Living and Learning: United against bullying
This week, it’s Anti-Bullying Week and the theme for this year is ‘United against bullying’.
Don’t forget – we are also taking part in Odd Socks Day on Monday 16 November.
STOP is a key message linked to bullying. In our school, STOP stands for two things:
- the definition: Several Times On Purpose
- the solution: Start Telling Other People
Recently, our school council met to review our school definition of bullying and our child friendly anti-bullying policy. Thank you to the school councillors for their valued contributions. As a result, our definition and policy have now been updated.
Child friendly anti-bullying policy
What is bullying?
In our school, this is what bullying means:
Bullying is where you hurt someone, physically or emotionally (including online), several times on purpose.
What might bullying look like?
If any of these things happen several (lots of) times, it is bullying.
- Hurting peoples’ feelings, for example, name calling, teasing, threatening, ignoring, leaving people out or spreading rumours
- Hurting peoples’ bodies, for example, hitting, punching or kicking
This could be in person or online (cyber bullying) and could be because of someone’s race, disability, gender, appearance, age or any other protected characteristic.
What could you do if you are being bullied?
Start
Telling
Other
People
Who could you tell?
- Mrs Weekes/Mrs Freeman/Mrs Russell/Mrs Small (they are child protection staff)
- Mrs Taylor (Health Leader)
- Any other members of staff
- Friends
- Someone in your family
- A trusted adult
- Childline (0800 1111)
- Write a worry slip and put it in your Living and Learning box or the whole school worry box
- Email stayingsafe@spherefederation.org
Our views on bullying
STOP bullying – bullying is wrong! We’re a happy and healthy school.
Children in Need
Don’t forget!
Tomorrow, Friday 13 November, is Children in Need.
It will be a non-uniform day for a donation towards the charity.
Isolating at home?
Here is some home learning for when you can’t be with us at school.
Remember to send pictures of your child’s home learning to moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Phonics
We have been learning e, u, r this week.
Sing along to these Jolly Phonics songs.
(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.
https://youtu.be/4VknD1I0Zc4
Literacy
We are reading the story ‘Owl Babies’.
Listen to the story here.
Draw some of the events from the story and label your pictures using your phonic knowledge.
Maths
We are continuing to learn about the number 3.
Count out 1,2, or 3 objects and then use a cloth to hide them. Can your child show how many are hidden using their fingers? Add one more object to the hidden group. How many are there now? What happens if you take one out?
Please send photos of your learning.
This week in Reception
This week in Phonics we are learning the phonemes c,k,ck,e,u,r. The children will know that two letters that make one sound (ck) is called a digraph.
We will learn our first ‘tricky words’ the and to. These are words that can’t be read using phonics. The children will need to recognise them by sight.
It’s great to see so many children gaining confidence and using their phonic knowledge to ‘have a go’ at writing.
Our story this week is ‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Waddell. The children have been retelling the story using story maps and story language such as, first, then, next and finally.
They have been making their own ‘owl babies’.
Odd socks day
Next week is Anti-Bullying Week.
This year’s theme is ‘United against bullying’ and we will be taking part in Odd Socks Day on Monday 16 November.
Odd socks day is to raise awareness of our differences, individuality and personal choice. There is no need for any payment – your child should simply wear odd socks and join in the fun!
Thank you for your support.
A busy week so far!
The children have returned to school confidently and ready to learn! We have been really impressed with their learning attitude and behaviour.
In maths, we read a book called ‘The button box’ and the children had a great time looking through my mum’s button tin!
We discussed what the button might be from and what it was made of.
We then sorted them using different criteria.
We have read lots of books with a witch theme and the children have written recipes for potions and witch’s soup.
There was great excitement when we discovered a real spider in the classroom! The children then designed and built a ‘spider house.’
Welcome back
We hope you had a great half term!
Here is some of the learning that will take place this half-term.
Phonics
We will continue to learn letters and sounds from Phase 2.
Set 3. g, o , c , k, ck
Set 4. ck, e, u, r
Set 5. h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss
In addition, children will learn the ‘tricky words’ the, to, into, go, no.
We will be sending flashcards and words to practise at home.
English
This half term, we will be reading stories with an Autumn theme and encouraging children to retell them. They will be encouraged and supported to use their phonic knowledge to write labels for their drawings.
To celebrate World Nursery Rhyme week starting 16 November, we will learn five nursery rhymes.
You can find information about this and activities to try at home at
Maths
We will continue to learn numbers to 10 and introduce the idea that all numbers are made of smaller numbers(composition). Children will understand that as we count, each number is one more than the number before. As we count back, each number is one less than the previous number.
Don’t forget to email us with any questions.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Parent Partnership
We recognise that you are the children’s first and most enduring educators and would like to encourage you to share your unique knowledge of them.
Please take a look at this workshop presentation to see how you can share your child’s ‘wow’ moments and achievements with us.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Phonics
Reception are loving their phonics lessons and are all gaining confidence in forming letters and making words.
Please practise the phonemes at home and encourage them to practise writing the letters and their name.
You can see how we form our letters here.
Learn how we teach phonics.
Phonics
We have begun phase 2 of our phonics learning and have learnt the phonemes s, a, t, p.
This week we will continue with set 2 g, o , c, k, ck
Has your child been talking about ‘phonemes’ and ‘graphemes’ yet?
Don’t worry- you can learn about these terms and how we teach phonics here.
As we learn new letters and their sounds, we also learn how to write them.
You can see how we write the letters here.
If you have any questions please email and remember to let us know about those ‘wow’ moments at home.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org