This week- Cinderella, Shapes and lots more!

This week we are carrying on with our traditional tales. We have started to look at the story of Cinderella. The children have started using speech marks in their writing this week. 

In Numeracy we are focussing on the properties of shapes.

In Science the children have had the chance to play with lots of different toys that you need to push or pull for them to move.

In History we have been looking at old toys. Mrs Moger bought in some old toys, including a 90 year old Teddy! (Not her own!!)

If anybody has some old toys that they could share with us that would be great, even if it is just a picture of one. 

The Girl with The Yellow Bag

This week we are carrying on with our traditional tales. We have started to look at the story of The Gingerbread Man. 

Today we had a focus day on handwriting. Half of year one swapped for the morning with half of year two and vice versa in the afternoon.

In year one we looked at a short animation 

The children worked in pairs and had a choice of objects to put in their own yellow bags. The idea was to imagine the objects turning into different things. They then used their ideas to write their own stories. Both year one and two had some really fantastic ideas. Well done!

Mrs. Johnson in year two made story books come alive! The children had to use their imagination to write a poem (using similes) about what comes alive out of their books. 

The children had a brilliant day and worked excellently with year two. 

School closure Friday 18th January

The school is closed today due to the snow.

Acting skills....

The children had lots of fun acting out some traditional tales today in Literacy. They acted out
- The 3 little pigs
-Jack and the beanstalk
-Red riding hood
-Goldilocks

In maths we are carrying on with fractions and most of us now know what a half and quarter looks like.

This afternoon we have got our coach in for football.

w/b 14th Jan

This week we have started to look at a brilliant book called 'Once upon a time' . We will be looking at this book throughout the week, most of the children will be familiar with the characters of the book as it is based around other traditional tales.

In numeracy we have started to look at fractions. In science we have stared to look at forces and the children looked at toys that you had to push or pull.

Clubs

Well the second term of clubs has begun this week and we’ve got a great array of clubs for your children to choose from. If you didn’t sign up for a club and your child wanted to please visit our school office to see if there are spaces.

 

Choir will begin on Thurs lunchtime with Mrs Mewett, and this year we will be having the support of Mrs Gallego in this club. The choir will be open to all children in Yr 2, 3 and 4 and we hope we can entice children to attend with an attendance card which will be signed each time they come. There will be some rewards to work towards to encourage children to regularly attend the choir too!!!!

 

Orchestra – this is very much taking the opportunity this year of our many talented proficient musicians. I endeavour to welcome all to orchestra, the children will need to have a range of notes to be able to play orchestral pieces thus why on the club lists I stated that the Music teachers will help me select children who are ready for this challenge! Anyway our task is to try to put one or two pieces together to showcase in the summer music concert! If you are able to help with this group then the more hands available the better so please contact me!

 

Recorder club – I will be talking to the school on Wednesday morning about this but wanted to let parents know that we will be offering a beginner recorder class from next Monday, open to Reception children and anyone else who wishes to begin.

 

The clubs are lots of fun for the children, can we ask you to help reinforce to your child that if they commit to a club then they do attend weekly? A lot of time is spent planning and preparing for these clubs, a benefit of when children regularly attend is that it really helps clubs which involve new learning each week like recorders and choir. I have been stunned by the progress recorder players made last year through committing to a weekly club.

 

Many thanks with your support. Any questions regarding clubs please see either the office team or myself.

 

Mrs Mewett

Welcome back!

 

We would like to say a big warm welcome back to you all. We hope you had a fantastic christmas break!

 

We have so many exciting activities and learning oppurtunities happening this term, we will update you of these on this blog.

 

This term we are lucky to have Anna Ward with us, Anna is a GTP student and will be contributing to the teaching in year 1.

 

This term our topic is Toys (old), we will also be looking at traditional tales and have some brilliant books that we will be looking at.

Parents' information session

Mrs Moger will be running an information session for Year 1 parents to explain the plans for the new term. This will be at 9.00am on Tuesday 15th January.