Spectacular sport roundabout
The sun shone this year and we enjoyed a rather warm sport roundabout yesterday.
Spain were the winners with Ukraine in second place and England third.
We hope you all enjoyed it and thank you to all the families and friends who came to support us.
Design and Technology – food
5,6B channeled their inner chef last week as we attempted our newest recipe in design and technology. Our challenge this term was to make a pasta sauce. The children had to weigh out the ingredients such as tomatoes, carrots and courgettes. They then cooked the ingredients in a pan and blended it after it had simmered. The children stayed safe bu using certain hand grips when using the sharp knives. The children said the sauce tasted delicious. We hope you managed to have a little taste!
IA Sewing
This half term we are working on our Design and Technology skills. We have learnt all about the design process and we know how you need to design, make and then evaluate products. In preparation to create our very own hand puppet, we have looked at and evaluated different types of stitching. Using a needle and wool, we have been practising the running stitch and the over stitch. We used stiff plastic boards to begin with and then we practised with binca and wool. We know that because we are using needles, we need yo be very careful not to hurt ourselves or anyone else who may be near to us. Class 1A had a look at some hand puppets for ideas and then we started designing our own. We’re very excited to begin the making process this week!
Help at home: You could look at different items of clothing and find the stitching on them. Can you find the name of the stitch used?
Sun, sun, sun!
As the weather is set to be warm this week, here are a few reminders from our previous communications.
Sun safe reminders
- Bring a named sunhat every day.
- Ensure your child has a water bottle (named).
- Parents and carers must apply cream before nursery.
- Please put your child’s name on their sun cream.
- Put sun cream in your child’s group basket if you want it applying at lunchtime. Please don’t leave it in their bag.
- Collect your child’s sun cream at the end of the day.
- Help us out by using ‘All day’ cream and applying at home.
Year 1-What a fun week!
ALL of Year 1 have spent the mornings together and it has been wonderful! Our Year 2 friends have spent the mornings busily and calmly completing their SATs papers so we have been learning together. We set up a carousel of learning opportunities and rotated the groups throughout the mornings for the whole week. Our learning has ranged from measuring capacity/height/weight, sewing, 3d shapes, fact families, book writing, handwriting, numbots and more! It has been a joy to learn together.
Sharing a Shell
During story time this week, we read ‘Sharing a Shell‘ by Julia Donadlson. We talked about trips to the seaside and some of the things that we’d found on the beach.
Seaside photographs
Thank you to everyone that has sent in a seaside photograph so far. It’s not too late if you’d like to email us one photograph of your child at the seaside – we’ll look at them during snack time and talk about our favourite things to do on the beach.
Children have enjoyed exploring shells and sorting them into different shapes and sizes. We painted some large scallop shells and also used wax crayons to rub over paper placed over the top of shells. Children noticed the patterns and stripes of the shell as they rubbed over the shell.
In maths, we’ve been learning about capacity. We’ve been talking about when something is ‘full’ or ’empty’.
Help at home: Use these words together at home when you’re playing, in the bath or cooking. Is it full or empty? How do you know?
Next week’s learning
We’ll continue with our sea side theme and will listen to ‘Commotion in the Ocean‘ at story time to find out about different sea creatures.
Nursery rhyme of the week – Ring a ring a roses
Phonics – Children in Red, Blue and Green group are re-visiting all of the sounds they have learnt this year and will be playing games to practise some key phonics skills including:
- identifying initial sounds in words (playing I-Spy type games)
- segmenting and blending words orally (e.g. h-a-t and b-u-s)
- spotting rhyming words
Class News
In our topic lessons, we have been sewing! We practised running stitch and over stitch. Today, we have designed a pouch with a specific function – to hold money, pencils or cards. We are looking forward to making our pouches next week.
Over the last three weeks in PE, we have had great fun developing our tennis skills. Some of us managed over 100 hits to keep the ball in the air!
Help at home by encouraging your child to practise their times tables and to read regularly! Why not have a game of tennis in the sunshine?
Playtime on the FIELD!
If you leave nearby, you might’ve heard the scream when we announced the field was dry enough for playtime yesterday!
The year 1 and 2 children we so happy to enjoy some time playing on our lovely field.
Let’s hope this really is the start of summer.
Sharing a shell
We’ve continued our learning on coastal habitats this week, by taking a closer look at rockpools and some of the sea creatures you may find in them.
Sharing a Shell
We’ve been reading Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson.
We looked at the characters, events and settings and matched them with real images and text in a non-fiction book.
The book also had some great messages about sharing and how to treat others. Linked to this, our word of the week was thoughtful.
Holidays in the past
We’ve been looking at the way people enjoyed a seaside holiday in the past, specifically in Victorian times. We’ve been looking at similarities and differences with seaside holidays in present day.
Ask your child what they can remember about seaside holidays in the past.
Phonics
Summer 2 week 3 has focused on:
Phase 4 words ending –s /s/
Phase 4 words ending –s /z/
Phase 4 words ending –es
longer words
Please continue to use the Little Wandle sheets, sent home with your child each week.
Poetry Picnic
Each week we will be learning a new poem. We will recite this poem each day. By saying the poem out loud, we can focus on the sounds and rhythm of each word or line. We talk to the children about how this can help us become better readers.
This week’s poem is the traditional rhyming song- The Big Ship Sails
More of our learning this week…
Reminders and Dates
Friday 5th July, 2024 NELL BANK SCHOOL TRIP
A reminder that children will need to be in school uniform with a named backpack including; water bottle and lunch. Children will be outside all day and will need weather appropriate clothing. Please see below a suggested clothing list from Nell Bank.
Learning journey drop-ins- week beginning Monday 8 July
An opportunity to “drop into” school and share your child’s learning journal with them. We would like to welcome you into the classroom on one of the following sessions:
8.45 – 9.15 Tuesday 9 July
3.15 – 3.45 Tuesday 9 July
8.45 – 9.15 Thursday 11 July
3.15 – 3.45 Thursday 11 July
Swimming
Rainbow- 26 June, 10 July,
Sunshine- 3 July, 17 July
Living & Learning – Health & Relationships Education
This half term, in Living and Learning, we have been learning all about relationships. We have thought about our own network and the different relationships that we have with people in our lives. We focused on on what makes a relationship healthy and what to do if a relationship is making us feel unhappy or uncomfortable. This led on to us learning about friendships and how we can maintain and nurture friendships and solve conflicts amongst ourselves and peers.
The sessions this week have covered the biological terms for the male and female body parts and the lifecycle of humans – developing from babies to children to adults. We also looked closely at information provided by the NSPCC regarding the PANTS rule. 
Help at home: Ask your child if they can recall what the PANTS acronym stands for. What can they recall? Do they have any questions?