What an amazing year!
I cannot believe we are at the end of the school year. What an amazing year we have had. I am so proud of everyone for their hard work and determination. I know that everyone will be fantastic in year 1.
I would like to say a big thank you to all parents/carers. You hard work at home has meant that everyone could flourish.
I would like to share the song we sang at church on Wednesday. I am sure you will agree that the children were amazing.
I will miss you all very much. Have a great summer!
Mrs Payne
EYFS Sports Day 2023!
Hello Everyone!
A massive thank you to all our parents/carers for attending our sports day this year! I’m sure you will all agree with how fantastic the children were. They showed great determination, resilience and brought team spirit to make it a really enjoyable morning. It really displayed to us how hard the children have worked this year and we are so proud of them!
Well done everybody!
Miss Ward and Mrs Payne
Transition
On Thursday, Reception Class spent the morning in their new Year 1 classroom. The children were excited and coped incredibly well with this change. We enjoyed playing some fun games and some getting to know you activities. Following this, the class completed a drawing of themselves onto their own footprint – look out for these in our science lessons next year!
Regular communication between home and school is important so please feel free to pop in if we can help with anything at all.
Help at home
There will be plenty of up to date posts on our Year 1 Class News page so do please keep having a look with your child. This is a great opportunity to hold a conversation about what’s been happening in school.
Reading Competition
Here at St James’ CE Primary, we love reading. Over the Summer holidays, we’ve a challenge for your child… Show us how reading-obsessed they are by sending us a pic of them reading in an extreme place or position.
Here’s someone who’s already getting stuck into some extreme reading. (can’t think who it could be!)…
To enter, email your pics to stjamesoffice@spherefederation.org by Friday 08 September. Enter ‘Summer competition’ as the subject.
All entries will be displayed in school, and there are prizes for our favourites
To finish with, we wish you all a very happy and healthy summer break and look forward to welcoming your child into Year 1 on Tuesday 5th September 2023.
Year 1 staff
Mrs Freeman – Class Teacher (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday)
Miss Gledhill – Class Teacher (Thursday)
Mrs Cairnes – Teaching Assistant
Miss Rigley – Teaching Assistant
Week 4 – Clean up!
Our focus book this week has been ‘Clean Up’ by Nathan Byron. This story helps us to understand why looking after our planet is so important and the impact pollution can have on our environment. The children have loved thinking of ways that they could help people to remember to take their rubbish home or put it in a bin.
Our book was set in Jamaica. We learnt more about where Jamaica was in the world and that it was an island. We recognised that we live on an island too! We then labelled the land and sea and made our own islands.
As there has been more rain this week, this made us think about rain coats and what materials are best to keep us dry. We decided to conduct an experiment to see which materials would be best to make a jacket for a polar bear.
We have learnt more about the sculpture Alexander Calder. We looked at some of his pieces of work and created our own inspired pieces using wire and polystyrene 3d shapes.
Our poem this week was all about peas! We hope you enjoy it!
Week 3 – Sharing a Shell
What a great week we have had in Reception. Our focus book this week is Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson. We recognised that this author has written lots of other stories and remembered some of our favourites.
We have been learning more about rockpools and creatures that live inside them. We used dough and construction to make our own ones.
We created our own ice-creams using puffy paint! We used shaving foam and glue to make our ice-creams come to life!
This week for poetry basket we learnt more about a song. We hope you like our version.
We hope you have a great weekend!
Our School Adventure
We had such a fantastic day at Piglets Adventure Park on Tuesday. Even though the weather was a little rainy we had an amazing day. On the coach we saw what it is like to drive through a city. We saw different buildings and spoke about how the roads were busy.
We learnt more about what the animals need on a daily basis and the correct vocabulary for adults and their young.
The sand areas were great for us to discuss the beach and ways we can keep safe.
Thank you to everyone who made our trip possible.
Week 2 – Seaside Poems
What a lovely sunny week we have had at school! This week our focus book is called ‘Seaside Poems’. We have loved reading and listening to the different poems. We had lots of fun spotting rhyming words and thinking about words we associate with the seaside.
We have really enjoyed learning with our new outdoor equipment. We have investigated how water can move in different ways and made our own beach. The ladder and climbing frame have helped us with our climbing and balancing skills.
We have been thinking about different ways we can travel when at the seaside. Boats are an important vehicle so we decided to create our own.
During circle time we discussed fruits that we like to eat. A member of our class said that they wanted to know where melons grow. We used an atlas to look at different countries and discussed why some things grow better in different places. We enjoyed a tasty snack of melon afterwards.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Week 1 – One is a snail ten is a crab
Welcome back to a very exciting final summer term! Our topic this term is all about the seaside and different cities.
Our focus story this week is a counting book. We have been looking at the legs of different creatures. We have been adding different amounts together and creating numbers beyond 20.
Our word of the week this week is country. We have learnt more about what a country is and which country we live in and have lived in and different countries we have visited. We created finger print flags for different countries.
We have been working hard on our counting skills. We have been counting amounts to 20. It is important to count slowly and carefully so we don’t miss any numbers.
We have been using our predicting, counting and recording skills in our maths provision. We had to predict how many objects were in the bowls, counted to see if we were right and then recorded the amounts.
We are loving our new physical activities in our PE lessons. This week we have been taking part in ‘ants in your pants’. We have to work in partners and one person needs to get the ants into the hoop whilst the other person moves the hoop away.
Our poem this week is all about thunderstorms. We loved making the different sounds.
As the weather is set to get warmer please can we make sure that everyone has a sun hat, water bottle and sun cream.
Week 6 – My body
What a lovely sunny week we have had! Our focus book this week has been a non-fiction book all about our bodies. We have learnt more about x-rays and the different bones in our bodies.
We have used charcoal and chalk and create images of a skeleton and observational drawing of our hands. We explored smudging and creating different effects with the different materials.
We learnt more about the 5 different senses and went on a senses walk around school. It was amazing what we heard when we listened carefully. Whilst exploring on the school field we even heard a chicken! We then recorded the different things we had noticed through our senses.
We had a very special surprise when we arrived in school on Monday. Our butterflies have appeared! They are beautiful and lots of different colours. We released our special friends into the school field.
Week 5 – Farmyard Hullabaloo
We have been down on the farm this week in Reception! Our focus story has taken us on a farmyard adventure visiting the different animals. We did some fantastic writing using adjectives to describe the different farm animals.
We have been working hard on our sewing projects and we have now finished our animal puppets. We added facial features and checked they were tightly sewn together.
In maths this week we have been learning more about number tracks. We used cubes to represent different numbers and then created our own tracks and counted starting at different points.
We have been learning more about different animals that we might see on a farm. Oscar asked “what is a baby duck called?” we decided to learn more about different adult and child animal names.
We have really enjoyed our poem this week. We really hope you enjoy it too!
Our observations on our caterpillars have continued this week. We have discovered that they have started their next stage of their lifecycle. We cannot wait to see them transform into butterflies.
We hope you all have a wonderful weekend!