We have taken part in lots of fun activities this week related to the Olympics.

Sports day went without a hitch and today we enjoyed singing with year one children from four other schools, St Julian’s, Peasedown St John, Twerton and Camerton.  

As you will be aware on Friday 6^th July we are going to the

Royal Crescent

for the ‘Schoolympics.’

Please remember to read the letter already sent and send your child to school in full school uniform including a waterproof coat. We are having lunch at school before we go and will be back before the end of the school day. PLEASE remember a full plastic water bottle also!   

AGAIN, PLEASE remember that we go out to play in most weathers so your child always needs a coat at school. A few children had no coat again this week.

Can we PLEASE ask again for children to use pencil when doing their maths homework.

Finally, all year one children will, in the coming weeks, be given the opportunity to work with their year two classmates in the safe environment of a year one class. The children are already really looking forward to September.

    



This week in Numeracy we have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Please reinforce this at home by helping your child to chant forwards and backwards to help them with their learning.  

PLEASE remember that maths homework is due in each Wednesday and that we do also need to see your comment sheet each week. Please also ensure that your child uses a pencil, so that they can rub out any mistakes.

In Literacy we made a sandwich and then wrote our own ‘Instructions for making a sandwich.’ You might like to ask your child to help next time you make a sandwich by instructing you how to do so. Teachers also completed the Phonics screening. The results of this will be fed back to you in your child’s report.    

As you will be aware on Friday 6^th July we are going to the

Royal Crescent

for the ‘Schoolympics.’ We still need parents to accompany us on the day, so please think hard if you are CRB checked and able to help.  

PLEASE remember that we go out to play in most weathers so your child always needs a coat at school. A few children had no coat today and it rained each playtime.

PLEASE also remember that Tuesday 26^th June is our sports morning so your child needs their named P.E. kit.

Finally, it seems like a long time ago, but thank you for sending your child to school dressed as a King or Queen. We hope you enjoy the photos.    

The whole school has decided to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in various ways. In year one we are asking the children to come to school dressed as a King or Queen (if they are able to) on Thursday May 31^st. We are planning exciting ideas for the day but are also asking the children to think of activities that they would like to do.

                    

We have been working our socks off this week doing our maths, reading and writing assessments. It hasn’t all been work though because on Tuesday we welcomed the Olympic torches to our school: one from the 1948 Olympics and one from London 2012. The children were so excited……..and so were the staff. How lucky are we??

We had such a wonderful time learning about the torch relay, following the live feed and making our own torch crowns. Foundation Stage and Key Stage One joined together at the end of the day to have our own Olympic parade.  (Photos to follow)

PLEASE REMEMBER that there will be maths homework and spellings as normal tomorrow. 

This week in Numeracy we have been working hard to try to remember number facts up to ten. Please ask your child if they can tell you all of the ones we have been learning. We have also been counting in 5s and 10s and adding a 1 digit number to a 2 digit number, e.g. 13 + 6, 35 + 3.

PLEASE remember that maths homework is due in each Wednesday and that we do also need to see your comment sheet each week. Please also ensure that your child uses a pencil, so that they can rub out any mistakes.

In Literacy we have been working with the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and trying to learn it ‘by heart’. We have been using actions to help us re-tell the story. Again, please ask your child to show you the actions and re-tell you the story.     

We have designed and made our miniature gardens and they look beautiful. Monet is the artist we are studying next. 

  

This week in Numeracy we have been working with ordinal numbers. We had fun taking part in different races, then talking about who came first, second etc. We have also been putting ourselves into order, followed by putting numbers into order. Finally we looked at ‘between’ numbers e.g. think of a number, say 7, and say two numbers that have 7 is ‘between’.

PLEASE NOTE that the first maths homework will be set on 27^th April. There is a letter to follow.

In Literacy we have read the story of ‘Princess Smartypants’ and have begun work on mini beast poems. Our topic work is also based around the story. Part of this work involves going on a mini beast hunt around the school, so PLEASE send your child to school on Monday with named wellingtons in a carrier bag. Thank you.       

Our first Science experiment is stopping slugs from eating plants in our garden – this is the first task that Princess Smartypants asked a suitor to complete. Please save your plastic or card containers so that we can make miniature gardens etc. 

Welcome to our Norland Nannies Charlotte, Annie, Jess and Emily.   

Here comes the sun

This week in Numeracy we have been adding describing position by using words such as ‘above, below, beside, left and right’. We have also been describing direction by using words such as ‘forwards, backwards, up, down, left and right’. We have been talking about things that turn and make whole turns, half turns and quarter turns. Please ask us to show you our turns and how we can move left and right.

We have been using the Bee Bots as part of Numeracy this week. We created a short program to move it from one point to another. We recorded steps on whiteboards and then tested our steps to see if the Bee Bot moved as we’d expected and if not, why not?

In Literacy we have continued to use actions to help us remember the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’. We drew story maps and changed the story to create our own version for example ‘The Chocolate Bunny’ and ‘The Gingerbread Penguin’. We have started to write an interesting story opening based on our version of The Gingerbread Man.

Have a wonderful two week break - don't eat too much chocolate!