Library visit – we need you!
We’re hoping to visit Scholes Library on Tuesday 17th July. However, we need your help to be able to visit.
Are you available on Tuesday 17th July at 10.45-12.00pm?
If so, please speak to your child’s class teacher about volunteering to help take Foundation to Scholes Library.
Living and Learning – What makes a boy or a girl?
Last week we talked about what attributes make a boy or girl. There were lots of stereotypical comments.
Girls have long hair but boys have short hair.
Boys play football and rugby but girls do dancing and gymnastics.
When we talked more about these comments the children were quick to give examples about girls with short hair or boys that dance. When we looked through the comments and talked about them we found that the facts were about body parts and functions.
Girls can have babies when they grow up.
Girls and boys have different private parts.
Help at home by challenging gender stereotypes and encouraging children to think about the person, rather than protected characteristics. It is, “one of the easiest ways to create a culture free of prejudice, and support children to develop a true sense of self, by actively celebrate difference. This helps children to understand that no two people are the same, and in turn makes all children feel happier and more secure.” stonewall.org.uk
Active Playtimes
We encourage children to be active at playtimes, ensuring that they have at least 30 minutes of physical activity during the school day. There is the adventure playground, the new playground markings, a variety of play equipment and skipping to choose from.
Golden Star
Well done to our most recent Golden Star!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Week 3 – The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Children loved listening to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ last week; they especially enjoyed re-telling the story using story props in the puppet theatre. We have been monitoring our chrysalis closely, watching for signs of movement. So far, the majority are still hanging safely. On Friday, we saw that one butterfly had already emerged, but sadly, it had a damaged wing. Once we’d looked at it carefully, we decided the best place to let it go would be into the sunshine near some red flowers. Children were really thoughtful and suggested ways that we could try to help it. We decided that we’d become ‘butterfly vets’ and we tried to make it a new wing. Children experimented with mixing blue and yellow powder paints to make different shades of green and used the caterpillar outlines to carefully paint strip caterpillars.
Week 4 – What are we learning this week?
We’re going to continue learning about ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ as this has been really popular. This week, we will talk about the food that the caterpillar ate and decide whether they are healthy or unhealthy. We will sort foods into categories, try some different types of fruit and find out about how to keep our teeth healthy when we do eat sugary foods. Look out for a brown paper bag in your child’s going home folder this week – there are some ‘teeth’ related goodies inside.These have been kindly donated by a member of Nursery – thank you.
Our letter for this week is… ‘f’ for food. Please sing along to the Jolly Phonics song at home and find things that begin with ‘f’ at home.
Home Link – Healthy eating
This week we are going to talk about the different foods that the Very Hungry Caterpillar ate.
– Which foods are healthy?
– Which have lots of sugar in?
We’d love children to be able to try some more unusual fruits, especially ones that we don’t get for snack time in Nursery. If you are able to, please bring in a different fruit for us to taste. For example: plums, kiwi, mango, berries etc..
If you don’t want your child to take part, please speak to Nursery staff.
This week’s letter is ‘f’ for food. What can you find at home that begins with ‘f’? Children love to add their items to our sound shelf, so please feel free to bring them in to Nursery.
Junior Warrior
Year 6 had a fantastic time getting muddy at Junior Warrior. They helped each other over all the obstacles and we only lost one pair of trainers to the mud swamp.
Living and Learning: I can share and include others.
This week, we’ve focused on sharing and including others. Year 5/6 do this daily. They’re really good at sharing, as you’d expect! Here are some examples from today.
Livy sharing her problem solving knowledge.
Millie sharing her strategy.
Reece, project managing the children while they build the friendship benches. Sharing his knowledge and practical skills.
Sensational Sobek!
Friday 22 June 2018
Egyptian Gods and Goddesses.
In Year 3/4 reading this week, one task was to read a description of the god, Sobek, find facts from the text and draw a picture of what he looked like.
They had lots of fun comparing their work with the real thing.
Here are some children’s work, which show detail and careful retrieval of facts. The actual picture was similar to the children’s drawings. They were really surprised how accurate their pictures were.
Moving and shaking – cancelled
Unfortunately, the moving and shaking stay and play on 5th/9th July will be cancelled. This is due to unforeseen circumstances with staffing – we just can’t move and shake as planned! However, we look forward to seeing you at the whole school sports roundabout on Monday 2nd July at 1.10pm.