Year 2 – Request for items

13th October 2023Claire Dutton

In the week after half-term, the children in Year 2 will be making bonfire art and Mrs Green has asked if each child could please bring in a cardboard tube from a toilet roll.

Then in the weeks following, we will be looking to make some pretty candle holders using small glass jars (no bigger than a jam jar). If possible please could each child bring a jar in to be decorated. Please be as careful as you can with this, thick glass is better and more robust if possible. You can hand these to the class teacher directly or wrap them up in paper to make it safer when transporting.

Then (believe it or not!) we will be looking towards Christmas activities! We would greatly appreciate donations of Christmas wrapping paper for a family learning event we have planned.

Thank you for your continued support – we look forward to the lovely art these items will help us to produce 🙂

KS1 Team x

Class 8’s first peer critique

12th October 2023Aime Shaw

The children in class 8 spent time critiquing their partners draft writing from yesterday. They learnt how to ‘be kind’, ‘be helpful ‘ and ‘be specific’ in their feedback. They were so helpful to their friends and it really helped them to check spellings in their writing and to ensure that their sentences made sense. What a fabulous start to year 2.

Well done crew!

Mrs Shaw x x

Class 8 has awesome writers!

12th October 2023Aime Shaw

I have been absolutely blown away today with the amount of fantastic effort that every single child in class 8 has put into their writing. They have all been working on their handwriting, which is now looking beautiful for everyone. I love the pride that they have taken in their work and the effort has not gone unnoticed, which is why I wanted a picture of everyone on the blog! Amazing work class 8, I am so, so proud of your progress!

Mrs Shaw x x

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue “Kitchen Nightmares” Competition

12th October 2023Rebecca Barnett

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The competition is the first part of our “Kitchen Nightmares” campaign that will be running throughout the autumn. Children aged between 6-12 are invited to take part.

Our advice to help you avoid a kitchen nightmare is:

  • Keep electrical leads, cardboard and fabrics well away from the hob and keep ovens, hobs and grills clean from grease and crumbs
  • Keep an eye on cooking at all times and never leave it unattended
  • Switch off cooking appliances when you’ve finished cooking and gone to bed

Find more information here.

NSPCC – Kindness Week – Non Uniform Day!

12th October 2023Sophie Myers

A reminder that tomorrow will be a whole school non-uniform day to raise money for the NSPCC. We are asking for a donation of £1 to support their charity.

Challenge – To end the week, could you complete a random act of kindness at home or in our local community and send a photograph to your teacher.

Crew Shaw are a very kind crew!

10th October 2023Aime Shaw

As it is National kindness week Crew Shaw have coloured in our ‘It’s cool to be kind’ posters. They have also talked about how they can be kind to staff and teachers at school and have given shoutouts for their friends that have shown them kindness. I’m very proud of my kind crew who always think about other children and their feelings. Well done guys!

Mrs Shaw x

NSPCC ‘The Kindness Challenge’

6th October 2023Sophie Myers

Next week, we will be taking part in a week full of activities linking to Kindness. This is part of the NSPCC fundraising and awareness week.

We will be taking part in lots of fun activities during Crew each day and there will be lots of opportunities for children to complete Kindness Challenges at home too.

Next Friday, to raise money for the NSPCC, we will be holding a Non-Uniform Day for donations of £1.

Class 8 are reading about significant activists!

5th October 2023Aime Shaw

We have started reading our new text in year 2 today, which is called ‘Let the children march’. It is a beautiful text which explains how desegregation started in 1963 because of the influence of Martin Luther King Jnr. In collaborative groups, they all read sections of the text and then answered questions based on what they had read. I was really impressed with them today and how understanding and mature they have been about the subjects we have been discussing.

The children then wrote some sentences using some of the ambitious vocabulary that we had learnt from the text, such as; revolution, discrimination, activists, racism and equality. This is a picture of some of the children who had beautiful presentation today and I was very excited for George to be the second person to choose a sparkly pencil because of his gorgeous pre- cursive handwriting! Well done class 8…you impress me more and more every day!

Mrs Shaw x x x