Eureka
On Wednesday, Year 1 and 2 spent the day at Eureka – a great way to finish off our Doctor! Doctor! Big Topic.
Spiders!
Reception are loving their topic on arachnids. They even made their own web!
Class Assembly
Thank you to everyone who came to our class assembly. The children did really well and the dry run on Thursday morning was perfect – a little bit of excitement when they saw all their families meant it didn’t go quite according to plan but nevertheless we hope you enjoyed it. Thomas did particularly well with his loud voice and confidence – well done, Thomas!
Thank you for your support – it makes a big difference and shows the children that their learning is valued.
08 November 2013
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.
This week’s learning in maths has been all about counting and recognising numbers. It’s really important that your child knows the value of each digit in a number eg they need to know that a 16 is actually a 10 and a 6, one ten and six units. While they are doing their homework, talk to them about the numbers they are writing and make sure they are writing them the right way round.
This homework needs to be handed in by Wednesday 13 November.
08 November 2013
Here are this week’s spellings. They will be tested on Thursday 14 November 2013 (Friday is a training day so school is closed).
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Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
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church |
short | who |
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fur |
sport | where |
|
burn |
north | when |
|
turn |
thorn | what |
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burp |
pork | why |
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the |
fork | which |
| born | hospital | |
| stork | soldier | |
| Crimean | ||
| conditions |
Be proud of our bodies
This week Year 1 had a Doctor! Doctor! themed yoga session with Angela from Yogabugs. We did a variety of yoga poses for most parts of our amazing bodies! Then we enjoyed some well-earned relaxation.
Lots of gym stars
Over the last few weeks, Year 1 have been developing some fantastic gymnastic skills, including jumps, travelling and shapes with coaches Jane and Charlotte Townend. The class have shown great progression over the sessions. Ask them to show you their bunny jumps, travelling like a spider, star jumps and seated tuck shape to name a few.
Jane and Charlotte run after school classes in Barwick-in-Elmet and at Temple Moor High School if your child is interested in developing their gymnastics further.
New SEAL theme – Getting on
The SEAL theme Getting On covers four main aspects:
- developing the social skills of friendship
- working well together in a group
- managing anger
- resolving conflict
Group work takes place across all lessons and even at lunchtime and playtimes. Some questions for children to consider are:
- Did everyone take turns?
- Did everyone listen to what other people thought?
- Did each person have chance to tell the group what they thought?
- If people had different ideas could the group reach a compromise?
The key areas of learning throughout this theme are empathy, managing feelings and social skills.
Within this theme is Antibullying Week, 18 November – 22 November.
08 November 2013
This week our homework is practice makes perfect.
I can tell the time.
We have been learning how to tell the time this week. All of the children have completed similar tasks in lesson but a bit of extra practice will make sure we’re ready to take on a challenge next week. Give them every opportunity to be telling the time throughout the day too, especially for o’ clock, half past and quarter past.
This homework is due on Wednesday 13 November.
Have fun, you marvellous mathematicians!
08 November 2013
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and it’s due in on Wednesday 13 November.
To plan a narrative (story) from any genre using ‘OBDER’.
This homework fits in with our literacy learning this week. We have been learning about the types (genre) of story and talking about which ones we prefer. Here’s a list of some of our favourite genres of story:
- scary/horror
- fantasy
- adventure
- love
- familiar setting
- fairy tale
- humorous
This week, children have to plan a story from a genre of their choice. They have to use OBDER to plan the story. Your child should be able to tell you what OBDER is and how they should plan their story. However, just in case…
We use OBDER to sequence the events in the story:
- O is for opening
- B is for build-up
- D is for dilemma
- E is for events
- R is for resolution
We have taught the children to start the plan with the dilemma so that they know where the story is heading. Once they have decided the dilemma, they can then go back to the opening and work through the rest of the sections in order. Remember, the children aren’t expected to write the story, they are just planning it so each section should just have the main ideas about what will happen and possibly some ambitious vocabulary they want to use in each section or how the character is feeling. We also use DAD to help us when we are planning stories – ask your child about DAD!