History – Shopping in the past
History is the focus of our topic learning this half term. During this topic, we will be ordering significant events in our lives and we’ll be discussing them using historical vocabulary.
During this exciting topic, the children will discuss how significant things have changed over time: the food that we eat, the shops that we visit and how trade has changed.
Below is the vocabulary that will be learnt and referred to throughout the lessons.
| past | something that has already happened |
| present | something that is happening now |
| ancient | very old |
| modern | the present day |
| similarity | when something is the same |
| difference | when something is different |
| sequence | put in the correct order |
| trade | the buying or swapping of products and services |
| timeline | a list of important events arranged in order |
Help at home by talking about what shopping was like when you were younger and ask grandparents for their memories too.
Have shops changed?
How were items paid for?
Welcome back
We have had a very busy first week back in Year 3 and Year 4. We have been ensuring we stick to our routines and recapping on our rules and expectations in the classroom and around school. We have also welcomed Mr Goodwin and Mr Smith who will be based in our classroom from now on.
In writing, we have learnt about subordinate clauses and how these differ to main clauses. We have been able to identify subordinate clauses and we will look to use these in our recount writing next week.
In maths, we have begun using Frayer Models to represent number. The children have enjoyed the challenge that these models bring and enjoyed sharing their findings.
In Living and Learning, we have been learning about drugs and the benefits and risks surrounding them. We have also shared ways of reducing these risks and how we can keep safe at home and school.
Help at home – Ask your child if they can tell you what a subordinate clause is. Can they write a sentence using a subordinate clause, subordinate conjunction, and main clause? Can they check around the house to see if drugs are kept in a safe place?
Living and Learning: I know what a drug is.
Happy New Year to you all.
We have been so impressed with the all the children this week. They have returned to school with super learning attitudes.
In Living and Learning, the class learnt about things that can go into our bodies and onto our skin and how this can make people feel.
After drawing around one of the children and labelling the outline, we thought about all the different things that might go into or onto a person’s body.
• What things might go into the mouth?
• What might go into the nose or ears?
• What things might go onto the skin?
Next, working in small groups, the children sorted picture cards according to whether the image shown was helpful or harmful, or whether some can be both helpful and harmful to our bodies.
Helpful: fresh air, water, sunscreen.
Harmful: smoke, berries from the garden may be harmful if we don’t know what they are or if they are safe to eat.
Both helpful and harmful: hygiene and cleaning products and medicines must be used safely otherwise they can be harmful; if someone eats too many sweets or drinks too much (fizzy drink) it can damage their teeth or make them feel ill; doctors and nurses use syringes to give injections that help bodies stay healthy but it is dangerous to pick up syringes if we see them lying on the ground.
Things that go onto bodies: make-up, clothes, moisturiser/cream, water, tattoos, hugs/kisses, sand, jewellery, animal hair/licks, smoke, plasters, bubbles, medicines
Things that go into bodies: food, water, fizzy drinks, sweets, medicines, fresh air, insect bites, injections, smoke
Help at home
It is important that young children begin to develop an understanding of drugs. Talk to your child about medicines – they’re helpful drugs, but only when used by the right people in the right way.
Here are a few scenarios for you to discuss with your child.
1.
Amrit has eaten too much ice cream and is feeling a bit sick.
a. Eat more ice cream
b. Drink water and have a rest
c. Jump up and down
d. Something else?
2.
Amrit’s skin has a rash — with little red spots.
a. Don’t tell anyone
b. Use some of mum’s face cream on it
c. Go with an adult to see a doctor
d. Something else?
3.
Amrit has dropped a can of black sticky liquid in the shed — it is spilt on the floor.
a. Leave it
b. Clean it up
c. Tell an adult
d. Something else?
4.
Amrit has fallen over and has a
grazed knee.
a. Wash it with water
b. Rub a leaf on it
c. Put washing-up liquid on it
d. Something else?
5.
Some shampoo has gone in Amrit’s eye by accident at
bath time.
a. Wash the eye with water
b. Rub the eye
c. Hold a wet flannel on the eye
d. Something else?
Merry Christmas!
