We have started our new novel – ‘I was there …Titanic’ which explores a young third class passenger travelling on board Titanic. We wrote setting descriptions, imagining we were Daisy boarding Titanic at Southampton dock, using our senses, to soak in the atmosphere and describe her new surroundings.
Class 2 won attendance-opoly last week, their class got the best attendance of the week and so won the chance to move around our school game board.
The reward the won was baking.
The children chose to make chocolate chip cookie cakes.
The smell was so delicious Class 1 could help themselves from joining in. Thank you Class 2 for being such good friends and letting them help.
The children in Class 1 and 2 are working really hard in phonics. They are beginning to show how they can use their new skills in classroom activities.
The children have been exploring the new word builders, where they have been practising letter recognition and word blending.
Thank you to all of our families who came along to the Reception Christmas songs and craft morning. It was such a special moment when we took a second and noticed just how many of you had taken the time out of your day to join us.
The children have worked hard to learn the songs and our two soloists were so brave. All the children did us proud and we’re sure you’d agree.
The children loved the opportunity to craft with their mums, dad, grandparents and other family members also. Hopefully, someone with spot Santa with their binoculars on Christmas Eve.
Reception children had a brilliant time at their first school Christmas party.
They all looked fabulous in their party outfits, some of the children told us Santa had sent them their party clothes early.
We played games, showed off our fancy footwork, had a lovely party tea and then the man himself had time to visit. It was a very exciting afternoon.
The children are really enjoying their Read Write Inc lessons…so much that they’re teaching themselves!
The children learn to read and write a new letter every day. They practise saying the sound and saying words that start with the sound of the day. Then they try to work out the words our friend Fred Frog tells them – which is tricky because Fred only speaks in frog talk!
After group time the children then practise writing the letter of the day before practising their word reading skills with the magnetic letters.
Lots of the children have been excited by the new Frozen film. We explored some pictures from the film and from real life frozen landscapes to investigate ‘cold’, ‘winter’, ‘frozen’ colours.
The children really impressed us at what they noticed, especially when they started to notice the shades of colours in the pictures.
We used our new knowledge to create our own large scale ‘frozen’ process art.
We worked in steps. building up the layers, colours, shade and embellishments. The children worked collaboratively to produce their art work, that would hang proudly in any art gallery.
The children in Class 1 and 2 just love to build.
In the past few weeks the children have got ever more creative. The staff just love to watch the children working together, sharing ideas and using the materials in interesting and new ways. Take a look at some of our most recent creations.
Class 1 and 2 and been exploring how to make number bonds within 5 this past few weeks.
We have played games – throwing bean bags in to hoops and creating number sentences.
We have begin to explore the part-whole method to help us recall our number facts.
We have used numicon to explore different ways of joining numbers together to make our number bonds.
Year 6 have been learning about our wonderful World during RE lessons by answering the question, ‘Why should people with a religious faith care about the environment?’ We researched the creation stories from Christianity and Hinduism and understood the importance our world is to our lives. We were interested to find out about the Reduce Reuse Recycle campaign and made a logo out of recyclable materials. We watched a short clip showcasing our wonderful world, which made us fully appreciate all the amazing things that we have on our earth. We studied the artist Andy Goldsworthy as his art specialises in using natural materials from our wonderful world. We designed images in his style.
For more information on Andy Goldsworthy you can visit –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy
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