Wetherby taster day
Year 5 enjoyed a fantastic day experiencing what it would be like to be a high school student at Wetherby High School. It has been a really busy day, meeting new teachers and learning new things.
The children got the chance to take part in some lessons ranging from english and maths to design technology and french. The teachers did a great job of inspiring learning whilst also allowing the children to show off their existing knowledge.
One of the biggest highlights of the day was the food! We loved eating in the canteen and being offered some delicious cooking.
What a fantastic day!
Construction, role play & dancing!
We’ve been watching the tadpoles in our tank very closely and this week, we spotted some back legs! Next, we’re hoping to see the front legs grow.
Outside, children have enjoyed lots of role play games; the car wash and garage has been especially popular.
Here are a few other photos to show our learning this week – ranging from working out the best way to join two boxes together to building a vehicle using crates and learning to control a remote-controlled vehicle.
Have you seen our pictures on the Early Years tea towel? If you’d like to support school and help raise funds, they’re £5 each. Check your emails for more details.
The Seaside
This week, we have explored differences and similarities between cities and the seaside.
Literacy
In our writing, we reflected on our own experiences of visiting a seaside.
Maths
We have focused on deepening our understanding of numbers to 10, including the composition of each number.
Phonics
This week, we have continued to focus on phase 4 words with long vowel sounds.
In provision, we’ve been reading words and matching them to the correct picture.
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. This week’s poem is called I Have a Little Frog.
Art; Observational drawing and Artist focus
We followed an art tutorial to support us to draw a crab.
We also continued our project based on our focus artist; Alexander Calder. We’ve been cutting shapes from card, which will be used over the next few weeks to make mobile sculptures based on Calder’s work.
Check out our other learning…
Reminders and Dates
Swimming
Rainbow- 21 June, 5 July, 19 July
Sunshine- 28 June, 12 July
Living and Learning – everybody needs to be cared for!
This week in KS1 we have been looking at how everyone needs to be cared for. Everyone has the right to be cared for and in school, we all make sure we care for one another.
The session started off with a discussion about the life cycle of a human and the biological differences between male and female. We know that just like other mammals, it is the woman that carries the baby and produces young offspring. Throughout a person’s life, their needs change and therefore so does the type of care they need.
We know that different people need different types of care. For example, babies need more care from adults because they are not yet independent whereas adults are much more likely to be able to care for themselves and know their basic needs.
We also talked about the different types of needs we might have:
- playing
- loving
- medical
- listening
- physical
- emotional
- social
We finished our session by discussing how we can care for members of our classes. We used the sentence stem ‘I care for _____ by ______.’ The children came up with some wonderful responses.
‘I care for xxxxx by asking if they want to play with me at playtime and letting them join in.’
Living and Learning: Year 6 Water Safety
Today, year 6 children had water safety training. They learned the acronym SAFE (Spot dangers, Advise, Friend, Emergency) for what to do if you see someone struggling in water.
They also discussed the dangers of swimming in open waters and what the flags at the beach mean.
In addition to this, they practised putting each other in the recovery position.
At home, discuss the dangers of swimming in open water and the importance of staying safe this summer.
Wake Up Shake Up!
We have been enjoying the sunshine in Early Years and KS1 over the past two weeks. It has been great to dance along to our favourite songs together every morning on the playground! We have been dancing to ‘Green, Green Grass’ by George Ezra recently, one of our favourites! Why not ask your child to show you their moves and learn some of our special WUSU dances?
Scholes in bloom
Earlier in the year, Scholes in bloom ran a competition at school to design the flower bed at the side of school. There were lots of entries, however, Freya was the lucky winner. This morning, she has had the opportunity to put her design into reality. She worked with a few other children and the Scholes in bloom team to create her design with plants. It loos great and will look even better when it is in full bloom later in the summer. Well done, Freya.
Residential Day Three
A few more snaps of our last day on residential. Can’t thank the staff at Robin Wood enough. It was a fantastic experience and the children thoroughly enjoyed themseleves.
Transport
Children returned to Nursery happily on Monday and enjoyed telling us about their holiday adventures. Thank you to everyone that emailed us a half term holiday photograph; children shared them with their friends at snack time and told us about their walks, bike rides and days out.
As children told us about their holidays, we ended up talking about different types of transport, including trains, boats and planes. During story times, we’ve enjoyed hearing about the adventures of ‘The Little Red Train‘ and watching a song about a magic train ride.
Children loved using the remote controlled cars this week and were able to move them backwards and forwards between the train station and garage.
In maths, we’re learning about night and day and will be moving on to ordering key events in our daily routines next week.
Help at home: Talk to your child about day and night time. What activities do people do in the day and at night? What do they do in the morning/afternoon/evening?
Reminders
- Yellow group children – Please make sure you have signed up for a Parent Consultation appointment
- On sunny days, please ensure your child is wearing suncream in the morning and has a NAMED hat and NAMED waterbottle at Nursery.