I know we’re all the same and we’re all different-Living and Learning
We’re all human, we all look pretty much the same, and like and do similar things. We want to celebrate our differences, too! Some of us are shorter, thinner, fairer; some of us have a mum and dad at home and lots of us don’t…
Every child in KS1 has enjoyed finding similarities and differences between themselves and others.
Golden Star
Congratulations to the pupil who received the prestigious Golden Star, in 2KL, this week. 
Homework review – I know how to STOP bullying (Living and Learning)
Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to our homework review session on Thursday. There was some great Talk Time homework and we discussed it in our classes. We had posters, poems and a video news report that was sent to the school email: scholesoffice@spherefederation.org. These were shared and discussed in classes, with children engaged and keen to share or show what they had created.
Please feel free to write comments about how your child approached, found and responded to the homework.
Creative Curriculum – toasting marshmallows on a camp fire!
To round off our Time Travel topic in style, we had a camp fire this afternoon! When we were learning about how people lived in the Stone Age, we found out that they cooked on a fire. Although we weren’t eating reindeer or wild boar that we had caught, toasting marshmallows (or pieces of bread if you didn’t like marshmallows), gave us the feel of what it might’ve been like!
We also talked about how toasting marshmallows was a scientific experiment – demonstrating irreversible changes.
Perhaps the most important part though, were our safeguarding discussions about fire safety, what to do in a fire drill and how to stay safe near fire.
A big THANK YOU to Andy Webb (AW2 Developments) who made the amazing outdoor benches we are sitting on too!
Also, thank you to everyone who sent in marshmallows and skewers.
Living and Learning-Anti-Bullying Week
We kicked off Anti-Bullying Week by wearing odd socks. Proudly we displayed our odd socks and thought about how we are ‘odd’. Through doing this, we celebrated how we are all unique and that there isn’t anyone the same. We have our own thoughts, looks, likes and dislikes etc.
We sang along to the ‘Andy and the Odd Socks’ song ‘Choose Respect’. Have a listen and join in: The Odd Socks.
The Anti-Bullying Alliance’s overall theme this year is about respect. We used their video as a stimulus for discussion, drama and poster making. Anti-Bullying Alliance Promo Video 2018.
Most children in KS1 will be able to tell you about STOP. It helps us to define what bullying is; when something happens Several Times On Purpose. It also reminds us to act if we find that we are subjected to bullying; Start Telling Other People. The importance of STOP is continually taught throughout the year, to all children, but we have enjoyed a special week of focusing on it.
Ball fun – physical activity
We love being physically active in key stage 1, ensuring we get at least 30 active minutes every day. The new ball chute on our playground will make this even easier! The children loved trying it out on Friday in PE and also at playtime and lunchtime.
Fierce, eccentric, exhausted – Adjective Day!
Fierce, eccentric, exhausted – that’s just the teachers! Wow, what a day.
SATs information evening
Thank you to everyone who came to the SATs information evening for year 2 parents. We hope you found it informative and useful. The presentation and information leaflet is here.
We will remember them – Remembrance Day 2018
The children listened to poems and stories, then talked about Remembrance Day this week at school. They made poppies and some wrote messages to the soldiers.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Laurence Binyon
Thank you to Mrs Thorne for her artistic input and Peter Smith, from Lyndhurst View, who made the central piece.
Brilliant Balancing
1K have enjoyed challenging themselves to balance in different ways.
It was tricky on one leg.
I can balance on this foot really well.
