Reminder: stay and learn session
Fine Motor Skills and coffee morning – 03.02.25 9-10am
Yorkshire Air Ambulance
This year, our Junior Leadership Team democratically selected Yorkshire Air Ambulance as our new school charity to support.
Yorkshire Air Ambulance is an independent charity providing a lifesaving rapid response emergency service to 5 million people across the whole of Yorkshire. Money raised keeps both of their air ambulance helicopters maintained and in the air.
This week, we welcomed representatives from Yorkshire Air Ambulance for an assembly to hear first hand about the excellent work they do and how our donations will help the charity.
Did you know it costs £21,000 per day to keep the Yorkshire Air Ambulance running.
It’s great to hear the children have already got ideas of how we can raise money for YAA. They are encouraged to put these ideas into our class Living and learning boxes for the Junior Leadership Team to consider.
Reminder: stay and learn
Stay and learn will take place next week.
Fine Motor Skills and coffee morning – 03.02.25 9-10am
It would be great to see you all there. It is a fantastic opportunity for you to learn how we deliver our lessons and the content that is covered. We are offering a coffee afterwards and a chance for you to ask questions about the lesson you saw.
Spring 1: Week 3 Living and Learning
This week’s living and learning statement is I can assess my own risk.
The children came up with some great ideas during our class discussion.
“If you are in the snow you need to make sure you stay warm.”
“You need to protect your skin when it is hot.”
“Don’t build towers too tall.”
This week, we have been exploring art by Yayoi Kusama. We have been inspired by her work and created similar pieces. The children were encouraged to say what they liked/disliked about her art using the word because.
“I like it because I like the rainbow colours.”
“I like it because there are clothes in it.”
Help at home: by encouraging your child to speak in full sentences.
Maths
During this week’s lessons we have been doing lots of singing. We have used different songs to explore the different ways you can make 5. For example, using the speckle frog song we were able to discuss how many frogs were in the pond, how many were on the log and how many frogs there were altogether.
Active travel and safety around the school gate
Spring 1: Week 2
PE
Over the half term, we will be developing our yoga and dance skills. We have started with yoga. The children have been enjoying learning yoga and balancing in the different positions. We have talked about yoga being a form of meditation and how different types of breathing can affect how we feel.
Reading
The children are doing really developing their phase3 phonics knowledge. After looking at the Little Wandle reading report online, I can see some people are not access the books frequently. Please do let me know if you are having any issues with the website.
Help at home by: reading regularly.
Maths
We have been looking at one more of numbers up to 5. The children enjoyed making their own Numberblock staircase and getting their friend to guess which Numberblock was missing.
Poetry Picnic
Our poem about snow was very appropriate this week. The children took it in turns to perform it to the rest of the class.
Thank you to all those parents who came to the stay and learn session this week. The children enjoyed sharing their learning with you.
If you haven’t already, please could you give feedback using the QR code from Tuesday’s post.
Spring term after-school clubs
We’ve had a great first week to our after-school clubs. There are some places available on the following clubs if your child would like to join. Please refer to the letter below to show the relevant year groups.
Reminder: stay and learn session
Phonics Phase 3 – 14.01.25 9-9:30am
Phonic Presentation
Thank you to all those that came to our phase 3 phonic presentation. For those of you who could not make it, here are the PowerPoint slides for you to look over.
As always, if there are any questions please ask.
I would be grateful if you could please complete the feedback form which is found in the QR code.
Thank you for your continued support.
Miss Lowry
Spring 1: Week1
The children have come back ready to learn and very happy to see their friends.
They were very excited to see the snow in the playground and it has fit in well with our learning this week about Antarctica. Our word of the week was iceberg and the children are now confident talking about what one is. We were thinking of other words with ice and came up with the word icicle. We went on a hunt around the school grounds to find icicles – the children were very excited when we found some.
Our poem of the week suits the weather we have had. It is called Put on your Mittens. The children have enjoyed sharing the poem and showing me their mittens.
On Thursday, we had a zoom with Farmer Verity. We Zoom Farmer Verity every few months to see changes around the farm and ask her questions.
The children came up with some great questions.
‘Are the animals cold?’
‘Do the animals hibernate?’
‘Do any of the animals like playing in the cold?’
We have been making sure that we are forming our letters correctly by practising our letter formation.
Help at home: by practising too.
We have moved onto our phase3 phonics and have been learning lots of new sounds.
Help at home: by practising the new sounds sent home on Friday.
Our maths next week is all about numeral recognition.
Help at home: by pointing out numerals in the environment.