Fantastic first half-term!
I can’t believe we’re at the end of our first half-term in Reception! Over the past seven weeks we’ve laughed, explored, created and achieved so many amazing things. Have fun reflecting with your child whilst watching this video.
Reminders
- Monday 31 October – Training day – school closed
- PE will be on a Monday and Thursday next half-term.
- Now the weather is getting colder, please ensure your child comes to school wearing warm coat.
- Don’t forget to write a comment in your child’s reading records.
Finally…
Thank you to all who attended the parent-teacher meetings this week. If you have any other questions or concerns, please email or chat to me at the end of the day.
I hope you all have a happy and healthy half-term break. Make sure you recharge your batteries ready for another busy half-term. As always, don’t forget to send me lots of photos of what you get up to.
See you on Tuesday 01 November.
Living and Learning: Democracy – our new Junior Leaders!
Congratulations to Jemima and Henry L who were voted by the class to become our new Year 2 members of the Junior Leadership Team.
We are sure they will do a great job!
Well done to all the children who prepared a speech and shared this with the class. We hope you will try again next year!
We’d also like to say a big well done to Aaniyah and Ralph who have been our fantastic junior leaders. We are sure they will help out our new leaders.
A lovely afternoon for some basketball!
In our first P.E. session this week, we practised our basketball skills.
Firstly, we practised dribbling. We made sure we had full control of the ball by doing little bounces close to our bodies.
Then, we progressed into moving with the basketball before getting in pairs and using our bodies to shield the ball from one another.
After this, we practised our shooting skills. We imagined a witches hat was sat on the top of the basket and aimed for the tip.
Well done, Y6!
Themed menu 04 November 2022
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Friday 04 November. Bonfire night menu. Please contact the office if your child would like a school dinner on this day (no action required if your child normally has a school meal on this day).
Well done, Year 2!
We are very proud of the children after their class assembly performance today. This was the first performance they’ve had chance to do since starting school and they all did a great job.
Thank you for coming to hear all about our learning. We’ve loved learning about the Great Fire of London. Here’s the song if you want to hear more at home!
Class assembly
Tomorrow is our first class assembly.
We are excited to show you what we have been learning so far in Year 2.
Hope you can come to share this with us at 2:40pm.
We are biologists!
This half term, we have been learning as biologists.
We’ve learnt about living things and their habitats.
Last week, we ventured out into the front playground to conduct a invertebrate hunt.
The children looked around the habitat and recorded the number of invertebrates that they found.
History: Ancient Egypt
This week in History, we have been looking at how different groups of people contributed to the achievements of Ancient Egypt.
The children started off by matching the different job roles to their definitions and then ordering them in the importance of their contributions to Ancient Egyptian society. Here are some examples:
Afterwards, we focused in on the Ancient Egyptian farmers and the children used hieroglyphics to decode information about their job roles. Take a look at some of our fantastic work!
Finger gym Friday!
Living and Learning: self-respect
To start our lesson about self-respect, we made our own creature creations. Starting with a head, someone else added a body and finally someone else added legs.
We had some great mixed up creations and not one of them was the same. The creatures were all different as we all have different drawing styles and imaginations and, just like the creatures, those differences make us all unique.
We thought about what else makes us unique and why we are special.
Our weekly circle time sessions give the children chance to build on this learning about respect and self-respect and our themed week, Me and My Communities, after half term will also reinforce this learning about our own identity.