Homework of the week
Below are the previous creative homeworks of the week. Sorry for not posting earlier!
‘Who do you think you are?’ homeworks
Below are the five excellent that we chose to be our homeworks of the week:
Out in the community
Donisthorpe Hall is a local care home and as part of our learning about who makes up our community Year 1 visited the residents and took part in their weekly concert and dance. Looks like everyone was having a great time and the positive response from the residents has meant we’ve been invited back!
Thank you…
…for coming to our second class assembly this afternoon.
Some comments from visitors are:
- “Great mix of drama, poems and music. Always impressed by the children’s confidence.”
- “Well done, everyone. Loved the drum beats.”
- “Great hearing about how the Y3s can be good neighbours.”
- “Fantastic! Well done, everyone in Y4!”
Who do you think you are?
Some impressive homework this week – here are a couple of examples which both happen to be trees. One tree is a family tree and the other tree has a characteristic on each leaf.
Which way?
Programming starts early in the new computing curriculum. Year 1 had a go at writing algorithms today. Ask your child what an algorithm is. They should be able to tell you that it is like a set of instructions. There was a bit of a challenge today – we had to work out a route, on a grid, which took us from school to home but we had to visit all of the local shops on the grid on the way. You could only go forward, right or left. Once the children came up with their algorithm, they then had to test it out to see if it worked. There’s a lot to learn about programming without even logging onto a computer.
Here are some photos – ask your child to explain what we were doing.
What happened?
Look at these gorgeous babies! Who are they? Year 1 didn’t think that the teachers were the only ones who could have a baby photo competition. We’ve had our own mini competition for a bit of fun and these are a few of the photos that we looked at.
What a cute bunch – I’m not sure what happened between then and now?! Have a look and see if you can guess which Year 1 children (still cute of course!) are in the photos. Just a bit of fun but an important part of learning about who we are.
Who do you think you are?
This week is a themed week in school. On Tuesday, we had a visit from the Deaf Awareness charity and Kidzaware. We learnt some basic sign language as well as finding out what life is like living with a disability. Ask your child if they can remember the signs for any of the letters of the alphabet.
This morning, we visited St. Gemma’s Hospice and found out all about the amazing work they do, not only in the community, but also for their patients and families too!
Have a look at our week so far.
Don’t forget, Thursday is our class assembly (2.40pm). We look forward to seeing you there.
What is a community?
Mr Dunn, a student from Leeds Beckett University talked to is about what a community is and how a university is a community and also part of our larger community.
Community Day
We visited the Marjorie and Arnold Ziff centre this morning to find out about how they help different people in our local community.
