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!
We have been learning about materials this half term in Science. We know lots of different materials in their properties.
‘Fabric is usually soft and smooth.’
‘Wood is usually hard and strong. It comes from trees.’
‘Glass is a man-made material but it comes from sand which is a natural material.’
This week we conducted an experiment. We collected lots of recycling materials from home and built houses out of the materials. We then dropped a wooden brick on our houses, to see which materials were strongest.
Take a look at what we’ve been up to!
Design and Technology – Food
This week, 1,2B have been using their food preparation skills to create their latest product – fruit smoothies.
This forms part of our Design and Technology food learning which involves following a recipe to create a product each term.
The recipe was taken from this healthy eating website. We read it so we could understand the instructions before we made our smoothies.
First, we got ready to cook by washing our hands.
We used lots of different food preparation skills including peeling, chopping, measuring and pouring.
Then, the best part, children got to enjoy their smoothies.
We always evaluate our product afterwards to see how it could be changed next time. In a link to our learning about adjectives (words that add information about a noun), there were plenty of adjectives used to describe the smoothies – yummy, flavoursome, sweet, creamy and delicious.
Help at home by encouraging your child to demonstrate some of their food preparation skills by making this again at home, or a different smoothie recipe!
Topic – Art
This half term, we are learning about art – both practically and some art history too.
We are learning about Georges Seurat, who used pointillism (dots), and Bridget Riley, who is an optical artist (uses shapes, pattern and colour to create illusions).
We have created dots using cotton buds and bubble wrap and are beginning to use them as backgrounds to add shapes, exploring which colours go well together.
Help at home by talking about your preferences for certain artists or colours and shapes.
1A’s purple smiles and moustaches
Today, Class 1A set off for The Hub to make our own smoothies. Before we could start preparing the food, we needed to wash our hands with soap and water to make sure that they were germ free. After that, we could get started on prepping the fruit. Independently, we used great peeling skills, cutting skills and practised our bridge hold when slicing the banana. We used equipment such as knives and spoons and noisy hand blenders. Our teachers helped us to press the button to make it work. We loved seeing how the colour changed as the ingredients were blended together. Someone said that “it looks like purple rain” and someone else thought it looked like “purple lava.”
Here’s what we did:
We peeled the banana, 
sliced the banana, 
spooned in some fruit, 
spooned in some yogurt, 
poured in some milk and then blended it all together before serving. 
Help at home: You could recreate the recipe below at home. Perhaps you could substitute some of the ingredients to make a different kind of smoothie which includes some of your favourite fruits.
You could also include your child in some other cooking recipes at home. For inspiration of other child friendly recipes, you could watch some episodes of Big Cook Little Cook on CBeebies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/big-cook-little-cook
Y2 football superstars!
Well done to our Y2 footballers for playing some fantastic football yet again last night! We saw some brilliant goals scored and the children worked well as a team.
See below the results.
Well done Scholes A and B!
Thank you to all of the parents for supporting the children and a big thank you again to FOSP for providing the kits. We look forward to more games in the New Year!
Words, words, words
After adjective day, we have been trying to use interesting vocabulary instead of always using ‘everyday’ words.
We tried to put words in order from the strongest to the weakest.
The weather is changing!
It has been a cold one this week. Our hats, scarves, gloves and warm coats are back out in full force as the weather changes.
Since September, Ks1 have been tracking the weather and spotting changes in temperature and how this is affecting a tree in our school playground.
In September, the tree was full of green leaves. The weather was warm and sunny most days. On the day we checked the temperature it was 18 degrees.
The following month was October. We checked the tree again. The season had changed from Summer to autumn. As we checked the tree, the weather was cloudy, but mild. The temperature was 13 degrees. The tree had lost some of its leaves. Many of the leaves remaining on the tree had turned brown or orange.
This week we checked the tree again. It is now November. The tree has lost nearly all of its leaves. We took this photograph the day before it snowed. It was 1 degree when the photo was taken. The following day it was -1 degree. It was very cold.
We know that the seasons affect how the weather changes and this causes changes in the leaves of deciduous trees.
KS1 are looking forward to checking the tree again next month!
Help at home by discussing seasonal changes!
1,2B PE – large apparatus in gymnastics
We had an exciting PE lesson this week. The children moved in different ways across the different apparatus.
