Today in class one, we imagined what the Brigends (from our focus story) looked like. The children spent a great deal of time on their drawings and as you can see from the photos below, they have imagined some scary rogues. Mrs Whybrow, Miss Ripton and Miss White
Reading records.
I have popped a sound mat in reading records for you to support your child with recognising the graphemes (written letter) to the phoneme (sound). This will really help with your child with their writing and reading. Year one, please can you encourage your child to spot digraphs and trigraphs (for example ch/oi/igh) when you… Read more »
Attack and defend!
Today in PE, we used beanbags to attack a castle. Some of the children were tasked to defend their castle whilst their friends threw beanbags into the spaces of the castle walls. It was great fun!
The Whole of the Moon!
There is a full moon tonight and in class we have been looking at maps, photographs and illustrations of the moon and making accurate pictures.
Parable of The Lost Coin
We have been reflecting on times when we have been lost or we have lost something. We listened to the story of The Lost Coin from Luke’s Gospel. Well done to all the children who helped one another to think about their feelings as well as find strategies to help them to persevere through these… Read more »
All Hail Macbeth!
One of our strands during this half term is the fantastic play by William Shakespeare, Macbeth and we will be acting scenes from the play using shoe box theatres. There are a few examples of what we will be making below and any medium size boxes, fabric scraps, etc., would be gratefully recieved. Mr Hopegood
Stone Age – building Stonehenge
Yesterday, we learnt a little more about people in the Stone age and about Stonehenge. We even tried to build it using a range of materials!
Hockey skills
In Class 2, we are currently learning skills to help us play Hockey. This week was all about ball control and how to use our sticks properly. Everyone did such a great job! Mrs Archer
Year One parents.
I have set an activity on My Maths, please assist your child to complete this homework. We now have access to an online times table site, more information will come home shortly. I shall be sending home some resources over the next few weeks regarding the phonics screening check. This may include some real and… Read more »
Strings and bows
Today, we started our music lessons with Mrs. Luff. We enjoyed learning about the different parts of the violins and cellos. We also learnt some Italian words whilst we were exploring musical terminology. Thank you to Mr Este and Mrs Archer for organising this for the Year 3 & 4 children.