Living and Learning-I respect my communities and other communities.
This Living and Learning statement helps to promote the British value of mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. In KS1 we daily encourage respect for everyone and everything. We know that we are all the same AND we are all different! How amazing is that?
One child shared their homework about the celebration of Christmas. He proudly showed his Christingle. We discussed similarities and differences between Christmas and Eid. Will you be celebrating anything special this coming holiday?
Golden Stars
Well done to today’s golden stars!
All Stars cricket
Foundation and Key Stage 1 enjoyed a lively cricket assembly from Tom Bates (All Stars Cricket) today. The Year 1 and 2 classes then had a try playing some cricket skills games and a match, too!
Living and Learning – My responsibilities
In our Living and Learning lessons, KS1 have been thinking about our responsibilities. What are we responsible for in school and at home? Working in groups, we tried to decide upon the value that we place upon different responsibilities. We used a ‘Diamond 9’ grid as a basis to order our responsibilities. The mutual respect and discussion that was needed to complete this activity was incredible. Each group explained their reasoning behind the most and least important responsibility. How would you order these responsibilities?
Book People Book Fair
This week, we’ve a Book People book fair at school. The Book People are an online book shop, selling books at up to 70% off RRP prices. We’ve a great selection of individual books starting from £4 and a wide range of boxed books, too. Tomorrow is the last day we will be selling the books in school. We will open the book fair at 3.15pm for parents to buy and browse before the end of school. The fair is located in the main reception area.
Thank you to everyone who has already paid us a visit and bought a book.
The school earns money for the sales we make, which helps us replenish the school library, guided reading books and books for the children to enjoy in their classrooms.
Living and Learning – I know who I am.
Children in KS1 are incredibly proud of who they are! Why not ask your child, ‘Who are you?’
Time Travel – topic review
We have come to the end of our, history-based, Time Travel topic. We used food as a focus and have read Stone Age Boy, learnt how people cooked in the Stone Age, tried creating ‘cave paintings’ using sticks and stones, looked at food wrappers, sorted cooking implements, investigated how packed lunches have changed over time, used Andy Warhol’s to inspire our own art work and had a camp fire on the playground! We discussed all our exciting learning with children from other classes in our final session last week.
I know we’re all the same and we’re all different-Living and Learning
We’re all human, we all look pretty much the same, and like and do similar things. We want to celebrate our differences, too! Some of us are shorter, thinner, fairer; some of us have a mum and dad at home and lots of us don’t…
Every child in KS1 has enjoyed finding similarities and differences between themselves and others.
Golden Star
Congratulations to the pupil who received the prestigious Golden Star, in 2KL, this week. 
Homework review – I know how to STOP bullying (Living and Learning)
Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to our homework review session on Thursday. There was some great Talk Time homework and we discussed it in our classes. We had posters, poems and a video news report that was sent to the school email: scholesoffice@spherefederation.org. These were shared and discussed in classes, with children engaged and keen to share or show what they had created.
Please feel free to write comments about how your child approached, found and responded to the homework.
