Welcome to Nursery
We’ve had a great week meeting some of our new children during their home visits. It was lovely to find out a little bit about you all and we’re looking forward to getting to know you more when we welcome you to Nursery next week.
Nursery is looking fantastic; there are lots of exciting areas to play in and we can’t wait to show you around. Our Nursery foxes, Ferdie and Fern, are looking forward to having some more friends to play with. As you can see from the photos, they’ve already been busy testing out some of our toys, playing in the fairy garden and sliding down the slide!
A reminder for children that are returning to Nursery – Remember to check your transition paperwork. The first day back is a transition session and children will have lunch and go home afterwards at 12.30.
Here are a few reminders of some of the things that we talked about at our home visits.
- Please bring a full change of clothes in a drawstring bag and a pair of wellies that will stay in Nursery. Remember to write your child’s name on EVERYTHING!
- Children need to bring a water bottled (named) to Nursery. Please put it in your child’s coloured basket in the morning and collect it at the end of the day to be washed.
- Please return your ‘All about me’ information sheets next week and bring proof of your child’s date of birth, if we didn’t see it at your home visit.
Don’t worry if you’ve forgotten which door to come in; find the path to the Nursery entrance (off Morwick Grove) and there’ll be someone there to greet you and show you where to go.
Have a great weekend and we’ll look forward to seeing you next week.
Living and learning: I follow the school rules
Living and learning this week has allowed the children to think about our school rules at the start of a new school year. The children remembered the rules well:
We’re ready.
We’re safe.
We’re respectful.
We discussed how these would look and sound in class and around school, even in the playground. How would we know the children are following the rules?
The classes will also have established rules for their living and learning sessions to ensure these lessons are purposeful and reflective.
This week, we will also be sending home the Acceptable Use Agreement for using the computers in and out of school. When using technology, the children need to ensure they are safe. Please read through this with your child and check that they understand the expectations. We’ll also be discussing this in class.
Help at home by asking your child about the school rules. Can they explain what they have done this week to show they are following them?
Welcome back!
Welcome back after the summer holiday e hope you had a happy and healthy summer. It has been great to see so many happy faces back in school. The children have settled back into school really well and are adapting to new routines, classrooms and teachers really well.
This week, we will be sending the children home with a reading book and a new reading journal. It is really beneficial that your child reads at home daily – it improves fluency and increases the enjoyment of reading. The children can record what they’ve read at home and when in the journals. We will also set a task for them to complete at home. Ask your child what their task is for their homework. Please actively encourage your child to think about the presentation of their work in the journals and the importance of neat handwriting and accurate use of punctuation.
Thank you to all the children who have come to school in the correct uniform and PE kits this week – you all look so smart. If you are unsure of the uniform, please click the link to see what is required.
We are looking forward to a successful year. Please feel free to come and introduce yourselves to us!
School rules
This week in KS1, we are establishing our classroom routines and the school rules.
Talk to your child about our school rules and what they mean. They should be able to give you some examples of them in action!
Welcome back!
The children in Year 1 and Year 2 matched the sunshine and came in with sunny smiles and chatter.
They have all settled in well and are beginning to learn the new routines in their new classes.
Each child should’ve brought home an information sheet. It is here below too.
Below is some information about your child’s new class and some of the day to day things that will help your child settle into their new class and routine. Please name everything your child brings into school.
- PE and swimming days (school uniform PE kit can be worn all day on both days)
- Reading eBooks allocation day – Friday. Please bring reading record in on this day.
- Library/love of reading book – Friday
- Spare clothes – can be kept in a small bag on their peg, if required
- Lunch menus – on the Class News/Year 1 & 2 page of the website.
