I was really impressed today by the children recalling their knowledge on the life cycle of a plant and then learning about the functions of the structure of a plant. They did some superb labelled diagrams and then wrote about the different jobs that parts of a plant have to do!
Year 1 and year 2 will be welcoming parents and carers into school for our family learning session this week. We will be doing orienteering outside on the school grounds so please bring a coat!
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
Choose a number that inspires you.
Design and decorate your poster using any materials you like – be as colourful and imaginative as possible!
Make sure your poster clearly shows your chosen number in a variety of ways.
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.
Year 2 loved their road safety presentation this morning by ‘The Riot Act’! They were so engaged, loved the interaction from Dan and the puppets he brought in. Most of all they went away understanding the importance of road safety and that they must remember to STOP, LOOK and LISTEN and then also LOOK again!
They sang songs, joined in and it was a great session to witness! Well done year 2, remember to always STAY SAFE!
The children have been working very hard to create art work for their final product. They have drawn their own fruit shrinky dinks in the style of Dennis Wojtkiewizc and I can’t wait for them to be finished!
We have introduced our new text this week, ‘The Tiny Seed’. These children made their own book of the story and could talk through the story and explain what happened to the Seed. Not only great literacy, but also great scientific work today! Well done
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
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.