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
Can we construct a moving go- kart?
This term, in design technology, we have designed and constructed car models.
We researched our model first and thought about what our go- kart would need to be successful. We then designed the model. This week, we created a ‘prototype’ using Tech- card.
Year 6 leavers’ dinner
We’ve had a lovely dinner this evening at Ask to celebrate our fabulous Year 6s. Great company, great food and lots of ice-cream!
Living and Learning – Being Healthy
Last week, Y5,6 enjoyed Being Healthy week.
We Zoomed another Y6 class and asked them qestions about being healthy in their school.
Some questions that were asked were:
- What is on your school menu?
- What after school clubs do you do?
- Do you have any green spaces in your playground?
We also talked about being healthy online, and how it can affect our physical, mental and social health.
Help at home by discussing how to stay happy and healthy at home.
Robin Hood And The Sherwood Hoodies
Wow! I’m sure everyone will agree that KS2 put on a fabulous performance of Robin Hood And The Sherwood Hoodies on Tuesday and Wednesday.
They have worked extremely hard by learning their lines, singing songs and making props.
There are some incredible young actors amongst us at St James’, and most of all, we had so much fun putting the performance together!
Sports Day!
A massive thank you to everyone who came and supported yesterday at Sports Day.
We kicked off in the morning with EYFS and then carried on with years 1-6 in the afternoon.
A huge well done to all the children who took part and showed courage, resilience and lots of determination. The signs made in the classes looked fantastic as well.
Congratulations to the blue team who scored the highest amount of points!!!
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
L & L: Health week
This week, we listened to #Goldilocks A Hashtag Cautionary Tale (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip). After listening to the story we talked about how she wanted to get 50,000 likes but that didn’t mean she had 50.000 friends and how she shared pictures without consent of her family and the impact that might have had on them. We shared our ideas on some advice we would give to Goldilocks to aim for a healthy balance between her online and offline activity.
Help at home: listen to the story again with your child. Can they remember any of the key points discussed in class?
- Never take and share photographs without consent/permission.
- Don’t share photographs with strangers.
- It’s not important to get 50,000 likes by people you don’t know
- Once you post online, it can never really be deleted.
- Don’t spend all day on your phone, spend time with your family and friends.
Personal Best Challenge
As part of our health and fitness week, we have been completing some personal best challenges and recording our score. Each day we’ve been trying to improve our score.
We have done a 20 second speed bounce and a stork balance.
“Yesterday I did the stork balance for 7 seconds and today I got 18 seconds,” said Carter.
“Today I did 56 jumps and yesterday I got 36,” said Florence.
Well done Year 1 on working hard to improve your scores!
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