1A – Our Geography Journey
Learning about the streets around our school has been lots of fun. We have carried out fieldwork, presented data around our findings and written persuasive letters to Miss Hague.
During our fieldwork in Scholes village, we noticed that there wasn’t a safe place for people to cross the road safely near the Peace Flame and we saw how an older gentleman took a while to cross over to the bus stop. Another of our observations was that there was a lot of litter around the school gates. We really weren’t happy about that! Especially as there was not much litter elsewhere in Scholes! We decided to investigate further and carried out some more fieldwork. This time it would be on the school grounds.
During this fieldwork, we counted how many pieces of litter we could see on the KS1 playground, KS2 playground and the adventure playground. We weren’t happy to find that there was a lot of litter on the school grounds and we discussed how we could help the situation. Miss Hague often goes litter picking into Scholes village with some KS2 children and we wondered if she’d buy some litter pickers for KS1 too. We wrote some persuasive letters to her to try and convince her that it would be money well spent for school.
We eagerly await her decision…
Y2 Football
Well done again to our fantastic Year 2 football teams for playing some fantastic football this Monday evening. Our next game will be Monday 24th March.
Thank you again to FOSP for the brilliant football kits, and to parents for bringing their children along!
Miss Young
Yoga
For the last 2 weeks of half term we are doing yoga in PE. We are LOVING IT! We start the learning off with some breathing exercises, then practise some yoga poses. We put 3/4 balances to create a ‘flow’ and then have a go at creating our own balances.
On our mats we practised lots of low and high poses.
We also did some balancing in pairs and in threes!
Geography fieldwork
We have really enjoyed the fieldwork part of our geography topic this half term. We surveyed the village and our school grounds, thinking about litter, noise, traffic and plants. Our locality is really nice!
We did notice quite a bit of litter around school so we are going to pick it up.
Help at home by talking about how we can positively impact the environment (eg picking up litter, recycling, planting trees).
PE – yoga
We are doing some yoga lessons to finish this half term. Being aware of our bodies, balancing and stretching were great exercise. We loved the paired poses!
Living and learning: NSPCC – Speak Out, Stay Safe
As part of our Living and Learning lesson this week we watched a virtual assembly.
Sometimes things make us happy and sometimes they can make us sad, worried or unhappy. It’s important to understand our feelings and not keep worries to ourselves and that’s what we would like children to know. We talked about trusted adults inside and outside of school.
PE – dance
Year 1 and 2 are doing dance and yoga in PE this half term. We have started with dance and have talked about moving at a low, medium and high level and using our bodies to make interesting shapes. We are listening to different types of music – from Kate Bush to The Planets by Holst. Dance is just another way of moving our bodies (to music) and we have really enjoyed it!
Watch us while we work 1,2B
We had a very full classroom yesterday. Thank you for coming to see what your children are learning and how you can support them at home.
Orally rehearsing (talking!) is so important and modelling how to make sentences and phrases interesting helps children to implement this in their writing.
Counting, grouping and partitioning everyday objects at home can also help consolidate their understanding of number and patterns.
Geography – Fieldwork
This week 2C went on a trip into the local area. We walked into Scholes village and surveyed 5 locations. Our first stop was the outside of School. We noticed it was very clean and felt safe.
There was no litter outside of school. We also visited the library, St Phillips church, the Peace flame and the village hall. The village hall had the most litter outside of it but there was not much. The litter we did spot, we picked up!
Thank you to our adult volunteers for coming along on this trip!
Living and Learning
Our Living and Learning statement this week is ‘I can assess my own risks.’ This week, KS1 went on a Geography trip into Scholes. We did some fieldwork and collected data about our local area. Before we went on the walk the children discussed what risks we might come across and how we could stay safe.
One of the risks we talked about what cars coming past us. We could stay safe by wearing a high visibility jacket (so that we could be seen), stick with our partner and watch where we are walking (on the path).
We assess our risks every day. Another risk we assess regularly is the safety of our school playground when it has been raining. We know it can be quite slippery after it has rained. To keep safe, we walk and don’t run and we stay off the equipment.
Help at home by discussing what risks children might face and how they can be avoided in order to keep safe.