- Playtime snacks – fruit or vegetables only please but there is a fruit/veg bowl in each class for playtimes
- Water bottle – should be in school every day, can be emptied and refilled in school
- Children will have their own tray for suncream, tissues, hats/gloves, snack
- Coat – please send one every day as we may be learning outside
- Numbots/TTRockstars username and password is stuck on reading records
1A (Mrs Brown/Mrs Wilkins) – Tuesday (swimming) and Friday
1,2B (Mrs Latham) – Thursday and Friday (swimming)
2C (Miss Young) – Thursday (swimming) and Friday
Check out our Class News page for updates on what is going on in school : scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/category/classnews/year1-2showcase/
Homework and spellings are posted weekly too :
https://www.scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/category/homework/
https://www.scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/category/spelling/year1-2spelling/
Teachers emails for non-urgent questions :
1A Mrs Brown and Mrs Wilkins – fionabrown@spherefederation.org / lydiawilkins@spherefederation.org
1,2B Mrs Latham – vickylatham@spherefederation.org
2C Miss Young – kateyoung@spherefederation.org
Please call the office for urgent queries or questions 0113-3649149
September 2023 – lunch menus
Welcome back
It was our pleasure to welcome back the students today. After finding out about all their adventures over the summer break, we revisited our school rules:
we’re respectful
we’re ready
we’re safe.
Children discussed what this might look like, feel like and sound like. At home, discuss the importance of having rules and how they help us learn.
All children in year 5/6 now have a reading book. Remember that children should be reading daily to an adult for at least 15 minutes. Getting back into a routine will help your child make great progress this year.
The Finale!
Wow what a fun-filled last week! We’re so impressed with this week’s fantastic learning. We’ve seen children working hard in their maths: counting and comparing the people they could see in some snapshots of the school year. We’ve seen impressive writing, as children wrote about how they’ve grown and changed. We’ve seen so many happy friendships, with children working together to problem solve. We’ve enjoyed designing and building ice-creams in the sensory area, playing ‘teacher’ in the phonics areas and using our fine motor skills to make paper chains. Take a look at some of our learning this week…
Reflecting on the year
At this time of year it is lovely to look back and reflect on everything we’ve done and achieved. During Living and Learning time this week, the children reflected on some of their favourite things during their time in Reception:
I like assembly and I like going outside- Skyla
I liked being the ‘star of the day’- Olivia
I like doing six challenge cubes- Thomas
I like swimming- the races- Alfie
I really liked PE, because we play games- Esmé
I like getting ten stars and getting Monty- Jack
I like ‘wake up shake up’- Ella
Snack time!- Eddy
The beach party!- Henryk
Playing with my friends- Ted
I liked doing writing- Keira
I liked doing yoga- Mollie G
The Beach Party
On Thursday, the weather was kind to us and we had a beautiful beach party. It was so much fun!
The Selfie Station
The children have enjoyed being in charge of taking the photos this week- take a look out our selfie-station snaps!
Professor Myers
Professor Myers visited us on our last day and showed us the cola and Mentos experiment! We loved seeing the cola bubble up into a “volcano!”
A final message
The Reception team would like to thank you all for your partnership and support this year. We’ve had a truly wonderful year and are so proud of all of the children. We wish you all the best as your child moves up to year one and continues their learning journey at Scholes (Elmet) Primary School. Have a happy and healthy Summer and we’ll see you in September!
Beach Party fun, goodbye and thank you!
We had an amazing time at the Beach Party yesterday. The sun shone for us and we had sand, water, dancing, toys and snacks!
Thank you for all the support this year. A home-school partnership makes everything run smoothly and gets the best out of the children.
Have a lovely summer.
Goodbye from the KS1 Team : Mrs Latham, Miss Lowry and Miss Young
xxx
3,4 A Class News – Food Technology
3,4A had a great time making savoury scones today. We talked about how we would stay safe and then worked through a recipe, discussing the different ingredients, steps and techniques we needed to use. The scones were a great success and (almost!) everybody enjoyed them. Later on, we completed an evaluation of our work and thought about what we would do differently next time.
Help at home by asking the children about their learning. The children were enthusiastic to tell us about other baking they had previously done at home so it was great that we had a class of budding bakers already!