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Living and Learning: I know when to interrupt

Our children have been learning about when / when not to interrupt (with their mouth or their hand).

They came up with two lists:

OK to interrupt

• when someone is hurt / injured
• need to correct the teacher (politely)
• when you have seen something dangerous important

Not OK to interrupt

• shouting in the middle of the lesson
• don’t interrupt when someone else is speaking

13 December 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework, which should be returned by Thursday 19 December: I can talk about what I was learning about in these photos.

Here are some pictures of the learning which children have been enjoying this week. For this homework, children should discuss the images with someone at home. This conversation could be about anything to do with the learning but here’s a few examples that might help…

• What were you learning here?
• Why were you learning that?
• Did you enjoy the learning? Why?
• Do you still have any questions about the learning?
• Would you like to learn more? Why?

If you are having difficulties accessing the website, please ask us to send home a print out of the images.

Writing a setting description based ‘The Eye of the Storm‘.

Identifying the figurative language in a poem used for an advert by the BBC.

Combing computing and Geography by writing algorithms (a process or set of instructions to be followed – usually by a computer) to find the treasure using positional language (North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, Northwest)

Combining orienteering and geography by using the eight points of a compass to find the answers to clues in the playground.

06 December 2019

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework, which should be returned by Thursday 12 December.

The children are invited to respond to something from either a cultural or a spiritual perspective.

I can show what I know and think about something cultural.

We’d like children to present their responses about a recent book they’ve read, film they’ve watched, piece of art they’ve looked at, piece of music they’ve listened to – anything cultural in fact.

We’re interested to read some sort of description (a summary, for example) and then your child’s opinions. This review might include pictures, an interview (your child could write a fictional script between himself/herself and the artist, for example), a letter (eg to or from a character, or perhaps even the author) – anything which might include your child’s responses!

However, your child might prefer to do the following:

I can show what I know about a festival.

Over the course of this term, some children in school may have celebrated a religious festival of some sort.  This might have been

• the Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha
• the Sikh and Hindu festival Diwali
• the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, coming up in December
• the Christian festival (of course, celebrated by many non-Christians) of Christmas
• and the Chinese New Year festival, coming up

There are lots of other festivals and celebrations, which you and your child together might want to reflect on.

We invite children to respond to the sentence above – they might include a recount (like a diary entry), pictures, an interview (perhaps in a script).  Your child might also choose to research a completely unknown festival, or they might even think about creating a brand new festival, one that everyone will celebrate.

Living and Learning: Community Week

To kick start our Community Week, we had some special visitors yesterday who work hard in the community to make our world a happy and healthy place to be.

Scholes in Bloom and local Police Officers came to talk to our children about their role in the community.

Friday 15 November 2019

This week, we will be focussing on adding suffixes to the ends of words to change their meaning. We will focus specifically on adding –ful, -ness, -less and –ly. To practise this rule, children should do two things. Firstly, complete the activity below by matching the root word to the correct suffix.

Secondly, children should now practice spelling these words (any other words that these suffixes can be added to) in their homework books.

Living and Learning: Democracy

At Scholes, we democratically voted for our school councillors during the last week of term.

Here are our new school council representatives.

We look forward to their enthusiasm and leadership qualities.

Friday 18 October 2019

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and due on Thursday 24 October 2019.

We have been learning how to use adverbs in our writing to add more detail.

Adverbs add description to the verb in the sentence; they can add more information about how, when or where.

We would like you to add adverbs to the 5 following sentences to create a better, more improved sentence with the use of an adverb. Choose adverbs from the list, or use some of your own.

Think about where the adverb would fit best into the sentence. Remember to use a comma if you add an adverb to the front of a sentence.

Here are some examples:

e.g. The birds chirped.

• The birds chirped peacefully. (how)
• The birds chirped in the branches. (where)
• At dawn, the birds chirped. (when)
• In the morning, the birds chirped happily. (when and how)

1. A player shot into an open goal.

2. The princess cried because she was lost.

3. James coughed to attract attention.

4. She spoke to the child.

5. Mum ate the chocolate.

Friday 04 October 2019

This week, our spellings focus is adding suffixes. A suffix is a group of letters added to the end of a word. Children should complete the suffix sheet they’ve been given in preparation for a test on Friday 10 October 2019.

Don’t forget to come along to the Ofsted review meeting which is coming up.

On Wednesday 10 July at 5pm, we invite you to school to reflect on our recent Ofsted inspection.

We’re delighted to have been judged as ‘good’ in all areas.

The meeting is an opportunity to reflect on the inspection. We’ll talk briefly about the inspection, we’ll talk about the next steps for us as a school, and you’ll have time to ask us any specific questions about the inspection report, or let us know any comments or concerns.

On the same day, teachers are available from 3.30pm to 5.00pm to talk through the end-of-year report your child will have brought home – why not pop along for that and stay for the Ofsted meeting?

The annual survey is now closed

Thanks to all parents / carers who completed an annual survey. The deadline for this was yesterday. School leaders will now start looking through the feedback and this will help tell us how we can keep getting better and better.

We can’t guarantee to meet the needs and wants of every parent / carer, but we do assure you that we consider all the points raised and aim to act on specific points that are raised by many, or a useful idea raised by just a few.

Last year, based on your feedback, for example, we changed how we update you about your child’s progress so that you get five updates over the year: a parent-teacher consultation in Autumn 1 and Spring 1; a Learning Update ‘mini-report’ in Autumn 2 and Spring 2; and a final end-of-year report in Summer 2.

We’re looking forward to reading your views.