Pizza making
Today, we’ve been making our own pizzas. We focused on particular skills such as chopping, grating and slicing. The children were able to use methods such as the ‘The Bridge’ and ‘Claw’ effectively. While the pizzas were cooking, the school was filled with an aroma making everyone’s taste buds tingle! I was particularly impressed with how many offers to wash up there were!
Take a look at our master chefs at work.
100% Attendance
Congratulations to all those who have had 100% attendance since the end of February:
- Matteo
- Aleena
- Owen
- Nishaan
- Sam
- Pippa
- Hibba
- Zack
- Isobel
- Edward
- Umaimah
- Nico
- Oliver
- Harry
- Zeewa
- Pavan
- Neive
- Grace
- Megan
- Archie
- Stanley
- Saleem
Wow! That’s 22 children in total – very impressive. Keep it up!
Amazing attendance!
Well done to those people who were here every day for Spring Term 2 (23.02.15 – 02.04.15). They are…
- Martha
- Isaac
- Ben
- Grace
- Lewis
- Sachpreet
- Pia
- Gabby
- Phoebe
- Farai
- Thomas
- Ethan
- Mia
- Ismail
- Alex
- Albert
100% attendance
Eighteen children from Year 1 were in the draw for the prize of a meal at Pizza Express for having 100% attendance last half term:
Sam, Zidaan, William, Ben, Alexandra, Byron, Daniel, Eleni, Charlie, Natasha, Musa, Aisha, Kirsten, Kismat, Zakariya, Alexander, Manpreet and Maggie.
Let’s hope this continues into the Summer term.
Great effort from all players
Well done to our netball teams who took part in the North East High 5 netball competition alongside over 20 local schools and had the opportunity to meet players from Yorkshire Jets.
Phonics mornings
We hope you can attend the third and final phonics morning this week.
The sessions will be on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9am.
See you there.
Summer Term
What a great start to a new term! Year 3 returned to school after the holidays and every day this week have shown they are ready and eager to learn. Well done, Year 3!
On Monday, we began our new science topic Magnets and Forces. Check out some of the Year 3 scientists below.
Keeping safe and fit
John, from White Rose Martial Arts, demonstrated in the assembly today some of the skills that can be learnt at the karate after-school club, running again this term.
Pupils who have already attended the club confidently showed their karate techniques alongside some key messages about self-defence from John.
There was a lot of interest from the children so please contact John directly to secure a place for your child. Information can be obtained from the office or your child’s teacher. There is a free taster session on Tuesday 05 May but places are limited.
Welcome back!
I hope everybody’s had a great Easter holiday and are ready to return to school fresh-faced! This half term darkness will descend on Year 2 as we take a look at night time. We’ll delve into the depths of space to look at the planets, moon and stars before plummeting back to Earth to think about the jobs people do at night and animals that have become adapted to night time.
This week (20.04.15)…
Maths
This week, we’re exploring number by looking at rounding to the nearest ten, doubling and halving, place value (hundreds, tens, units) and knowing inverse operations (add-subtract, multiply-divide). Our tables focus will be 2s so lots of counting in 2s at home, walking to school, going up stairs will be very helpful. We’ll then think about how knowing our 2 times tables means we know our 20 and 200 times table, too.
I got 7 Easter eggs but my friend got double that amount. How many eggs did my friend get?
English
English will be very closely linked to our night time topic as we learn how to write information texts. Organising our writing using a title, introduction, subtitles and matching information will be important this week so, when reading at home, choose a non-fiction book and discuss how it is organised and why this is useful.
Topic
Night time will kick off with a trip into space to explore what it is we see in the night sky. We’ll learn about our solar system and its planets as well as what stars are and the Greek legends that tell the story behind the constellations of stars we see at night. At home, stay up late and do some star gazing. See what questions the children have and ask them to write them down (using the correct punctuation) and bring them in for us to discuss.
Writing
As you know, at the end of the year we’ll be assessing the children in 13 areas of the curriculum. One of these areas is writing. The early learning goal is:
Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelled correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
The children are all confident in recognising their letter sounds and now need to develop confidence in ‘having a go’ at writing. Remember, it doesn’t matter if words aren’t always spelt correctly as long as the children are recording the sounds they hear.
‘Tricky’ words like I, the, said, he, me need to be learnt and practised.
Please could you practise a simple sentence every day at home with your child. Bring their writing to school for us to celebrate.
If you have any questions, please ask.