Maths Week Activity 2!

5th February 2025Chris Mumby

Thank you to everyone who took part in the first activity of the week; we have had some fantastically creative work handed in! Are you ready for challenge two?

Maths is around us and we are constantly using language linked to maths in our everyday life. Can you create a poster that celebrates math vocabulary?

Your task is to create an A to Z poster! I wonder how creative you can make it….can you add images for each word? Which colours will you use?

Here is an example below although I know our children can do much better!

Well done to Adam who shared this amazing work for activity 1!

KS1: Miss Schon’s Phonics Group

4th February 2025Carly Schon

This week we have been learning the /ou/ sound. The children have been really impressing me with their knowledge of red words and also their confidence when reading our shared reading books. I can tell that many of the children have been practising at home! This week we have also focussed on writing words and sentences. Keep it up everyone, I am very proud of your efforts!

KS1 Phonics: Miss Rodgers and Mrs Clay’s groups

4th February 2025Carly Schon

This week in Miss Rodgers and Mrs Clays groups the children are consolidating their learning. The children have been taking their latest assessment and we have been blown away with the improvement in children’s reading fluency. Thanks for all your help with this at home. We hope you have enjoyed reading with your children and seeing their progress!

Maths Week 2025- Challenge 1

2nd February 2025Chris Mumby

Maths Week 2025 is here, and we’re kicking things off with an exciting home learning challenge! This is your chance to get creative, have fun with numbers, and showcase your mathematical thinking.

For our first home learning challenge, we’d like you to choose a number and create a poster displaying different ways to represent it. You can show your number using:

  • Numerals (e.g. 7)
  • Words (e.g. seven)
  • Pictures (e.g. seven stars)
  • Number sentences (e.g. 3 + 4 = 7)
  • Arrays
  • Tally marks
  • Money
  • Anything else creative!

How to Take Part

  1. Choose a number that inspires you.
  2. Design and decorate your poster using any materials you like – be as colourful and imaginative as possible!
  3. Make sure your poster clearly shows your chosen number in a variety of ways.
  4. Submit your entry to Mr Mumby by Friday to take part in the challenge.

We can’t wait to see your fantastic ‘Ways to Show a Number’ posters! Get your thinking caps on, grab your pencils, and start creating.

Happy Maths Week!

Key stage 1 community crew assembly

30th January 2025Aime Shaw

A huge well done to all of our fantastic award winners this week! It was amazing to see our crew champions so excited to receive their ‘character traits’ badges too!

Also, attendance in key stage 1 has been amazing the last couple of weeks so a huge shout out to Crew Shaw and Crew Cooper for 100% attendance last week!

I love sharing all of these fabulous achievements every week, it makes us feel very proud! X x

Class 5: Beautiful Work

30th January 2025Carly Schon

Class 5 have been working on their art in the style of Dennis Wojtkiewicz. They have been really enjoying learning the skills of line, shape, colour, texture and pattern. Look at these beautiful pastel pictures they have produced! What a lovely example of quality and craftsmanship! I am so proud of you all and I can’t wait to display them in our classroom!

We have created pictures of limes, kiwis, red onions, watermelons, oranges and strawberries!

KS1: Reading Books Tomorrow

30th January 2025Carly Schon

Tomorrow is Friday – reading celebration day! Please remember to return all reading books to school. The children will be reading their books during our morning activity and then they will take their books to their phonics group for their phonics teacher to change their shared reading books. Children who return their class library books will also get the opportunity to browse through the class library and choose a new book to enjoy!

Here is Class 5 completing their reading during their morning activity last week:

We can’t wait to celebrate the wonderful reading you have been doing in school tomorrow. A big thank you to all parents for being on board with our new home reading strategy! We hope you are enjoying sharing the books with your children at home and that they are impressing you with their reading skills.