The Travelling Book Fair returns to Scholes Elmet Primary School
We have some exciting news. Our annual Book Fair returns to Scholes on Monday the 11th May.
It is a 3 for 2 event – buy 2 books and get the third (cheapest) for free. Books can be purchased either with cash or by following a QR code which we will have on display during the Book Fair. This event will run straight after school every day from Monday the 11th May until Thursday the 14th May. It will be held in the school reception office area. Please access school via the front doors.
All books sold during the Book Fair earn money for school to spend on new books for our library.
We hope to see you there! 🙂
Living and Learning – Being safe
In Living and Learning we’ve talked about the importance of consent – asking for permission. We discussed why we need to ask people for permission in different situations and how to use simple phrases to do this, as well as to give or not give permission when others ask us.
Below is one of the scenarios we talked through.
As part of our learning on being safe, we will also be having a ‘Staying Safe’ themed week later in the half term, which will include visitors from the NSPCC for Year 2 pupils.
Help at home by asking your child what they know about consent.
1A
We’ve had another fantastic week in 1A!
Well done to our first ever handwriting trophy winner, who produced some beautiful, neat and accurately formed handwriting this week.
In Maths we have been focussing on numbers 11-19. We know these numbers are made up of ‘ten and a bit more’. Some numbers are trickier than others. Eleven, twelve, thirteen and fifteen don’t follow the same spelling rule as fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. I wonder if you can spot why that might be tricky.
Our Science learning has been very enjoyable this week. We have been identifying and classifying common garden and wildflowers. We spotted lots of wild flowers on our grass areas and are hoping to plant lots more garden flowers very soon.
In reading and writing learning, we are taking a trip through Africa. This is closely linked with our Geography explorers topic. Soon we will be writing some very special reports about Africa – watch this space!
A huge well done to all children for their continuous hard work, particularly during phonics learning. It is not long now until our phonics screen so lets keep up the good work!
Help at home by continuing to read eBooks set online and practising our decoding mantra.
‘Spot the digraph, say the sound, read the word.’
Topic – Geography
Our topic this half-term is Geography – Explorers.
We have been learning about the 7 continents and 5 oceans. We’ve used Google Earth to locate these and find out different facts, such as that The Pacific is the largest ocean.
We’ve also learnt about the Equator and how Earth is divided into two hemispheres. We used balloons and balls as a model Earth to demonstrate our knowledge.
Help at home by asking your child if they can name all 7 continents. This is a great song to help remember them!
Craft club
We have enjoyed the sunshine so much this weekend that we were inspired to make our own in craft club. First we cut out a sunshine shape. Next we put splodges of red, range and yellow paint onto our sun.
We used a straw to blow the paint around which created a lovely marble effect.
Finally we dabbed the excess paint with a tissue and hung them up to dry.
Mini marathon 1A
Well done to all of 1A for taking part in the Mini London Marathon on Friday. Here are some photos of us before we began. Our faces were a little redder after we finished!
Everyone did so well, super well done! We celebrated our success with an ice lolly at the end!
Fieldwork in Science
We have been doing some observing closely and collecting data in science. We took advantage of the dry, warm weather to observe wildflowers and garden flowers in our school environment. We found a lot of daisies and dandelions, a few daffodils and some nettles too.
We talked about how we can stay safe whilst doing fieldwork too – staying together, following instructions, not touching plants we don’t know and washing our hands afterwards.
Africa, Amazing Africa
We are reading Africa, Amazing Africa Country by Country, by Atinuke and illustrated by Mouni Feddag to support our Geography topic. We’re also using it to support our reading and writing learning too.
Help at home by looking at globes, maps or Google Earth to find out about the different countries in Africa.
Mini-marathon in KS1
The whole of KS1 ran their socks off today! The children were ready and determined to run their 10 laps of our school playgrounds. There was: running, jogging, walking, laughing, encouraging comments and a wonderful Scholes atmosphere. Not one single complaint was heard. Every child understood their mission and completed it! We are so proud of them! The ice pops were a welcome treat afterwards too.
Science-plants in 2C
As a class we really love being scientists. This week we had fun as biologists. Our mission was to ‘observe closely’ and ‘name parts of a plant’. Last term we planted some mystery bulbs that turned out to be daffodils. Keeping them in our classroom taught us that plants do need water and light to grow. We really enjoyed watching them grow and bloom. As part of our learning objective is to observe closely and name the roots of a plant, we thought it wonderful to pull up our bulbs! It was fascinating to see just how many roots one bulb had grown. There is an entire world below the soil level and we had fun getting a little messy. The children were quick to identify and label other weeds and plants we had found in our planters and garden. 1A learned a lot from this activity earlier in the week too.
With the warmer weather arriving, we have been on the school field today! The field gives us more opportunity to study the many trees we have growing there. This will form part of our learning in the coming weeks.
Help at home: Can your child identify the parts of a tree? (Trunk, branches, leaves and roots?) Are they able to name any trees? (Silver birch, pine etc.)
Just a reminder that with the wonderful season change and temperature increase your child will require a sun hat and perhaps sun lotion (if you don’t already apply it to your child before they come to school). Please name these items, they can be kept in your child’s tray or on their peg.
