Class News

Thank you from us all

All the Year 1 staff would like to say a big THANK YOU for all the thoughtful and generous gifts we have received this week.

The children have made us very proud and we have thoroughly enjoyed watching them grow and develop throughout the year.

Here’s some parachute fun from our last day.

Thank you for all the support you have provided throughout the year and we hope you have a very happy and healthy summer break.

Don’t forget to send us a postcard from any visits in the holidays ready for our geography learning in September.

Thursday 22 July 2021: Home learning

Good morning!

Our last day of learning at home.

Thank you for joining the zoom sessions everyday. You are all superstars!

Here are today’s home learning activities.

Phonics

Write the ‘er’ words.

Maths

Making 10

Can you complete the number sentences.

Extra activities

Here is today’s story read by Miss Gaunt.

We are all looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Don’t forget it’s non-uniform day!

Tennis opportunities

If your child enjoys tennis or wants to try it out, tennis camps are taking place locally at these clubs over the summer holidays.

Roundhay tennis club

Chapel Allerton tennis

Adel Tennis Club

Wednesday 21 July 2021 : Home learning

Good morning!

I hope you are enjoying the hot weather and managing to keep cool!

Here are todays learning activities.

Phonics

1. Write the ‘air’ words.
2. 

Maths

Play this game outside.

Ask a helper to hide 10 objects.

Make a giant 10 frame on the ground. You could use sticks or chalk.

Go on a hunt to find the objects and put them in your 10 frame.

How many have you found so far? How many more do you need to find?

Today’s story.

Have a go at a science experiment with Professor Myers.

Reading

There are free e-reading books at  www.oxfordowl.co.uk .

You will need to register as a parent/carer to access these.

Don’t forget to send me any pictures/writing for Mr McGriffiths and I will send them on.

Thanks to Roundhegians

We are very grateful to Roundhegians Rugby Club for hosting our sports days once again this year and allowing us to use their excellent facilities.

Roundhegians have a variety of rugby training sessions, from under 6 through to under 17, and these sessions will resume on Sunday 5th September.

For more information, please contact their chair of junior rugby, Chris Fongwah (fongers.cfw@gmail.com).

Tuesday 20 July 2021: Home learning

Hello, everyone!

Thank you for sending photos of your learning last week.

Here are today’s activities.

Phonics

Can you match the words and pictures?

Maths

Gather together some bean bags and two buckets.

If you don’t have any bean bags you could use rolled up pairs of socks.

throw the bean bags towards the buckets

How many bean bags can you see?

How many beanbags must be hidden inside the two buckets?

How many could be inside each?

Handwriting

Practise your long ladder letters.

Storytime

Here is today’s story.

Living and Learning: physical activity

During health week, we talked about the benefits of physical activity on our health. We learned that there is a link between physical health and academic success.

We then talked about how we can make sure we get 60 minutes of physical activity everyday. We split it into 30minutes at home and 30 minutes at school. We had lots of different ideas and made a poster showing how we can achieve the 60 goal.

At home, talk to your child about physical activity and help them to get their 30minutes each day!

Living and Learning: Physical Health Skipping into summer

Year 1 have thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the Skipping into summer project this year with Jodi and Chris from Skipping School.

While Jodi and Chris haven’t been able to come into school to deliver skipping skills sessions, we’ve enjoyed their online tutorials.

At the end of our Being Healthy themed week, we celebrated our skipping skills by sharing them with Year 2. It was great to see how the children have improved their coordination to perform some amazing skipping techniques.

Then, we had a ‘surprise’ visitor – Jodi came to see our super skipping skills!

Just wanted to say another big thank you for inviting me into school this morning. It was such a joy to see all those smiley faces 🙂 The skill level for that age group, especially your Year 1s, was AMAZING! Being able to speed bounce, side swing and even backwards cross over in Year 1 is just incredible! And then to have them bouncing in the big rope in groups to finish things off at play time was so lovely.

Thank you for taking part in the project and keeping skipping with us.

Monday 19 July 2021: Home learning

Good morning, everyone.

I hope you had a great weekend!

Here are today’s activities.

Phonics

Write the ‘ow’ words.

Maths

Estimate the number of sweets in the jars and then count them to check.

Here is today’s story.

Don’t forget to draw a picture and write a sentence for Mr McGriffiths.

Tell him something interesting about yourself.

Design and Technology

This half term, Year 2 have been designing many different free standing structures. 

Each lesson, we have been given a design brief explaining what our design and technology task would be that day.

We then followed the design process: evaluate, design, make and evaluate for each of these structures.

The first structure we made was a strong and stable wall for Humpty Dumpty. We discovered that interlocking bricks were more stable than single-file bricks.

The second structure we made was a swing using frame structures. We learnt how triangles are the strongest shape and used this information to help us design our swings.

Finally, this week we built a stable, freestanding structure for Humpty Dumpty’s garden.. We learnt how to join structures together to ensure that they wouldn’t fall over.