Friday 25th June
It’s hard to believe we are coming towards the end of June but the learning and laughter hasn’t stopped. Nursery have really enjoyed playing in their new vet role play this week. After planting sunflowers last week, they have painted beautiful pictures after looking at Van Gough’s painting. The highlight in Reception has been talking about the beach and buying items in their beach shop. The children also loved making patterns with shells and experimenting to see what floats and sinks. Year 1 came up with super ideas during EPIC for activities around the classroom relating to our new Summer topic. They also enjoyed doubling and halving in maths as well as planting sunflower seeds. All the children were extremely proud to show their ‘All about Me’ posters to the class with thoughtful questions asked by lots of children. Year 2 have loved learning all about the seasons in Maths, adapting ‘The Lighthouse keeper’s lunch’ story to write their own stories in Literacy and using their digital skills to make green screen fact reports about African animals.
A highlight in Mr Jenkins’ class has been learning about the similarities and differences in animals. They have also learnt about keeping safe watching the NSPCC pants film, while they thoroughly enjoyed the start of their Euro football tournament! Mrs Horseman and Mrs Tucker’s class highlight has been learning about space; researching facts about the solar system, finding out the distance of planets from the sun in outdoor learning and descriptive writing of Pandora. In Mr Reid’s class food miles has been a focus – using scale and measuring to work out costs of food miles – this was a challenge for them to apply their skills! Plastic pollution was also a topic of interest – researching the problem plus designing and explaining their own inventions. The chairs went on strike in Miss Fender’s class this week with the children writing letters to persuade their chairs to return. Children also enjoyed drawing shapes in the yard for maths focusing on area and perimeter and exploring the Minecraft Sustainability City to learn about recycling. Watch out parents, as in Ms Williams’ class, this week we have enjoyed learning how to use persuasive tricks! The children used these techniques to write letters and design posters about pollution. Another highlight was their final shot-put lesson this week where they could all see a significant improvement in our throws. Well done everyone!
Reminders
A reminder that we will holding sports days for classes next week (unfortunately, due to restrictions still in place within schools, parents will not be able to attend). Children should wear sports kit on the following days:
