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.
Check out our other learning…
Class News – We’re artists!
This week, we have closely observed building designs and drawn pictures of them freehand using sketching pencils and white charcoal. We’ve worked with care and precision.
Living and Learning – mental wellbeing
Over the last three weeks, our Living and Learning lessons have focused on mental wellbeing. We have discussed:
- the different feelings and emotions we may experience
- how we can deal with these feelings and emotions
- who we can ask for help (including trusted adults, the safeguarding team at Scholes and Childline)
- self-care techniques that we can use
- the importance of looking after our mental health as well as our physical health
Help at home by discussing the importance of looking after our mental health and how we can do this.
Drop down morning
This week we had a great morning during ‘Drop Down Morning.’ The children worked through a range of lessons that helped them to recall their previous learning. Geography allowed the children to test their knowledge of capital cities, main cities in the UK and four of the longest rivers. They were able to accurately place these on to their maps. The history sessions helped the children to remember their learning about Ancient Greece and the Romans. Year 6 had to consider arguments for and against the Elgin Marbles being returned to Greece. D&T helped the children to recall their learning they did on sewing and we talked about the design process when designing a new product. It was a very but productive morning.
