Sculpture Park
Don’t forget we are going to the Sculpture Park on Wednesday 15 October.
Please make sure that your child has a waterproof coat and sensible shoes on and don’t forget their packed lunch.
It’s going to be an exciting day – watch this space for photos.
On the stage
There are a few budding actors in Year 1 who should definitely be on stage at some point. Scripts have been our focus over the past week – here are some scripts being put to good use.
What is an algorithm?
Algorithms are a set of rules or a process. This is a hard concept to understand when you are 5 years old but we have started to think about how we can learn about them in Year 1. We can follow instructions by listening to them or by reading them but if a computer needs instructions then it needs programming. Here is our first attempt at programming – giving Beebots (half bee, half robot!) a series of instructions.
The characteristics of effective learning
In Reception we observe and assess children’s learning in seven areas. These are: communication and language; personal, social and emotional development; physical development; literacy; maths; knowledge of the world and expressive arts and design. Alongside these we observe children’s characteristics of effective learning.
These characteristics and the areas of learning and development are all interconnected.
‘The ways in which the child engages with other people and their environment – playing and exploring, active learning, and creating and thinking critically – underpin learning and development across all areas and support the child to remain an effective and motivated learner.”
The characteristics of effective learning are:
Playing and exploring – engagement
- Finding out and exploring
- Playing with what they know
- Being willing to ‘have a go’
Active learning – motivation
- Being involved and concentrating
- Keeping trying
- Enjoying achieving what they set out to do
Creating and thinking critically – thinking
- Having their own ideas
- Making links
- Choosing ways to do things
Well done, Year 1!
Well done to every child in Year 1 for a great assembly this afternoon. Special thanks to Byron who offered to take over Arundeep’s lines.
The children have all tried very hard this week to learn lines, use props and to speak in front of an audience. There were a few nerves but also excitement this afternoon. Aisha summed it up well: ‘That was fun!’
Thank you to all the family and friends who came to watch.
Good luck with the Wake up Shake up routine tomorrow.
Childline
We had a visit from Sam and Buddy from Childline this morning. We talked about some really important issues and the children had some really good ideas about how they could help people in certain situations.
Remember, Childline is free to call from any phone. The number is 0800 1111.
Creative homework
We’ve looked at our creative fantasy promotions today. There were some brilliant presentations, fabulous audio and visual adverts and lots of disgusting looking potions with accompanying posters! Well done.
Jennifer’s ‘One Wish Spell’ was a favourite. Check out the pictures:
Put on your sorting hat.
Naughty Katie destroyed all of Kandinsky’s paintings this week so we decided to help the art gallery by sorting all of the scattered pieces according to their shape.
Sometimes we had to bring our hoops together because some shapes fit under both criteria. This is called a Venn diagram.
Lots of great maths and lots of fixed pictures!
Generating lots of openers in our English lesson…
Working hard in gymnastics!
