Spectacular sport roundabout
The sun shone this year and we enjoyed a rather warm sport roundabout yesterday.
Spain were the winners with Ukraine in second place and England third.
We hope you all enjoyed it and thank you to all the families and friends who came to support us.
IA Sewing
This half term we are working on our Design and Technology skills. We have learnt all about the design process and we know how you need to design, make and then evaluate products. In preparation to create our very own hand puppet, we have looked at and evaluated different types of stitching. Using a needle and wool, we have been practising the running stitch and the over stitch. We used stiff plastic boards to begin with and then we practised with binca and wool. We know that because we are using needles, we need yo be very careful not to hurt ourselves or anyone else who may be near to us. Class 1A had a look at some hand puppets for ideas and then we started designing our own. We’re very excited to begin the making process this week!
Help at home: You could look at different items of clothing and find the stitching on them. Can you find the name of the stitch used?
Year 1-What a fun week!
ALL of Year 1 have spent the mornings together and it has been wonderful! Our Year 2 friends have spent the mornings busily and calmly completing their SATs papers so we have been learning together. We set up a carousel of learning opportunities and rotated the groups throughout the mornings for the whole week. Our learning has ranged from measuring capacity/height/weight, sewing, 3d shapes, fact families, book writing, handwriting, numbots and more! It has been a joy to learn together.
Playtime on the FIELD!
If you leave nearby, you might’ve heard the scream when we announced the field was dry enough for playtime yesterday!
The year 1 and 2 children we so happy to enjoy some time playing on our lovely field.
Let’s hope this really is the start of summer.
That’s a wrap!
After a morning of SATs tests, 2C thoroughly enjoyed making some wraps in Food Technology this afternoon.
We made sure that before we went into the Hub, we tied long hair back and washed our hands.
Each child was given half a wrap and the option to add their own spread, salad and protein. We thoroughly enjoyed eating our wraps at the end of the lesson!
Living and Learning
This week our Living and Learning statement is ‘I seek help if I am unhappy with a relationship’.
In 2C we had a good chat about all of the different things that we can do if we are unhappy in a relationship. We know that we have many different types of relationships like families, friends, peers ect.
Signs of feeling unhappy in a relationship might include:
- feeling disrespected
- feeling left out
- feeling unheard
- being made to feel sad or uncomfortable
Today, each table group brain-stormed lots of ways that we could help ourselves if we did feel unhappy within a relationship. Here are some of the ideas we came up with.
Happy and Healthy playtimes
In KS1 we talk a lot about what a happy and healthy playtime should look like, sound like and feel like. Before playtime and lunch, teachers ask the students to name some ways we can achieve this.
We talk about things that we should not do and also things that we can do! Here are some of the ideas that children often come up with.
A happy and healthy playtime should:
- Look: happy, children smiling, no one is left out, everyone chatting to friends.
- Sound: laughter, fun, excitement, relaxation.
- Feel: enjoyable, friendly, kind, fun.
We are proud to be a happy and healthy place to learn at Scholes Elmet Primary School!
Adventure playground fun
2C have come back to school for their final half term in Year 2 fantastically well. They have been incredibly well behaved, followed our school rules and have been kind and respectful to one another.
Our class target this week has been 3-2-1 STOP this week. They achieved this several times this week and that meant that the class got their class prize. This was to spend some time in the afternoon on our adventure playground.
We had a brilliant time!
Reading – class novel
Our focus reading book for the next few weeks is Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett.
We are loving the story and the messages within it.
Help at home by talking to your child about the book and asking them if they would sell something precious that made them happy. Do they think that money automatically makes you happy?
Design and Technology – 1,2B sewing
Out new topic is Design and Technology. We started learning to sew today. There were a lot of knots, tangles and furrowed brows…but also smiles because we loved it!
Help at home by having a try sewing something!