We’ve had a really busy couple of weeks here in nursery and it’s been lots of fun. From Stick-man to The Nativity Story, we’ve really got into the Christmas spirit.
Thank you to all out grown-up’s who attended our ‘stay and decorate’ session. The children loved it and it was really nice to share the experience with our nursery family.
Our Nativity- Wriggly Nativity, was a HUGE success! We have all thoroughly enjoyed the many rehearsals and laughs along the way. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did and that you won’t be singing them in your sleep for too long! Thank you for your donations towards your child’s Nativity photo, the monies raised will go towards some extra resources for our classroom.
Here is a round up of our learning over the last few weeks …
We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and a well rested break!
We look forward to seeing you all in the New Year when we return (Monday 08 January)
Here’s to 2024!
Miss Ward and Miss Harvey
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
We’ve had a busy week in Year 2. We’ve enjoyed making our calendars, Christmas hats and table runners for our Christmas dinner on Friday.
We enjoyed a visit from Santa, our Christmas party and playing some Christmas games.
We’d like to say huge thank you for all of your support this term. The children are working so hard both in school and at home.
We hope you all have an amazing Christmas break and enjoy lots of family time together. Thank you to everyone for our lovely Christmas things.
Mrs Palmer, Mr Nash, Mrs Bye and Mrs Walton.
Merry Christmas
Year One would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. We recorded our singing and really hope you like it!
We are so proud of each and every child for the efforts they have put in to our nativity – Wriggly Nativity. It was a huge success!
Well done to all!
In the new year, Mrs Bye will be joining our team. She is currently doing her teacher training and is really looking forward to working in Year 1. Mrs Bye will be teaching some of the lessons on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. I (Mrs Freeman) will be in class supporting Mrs Bye.
It has been a super term and all of us have been amazed with how well the children settled into their new year group. There has been some fantastic learning, great progress and a little bit of fun along the way.
Thank you for our Christmas gifts.
Merry Christmas form the Year 1 staff team.
Living and Learning: To recognise different feelings in myself and others.
Recently, our Living and Learning sessions have focused on mental health and emotional wellbeing. The children have been recognising and naming some feelings that they might experience and the impact these can have on their body and mind.
Mental Wellbeing
The class have discussed that there is a normal range of emotions (e.g. happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, nervousness) and that all humans experience emotions in relation to different experiences and situations.
The benefits of physical exercise and time outdoors can impact positively on our mental wellbeing and happiness.
I love to get some fresh air.
Riding my bike is my favourite thing to do.
Sometimes big feelings can be defined as intense feelings which can often appear suddenly and in response to a situation. The children discussed whether these feelings are good/healthy or not so good. and they could talk about feelings that can intensify (get stronger).
Big feelings, like anger, make me feel cross for a long time!
Help at home
Getting young children to talk about their feelings can be difficult at times. Please reassure your child that they can share their feelings with a trusted adult or they can use the Living and Learning box in our classroom.
Share this story with your child.
It is a reassuring picture book encouraging children to open up about their fears and anxieties to help manage their feelings.
The perfect book to soothe worries during stressful times.
PE – using apparatus
This week, the children had so much fun using the large apparatus in PE. It was great to see all of the skills learnt in recent gymnastics sessions put into action. The children showcased their balancing, agility and coordination expertise.
The children modelled improved coordination and spatial awareness. It was great to see some of the pupils overcome fears when having time to explore apparatus and navigate across, on, over or under different equipment.
English: Reading and Writing
In English, we have been enjoying reading the book Not Now Bernard by David McKee (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip). From this, we have been looking at different pictures of monsters and thinking of nouns and adjectives to describe them.
We then designed our own monsters, thinking carefully about their key features. Look at some of our wonderful writing below:
Help at home:
Use the pictures and word mats below to think of some sentences to describe the monsters. Write some sentences about the monsters. Bring them into school to share with us.
Topic: Art
We have started the practical sessions in our Art learning. We created our own print block, taking inspiration from artwork by Paul Klee. He used lots of shape, lines and bright colours.
We then used our print block to roll on some paint and make our own printing. Have a look at some of our amazing prints below.
Help at home: Use the vocabulary to describe Paul Klee ‘Senecio’.
