Living and Learning-Friends and Family
For the past two weeks, in KS1, we have been discussing our unique families and friends. Children spoke about their favourite family traditions and who is the best cook in their house!
The story of ‘Elmer’ helped us to think about how to be a good friend. Are you a good friend? 
Living and Learning – recognising feelings in others
We used our MindMate resources to talk about recognising feelings in our friends and families. It is not always easy for children to recognise how other people are feeling. Help at home by talking about how you are feeling and helping your child to recognise facial expressions and look for body language clues.
Green fingers? Help needed!
Scholes in Bloom judging day is Monday 6 August this year. If you are available and would like to join the effort for gold, please come and collect a plant from Mrs Myers or Mrs Latham. All you need to do is look after it and meet us at the flower bed outside school on judging day at 10am. If you prefer, you could make a ‘scarecrow’ and bring it on the same day. The theme is ‘all creatures great and small’. Hope to see you there!
500 Words 2018 Final
A very excited member of 1K got the opportunity to attend the final of the 500 words story writing competition.
Sam visited Hampton Court Palace for an amazing experience. Whilst there he met Henry Vlll ( who featured in the story Sam entered for the competition), saw Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cornwall make a very special entrance with Chris Evans on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, listen to the winning stories read by celebrity narrators including David Walliams and Dara O’Brian plus many more exciting performances.
Pupil Voice – Friendship Benches
School Council had a really tough time deciding which designs would be used to decorate our friendship benches.
There were some lovely messages and creative ideas used to make these benches feel a positive and inviting place to be.
These are the chosen designs.
I love the message – friends are like rainbows they brighten your day.
I think the colours will brighten up our playground.
It has a happy vibe.
It has nice vocabulary on it.
Toys topic – children’s feedback
We looked back on our toys topic last week and children talked about what they had learnt. Here are some quotes that the children said.
I enjoyed the Teddy Bear’s Picnic. It was a sunny day and I loved having my teddy with me to eat my picnic.
I felt most proud in Science. I got it right when we tested which toys floated and which ones sank.
We learnt about old and new bears. Old bears had joints and a pointed muzzle. They had sawdust inside so they were hard to cuddle.
I found it hard making our own toys game. We had to make a code to do it.
Scholes Gala – skippers and dancers
Thank you to our Y4 Skipping Crew and the Y1, Y2 and Y6 WUSU Crews who represented school so brilliantly at Scholes village gala.
2KL Join In afternoon
Thank you to everyone who attended the Join In afternoon today. Some wonderfully designed t-shirts were proudly paraded by the children. Remember to iron them under a tea towel to ‘seal’ the design in.
Golden Star
Well done to our most recent golden star!
Maths and PE
We have been using the newly painted 100 square on our playground to warm up for PE lessons and reinforce our maths learning. 2KL can be seen here doing the ‘2s stride’. They were counting in 2s and linking it to the 2 times tables facts. Help at home by testing each other on counting in 2s, division and multiplication facts.
