done to all children for their continuous hard work, particularly during phonics learning. It is not long now until our phonics screen so lets keep up the good work!
Help at home by continuing to read eBooks set online and practising our decoding mantra.
‘Spot the digraph, say the sound, read the word.’