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24 January 2014

The rule for this week is double up for a short vowel sound.

This week, all the spellings are animals which contain a short vowel sound followed by a double consonant.

Marshmallow tower challenge!

This week’s R for learning is Resilience. We took on a challenge that would require us to be resilient to be successful.

Using only dried spaghetti and marshmallows, we were challenged to be the team to make the tallest tower! It was a very tricky task that had many of us stumped, but we kept trying. Here’s what we came up with…

We kept trying, even when we found it difficult, showing that we can be resilient! Here’s the winning tower: it came in at 43cm tall, with a 42cm tall close second!

17 January 2014

Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a test on Friday 24 January.

Learning animal names – in French!

This afternoon, Mr Blomley (with the help of his trusty guitar) has been teaching us how to say the names of some animals in French!

Animals visit Year 3!

This morning, we had a surprise visit from some animals. Mags from Animals In-tuition brought in a variety of animals – both familiar and unfamiliar – for us to learn about. We even got to hold some of them!

It wasn’t just the children who it to hold them. Look at these pictures of me and Mrs Sherriff:

17 January 2014

The spellings this week are all animal topic words which we will be using in both topic and literacy lessons next week.

17 January 2013

For all children in Year 1 to Year 6, the homework this week is Talk Time:

Which two charities should we support at school and why?

It’s time for children to think about our school charities. Currently, we support Dogs Trust and Water Aid. A previous School Council selected these because they wanted to help animals and people, and wanted to help nationally and internationally.  These charities were chosen because pupils passed on to School Councillors very clear and strong arguments to choose them eg Dogs Trust help us by visiting, so we have the chance to re-pay this, and everyone has a basic human right to water.

We’ve helped these charities for two years now, so it’s time for a change. We need you to have a discussion at home about which charities would be best for us to support. Each class will then discuss this and then the councillors will bring the views and ideas together to decide on the charities.

Once your child has decided on a charity, make sure they have clear, powerful reasons to support their views.

You might want to discuss whether we support…

• a local charity
• a children’s charity
• a charity which helps a vulnerable group in our community – this would link back to vulnerable groups we thought about in last summer’s Community Week

An energetic start to the new year

Year 1 have been very active in their first week back with our new PE lessons for this half term.  In the first of our two weekly PE lessons, we are working with Mr Lynch, a local dance teacher, to develop our movement and dance skills.  By the end of the first lesson there were some great partner performances showing a range of actions.

Our second weekly PE lesson is with Mr Catherall, one of our teaching assistants and also a qualified sports coach, who is developing our skills needed for invasion games such as basketball, rugby, football and others.  Ask your child how they use their sticky pads!

PE is usually Monday and Tuesday so please ensure your child has their PE kit at school, to get the most out of these lessons.

10 January 2014

This week’s homework is creative homework. 

A mini-topic based on a book called Meerkat Mail has led to lots of research about animals and different countries.  Year 1 have shown excellent research skills and have shown a lot of interest in atlases and maps.  This homework will let them show what they have found out but don’t forget to let those creative juices flow – it can be presented in any form.

I can show what I know about an animal from another country.

This homework needs to be handed in by Wednesday 15 January 2014.

10 January 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 17 January 2014.