Author: Mr Roundtree

Travelling through time…

On Friday, Hobgoblin Theatre company came into school and took the children on a trip through time – from the stone ages up until modern day. Along the journey, the children learnt many fun facts about history including how Thomas Farriner starter the Great Fire of London and wiped out the plague as he did, how Henry VII had 8 wives and how the Vikings invaded Great Britain. After the production, the children participated in a workshop – learning to become actors and how to create freeze frames.

 

Here are some pictures and quotes from the children about their experience.

“After the show, I liked it when we moulded people into different shapes.”

“I liked making statues.”

“I liked the funny costumes.”

“I like it when the actors told Jack to go and make them cups of tea.”

Parents’ evening coming up

The first of two parent-teacher meetings are coming up soon: 23 October and 25 October. At these meetings, you’ll notice a small change.

In the annual survey of parents and carers, a small number mentioned that they would prefer more frequent updates about their child’s progress. We’ve acted on this by changing when we provide you with the Learning Updates. These were previously given to you at parents’ evening. However, this year, we’ll send these home at the end of the Autumn and Spring terms. This means you’ll have an update at the end of Autumn 1 (the parents’ evening), Autumn 2 (the Learning Update), Spring 1 (the second parents’ evening), Spring 2 (the second Learning Update), and then the end of year report in the Summer.

As always, Miss Beatson will be around to hear your questions, compliments and concerns with these arrangements.

Living and Learning: reflecting on my learning and remembering what I’ve learnt.

In Living and Learning circle time, we talked about remembering our learning. We then talked about the importance of reflecting on our learning. We passed the ball around the circle and said something that is going well in our learning and reflected on something we would like to improve.

Here are some of the things we remember about our learning:

  • Facts from around the world.
  • Counting in 5s.
  • How to write the right way around.
  • Using capital letters and full stops.
  • Writing and phonics.
  • Counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.
  • Ordering numbers.
  • Time Travel topic – learning that chronological order is oldest to newest.
  • Using contractions.

Here are some of our ideas for how we would like to improve our learning.

  • Improve the size of my writing.
  • Writing on the line and using finger spaces.
  • Writing in full sentences.
  • Practising counting in 3s.
  • Joining my handwriting.

05 October 2018

This week’s homework is a practice makes perfect and is due in on Thursday 11 October.

Year 1:

This week we have been learning more about numbers. We have been looking at ordinal numbers – know what 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc is.

Year 2:

We have been learning to count in multiples of 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. When we are counting in 10s, we can count from any number – e.g. starting on 4, 2, 7.

What wonderful writing!

All classes in school have a class novel on the go. Y5,6 are enjoying the modern classic, Kensuke’s Kingdom this half-term.

This morning, our older children in Y5,6 have been writing a diary entry from a character’s perspective.

Have a read of this great writing – well done, Mya!

…Mya’s not finished the diary yet. If your child is in Y5,6, have a chat with how the diary entry could continue!

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Fab feedback!

We spotted on social media this week this lovely comment from a parent about our school:

‘I can’t recommend it enough. Lovely small class sizes. A new headteacher making positive changes. All the teachers are lovely and know all the children. Both my children are so happy and making fantastic progress.’

Thank you very much. We all appreciate this heart-warming praise.

Year 1 and 2 Super Stars!

In Year 1 and 2, we have a marble jar that we try to fill as a class. We can earn marbles for lining up quietly, following instructions and working together as a team.

We were very excited to have filled our marble jar today so we voted on our treat – democracy in action! The children chose to have extra playtime where they were allowed to have the equipment out, play football and play on the slide.

Here are some pictures of us enjoying our treat.

 

Living and Learning: I am resourceful and I am resilient.

In our Living and Learning session, we talked about being resourceful and resilient.

Willow told us it would be resourceful to use a dictionary or to search for the word on the internet if you were reading and didn’t know what a word meant. Mikey said that if you needed a glue stick and didn’t have one you could use sticky tape or double-sided tape. Ellie pointed out that if you didn’t have any pink paint you could mix red and white. Leah said that if you are reading and you can’t read a word you can use your phonics to help you.

We then thought about resilience. We talked about how you might feel if you were learning something new. Emilija said you might be anxious because you might not know what to do. Daisy said that if you can’t do something straight away, you need to think about it. Mikey told us that he struggled to learn to count to 100 but he kept practising and felt happy when he could do it. We listened to the saying:

“Try to keep going, try to keep smiling, even when things get bad.

Try to keep going, try to keep smiling, then you won’t feel so sad.”