Contraption Designs
This week’s homeworks are great! We’ve got loads of ideas to help us continue to build our contraption. Many of them are ideas we could use and a few are a bit more fantastical which we may struggle to execute. Here are a few highlights chosen by the children:
Forces homeworks!
Here are a couple of sets of fantastic forces homeworks the class have done this half-term:
These were all great but I did have a favourite: Ethan’s very scientific idea of getting his hamster to test the friction of different surfaces by getting him to walk across them. “His legs were splayed” was a comment I particularly liked about Rex’s difficulty walking across laminate flooring!
These homeworks are examples of our Forces in Action homework.
School council elections
Our current school councillors held their final meeting recently as we prepare to elect our new school council.
Children from every class, including Reception, are encouraged to prepare a speech to present to their class as part of the election process. Our whole school homework before the election date will give children the chance to plan their speech.
Thank you to our existing school council who have been involved with many decisions and discussions throughout the year. Most recently they have selected books for our library and pupil prizes as rewards in class.
Work on our plague masks begins.
Continuing on with our topic of Medicine Through The Ages, we have started making our very own plague masks. Plague doctors wore masks with a bird-like beak to protect them from being infected by the disease. We’ll be working on these over the next few weeks. Looking forward to the finished masks.
Homework in Reception
Now that we’re well into the Spring term, we’ll be sending homework every Friday. In addition to the new phonemes and tricky words the children are given to learn, your child will receive either practice handwriting sheets or sentences for your child to write independently.
Please check on the homework section of this website for practice sentences from next week.
Reception Class assembly
Don’t forget! Our first class assembly is on Thursday at 2.40pm.
See you there!
Our class assembly
Thanks to all who attended our per-historic class assembly this week, which tied in with our history learning as part of the Time Travel topic.
Here are a few comments:
- “Very informative. I was impressed that the children all knew their lines without needing a script.”
- “Very interesting and entertaining as usual.”
- “Very educational and very funny. I learnt a think or two. Well done!”
- “Great cavemen! Lots of information.”
Thanks for coming to our class assembly…
…and thanks for your compliments! Here are just three of them…
- “Very entertaining assembly. Impressed by how talented the class are.”
- “Lovely assembly – kids had great fun sharing their talents with the school.”
- “Good work by Year 1 – very committed performances by all the children.”
Phonics
Thank you to everyone who attended the phonics sessions last week. We hope you found them useful.
Following on from the feedback you gave, here are some captions and sentences your child can write at home. More will be added as we introduce new phonemes.
Phase 2 captions with tricky words: to, the, no, go
- socks on a mat
- an egg in an egg cup
- a hug and a kiss
- on top of the rock
- to the top of the hill
- get off the bus
- no lid on the pan
- pack a pen in a bag
- a doll in a cot
- sit back to back
Phase 3 sentences
- We can get the bus to the fish and chip shop.
- Gurdeep had a chat with his dad.
- Max and Vikram sail a wooden boat.
- Yasmin sits on a rock and looks for fish.
Thackray Medical Museum
Check out how we got on learning about medicine from the past and how our bodies work…
