Our afternoon at the Church.
Today we had our Church experience session. Throughout the afternoon, we took part in lots of exciting activities. We thought about praying, spreading the word of Jesus’ love as well as the history of the church.
Brilliant Bakers
Yesterday, we put our measuring skills to the test.We made a marble cake. In maths, we have been looking at using weighing scales to measure amounts in grams. We looked at the recipe carefully and we took our time when measuring out the ingredients in grams.
Living and Learning: I can see things from other people’s point of view.
This week we had a class discussion about our living and learning statement. We all agreed that this is a very difficult thing to do sometimes. Harley suggested that it can be easier to think about other people’s reasons for doing things if we step back and think for a while. Mia shared that “if we talk about it with that person then we might be able to understand”. As a class, we understood the importance of being able to respect other people’s point of view.
Our exciting day
Two special things happened in Foundation today!
F2 and F1 children going up to F2 in September have enjoyed their first session with North Leeds Gymnastics. We have learnt some new floor positions…
and we demonstrated some great travelling movements, inspired by animals:
We can’t wait to try even more next Thursday!
Our second piece of exciting news, is that our competition entries in the book ‘My First Riddle’, have finally been published. Any orders for books have arrived and we will proudly have a copy of the book on display in the classroom too.
Craft Club- Our Superheroes!
*W A R N I N G* any super Dads or Grandads reading this, should look away now!…
In honour of Father’s Day this Sunday, today we decorated some sweet treats for our very own superheroes- our Dads and Grandads. We hope they enjoy their creations and special messages.
Acid or Alkali?
Today, we had a visitor in school to help us with some science!
We used PH paper to test different liquids to see if they were an acid or alkali. We then used the paper to see if there was a difference between sparkling water and still, tap water. We found out that sparkling water was more acidic than tap water. Why? CO2!
This got us thinking about the amount of CO2 which is being produced and polluting our atmosphere and oceans. If there’s more CO2 in our oceans, then that means they are becoming more acidic. What effect is this having on the sea-life and planet?
We have decided to try and answer our question by adding vinegar (acid) to some sea shells and observe what happens to them. This could give us an idea of the possible consequences of increased CO2 in our oceans.
It’s Summer 2!
Welcome to Summer 2
Welcome back to our very final half term of the school year!
Our fluffy chick friends have gone to their home on the farm but word has spread about how good Foundation are at looking after creatures and helping them grow! When we came in on Monday we noticed that we have 
some new visitors – our very own caterpillars! We look forward to observing how they grow and change over the next three weeks.
We will be looking at more weird and wonderful minibeasts over the next few weeks as F2 build up to our exciting trip to Tropical World.
To introduce the children to the life cycle of butterflies, our focus story is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We have been writing lists of foods, recording the life cycle of a butterfly and creating food diaries linked to our new story.
In maths, F2 have continued working on teen numbers; representing them on tens frames, making our own number lines, ordering and saying one more and one less.
Outside, we have taken inspiration from the children’s interests and have some pirate themed activities- buried treasure, sorting word coins, map making and more!
Home-Link Challenge
Can you find a minibeast fact to share with the class?
Use a search engine on a computer, tablet or ipad or use a non-fiction book to find your information. You can pick any minibeast you like!
Parent Reminders
We are having a lot of issues with lost items in class again- particularly cardigans. This is a frequent reminder- we cannot stress enough how important it is to name all school uniform. It is a very difficult task to locate lost items with no name. Thank you to those who have named their uniform.
Letters have gone out this week for our school trip on 26th June. Please return forms and payments as soon as possible and by 14th June at the latest.
If your child is in F1 and will be moving into F2 (Reception year) in September, there is a parents meeting in The Hub next Wednesday 12th June at 3.00pm.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Phonics Fun
As you will be aware, year 1 pupils will be taking the Phonics Screening Check. Here is a website that can be used to help practise for the check.
Please click here.
Living and Learning: I know honesty is important.
We have been thinking about our Christian value of honesty. After discussing what we think honesty means we talked about whether it always makes people happy. We talked about why it is important to be honest and about what happens if we are not. We then made an acrostic poem about honesty. 
Living and Learning:I can make choices about my money.
This week we have been discussing all of the things we could do with our money. As a school we have decided to bring all of our 1p and 2p coins from home so that we can create a penny trail. We will donate all of the money that we collected to the Dogs Trust charity. We also made a tubes to represent the collection of our class. We have chosen to give our money to an organisation for a good cause. Take a look!
