On Monday, 19th May, Year 1 parents are invited to participate in the Year 1 Stay and Learn session. We have an exciting visitor coming in to speak to the children about dental hygiene.
Please arrive at 2:30 PM. You will then be escorted to the hall for the Dental Workshop.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Miss Hamilton
The Magic of Mud Kitchens: Supporting Outdoor Learning Through Play
This week in literacy, the children have been learning about the importance of recycling. The children have also focused on descenders (letters that sit below the line) and ascenders (letters that sit above the line).
In maths this week we were exploring arrays! These are arrangements of objects, numbers or symbols that are placed into rows and columns. We learnt how to count using arrays and what a column and row looked like. The children found this a little tricky but tried super hard!
In History this week, we have continued to learn about the printing press. We learnt about how letters are sent and then we had the opportunity to write our own letters!
Literacy
This week, the children wrote an
alternative ending to Jack and the
Baked Beanstalk story using their detailed plans.
In their writing they focused on using wide
a range of suffixes. Well done.
Maths: Fractions
This week the children have been working
hard to recognise and find
quarters. This unit comes to an end as
next week will be adventuring into time.
Science
This week, the children learnt about the
life cycle of humans in science. They learnt
about key different developmental stages
like babyhood, childhood, teenager and
adulthood. Moreover, they accurately identified
important features features of the different
stages. Well done Year 2.
These children have worked extremely hard and have been
rewarded for all of their hard work and efforts.
E for Excellence
Mulberry Class:
Lujah, for her unwavering commitment to improving her work.
Lujah works very hard and strives to give her best in every lesson.
Rowan Class:
Teodor ,for using mathematical language throughout their lesson
when identifying three quarters. Great work!
Pine Class
Ryan, for recognising and discussing different fractions,
highlighting ways to identify a unit fraction. Well done!
Star Writers
Mulberry Class:
Teddy-James, for writing an exciting alternative ending to his story.
Additionally, he used a range of suffixes to a good effect.
Rowan Class:
Serghei, for using a variety of suffixes when writing your alternative ending
of Jack and the baked beanstalk. Brilliant work!
Pine Class
Amerah, for writing an alternative ending of Jack and the
baked beanstalk using a wide range of suffixes and sentence starters. Well done!
The resilience award this week goes to: Farzaan, Anu
.
These children have demonstrated perseverance, managed
distractions, noticed patterns and been absorbed in their tasks.
Farzaan showed resilience this week when faced with a tricky maths problem.
He persevered until he got the correct answer. Great work!
The reciprocity award this week goes to: Natalia, Maya Andreea,
These children have shown interdependence, collaborated effectively,
listened to others, displayed empathy and have
imitated effective ideas and methods from others.
Natalia shows reciprocity daily by being a great listener to her talk partner.
Keep up the great work!
This week’s Forest School theme was wind. We began the session by reading a non-fiction book titled Gusts and Gals. I explained that this type of text is used to help us find out real information about the world around us.
When I asked the children where they thought wind comes from, their responses included “trees” and “clouds.” I explained that these things move because of the wind, but they are not the source of it. The children learned that wind is created when cool and warm air meet. We also explored the difference between global winds and local winds.
Although it wasn’t a particularly windy day, we observed the ribbons on our boundary markers fluttering gently in the breeze.
The children then made their own flags to wave in the wind. They used a Japanese printmaking technique called Hapa Zome, which involves transferring natural pigments from leaves and flowers onto fabric by pounding them. Using flower petals and leaves, they created beautiful patterns on cotton material, which they then attached to sticks to create their own flags.
Later, we spent time cloud gazing, noticing the shapes drifting across the sky. The children spotted many imaginative forms in the clouds, including a fish, a chicken, and a love heart.
To revisit a previous activity, I brought back the helicopters (Sycamore seeds) so the children could experiment with dropping them and observing how they spun in the wind.
We ended the session with a game of Fox and Rabbit, a familiar favourite from a previous Forest School block. The children were excited to play it again and remembered the rules well.
