Living and Learning
This week’s whole school Living and Learning statement is, ‘I know that friends and family are important.’
Our in-class learning objective however, has been ‘I know when my friends are happy.’
This week, KS1 have been discussing how important it is to have relationships with people we can trust, whether that is friends or family. This is not only for our own happiness, but if something goes wrong it means we always have someone we can talk to. Somebody we can trust.
It is therefore important that we know when we are feeling happy and in turn, when others are feeling happy. This can give us the social skills we need to help ourselves and others.
‘There has never been a stronger focus on the health and wellbeing of our young children as there is today and we have an important and valuable part to play in this.’
In class, we watched a clip about Elmer the elephant, a story by David McKee. In the story, Elmer became sad as other Elephants did not understand her.
We used the words from the story and looked at Elmers’ body language, to recognise why she was feeling sad.
We then discussed how the other Elephants could help Elmer and make her happy again. Then we spoke about how this can link to our own lives and situations in school.
Finally, the children designed their own Elmer the Elephant, using ‘happy’ and vibrant colours.
World Book Day in KS1
We had a fabulous World Book Day today.
The children looked fantastic as their book characters and we shared stories and talked about why we loved certain characters. Thank you for all the costumes!
Staff all dressed as a crayon from The Day The Crayons Quit.
We also watched a fantastic theatre performance of The Secret Garden by M&M Productions. We were mesmerised.
We just loved celebrating how much we love reading, poems and books!
Maths – divide
This week, Year 2 have been learning how to divide.
‘Divide means to share into equally groups.’
We are focussing on dividing by 2, 5 and 10. We know that divide is in the same fact family as multiply. This means that there is a link between the numbers we use in each equation.
Today, 2C focussed on dividing by 5.
10 divided by 2 = 5
10 divided by 5 = 2
2 x 5 = 10
5 x 2 = 10
See some of our fantastic work below!
PE in 1,2B – yoga
We have been learning some yoga poses in PE lessons. Focusing on breathing, balance, movement and coordination are all essential in yoga. Working with a partner was also rather fun!
Help at home by doing some yoga together. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
Living and Learning: I know we’re all the same and we’re all different
In Key Stage One, we have read the book ‘Elmer’ by David McKee and considered things from another’s point of view. How might Elmer feel about being different from the other elephants? Why did Elmer want to look like the other elephants? How do the other elephants view Elmer?
Through this book, each class has been able to discuss how the elephants are the same and different. We have applied this to ourselves too.
Class novel – Naughty Bus
We are enjoying repeatedly reading our class novel, Naughty Bus by Jan and Jerry Oke, and using it to inspire our reading and writing lessons too. The real photos and way the words are printed in the book has ignited lots of interesting discussions.
The word swim looks like it’s sinking.
Saving me looks like it’s being hooked by the powerful winch.
Help at home by taking discussing how authors use text or pictures in books to affect the reader.
Science vocabulary
Our new Science mini-topic is here below. We also designed some posters about what we can do to look after our Earth.
Help at home by talking about how we can care for our planet.
Science – caring for our planet
For the first two weeks of this half term, KS1 are learning about how to care for our planet. We know it is everybody’s responsibility to look after planet Earth. We have a responsibility to look after our local area and we can do that by caring for other people, animals and plants.
During our first session, the children had a look at the ‘wildflower garden’ by our KS1 playground. It was there that we discovered bird feeders, hedgehog and bug houses and recently planted plants and trees by our Year 6 children. We know all of these things help to look after our planets.
‘Trees produce oxygen that we need to breathe.’ (S.C 2c)
‘Hedgehogs can find shelter in the houses.’ (HP 2C)
This week we compared two areas to one another. We decided to look at Scholes village and London. We talked about differences such as population, traffic and transport ect and the effects this may have on these environments. We talked about how we could improve each area to help the wildlife. Here are some examples of the posters we made in class!
Living and learning : Strong emotions
In our Living and Learning sessions we have been talking about our feelings, and in particular, strong emotions. We all have felt angry, sad and happy at some point. We identified different emotions and when we might have felt them. We talked about how emotions can feel overwhelming but will pass over time.
Design Technology – Food
1,2B had our turn in The Hub this week completing our fruit salad recipe.
We peeled, chopped, sliced and segmented our hearts out! The best part is the tasting though, of course.
Help at home by involving your child in food preparation and cooking. It helps with sequencing, fine motor control, maths, science and so much more!
